{"id":9762,"date":"2023-02-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2023-02-04T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T22:20:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-2-4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/04\/stick-to-baseball-2-4-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 2\/4\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3HEAkoC\">top 100 prospects ranking<\/a> ran on Monday for subscribers to The Athletic, followed by the players who <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3XUyoOK\">just missed the list<\/a>, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3RqdYdQ\">my ranking of all 30 farm systems<\/a>. I held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3XV01Y0\">Q&amp;A<\/a> on Monday, which the site <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4148778\/2023\/02\/03\/mlb-top-100-prospects-keith-law-qa-answered\/\">excerpted for a separate article<\/a>. I also held an old-fashioned <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3HRZpeX\">Klawchat<\/a> here on Friday. The team-by-team top 20s will start to run on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On The Keith Law Show, I spoke with Steve Ives, writer and director of the upcoming documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history\/\">Ruthless: Monopoly\u2019s Secret History<\/a><\/em>, which will run on PBS\u2019s American Experience and stream online on February 20<sup>th<\/sup>. You can listen and subscribe via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-keith-law-show\/id1499877854\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SpotKlawPod\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/the-keith-law-show\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3s1basB\">amazon<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been keeping up better with <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a> recently, and I\u2019ll get back to it again this upcoming week once I get through the last nine team reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Atavist<\/em> has the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.atavist.com\/crushed-piper-rockelle-jentzen-ramirez-squad-youtube-influencers\/\">a family caught up in the world of YouTube influencers<\/a>, including one star\u2019s mother accused of inappropriate behavior against a number of her daughter\u2019s co-stars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Mother Jones <\/em>looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/kiwi-farms-die-drop-cloudflare-chandler-trolls\/\">the troll site Kiwi Farms<\/a>, and how driving it offline hasn\u2019t worked to stop its users\u2019 campaigns of doxing and harassment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The new emerging microbe threat around the world? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/deadly-fungi-are-the-newest-emerging-microbe-threat-all-over-the-world\/\">Infectious fungi taking advantage<\/a> of the COVID-19 pandemic by exploiting people with damaged immune systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cory Doctorow examines what he calls <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/\">the \u201censhittification\u201d of TikTok<\/a> and other sites that built up massive user bases on one premise and then switched to another model to make some money \u2013 a digital bait and switch of sorts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> looks at <em>NY Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/the-rules-according-to-pamela-paul\">opinion columnist Pamela Paul<\/a>, whose columns seem designed to push buttons and have often engaged in TERF-like arguments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chuck D spoke to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chuck-d-fight-power-pbs-series-1234669895\/\">about the new documentary series<\/a> <em>Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World<\/em>, available now via PBS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Even a mild case of COVID-19 leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00403-0\">a massive increase in heart disease risk<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced a plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/02\/ron-desantis-block-dei-program-state-colleges-florida\">block all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at state colleges<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dan Rather wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/steady.substack.com\/p\/race-matters\">DeSantis\u2019 platform of white grievance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Florida teachers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kold.com\/2023\/01\/26\/book-ban-underway-teachers-fear-prosecution\/\">removing all books from their classroom for fear of prosecution<\/a> by the white police state. Here\u2019s more on <a href=\"https:\/\/popular.info\/p\/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books\">the policy behind this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, the craven College Board, whose entire business model is built around making it more expensive for students to go to college, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/01\/us\/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html\">bowed to pressure from DeSantis and eviscerated its A.P. African American Studies curriculum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republicans continue to push anti-abortion laws, proposing 105 bills and counting just this year alone, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/01\/republicans-post-midterms-antiabortion-proposals\">subverting democratic norms to do so<\/a>. They\u2019re also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/texas-judge-abortion-pill-case\/\">forum-shopping to try to ban the abortion pill<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abortion bans often include exceptions for rape or incest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/01\/21\/us\/abortion-ban-exceptions.html\">They\u2019re mostly meaningless<\/a>, there to make people feel better about discriminatory laws against providing medical care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Utah passed a law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/29\/us\/utah-transgender-bill.html\">banning transition health care for trans kids<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arizona\u2019s legislature passed a law <a href=\"https:\/\/kjzz.org\/content\/1837143\/arizona-lawmakers-allowed-delete-emails-after-90-days\">allowing lawmakers to delete all emails after 90 days<\/a>, which isn\u2019t suspicious at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some businesses are warning Missouri lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/missouri-republicans-culture-war\/\">their culture war is going to harm the state\u2019s economy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An off-duty cop in Providence, RI, shot an unarmed kid, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/news\/courts\/2023\/01\/26\/daniel-dolan-pawtucket-police-officer-found-not-guilty-in-teen-shooting\/69843806007\/\">a jury acquitted him of all charges<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jan\/21\/protester-killed-georgia-cop-city-police-shooting\">Georgia cops killed a protestor<\/a> fighting the construction of a massive training facility in the woods around Atlanta. They\u2019re claiming he shot first. I do not take the word of police as truth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Texas election deniers raised funds to build a mobile hospital in Ukraine. They failed, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2023\/01\/23\/how-texas-election-deniers-backed-a-failed-effort-to-bring-a-mobile-hospital-to-ukraine\/\">it\u2019s not clear where the donated money went<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harvard Prof. John Comaroff has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, leading to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/1\/25\/comaroff-walkout-spring-23\/\">mass walkout of his first class back from suspension last week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tom Verlaine, founder of the essential American art-punk band Television, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/music\/obituaries-people-news\/tom-verlaine-dead-television-band-1235505443\/\">died last week at age 73<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Many consumers say that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tipping-fatigue-business-c4ae9d440610dae5e8ff4d4df0f88c35\">tipping is getting out of control<\/a>. This isn\u2019t a yes\/no question, really; I think you can say tipping for some services is obligatory, and for others is unnecessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Noted free speech absolutist Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/01\/24\/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc\/\">took down a video critical of India\u2019s hypernationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> at the government\u2019s request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/fbi-takes-down-hive-criminal-ransomware-group1\/\">The FBI infiltrated a major ransomware group called Hive<\/a>, gaining the group\u2019s decryption keys to allow victims to recover their locked files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s EJ Dickson asks, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/mm-replace-mascot-maya-rudolph-1234666388\/\">Can we please just let the M&amp;M\u2019s fuck?<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Guardian<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/28\/board-games-climate-crisis-daybreak\">Daybreak, the upcoming cooperative board game<\/a> about climate change co-designed by Matt Leacock (Pandemic, Forbidden Island).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The role-playing game based on the Hugo-winning novel <em>The<\/em> <em>Fifth Season<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/green-ronin-publishing\/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game\">now on Backerkit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My top 100 prospects ranking ran on Monday for subscribers to The Athletic, followed by the players who just missed the list, and then my ranking of all 30 farm systems. 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