{"id":9908,"date":"2023-05-27T23:39:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T03:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2023-05-27T23:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T03:39:44","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-27-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/27\/stick-to-baseball-5-27-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/27\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4539593\/2023\/05\/24\/mlb-mock-draft-dylan-crews-pirates\/\">my first mock draft of 2023<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4546336\/2023\/05\/24\/live-qa-keith-law-2023-mlb-draft-mock\/\">answered a slew of questions from readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3OKftnR\">reviewed the roll-and-write game Motor City<\/a>, from the brains behind Fleet: the Dice Game and Three Sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guest on the Keith Law Show this week was Scott McCaughey, founding member of the Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus Five, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thebaseballproject.bandcamp.com\/album\/live-in-space\">the Baseball Project<\/a>, the last of which are about to release a new album, <em>Grand Salami Time! <\/em>and tour in support of it.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 owe everyone a fresh newsletter, which I\u2019ve already started writing so I suppose I can at least share <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">the link to sign up<\/a>.<\/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> <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/machaela-cavanaugh-nebraska-trans-bill.html\">profiles Nebraska legislator Michaela Cavanaugh<\/a>, part of the filibuster against that state\u2019s transphobic bill, who said on the floor \u201cI want the bloody hands recorded\u201d because the bill, now a law, will lead to the deaths of trans kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> examines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2023\/05\/15\/the-problem-with-planned-parenthood\">whether Planned Parenthood is doing enough to fight for abortion rights<\/a> and the dwindling number of providers who offer this essential health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica looks at a man who believed his local school board was pushing \u201ctransgender bullshit,\u201d got arrested for trespassing at a meeting, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/winston-salem-nc-school-board-arrests\">was only further encouraged when the charges were dropped and he faced no consequences<\/a>. Much of the rhetoric attributed to him in this article sounds like the same nonsense that so-called \u201csovereign citizens\u201d have used to avoid paying taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica also exposed the use of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/family-reunification-camps-kids-allege-more-abuse\">family reunification camps<\/a>,\u201d which often force children to attend with parents who may have been neglectful or even abusive. After the article ran, Colorado became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/colorado-limits-court-use-of-family-reunification-camps\">first state to limit courts\u2019 ability to use them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Will Leitch wrote an op ed for the <em>New York Times<\/em> about how Trump running for President again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/22\/opinion\/donald-trump-biden-families.html\">means that families will be back to fighting again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/20\/us\/politics\/desantis-private-jets-donors.html\">Who\u2019s footing the bills for Ron DeSantis\u2019s Presidential campaign<\/a>? The Michigan nonprofit funding him won\u2019t say where the money is coming from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorePerfectUS\/status\/1660663816739274752\">And who\u2019s footing the bills for Kyrsten Sinema<\/a>? Turns out the dark-money group behind her is funded a long of extreme right-wingers, like Harlan Crow, James Rupert Murdoch, and Nelson Peltz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An Illinois state investigation found the Catholic Church lied about how many children its clergy abused, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/catholic-clergy-sexual-abuse-illinois-investigation-a298133cec9486c2e51172316bfe7b4b?taid=646ce6d284a2eb000129b8a2&amp;utm_source=pocket_saves\">putting the actual number at nearly two thousand<\/a> since 1950. These are <em>actual<\/em> groomers, people who have harmed kids and a tax-exempt organization that allowed it to continue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you live in Florida and want to restore reproductive rights, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sweetisdogthis\/status\/1660806311410552832?s=20\">here\u2019s a petition you can print out and sign<\/a> to try to get abortion on the ballot there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/reckon\/2023\/05\/florida-is-set-to-arrest-people-in-restrooms-regardless-of-legal-gender-status-in-sweeping-bill.html?outputType=amp&amp;utm_source=pocket_saves\">Florida is going to arrest people in bathrooms regardless of their legal gender status<\/a>. How anyone can miss the parallels to Germany under the Nazis is beyond me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ohio\u2019s Senate passed a bill that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/05\/17\/ohio-senate-moves-to-restrict-dei-training-at-public-universities\/70222442007\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">will gut diversity initiatives in higher education in the state<\/a> while curtailing academic freedom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> examined book-banning requests across the country and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2023\/05\/23\/lgbtq-book-ban-challengers\/\">the majority came from just eleven <s>cranks<\/s> people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren Boebert, she of good Christian family values and whatnot, is getting a divorce. It says a lot about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2023\/05\/18\/lauren-boeberts-divorce-exposes-the-dark-little-secret-of-red-state-life\/\">why Republican men are pushing as hard as ever on their misogynistic policy goals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exavier Pope wrote about how Ja Morant was wrong, but the reaction to him says more <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/ja-morant-is-wrong-but-americas-fear-of-black-gun-owners-is-more-telling\/\">about America\u2019s fear of Black gun owners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With a little sodium citrate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheeseprofessor.com\/blog\/sodium-citrate-cheese-sauce\">you can make any cheese into a silky-smooth cheese sauce<\/a>, even cheeses that don\u2019t ordinarily melt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I actually backed Filler, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/fillergaming\/filler-storage-system-for-pocket-board-games\">a new storage system for small-box board games<\/a>, on Kickstarter. When I first got the pitch, I thought it was silly, but then I realized how many of these games I own and how sloppy they tend to look on the shelves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I posted my first mock draft of 2023, and answered a slew of questions from readers. Over at Paste, I reviewed the roll-and-write game Motor City, from the brains behind Fleet: the Dice Game and Three Sisters. My guest on the Keith Law Show this week was Scott McCaughey, founding [&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":[1300,582,128,132,984,1347,190,961,886,1211,870,940,1239],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-board-games","tag-florida","tag-food-science","tag-guns","tag-illinois","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-nebraska","tag-ohio","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-the-swamp","tag-trans-rights","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","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=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}