12/28/10
And basketball season gets underway, just in time for New Year’s! Marty Moon, having chewed his way out of his football season crate, has found his way to his traditional seat in the middle of center court. It would be a cause for celebration, except we also learn that Jam-Jar did not in fact die taped to a locker bank. Instead he is now clogging the middle of the strip for yet another season.For the love of Luhm, when will he really be a ghost?
Meanwhile, will Milford be able to unhook the mysterious enigma of the team called BraStrap?
12/29/10
Unfortunately for the Mudlarks, BraStrap’s coach has a suit, that he wears to something other than court appearances. Also he has a coaching strategy. Plus he shows up to his team’s games. Sober. So he’s got a whole lot going for him over Gil Thorp. And now he’s told his players to slap the shit out of Jam-Jar, which makes him my new hero.
Jamjar is back and I see he is now number 1. Somehow getting stuffed will be someone elses fault. Probably that Duncan for clogging or not clogging up the middle. What brilliant coaching strategy will Gil come up with to counter the 2 foot height advantage? I say sit Jamjar and put in someone who doesn’t shop in the boys department. Hopefully tomorrow Marty will wander onto the court and take a swipe at a ref.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — December 29, 2010 @ 7:42 am
12/29 P2: Somebody’s not using their Rogaine! Also, Milford’s new Wing-U play: Gil get’s a knock-off BraStrap uniform (#11) off eBay and sneaks into the BraStrap huddle to learn what coach Mitch Miller is telling the players.
Comment by semperfi4evr — December 29, 2010 @ 8:27 am
“Beecher goes to the rack”…
I am not up on the latest basket ball terms even though I live in Louisville, Kentucky. I have never heard Dickie V use that term & I have never heard the term watching the Cats & the Cards…
Is this like “varsity level”? an attempt to coin a new phrase to replace “big league”??? The sentence: here in the River CIty, $50 will not buy “jack” or “diddley” “big league” drugs…..
Comment by rowdyman — December 29, 2010 @ 8:48 am
Hey! Is BraStrap player #20 mooning us in Panel 2?! Fresh kid. I oughta slap him.
Comment by jules — December 29, 2010 @ 9:46 am
“Goes to the rack” or “takes it to the rack” is pretty common basketball vernacular in the pros, and not an unheard of term in college. Means to take the ball up for a layup or dunk after a hard drive to the basket.
Is this Bastrop, Texas or Bastrop, Louisiana?
Either way, a lot of traveling was done to make this game happen unless Gil is now coaching in Milford, Texas, a little community that isn’t even a tank town anymore since the railroad tracks through it were ripped up decades ago.
And is that Kid Vid from the Burger King Kid’s Club lurking behind the Bastrop huddle?
Comment by billytheskink — December 29, 2010 @ 10:25 am
The only place I want JamJar stuffed is taped up in a locker. Permanently.
Comment by Regina — December 29, 2010 @ 10:52 am
So who’s going to volunteer to research the basketball team’s record for the last 10 years?
Comment by Scott P. — December 29, 2010 @ 11:37 am
My new favorite basketball team: Whoever is playing against Milford. Go BraStrap Bastards!
Comment by sourbelly — December 29, 2010 @ 12:13 pm
Thanx billy. I never watch pro B-Ball. I did figure out the meaning, but never heard the term before. I’ve lead a sheltered as far a basket ball goes…
Comment by rowdyman — December 29, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
I dont know where ‘Brastrap’ is shown – all the uni’s say Bast.. but inventing humor is par for the course here. How often does a shot from the perimeter get blocked like that? In a zone, you LET the other team shoot those shots and figure they cant make enough to beat you. This strip is so silly like that.
Comment by Rob — December 29, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
Rowdyman, I never heard Cawood Ledford (voice of the Cats in my youth) say “take it to the rack,” either. He did say “charity strike” a lot for free throws…don’t hear that one too much anymore.
Comment by laura c — December 29, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
Laura: Not to be pedantic, but actually the term is “charity stripe.”
I don’t recall hearing “take it to the rack” before. Take it to the hoop, take it to the hole, and so on: those make sense. But how does a basket resemble a rack?
Comment by sourbelly — December 29, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
Jules! Are you looking at #20′s bum? Cheeky monkey!
BraStrap Bastards! They’re shitty!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — December 29, 2010 @ 11:42 pm
coat rack, hat rack?
I think they should build those things such that if some fool hangs onto the rim, it breaks away and he literally breaks his ass.
Comment by dale — December 29, 2010 @ 11:48 pm
Looking at the brastrap team again, I think their shirts say “bastards”. That’s not nice. Gil’s kids (wherever they are) have a father!
Comment by Regina — December 30, 2010 @ 12:09 pm
If you want to snap the Brastraps’ winning streak, you’ll have to bring back Steve Luhm, who will persuade Jamjar to drop out of school and become a janitor at New Thayer. Thus we will see him only once a season.
Comment by vaganova — December 30, 2010 @ 11:01 pm
12/31 They still call charging?
If they go back to calling travelling, the majority of people alive won’t recognize the game.
Comment by dale — December 31, 2010 @ 1:31 am
is all this basketball action going on because rubin cant think of what to do with lini verde and his flaming scarves!!!!
Comment by mr120zcan — December 31, 2010 @ 8:04 am
12/31 panel 3: Is this official any relation to Steve the Disco Referee?
Comment by Soccerhead — December 31, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
What is Zed from “Men in Black” doing coaching basketball for those battling bastards from Bastrop? I bet one thing’s for sure: He’s not hosting an intergalactic kegger in that huddle.
I like that Summers-Gaddis high-five at the blue line. Whee!
Comment by Dood — December 31, 2010 @ 12:53 pm