If you toggle back and forth between today’s and yesterday’s comic, you can see that the drawings of Petey in panels 1 are the same in both days. Same for panel 3, except for his eyes. Also, the figure of Dill today is superimposed on the figure of Alice the day before… a common cartoonists’ hack to save time and energy. :)
On the rare occasions when my wife (who is not a sports fan) sits down to watch a few minutes of an important game with me, the biggest irritation is when she gushes over a good play by the opposing team. I try to explain to her that this is not how it works.
Well, since he’s speaking the word, not writing it, and, in this case, “lead” sounds like “lede”…