Derrick Goold's Blog, page 150

"Oh, that's right. Not every pool is for swimming. Like Liverpool. You shouldn't swim..."

"Oh, that's right. Not every pool is for swimming. Like Liverpool. You shouldn't swim there."

- Ian at Forest Park and trying to decide whether the paddle boats were floating around a lake, a pond or a pool filled with really nasty water.

"Whoa, it sounds like a lady walking. But I still have boys feet!"

""Whoa, it sounds like a lady walking. But I still have boys feet!""

- Ian clomping around Target in his cleats after his soccer team's 3-2 victory in this year's season opener. The Dragons went winless last season, Ian's first in organized soccer.

"We should totally get that. I'll put that on my Santa list — The Religional Batman. I..."

""We should totally get that. I'll put that on my Santa list — The Religional Batman. I don't know how to write that word. You'll help me spell 'religional' right?""

- Dark Knight obsessed Ian, the 5-year-old boy wonder, in all his malapropism glory Thursday when told there is a Season 2 of his new favorite cartoon Batman: The Animated Series.

Still the King, July 2007. There is a room at the National...

Still the King, July 2007. There is a room at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., where career leaders and single-season records are posted so at any point in time a visitor could see, say, who is the active leader in wins and — voila! — there it is, updated daily. (The leader, by the way, is Tim Wakefield with 199.) In 2007, less than two weeks before Barry Bonds took over as the Home Run King with his 756th home run, I had the honor of attending my colleague Rick...

A heart-sickening story of a comic book fan and Superman devotee...

A heart-sickening story of a comic book fan and Superman devotee who was swindled out of valuable chunks of his collection by a sleazy predator. (See the original here from colleague Jennifer Mann of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) The St. Louis-area man fell for Superman because he "was the champion of the oppressed" and a true-blue hero, even if he was fictional. There are real villains out there. Too bad this how he had to find out. The happy ending could have some real heroes: all the...

Michael Lewis Explains How Pitchers Are Like Writers

Michael Lewis Explains How Pitchers Are Like Writers:

Via It's a Long Season (mightyflynn). From wwnorton:

"In Billy Beane's mind, pitchers were nothing like high-performance sports cars, or thoroughbred racehorses, or any other metaphor that implied a cool, inbuilt superiority. They were more like writers. Like writers, pitchers initiated action, and set the tone for their games. They had all sorts of ways of achieving their effects and they needed to be judged by those effects, rather than...

Upon seeing this doctored pic of Batman as The Redeemer, the...

Upon seeing this doctored pic of Batman as The Redeemer, the 5-year-old Ian, a noted Dark Knight enthusiast and Catholic school student, cracked the riddle quickly and concluded: "Batman? As Jesus? In Rio! Weird. That's all I have to say about that. Weird."

(h/t to "Attack of the Show" here. Original source appears to be 9GAG there.)

Digging through some old files, I found this copy of an...

Digging through some old files, I found this copy of an editorial cartoon from my freshman year about the University of Missouri's six signature columns. I drew it for The Maneater back in 1994. What was true then, is still true today. Probably could recycle this cartoon every four years or so.

A picture from Miller Park's press box, where foul balls...

A picture from Miller Park's press box, where foul balls that zip and whistle past the baseball writers are memorialized by the holes they punch in the wall. The press box regulars keep track of the dents by writing down who hit the foul ball, the date, the opponent, and the pitcher who served up the pitch that nearly cost somebody a computer, or worse.

COMIC RELIEF: The cover of the week. Justice League, No. 1.The...

COMIC RELIEF: The cover of the week. Justice League, No. 1.The reboot has arrived. Rather than retire my recent respect for what DC has accomplished in recent years (i.e., Blackest Night and Geoff John's wildly brilliant take on Green Lantern's space opera) and return to the embrace of Marvel, I have reluctantly resigned myself to picking up some of these Nos. 1. Some, not all, heaven's forbid. That started today with the release of the Justice League relaunch. I found it interesting that...