Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 16, 2014

Poor Charlie Brown.

Run, recreation and companionship my (and Charlie Brown’s) foot!

and that’s why I never joined a sports teams…and stayed for long.

This strip is even more timely now than it was almost fifty years ago.

Ah yes…I remember walking up to the plate in elementary gym class and hearing scornful yells of “Easy out!” “You’re gone!” etc. I already hated organised games without that.

Don’t you know? That is the American way! Hurray for our winning side, and everybody else is a loser! I say this, and I am just as patriotic and American as you will find, but patriotism should never be blind to our faults! And the particular attitudes shown by our pro team fans especially are indeed a fault. Especially, when translated to our children, otherwise just where do you think the bullying problem in our schools comes from?

Rookie. What did I tell you about uppercut swing? And keep your eye on the BALL!

My buddy and I got tired of this every year during the baseball portion of gym class so we spent a summer doing nothing but practicing hitting. (We never even cared for baseball all that much.) It didn’t make us any more popular, but when we got up to bat, they learned to back up!!!

They don’t cheer that way now a days.At least at my son’s games..More praise an no ‘easy out’ or ‘swing’ etc..

Ohhhh, I understand the Australian cricketers (at least at the Test level) have a reputation for being very creative at insulting (or “sledging”) their opponents. Cricket may still be a gentleman’s game in some quarters (as baseball used to in the mid-1800’s), but that ethos doesn’t hold everywhere.

BOO! BOO!

Sorry about him.

I know Kindergarteners that have more maturity than THAT audience! Poor Charlie Brown…

Been the Charlie Brown before. How I would in Little League where I was on the minor team, and the kids who would come to our games who were on the LL major teams say why I wasn’t on the the major team. All because the parents wanted their kids on that team.

Oddly enough, I made my uppercut swing work and had 3 bases loaded triples in my last season.

So I know what CB is going through..

@CooncatCharlie Brown is too nice of a person to do that (though I bet he would have wanted to!)

Today’s strip, portraying real life as it pretty much is still, for a kid, is what made me learn to grow up and ignore the many “nay sayers” of this world.

And they didn’t even see him pitch.

Seriously? Even at junior levels I heard sledging.

Hmmm… reference Zen Pencils.

Takes me back to High School. How many times had I been told by my “teammates” to let someone else go to bat because we needed home runs?

Aww.

Poor Charlie Brown. I know the feeling from gym class.

Why do I feel sad all of a sudden?

xxx

Time to come home from Camp Granada?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzErh_s62Wk

Thank you Robert Landers. You speak for me also Miny Boy and Orinico Womble.

Has anyone noticed that HE has returned???

This has got to be one of the most timelessly brilliant comics ever written. I’m familiar with the humour of it from playing cricket as a youth. (Fortunately the sledging didn’t kill my love of the game).

Poor Charlie Brown :-(

I think only a he could refer to himself as “when I was a boy.” I could be mistaken.

This camp is straight up evil. How could anybody at the camp allow that to happen just a little kid????!!!!!!!