Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 01, 2019

Mimi’s desk and office are much smaller than Gil’s, and she has no laptop. What’s going on here?

We’ve got spirit, yes we do!

We’ve got spirit, how about you?

P1, Not as surprised as we are that this bunch of misfits could win any games at all.

P2, Oh, there’s an infection alright.

P3, The crowd’s only there to see the hippo.

P3 Not the right message, cuz the only time I panic is when I am under pressure. Spoiler alert…someone is going to steal the rally hippo and the whole season will go down the tubes and thankfully we will move to some other sappy story line. By the way, in terms of gender equality….what is goin on with the boys season????

Hippo to be Square.

Why does she have an office at all. I don’t know any schools where coaches have their own office. There usually is just a general “coaches office” that is shared by the locker room. Can you imagine a school where every coach for every sport has their own office? What is this a university? Maybe it’s different in Milford where there are only two head coaches that coach every sport, one for boys and one for girls.

Swagger and spirit – all but Linda. Hopefully, she won’t be the weak link.

Let’s cut right to the chase. Tomorrow: Linda screws up because she still has that scowl on her face about volleyball. Friday: Mimi susses out the problem, suggests that she take time off from club volleyball, and says she will clear it with the parents (not pictured). Saturday: With Linda recharged, the girls go on to win state—Yea Milford! Monday: Marty Moon is staring into his drink more morosely than usual at Milford CC. He is starting to realize he really, really misses Robby…

P3- Molly Hatcher is traveling down an unpaved road. Hence, she’s flirting with disaster.

Perhaps this is the game where the player’s “softball as a second interest” makes itself apparent. Perhaps. Perhaps not.

See that mug holding the pencils on Mimi’s desk? I made that.

MOLLY, YOU GO GIRL ! , in all reality .

Yeah “Let’s not screw it up” really shows spirit and swagger

P1 – The Milford Gazette must really be hard up for news if they’re doing an in-person interview of the high school softball coach just because their team is something like 3-1.

P2 – Is that an assistant coach? Or did Mimi have plastic surgery yet again? Her face is rarely the same.

P3 – Wow, that hardly seems appropriate. Shaking her ass at the crowd, just because she doesn’t yet have a date for the prom.

Prediction: Milford is losing, so in the 7th they whip it out…..the rally hippo that is. They win in a walk-off, and the for-whatever-reason massive crowd goes wild. The rally hippo goes viral throughout the school. Posters, tee shirts, a long winning streak. It’s bigger than the lucky peacock and the Shamrock Shake combined. Then in the playoffs it doesn’t work and the hippo ends up in the toilet.

They need to utter the prayer those astronauts would do in the “RIGHT STUFF”.

Let’s get back to Mimi admitting the girls on her team are infectious

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I mostly am here to point out that Marty Moon would never let Coach Mrs. Coach Thorp go off the record to say “Yeah, I’m definitely surprised this team isn’t doing as badly as I 100% expected them to do.” Of course, she also went off the record to say “There’s a swagger and spirit to this team that’s infectious,” which is like a perfect coach sound bite, so really Mimi’s whole media relations strategy is pretty muddled.

The crowd is so big because it’s Gil Bobblehead Day.

Nice desk Mimi. I’ve seen bigger cereal boxes.

P4: "….who you callin’ “guys”?…."

Yes, Mimi finds skipping scrimmages for “pedestrian past times” to be evidence of swagger and spirit.