FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 05, 2023

just sayin’, but tennis: a gentleman’s sport

It’s not like you were throwing him a curve ball or anything.

Steve! I honestly thought he was gone never to return.

Alas, how many young people will not get the “Bugs Bunny” context….

Cartoon physics.

Soccer: a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans. Rugby: a hooligans sport played by gentlemen.

Always looking for a way to game/beat/cheat the system.

Does he look like anyone we know from tennis, this tennis coach?

Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermus percussion pitch…

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/03/03

Actually, you can put spin on a baseball.

just shout, “HADOUKEN!” as you throw the ball

I’m still waiting for Daisuke Matsuzaka’s “gyroball”.:/

I once read an article by a physicist about corked bats. His conclusion was it made no difference if they were corked or not. Force = Mass x Acceleration. His rationale was that a batter only has so much force which is the deciding factor.

“Baseball Bugs” is one of the best in a very long line of bests coming out of Termite Terrace.

“There’s a reason that things happen, and that reason is PHYSICS.” (NdGT)

when i was 12 i made my parents take me to see Jack Benny live and he had his whole tv show cast with him, including Mel Blanc…i saw Bugs Bunny live

What part of the country do they live in if they’re having high school baseball tryouts in March? I know the strip used to take place somewhere in the Central time zone near Chicago

I remember Bobby Riggs could do some wild things with a light weight tennis ball.

Peter has probably asked that question before.

I can serve a volleyball without spin. It wobbles back and forth and confuses the receiving team. Funny to watch when it lands where they don’t expect. They try to set, but it hits them just a half inch left or right and goes off sideways. And I aim for the weakest player. Depending on how smart the opposing team is, I can get several straight points, to whole games before they catch on how to handle it.

That’s me, math teacher getting PE classes…

I’m sure he tells the tennis team the same thing.

The real winning trick is throwing the ball through space and time.

Pi Gamma Kappa almighty

No hate, but I was expecting a better Sunday strip (only in my opinion, no one opinion is alike)