"I don't like change!"

Nice piece of nostalgia.

Few, it's about people. I was afraid Wrigley had started crumbling again.

I really miss hitching posts.

It's been years since I had me a carrier pigeon.

I thought the article was fine. Nostalgic, sure - but that's ok.

Also, the excerpt was a little misleading. "The box scores were better" referred to why he picked the Rocky Mountain News over the Denver Post - not that things used to be better back then.

For out of market folks, Derrick Goold is an excellent writer, easily the best at STL-today. Unless someone else gives him a better deal, he'll be the face of STL baseball news, someday soon, and that's a good thing. He's very sabr-friendly, and has always seemed to keep an open mind. I'm generally a pretty vindictive #######, but I've been reading his stuff at STLtoday for about 5-6 years and have very rarely taken issue with something he's written, except for maybe one time (early on- 2006?) regarding Brendan Ryan's defense, and a couple times defending TLR (I've said a couple of things about DG that I regret, on VEB, but that was heat of the moment stuff). Over ~6 years, there's plenty of time for that.

He regularly uses advanced metrics in his STLtoday online articles, things like Dewan's fielding bible stuff; he talks about fangraphs, B-R, etc, in a way that sells to a general audience. If he decides to channel his inner Posnanski from time to time on his personal blog- that's cool, right? As long as he doesn't dare suggest that Starlin Castro is innocent until proven guilty?

speaking of fallen newspaper boxes, one from The National:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/index.php/topic,88043.0.html

On-line box scores are of course significantly better than newspaper versions, except in one small but non-trivial respect: no computer screen is ever going to be as large as a broadsheet newspaper. You have to admit that having the whole day in baseball spread out on the table in front of you is a feature to be nostalgic for. At least till you get bacon grease all over it.

no computer screen is ever going to be as large as a broadsheet newspaper.

This is already untrue.

Yeah. Hell, there are plenty of gamers who use 40+ inch HDTVs as monitors.

My web scouring focus tends to be on the prospect side where Goold is a huge asset.

Just to echo Sleepy, Goold is an outstanding beat writer. And a heck of a nice guy.

plenty of gamers who use 40+ inch HDTVs as monitors

Well, OK, so "no computer screen that is going to fit legibly under my breakfast plate." Though I suppose you'll tell me somebody's invented the Roku Table or some goddamn thing :)

agree with sleepy on Goold, although I like Bernie also for similar reasons, Goold is just massively better and doesn't have the ego that Bernie seems to have. And both of them aren't members of the cult of Whitey that you get when having to read Hummel.

Well, OK, so "no computer screen that is going to fit legibly under my breakfast plate." Though I suppose you'll tell me somebody's invented the Roku Table or some ####### thing :)

It's not going to be long before a table with a digital reader built inside of it becomes affordable.

Agree with all the good words about Goold, he's aces. Fun read for me, since I live just a few miles from the town he's writing about and well remember the Denver newpaper wars.

"I don't like change!"

"I don't like actually reading the articles, but I'll snark on them anyway!"

Well, OK, so "no computer screen that is going to fit legibly under my breakfast plate." Though I suppose you'll tell me somebody's invented the Roku Table or some ####### thing :)

It's on the way.