{"id":9961,"date":"2023-09-02T00:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T04:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:01:11","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-2-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/02\/stick-to-baseball-9-2-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/2\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing new this week at the Athletic beyond contributing notes on the callups of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4820438\/2023\/08\/30\/yankees-jasson-dominguez-call-up\/\">Jasson Dominguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4813357\/2023\/08\/28\/red-sox-promote-ceddanne-rafaela\/\">Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/bamboo-is-a-surprisingly-meaty-euro-style-board-game\">reviewed the board game Bamboo<\/a>, a cute medium-box game that\u2019s a pretty meaty game at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I appeared on two podcasts this week, talking to Jim Margalus of Sox Machine about <a href=\"https:\/\/megaphone.link\/BLU3967242683\">the White Sox&#8217; front office turmoil<\/a> and to Chris Crawford about <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/prospect-talk-with-keith-law\/id838315493?i=1000626380848\">eight prospects who&#8217;ve had surprising years<\/a>, four positive and four negative.<\/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: The writer Naomi Klein writes in the <em>Guardian<\/em> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/aug\/26\/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories\">being confused with the crackpot Naomi Wolf<\/a> and how people fall for conspiracy theories online, part of her upcoming book <em>Doppelganger<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Albanian youths bought into the hype of influencers who claimed they\u2019d found riches elsewhere, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codastory.com\/authoritarian-tech\/albania-tiktok-migration-uk\/\">a shortage of young people staying in the town of Kukes<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2023\/08\/vivek-ramaswamy-gop-election\/675041\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2023\/08\/vivek-ramaswamy-gop-election\/675041\/\">profiles the latest Presidential candidate\/grifter, Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>, who seems to think January 6<sup>th<\/sup> was something other than an insurrection of idiots and might be a 9\/11 truther. He also claims he\u2019s not \u201cbought and paid for\u201d but <a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/how-vivek-ramaswamy-makes-money-from\">is a major investor in companies fighting climate change policies<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/education\/article278582149.html\">Florida state officials sought opposing viewpoints on slavery<\/a> while reviewing the AP African-American Studies curriculum. The <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em> has more details on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/2023\/08\/29\/desantis-african-american-studies-reviewers-slavery-college-board\/\">how Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s \u201canti-woke\u201d policies have led to this embarrassing situation<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the late 1950s, Spain built a dam that should have flooded the thousand-year-old town of Granadilla, leading authorities to evacuate it. Sixty-odd years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/reel\/video\/p0cdpdns\/the-spanish-ghost-town-that-should-be-underwater\">the town remains above water<\/a>, but residents and their descendants still can\u2019t return.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ProPublica exposes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases\">a Chicago cop who\u2019s lied under oath at least 44 times<\/a>, putting dozens more cases at risk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you follow a doctor or scientist on social media who\u2019s always promoting their subscription newsletter? The BMJ ran an opinion piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/381\/bmj.p1063\">how those pose a conflict of interest<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>San Francisco Chronicle <\/em>looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/article\/new-york-times-trans-18214925.php\">how the <em>New York Times<\/em> has covered (badly) the national assault on trans rights<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try to contain your surprise, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3656002-republicans-block-bill-requiring-dark-money-groups-to-reveal-donors\/\">Republicans blocked a bill that would have required dark money groups to reveal their donors\u2019 identities<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/neighborhood\/katy\/article\/katy-isd-halts-library-book-purchases-18172597.php\">The Katy ISD in Texas has halted all new book purchases for its schools<\/a> because of objections to any books with LGBTQ+ themes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disgraced Spanish soccer official Luis Rubiales is facing a national inquiry over his forced kiss of a Spanish women\u2019s national team player; meanwhile, his mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/luis-rubiales-mother-hunger-strike-spain-kiss-scandal-court-b1103299.html\">is going on a hunger strike<\/a> over what she claims is unfair treatment of her creep son.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Atlanta<\/em> magazine has lost much of its editorial staff after its publisher and editor-in-chief told writers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2023\/08\/30\/atlanta-magazine-woke-culture-war-sean-mcginnis\/\">cut back on \u201cwoke\u201d coverage of one of the south\u2019s most diverse cities<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azerbaijani forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-66646677\">have blocked food shipments to the Armenian exclave<\/a> of Nagorno-Karabach, leading to a massive humanitarian disaster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Gabonese military overthrew the country\u2019s latest leader, the third in the line of the Bongo family that had ruled the country for 55 rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2023\/9\/1\/has-gabons-all-powerful-bongo-dynasty-really-lost-its-55-year-grip\">Is it a real change in power<\/a> or more of the same?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Big Gay Ice Cream was one of the hottest brands in the company before the pandemic hit, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/30\/dining\/big-gay-ice-cream-nyc.html\">mismanagement and a fight for control have reduced the brand<\/a> to just one NYC outpost and left the future of the company in doubt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billy Bragg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/aug\/22\/oliver-anthonys-divisive-song-claiming-solidarity-with-workers-only-benefits-the-rich-who-exploit-them\">tore apart country singer Oliver Anthony\u2019s faux working class song<\/a> \u201cRich Men North of Richmond\u201d for the <em>Guardian <\/em>and recorded his own response track calling on people to join and support labor unions if they actually care about the plight of blue collar workers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/08\/29\/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets\">Saudi Arabia has sentenced a critic of the regime to death for his tweets<\/a>. Very nice for an ally of the United States and a primary owner of the site formerly known as Twitter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When VICE declared bankruptcy, <a href=\"https:\/\/objectivejournalism.org\/2023\/07\/vice-executives-float-while-workers-sink\/\">its executives still got paid even when its employees didn\u2019t<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I missed this in June but a unique Magic: the Gathering card representing the One Ring from the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2023\/6\/million-lotr-magic-the-gathering-bounty-one-ring-info\">was valued at over $2 million<\/a> by companies offering a bounty for whoever pulled the card.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you\u2019re having trouble falling asleep, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/28\/well\/mind\/insomnia-cognitive-behavioral-therapy.html\">cognitive behavioral therapy may help<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new this week at the Athletic beyond contributing notes on the callups of Jasson Dominguez and Ceddanne Rafaela. Over at Paste, I reviewed the board game Bamboo, a cute medium-box game that\u2019s a pretty meaty game at heart. I appeared on two podcasts this week, talking to Jim Margalus of Sox Machine 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":[128,137,190,961,1197,907,870,477,1239],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-florida","tag-frauds","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-police","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-trans-rights","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}