{"id":9934,"date":"2023-07-01T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2023-06-30T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:00:29","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6-30-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/01\/stick-to-baseball-6-30-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/30\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3XzmwCq\">my 2023 Mock Draft v3.0<\/a> this week, and as usual <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/46pVsth\">did a Q&amp;A<\/a> to take your questions on it. Going forward, I\u2019ll have the last Big Board update later this upcoming week and then mock 4.0 on Saturday, the morning I fly to Seattle to cover the Futures Game and then the draft. I also did a just-for-fun piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/44imOzF\">who I\u2019d put on the All-Star rosters<\/a>, and then I avoided the comments entirely. I was a lot more active in the comments on the other pieces, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3NO92PW\">my scouting blog on Jackson Holliday and Brady House<\/a>. And I weighed in on Friday night on <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4657077\/2023\/06\/30\/royals-rangers-aroldis-chapman-trade\/\">the two players going to Kansas City in the Aroldis Chapman trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/irebuilding-seattlei-proves-that-economic-board-games-dont-have-to-be-too-convoluted\">reviewed Rebuilding Seattle<\/a>, a midweight economic game with some polyomino tile-laying aspects, an imposing game on the table that plays pretty quickly and doesn\u2019t have that many rules to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads: The <em>LA Times<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2023-06-27\/solar-panels-could-save-california-but-they-hurt-the-desert\">solar farms in the deserts of the American southwest<\/a> and the complex forces shaping their construction and spread, from environmentalists to monopoly utilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At <em>The Intercept<\/em>, Ilyse Hogue looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/05\/10\/roe-v-wade-federalist-society-religious-right\/\">the founding of the nationalist group The Federalist Society<\/a>, which sparked the 40-year battle to end abortion access in the U.S.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2023\/06\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-presidential-campaign-misinformation-maga-support\/674490\/\">profiles RFK Jr.<\/a>, calling him the first MAGA Democrat for his misinformation-filled anti-science platform, in a piece that, to rational readers, makes him look insane. I just hope reporters keep asking him which vaccines he deems safe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another U.S. government report concluded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-virus-wasnt-at-wuhan-lab-before-pandemic-u-s-report-says-da8511c8\">the SARS-CoV-2 virus was not at the Wuhan lab before the pandemic began<\/a>. The conspiracy theorists, including some authors who have profited by spreading the lab-link hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2023-06-26\/u-s-government-debunks-covid-lab-leak-conspiracy-theory-enraging-conspiracy-theorists\">were not happy<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of RFK Jr., his drive to \u201cdebate\u201d a scientist over vaccines is also misleading, because what he really wants <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2023\/06\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-vs-peter-hotez-would-not-be-a-debate.html\">is a platform to shout his views<\/a>. Denialists are big fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gish_gallop\">Gish gallop<\/a>, where you say so much that\u2019s false in a short period of time that you drown your opponent, making rebuttals impossible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You know who might hate RFK Jr. more than I do? Autistic people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2023\/06\/30\/rfk-jr-spreads-bigotry-against-autistic-people--and-autistic-people-arent-taking-it-anymore\/\">whom he\u2019s mocked and demonized for decades<\/a>, spreading outdated and dangerous stereotypes about the neurodivergent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did a relative of yours send you one of those scaremongering stories about a new study showing that sucralose was \u201cgenotoxic\u201d and causes cancer? Yeah, <a href=\"https:\/\/gidmk.medium.com\/splenda-sucralose-isnt-giving-you-cancer-8ade5ad7a708\">it\u2019s not and it doesn\u2019t<\/a>. That study\u2019s authors have misrepresented their data, and journalists who aren\u2019t science literate \u2013 or choose not to be \u2013 ran with it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All this anti-science and the associated distrust of public health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/06\/covid-public-health-successes\/674568\/\">comes at a substantial cost to society<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Striking reporters at the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> and Business Insider have gone old school and <a href=\"https:\/\/objectivejournalism.org\/2023\/06\/business-outsider-strike-publications-offer-a-glimpse-of-worker-owned-media\/\">started their own strike papers<\/a>, which, like Defector, give people a look at what worker-owned publications might look like.