{"id":9897,"date":"2023-05-07T00:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2023-05-07T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:10:36","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-6-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/07\/stick-to-baseball-5-6-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/6\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I posted a ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4479404\/2023\/05\/05\/mlb-draft-ranking-crews-langford-players\/\">of the top 50 prospects in this year\u2019s MLB draft<\/a>, and had <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4477136\/2023\/05\/02\/mlb-draft-scouting-top-pick-lsu-skenes-crews\/\">a draft blog post earlier in the week<\/a> that looked at Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews, Kyle Teel, Jake Gelof, and Alex Mooney. I also did a Q&amp;A at the Athletic to <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4491514\/2023\/05\/05\/keith-law-answers-questions-mlb-draft-ranking\/\">talk about the draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guest on the Keith Law Show this week was Will Leitch, whose new novel, <em>The Time Has Come<\/em>, comes out on May 16<sup>th<\/sup> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780063238510\">pre-order here<\/a>), talking about this book and his last one, plus a little about the Cardinals and just our general banter. 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>Over at Paste, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/earth-board-game-review\">I reviewed Earth<\/a>, one of the hottest new games of this year, one that reminds me a lot of Wingspan but with more of the engine-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m on Spoutible and Bluesky now, both as keithlaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: <em>New York<\/em> looks at Richard Walter, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/richard-walter-criminal-profiler-fraud.html\">a self-appointed criminal profiler who testified in multiple murder cases<\/a> despite a lack of credentials and increasingly tall tales about his resume. National media coverage of Walter and his so-called \u201cVidocq Society\u201d helped elevate his profile (no pun intended) and allowed him to continue pulling his con for two decades \u2013 even to this day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We need a new antifungal drug to combat the spread of resistant <em>Aspergillus fumigatus<\/em>, and one\u2019s on the way \u2013 but a fungicide that attacks the same molecular pathway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-critical-new-drug-is-coming-unless-agriculture-gets-there-first\/\">may hit the market first and render the antifungal drug ineffective<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica explains how South Carolina Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-south-carolina-ended-up-with-all-male-supreme-court\">booted the only woman on state\u2019s Supreme Court<\/a> and replaced her with a compliant male candidate instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two articles on the murder of Jordan Neely: <em>Intelligencer <\/em>looks at New York City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/jordan-neely-nyc-homeless-epidemic.html\">failure to grapple with the homeless epidemic<\/a>, and <em>Hellgate NY<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/confusion-shock-bystander-effect-jordan-neely\">the bystander effect and the people who watched Neely die and did nothing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey had an exceptionally transparent and reflective response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/30\/nyregion\/lawrenceville-school-suicide.html\">to its failure to respond to bullying of a student there who later committed suicide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Herschel Walker\u2019s Senate run never seemed like a serious endeavor, but a <em>Daily Beast<\/em> investigation found that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/emails-reveal-jaw-dropping-herschel-walker-money-scandal\">may have redirected over a half a million dollars in donations<\/a> intended for his campaign to his personal accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Peter Hotez, co-developer of the Corbevax vaccine against COVID-19, wrote in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology\u2019s <em>BioAdvances <\/em>journal about <a href=\"https:\/\/faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1096\/fba.2023-00032\">the threat of anti-science conspiracies among Americans to scientists and their work<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The anti-trans American College of Pediatricians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak\/\">left a huge batch of confidential files on an unsecured Google Drive account<\/a>, including member info, tax records, and more. You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/esqueer\/acpedsmembership2022\/blob\/main\/ACPeds%20Membership%20Feb%202022.csv\">their member list here<\/a> if you want to check to see if your pediatrician (or one you know) belongs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Scientific American<\/em> offers a simple, lay explanation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-are-puberty-blockers-and-how-do-they-work\/\">what puberty blockers are and how they work<\/a>, something I think most anti-trans arguers don\u2019t understand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Former GLAAD Chair Jennifer Finney Boylan, a trans woman and activist, wrote for the <em>Washington Post <\/em>about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/05\/01\/transgender-biology-brain-science-freedom\/\">how biological sex is determined in the brain<\/a>, and it\u2019s not just a matter of sex organs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/05\/05\/texas-churches-abilene-donations\/\">Three Texas churches donated to a political candidate<\/a> in Abilene County, a clear tax code violation that should cost them their tax-exempt status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Health and Human Services Department has warned hospitals that deny women abortions when they experience medical emergencies that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/emergency-abortion-law-hospitals-kansas-missouri-emtala-2f993d2869fa801921d7e56e95787567\">they are violating federal law<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The teen section at a library in an Indianapolis suburb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/local\/hamilton-county\/education\/2023\/04\/28\/book-banning-policy-leads-to-bare-teen-shelves-at-hamilton-east-library\/70154413007\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">was half empty after a \u201creview\u201d by the library board<\/a> that cost $300,000. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More than half of the early adopters of Twitter Blue <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-subscribers-no-longer-subscribed\">have already unsubscribed<\/a>. It\u2019s almost like the guy running the place lacks a business plan!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Putative Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/exclusive-vivek-ramaswamy-paid-to-have-his-soros-fellowship-and-covid-era-role-scrubbed-from-wikipedia-page\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">paid someone to remove unflattering content from his Wikipedia entry<\/a>, which makes him a moron, because who the hell <em>pays<\/em> to edit Wikipedia?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists are on trial in the UK for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-leeds-65377361\">plotting to destroy 5G cell towers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>E.J. Dionne wrote that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/04\/30\/biden-freedom-democrats-republicans\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE2NzI2NjQiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjgyODI3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg0MTIzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODI4MjcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjJiYmQyOWFkLWRjNzgtNDA3OC04N2MzLWE3ZjJlMTc4NDg1NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzA0LzMwL2JpZGVuLWZyZWVkb20tZGVtb2NyYXRzLXJlcHVibGljYW5zLyJ9.bSuL3FMUGdu07_a9WrfV94wBxC7jb65aMptiwdH5aY8&amp;utm_source=pocket_saves\">we should follow Pres. Biden\u2019s exhortation that we argue about freedom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Marc Elias writes about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/opinion\/we-cannot-out-organize-voter-suppression\/\">organization can\u2019t defeat Republican voter suppression efforts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I can\u2019t even keep up with the tide of Clarence Thomas corruption stories, but here\u2019s one I caught that doesn\u2019t seem to have received enough attention \u2013 Harlan Crow said that tenant protections hurt his profits, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/thomas-helped-kill-eviction-ban-threatening-benefactors-business\/\">Thomas voted twice to end them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/direwolfdigital\/clank-legacy-2-acquisitions-incorporated-darkest-magic\">Dire Wolf\u2019s Kickstarter for Clank! Legacy Season 2 is already over $450,000<\/a>. I have only played four of the ten chapters of the first one with my friend Mike, but we both really liked it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I posted a ranking of the top 50 prospects in this year\u2019s MLB draft, and had a draft blog post earlier in the week that looked at Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews, Kyle Teel, Jake Gelof, and Alex Mooney. I also did a Q&amp;A at the Athletic to talk about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1083,1263,190,961,870,1239,807,937],"class_list":["post-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-board-game-news","tag-democracy","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-trans-rights","tag-vaccines","tag-voter-suppression","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}