{"id":9990,"date":"2023-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2023-09-15T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T02:06:00","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-16-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/16\/stick-to-baseball-9-16-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/16\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For subscribers to the Athletic, I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3EDEpaq\">my annual column on players I was wrong about<\/a>, and I weighed in on the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/45TMPGv\">Red Sox\u2019 firing \u2013 and perhaps scapegoating \u2013 of Chaim Bloom<\/a>. I held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3RmgZxI\">Klawchat<\/a> again on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the board game front, I <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3RfildN\">reviewed the excellent new game 3 Ring Circus<\/a> over at Paste, and updated my list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/best-new-board-games-2023-tabletop.html\">the best new games so far in 2023<\/a> over at Vulture.<\/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: Why the actual fuck <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/columbia-obgyn-robert-hadden-sexually-assaulted-patients.html\">has Columbia University spent years protect an OB\/GYN who abused hundreds of patients<\/a> while working at the school \u2013 and even let him return to practice for five weeks after a patient went to the police, accusing him of sodomizing her, during which period he assaulted at least eight more patients. Columbia refused to cooperate with an earlier prosecution that resulted in a plea arrangement that kept him out of jail. And the Columbia leaders who oversaw all of this have gotten off scot-free, unlike the leadership at Penn State or Michigan State. Dr. Robert Hadden was convicted, finally, in January, of four counts of sexual abuse involving interstate travel (making it a federal case). Columbia still has not notified his former patients that he\u2019s a sex offender. There are over 240 additional women who say he molested or abused them while under his care. If I had gone to Columbia, I wouldn\u2019t give them another fucking dime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There\u2019s a million-dollar Kickstarter up for a series of expansions and enhancements to the hit game Terraforming Mars, from Indie Game Studios, which bought TM\u2019s original publisher Stronghold Games when the latter\u2019s founder retired a year or two ago. Kickstarter requires now that creators disclose what parts of the project are generated by AI projects, and it turns out that Indie decided to use AI for a whole bunch of the art in the new game \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tabletop-games\/23873453\/kickstarters-ai-disclosure-terraforming-mars-release-date-price\">Indie\u2019s President Travis Worthington is completely unapologetic about this<\/a>, even in the face of some pretty direct questions from Polygon\u2019s Charlie Hall. What I find most distasteful about this is that they\u2019re charging more for the product while their costs are going down, since they\u2019re not paying actual artists for actual art. This is straight-up profit-taking. (Full disclosure: I\u2019ve written for Polygon and Charlie was my editor.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Vanity Fair<\/em> has a story from author and journalist James David Robenalt on the upcoming book by and revelations from former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/09\/new-jfk-assassination-revelation-upend-lone-gunman\">he found another bullet lodged loosely in the seat<\/a> behind President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy right after the President\u2019s body was removed from the car. The implication, if we accept this story, is that there was a second shooter. It\u2019s a long story, and I think Robenalt doth protest too much, but he\u2019s also arguing against 60 years of government reports and denials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Daily Beast explains how Barstool built up its audience and social media presence by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-dave-portnoys-barstool-built-an-empire-by-swiping-sports-highlights\">using burner accounts to avoid DMCA-related suspensions of their actual accounts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The affirmative action policy you haven\u2019t heard about: With enrollment of boys declining at colleges across the country, many have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/08\/magazine\/men-college-enrollment.html\">finding ways to tip the scales in favor of male applicants<\/a>. Weird that I don\u2019t hear any protests from the right about this. It\u2019s a mystery!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Zulu prince and South African politician Mangosothu Buthelezi died last week at age 95. The BBC looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-66308185\">his lengthy and complicated legacy<\/a>. He served as president of one of the country\u2019s \u201cBantustans,\u201d puppet states within South Africa that claimed to give autonomy to Black citizens living under apartheid, then allied with the African National Congress in the fight for equality, only to split with the ANC over whether armed action was necessary or whether to ask for international sanctions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Georgia the state is trying to become less democratic than Georgia the country, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/atlanta-cop-city-rico-protests-20230910.html\">they\u2019ve made protests over the Cop City development a felony<\/a>. I think this is a 1A violation, but I\u2019m obviously not a lawyer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Charles S. Pierce weighs in on how Clarence and Ginni Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a45080137\/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united\/\">are making a mockery of our democratic system<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republican politicians who decried \u201cindoctrination\u201d in schools and passed laws banning materials like the 1619 Project from classrooms are now happily allowing students to be indoctrinated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/09\/prager-u-indoctrination-public-schools-1619-project\/675294\/\">ahistorical nonsense from the right-wing disinformation outfit PragerU<\/a>, because this is where censorship inexorably ends up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, the GOP\u2019s extreme wing is trying to shoehorn further abortion restrictions, including banning the safe, effective abortion pill, into various unrelated bills, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/13\/abortion-policy-funding-agriculture-bill-00115529\">it\u2019s backfiring on Rep. McCarthy and other Republican leaders already<\/a> \u2013 to say nothing of what it might do next November. The <em>Washington Post\u2019s <\/em>Greg Sargent also looks at how what he calls the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/09\/14\/trump-2024-chances-michigan-wisconsin\/\">MAGA doom loop<\/a>\u201d may kill their chances in key battleground states next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Argentina is trying to get Italy to extradite a priest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-66574950\">who helped the military junta torture dissidents in the 1970s<\/a>. Franco Reverberi fled Argentina to return to his native country when it became clear he might be called to account for assisting torturers, sitting in the room while these abuses took place and even telling victims that God wanted them to reveal their secrets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison, about eleven miles from where I live, and was on the run for two weeks before a police dog found him. You know who didn\u2019t find him or even remotely help in the search? All of the random idiots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/pennsylvania\/danelo-cavalcante-escape-search-citizens-pennsylvania-state-police-20230911.html\">who went out to search for him or \u201creport\u201d on the search as so-called citizen journalists<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The library director and another library official in Sterling, Kansas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/09\/13\/kansas-librarians-lawsuit-rainbow-autism\/\">were fired in July after displaying a rainbow image<\/a> at the entrance to the library because a few \u201cChristians\u201d complained it was promoting a \u201cgay agenda,\u201d even though the image was about neurodivergent people. I can\u2019t with these people. Your religion is your business but it is not an excuse for hate, ignorance, or just being an asshole.e<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A mathematical puzzle unsolved for fifty years, about the minimum dimensions for a M\u00f6bius strip, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/mathematicians-solve-50-year-old-moebius-strip-puzzle1\/\">has been solved<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/seacowgames\/flock-together\">The asymmetric coop game Flock Together<\/a> hit its funding goal in a few hours and is already 300% funded, over $150,000, just a few days into the campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribers to the Athletic, I wrote my annual column on players I was wrong about, and I weighed in on the Red Sox\u2019 firing \u2013 and perhaps scapegoating \u2013 of Chaim Bloom. I held a Klawchat again on Friday. On the board game front, I reviewed the excellent new game 3 Ring Circus over [&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":[1300,1361,1083,146,1014,1101,190,961,971,1197,1306,986,870],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-argentina","tag-board-game-news","tag-georgia","tag-kansas","tag-kickstarters","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-metoo","tag-police","tag-scotus","tag-south-africa","tag-stick-to-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","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=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}