Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 27, 2020

you also have a Beethoven enthusiast for a catcher, Charlie Brown, as well as a nickel psychiatrist for an outfielder who’s infatuated with th’aforementioned catcher

Sounds like the Cincinnati Reds ever since Lou Piniella got fired.

Yup! These ungrateful misfits got your hopes up with a testimonial dinner, and then cancelled it.

Where’s the heckler on second base?

They will all be happy when the play-offs start at “Christmas” this year…

Getting hit in the head by a pop fly would really mess Rerun up, but we don’t care because it’s a cartoon, right?

Two words, Charlie Brown: “Dock Ellis”. I’m just sayin’.

I fought against the bottle

An earlier strip had him saying, “What a team I’ve got. Five boys, three girls, and a dog! Good grief!”

Just wait until Rerun bets a nickel on them…

Let’s not even talk about the starting pitching…

Relax CB, even some Pro ball players are still ‘on the bottle’, although the contents of said bottle are very different …

and don’t forget about your right fielder who couldn’t make a play even if her life depended on it!

A lot of left fielders have been on the bottle.

That Van Pelt family has issues

The league has programs for that now.

…and you Chuck, who can’t throw anything but home run balls.

Well, at least he’s not still at the breast.

And a catcher who is an obsessive piano player and thus worried about his fingers.

The King and His Court.

Could be worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLs0pjWnzTY

So if Rerun is in LF then Violet must have quit the team or something. Then again by this point in the strip her appearances had become so few and far between she’d become rather easy to ignore.

And they’re his best players

Is not worst than previous years.

It’s no wonder that they always lose.

A toddler is a better athlete than I am, but still….

Babe Ruth was “on the bottle” most games, and he did pretty well.

Hope CB doesn’t get on the bottle himself…

Aw Charlie Brown, you’ve got Joe Cool at shortstop, your second baseman could smother anything, and your left fielder will encourage sales of beer (and milk?) in the bleachers.

So that’s why the left fielder’s nickname is “Babe”

Who wouldn’t want Joe Cool on their team?

I’ve seen worse.

Remember this, Charlie Brown, the next time they all try to blame you and you alone for losing.

The only difference between this left fielder on the bottle and most left fielders on the bottle is what’s in the bottle.

who’s on first?

Well, these will fetch you better results than the previous flock who could not deliver the sentimental dinner.