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All that money the U.S. spent to go find the remains of the Titan submersible will come from <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/foot-bill-titan-submersibles-search-rescue-us-taxpayer\/story?id=100339399\">you, me, and all other American taxpayers<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The BBC looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-65994314\">Community Violence Interventions<\/a>, which may have prevented one or more revenge shootings in Chicago quite recently. It\u2019s a better, cheaper approach to violence reduction in cities than spending more on police, which has no impact on violent crime rates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A 53-year-old man who grew up with anti-LGBTQ+ views and has come around decided to go sit on the sidewalk at the Denver Pride parade with a sign saying \u201cRecovering Bigot. I Am Sorry! Free Hugs.\u201d The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/06\/29\/denver-pride-recovering-bigot-sign\/\">interviewed him<\/a> as he described the positive, inclusive, and forgiving environment he found.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) signed an executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrevorproject.org\/blog\/25375\/\">banning conversion therapy in the state<\/a>, making it the 27<sup>th<\/sup> to do so.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you hear about the imbroglio around New York City\u2019s plans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-66027038\">to force some of its pizzerias to clean up their ovens<\/a> to reduce carbon emissions? <a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/even-mainstream-news-outlets-are\">That\u2019s wrong<\/a>. The plan isn\u2019t new and the target is particulate emissions, not carbon dioxide, which should resonate with everyone who\u2019s been in the path of wildfire smoke this summer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Florida Governor and Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R-) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ron-desantis-used-texas-taxpayer-resources-on-campaign-trip\">used Texas taxpayer resources on a recent campaign trip there<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DeSantis keeps losing \u2013 in court, as a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/desantis-latest-setback-court-blocks-state-law-drag-shows-rcna91184\">blocked the state\u2019s ban on drag shows as likely unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Groomer alert: A Texas pastor convicted of sexually assaulting 14 girls was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/north-texas-youth-pastor-who-sexually-abused-14-girls-released-from-prison-early-for-good-behavior?utm_source=pocket_saves\">released from prison early for good behavior<\/a>. But drag shows!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And then we have Justice Sam Alito, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/justice-samuel-alito\/\">took a trip to Rome paid for by a group that has filed briefs before SCOTUS<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/06\/26\/samuel-alito-oil-gas-supreme-court-environment\/\">wife leased land to an oil and gas firm<\/a> while the Department of Justice was fighting the EPA before the Court, and, of course, when he received questions from ProPublica about some of these improprieties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/behind-scenes-alito-wall-street-journal-prebuttal-editorial\">he ran to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>andwrote a whiny pre-buttal instead of answering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keith Law Show guest Jason Kander, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780063268616\">Invisible Storm: A Soldier&#8217;s Memoir of Politics and PTSD<\/a><\/em>, is one of four veterans dealing with the disorder whose stories make up the new film <em>Here. Is. Better.<\/em> The <em>New York Times<\/em> gave it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/22\/movies\/here-is-better-review.html\">a positive review<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Kingdom of Jordan wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/article\/20230625-jordans-beautiful-cursed-landscape\">to build a brand-new capital city in the Black Desert<\/a>, where there is no infrastructure, no natural water access, nothing at all to sustain a city and its population.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/modern-hunter-gatherers-have-thriving-gut-microbiome-compared-with-californians\/\">Modern hunter-gatherers have a thriving gut microbiome<\/a> compared to those of us who sit in a desk chair and write about baseball prospects and board games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted my 2023 Mock Draft v3.0 this week, and as usual did a Q&amp;A to take your questions on it. Going forward, I\u2019ll have the last Big Board update later this upcoming week and then mock 4.0 on Saturday, the morning I fly to Seattle to cover the Futures Game and then the draft. 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