The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for June 17, 2021

From here you can only improve the score.

For better or for worse.

It sounds like…..the fat lady has sung.

Just wait until next year!

Nor been spiked in the shin by sliding runner.

Spitting, cursing, arguing… but no crying.

It’s our lose and I’ll cry if I want to.

I’m glad that I never was interested in baseball.

Laugh off the laughers and cry after the hard-fought battles lost.

Flashback to my Little League year.

… and the runs just kept slithering in!

A bad loss still does not excuse crying in baseball. Just ask Jimmy Dugan. Time to go home, drown one’s sorrows in a chocolate yoohoo, maybe a microwave pizza, and move on.

why, will the ball get soaked or something?

maybe he needs a league of his own…

And where’s his trophy? Jeez!

Here’s the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqbfz1-195o

Note the sly smile on Brutus face.

Learn more from your losses than your wins in life. Looks like the Snakes gave them a 4 year college degree…..

I thought they don’t keep score anymore, so their are no losers with hurt self esteem

When I played adult soccer, many years ago, our rec teams would have to play a semi-pro team called the Cosmos. They were good, but we never could understand why this almost pro team was playing with us. I guess they needed the moral boost of beating the stuffing out of the likes of us. If we even scored against them, we considered it a good game.

The crying time should be over by now, they haven’t won a game all season.

What is really bothering Wilberforce is that the mercy rule went into effect before he got in the game.

Playing softball against teams that had infinitely more resources to draw from usually meant we were going to be creamed worse than a can of Green Giant’s finest corn.Fortunately, there was a 10-run rule, that stated if one team was 10 runs ahead, by around the 5th inning (can’t remember, exactly), they automatically won.

Since you obviously didn’t go watch your kid’s game, it’s time to win some dad points and take him for ice cream.

There was no joy in Mudville, but never any tears.

Excellent reference!