Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 31, 2022

P2: Marty throws away the bottle as he thinks it will be pink elephants next. Well, puts away the bottle for half an inning, anyway.

But still, as everyone has pointed out, how does heeeee not hit the batter without being able to see? Of course, how does Coach pay attention with his hat pulled over his eyes?

Now coaching at Oakwood….Big Ken Brown!

That Oakwood coach looks like a third world dictator. With how low his cap is pulled, can HE see? Duren into his windup …

Kudos to the colorist’s opposing team uniform color consistency

In all reality , the entire Milford takes the field wearing helmets in a show of solidarity with Gregg .Not to be outdone, Oakwood presents Gregg with a seeing eye dog .

P4: Oakwood coach: “We’re the home team but we just batted first. No one is paying attention!”

Or

P4: Oakwood coach: “Time Out!”

P5: Walks to the mound with a wheelbarrow full of MyPillows and starts taping them to Greggg Hammm’s torso: “Son, have you ever heard of MyPillow? They offer up the best protection to blind pitchers.”

Look for short bunts towards the pitcher’s mound.

P3- Same porn stache, new Oakwood Coach. Tod Andrews retired after always losing to his mentor and was replaced by Clu Haywood.

The pitcher wearing a mask and helmet is the future of baseball. So get used to it.

That Oakwood player is an alien with fingers eight inches long. Terrifying.

P 4: “…especially when you are batting….there’s no way that kid can see the plate with all that crap on his head…”

Finally!…an opposing coach is gonna’ figure out that Gil is puttin’ a blind kid on the bump

I see a no hitter coming up.

Rig the thing with a voice modifier to make it sound like Darth Vader… go for the psychological advantage.

Kudos to Mike Ditka for his special guest appearance in P3 as the coach of . . . ’da Oakwoods.

They’re advertising that he can’t see. Can’t he get a new pair of glasses?

P 4: “…he might try and come over to our dugout after the 3rd out…”

“Everyone pay attention!” He says to just the one guy standing next to him. But pay attention to what? Is he suspecting it’s some nefarious plot to cheat his team? He does know this is Gillll’s team, right? There definitely is no masterful plan/strategy you have to worry about coming from Gillll. And speaking of masterful, today’s Mopped Up Thorp may not be masterful, but it’s more masterfulish than the real strip.

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