{"product_id":"252-the-ghost-runners-7-x-10-5","title":"252. \"The Ghost Runners\"  7\" x 10.5\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 × 10.5 inches art print (not a comic book)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailability:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pre-order ends Sunday, August 9th  at 3 PM PT \/ 6 PM ET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e Expected to ship approximately 40–60 days after the purchase window closes.\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEstimated timeframe. Not guaranteed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Artist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePop Fly #251: \u003cem\u003e\"Pie!\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eOne of my favorite things about Pop Fly has always been taking baseball language at face value.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ll learn what a phrase or an idea really means, then try to erase that explanation from my mind and imagine what it might look like to someone hearing it for the first time. That impulse led to pieces like \u003cem\u003eThe Green Monster\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Big Red Machine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Yips,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Batter’s Eye \u003c\/em\u003eoff the top of my head. This one comes from that same strange corner of the Pop Fly universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the start of the 10th inning, a runner who never reached base suddenly appears on second. Baseball calls him the ghost runner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I started wondering what that might have meant without any baseball context. What if \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Runners\u003c\/em\u003e had been a forgotten Saturday-morning cartoonGroovy Ghoulies-adjacent about a mysterious team that materialized whenever a game went into extra innings?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom there, the rule and its nickname became the entire creative brief and I filled in the rest with the cast, the colors, the 10-cent cover price, and a show that comes on at 10 (well, really, in THE 10th). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe I also needed to make something that was simply fun this week. But this is also Pop Fly returning to one of its oldest ideas: taking the language of baseball seriously enough to imagine it completely wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable for one week only.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pop Fly Pop Shop","offers":[{"title":"Regular","offer_id":50186202513648,"sku":"REG_GHOST","price":93.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6450\/5260\/files\/GhostRunnerWEB.jpg?v=1785703128","url":"https:\/\/popflypopshop.com\/en-ca\/products\/252-the-ghost-runners-7-x-10-5","provider":"Pop Fly Pop Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}