Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 20, 2011

Someone needs to check what’s in the captain’s pipe.

@hawdowar, I’m guessing the same as Michael Phelps.

We;ll welcome you at Giants spring training, Eddie. 2010 world champions – WOO-HOO!

Are you sure you weren’t exaggerating just a little there, Eddie?

Hopefully the Red Sox can stay healthy this year and among other things, clobber those pin heads.

YUK! Stuck in racist arizona! GAG ME!

All of Eddie’s stories are true - just ask him!

They make Red Sox Fisheman caps?

Red Sox fans, relax. The Yankees are at least 2 pitchers short of a rotation. The Sox should easily take the East.

I live exactly half way between Fenway and Yankee Stadium. Many losers wear blue hats with NY on them. Does that stand for “Not Yet”, “Next Year”, or “Not Yastrzeski”? I have to settle this argument with a Bronx loving wife (Dear Lord of Boston, change her evil ways). I will say return trips from either ball park are strangely silent. Another question, this millenium, how many series have the damned Yankees won? The Sox? Twice as many?

I’ll save my good Yankee jokes for when they fall behind, probably April.

Red Sox vs Cubs in October. Hey, we can pray.

I used to dream about hitting the lottery. Now I’d just like to have the distributorship for drug masking agents in professional sports.

No doubt you wouldn’t mind if it were all about fishing, Fish Stix, however some of us actually like baseball. I, for one, can’t say the same about fishing.

What a way to come to AZ!

I hate to pick a nit but this is scientifically improbably, even in Cap’n Eddie’s world. The jet stream blows west to east. That means he would have had to be blown almost all the way around the earth to wind up in Arizona. Like a say, a bit farfetched, even for Cap’n Eddie.

Tex Tech, it is a comic not real life

Hey, TexTech, if a fantasy isn’t fantastic, what’s it good for?

TexTech said: “I hate to pick a nit…” And then you went and did it.

Sometimes, people, it’s best to keep your mouth (or comment box) closed, before you show the world what a true nit-wit you are.

TexTech: If you want to be real about it, that looks like Utah, not Arizona. I don’t think they play baseball in Utah, so the joke wouldn’t have worked…

Arizona is NOT racist, Arizona is American.

Go Phillies!

It was so windy here yesterday, it felt like the jet stream had dropped down to ground level!

Eddie and Paulie are REALLY lucky they don’t look Mexican!!! (If Paulie were a chihuahua, they’d be in trouble…)

Thanks for saying it Submachine… I was scrolling down to add the same comment.

How come the news is not showing the signs that the protesters in Wisconsin are carrying?

Look it up for yourself.

But he does look foreign.

Eddie doesn’t look foreign. My dad looked like that…even had a cat sitting on him sometimes.

But Eddie speaks a foreign tongue.

In Arizona, the locals might have trouble understanding Down East English.

Maybe Paulie translates for him.

I dont get the punch line at all what is the point of bringing in red sox?

hahahaha

rkozakand - Boston is in Massachusetts, and I’m assuming that the strip’s in Massachusetts, thus, because the boat landed in Arizona, not Florida, he can’t see the spring training.

Talking like that in AZ, they’d be checking his papers for sure! How d’yah say, “No tengo papeles in Bahstonian”?

rkozakand, (and all others who don’t get it) the only reason I might go to Florida is to go to the spring training games. THAT’s where the Red Sox and all the other teams in the Grapefruit league come into play.

I certainly don’t need to go there for the weather.

Lewreader said, about 11 games ago

Red Sox vs Cubs in October. Hey, we can pray.

Now, quit picking on the Cubbies. Anyone can have an off century.

Or two!

Red Sox vs Cubs in October. Not this year but probably in 2012. At least according to the Mayan calender.

If there’s a wind in the air… And if I should really care… Landing off your course… Should always be the source… Of much chagrin and woeful angst… So that the odor of those cooking franks… Will dull your senses to the reality… That the Sox and Cubs are NEVER meant to be…

Yeah, what a TRIP! A-YUH!

As a hahd blowin’ Nahr-Eastah, who else would he cheer?

http://www.springtrainingonline.com/features/reporting-dates.htm

Ahh, Spring! When love is in the air, and even [insert favorite losing team] fans have hope.