Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 22, 2019

I’m keeping hope alive that this new football story isn’t full-bore like the Hadley/Jaquan summer story was. I’ll take half-bored.

P1, Actually, Marjie I think we’ve bored the audience enough already.

P2, The shower tradition!

P3, Yes, crack is the secret ingredient in the Flemmings very special Sloppy Joe recipe.

Sloppy Joes in the hot sun after practice was cut short due to heat, makes sense to me?

In all reality , so when did this parents supply food tradition start, inquiring minds want to know .

P 2 ,Gil talking out of his a$$ again, in all ŕeality !

Yes, I miss those days. I loved the smell of smelling salts in the morning. Smelled like victory.

Does this mean that Gil Thorp will get back to the huge bonfires of years past?

P1: Gil gives a nod to Marty Moon, seems they are both sipping from a huge hip flask of whiskey to get through the ordeal of talking to parents. Marty keeps hitting on Marj. He says her swan-like neck is so alluring.

Well that was nice of them to answer my question yesterday about the school providing lunch. Must be a lot of well-off parents to be able to afford providing lunch for like 50 people.

Is this year’s arc about the family restaurant suppling the Sloppy Joe’s?? Or the sophomore tailback?

Half the team, plus Douchey, are out for the next few days as they recover from botulism, because some of the parents prepared the food in an unsanitary environment and then allowed it to sit in the hot sun, while flies sat on the uncovered food, passing off whatever bacteria they carry to whoever ate it.

Those man-hands on Douchey make that sandwich look like a slider

What about a sloppy joe can possibly be “amazing”? If it was a Yelp review it would be written with extra As. “The sloppy Joe’s at the Milford practice were amaaaaaazing!”

Coming to a game soon: Gil’s new trick play, The Sloppy Joe. It’s amazing

This sandwich is amazing. Has anyone seen my dog?

P-1: How many Veterans attend High School when they get back?

P4- Nick Gilder crooning and serenading Marjie. "So young to be loose and on her own.Young boys they all want to take her home.When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stareWhen she comes downtown she walks like she just don’t care.Yeah.

Hot child in the city.Hot child in the city.Runnin’ wild and lookin’ pretty, yeah.Hot child in the city."

You know who’s not glad we kept the tradition? Moi! You know what a pain in the ass it is to lug those huge banquet tables to the football field? And then have to fancy them up with tablecloths? And who do you suspect has to drag everything back into the school and clean up? Not that my opinion matters, but what’s wrong with EATING IN THE DAMN CAFETERIA where the tables are already there and there are electrical outlets for food warmers and freaking refrigerators? Which reminds me…who has to carry all the drinks out to the field too?

And speaking of tradition, at this point it is traditional to point out that the daily edition of Mopped Up Thorp is now online: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

FYI Marj: A couple of parents added an ounce or so of weed to everything they cooked! Marj ends up stopping at Swifty Mart on the way home to eat 4 roll-around hotdogs and a Mountain Dew.

Is P1 like a food commercial or something with the close-ups of kids biting into and chewing their sandwiches?

P2, left corner: “….wanna hit the showers now?…”

I’ve been wishing I had Sloppy Joes scheduled for supper tonight since first seeing this earlier this morning. Thanks a lot. I did season some steaks to be grilled last night. I guess that will have to do.