I\u2019m back, in more ways than one \u2013 I took some PTO right after the deadline to go to Gen Con, get some downtime, and just generally focus on myself for once. I\u2019ll be back at work on Monday, although my next article probably won\u2019t run until later in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was quite busy leading up to the trade deadline. I started with my midseason re-ranking of the top 60 prospects in the minors<\/a>. Then I started breaking down trades as they happened: Plus a brief look at some of the teams that did the best and the worst at the deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, I wrapped up everything I saw and played at Gen Con<\/a>, including my top ten games of the convention (which saw a record 70,000 unique attendees), and reviewed the family cooperative game Miller Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve had two great guests on the Keith Law Show from the music world \u2013 Susanna Hoffs, talking about her debut novel This Bird Has Flown<\/a> <\/em>and her new album The Deep End<\/em>; and Joe Casey of Protomartyr, talking about their new album Formal Growth in the Desert<\/em> and his beloved Tigers. You can listen & subscribe via iTunes<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a>, amazon<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, the links, gathered over the last four weeks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m back, in more ways than one \u2013 I took some PTO right after the deadline to go to Gen Con, get some downtime, and just generally focus on myself for once. I\u2019ll be back at work on Monday, although my next article probably won\u2019t run until later in the week. I was quite busy […]<\/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":[821,566,1162,190,961,1211,776,1197,799,1306,870,477,807],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-science","tag-arizona","tag-coronavirus","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-ohio","tag-physics","tag-police","tag-science","tag-scotus","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","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=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9947,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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