You cannot be serious!

The zaniness continues as we are apparently back home again in (Indiana) Milford, or Valley Tech already, with no sign of jet lag from anyone, as Luke is being as much of a dick as he was before the trip to Korea. Imagine sitting next to him on a plane that long, TWICE. I dont think I’d make it to Omaha let alone Korea, with that POS sitting next to me. I’d rather sit on the wing, and I mean the real wing.

So whats going on here looks to be a ballgame where Lukes pitcher is getting the hook, perhaps for a while, as Luke is perhaps removing his son from the game as indicated by “Youre grounded”.

Backing up a bit, the unis appear awfully similar to the one worn by the Korean Nightmare back in Korea. Yes its yet another artist F. Thats F for Fail, class.

Of course if I swore at my coach like that I’d most likely be warming the bench too, so in that regard Luke has a point.

But look who’s coming in to replace Son Of Douch—– its a bird , its a plane, ….no ….its

THE KOREAN NIGHTMARE!!!!

No way. I just knew with the magic of comics that at the snap of a finger, ol KN would be suited up for VT.

Gotta back up again– on the mound why is Luke addressing coach Kim while looking at his son? Thats not Coach Kim directly behind Luke is it? Why have both coaches bring the hook in a game? Never saw 2 coaches out to remove a pitcher, but hey, we’ve seen more strange things lately then an entire season of Thats Incredible.

Tae Kwan Don’t

The madness continues as it appears our pal Luke is heading to….Korea……to…recruit a high school baseball player??? NOW????

Its fucking May 15th! You mean to fuckin tell me he’s still putting his damn roster together??

If he dont have his team together by now, jesus christ, by the time this dude decides whether or not he want to come to America and settle in Central City everyone will be on summer vacation.

God damn it Barajas you really think anyone with half a brain would fly out to freakin Korea ……………………………………………..

…………….JUST IN CASE A PROSPECT THATS A RELATIVE OF YOUR ASSISTANT COACH MAY WANT TO NOT ONLY PLAY FOR YOUR HIGH SCHOOL TEAM BUT ALSO ATTEND THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL, AND ALSO LIVE IN THE UNITED FREAKIN STATES OF AMERICA??

AND AFTER YOURE ON THE PLANE IS NOT THE TIME TO ASK WHETHER SOMEONE PERHAPS WANTS TO PLAY FOR YOU!! . DO YOU HEAR ME LUKE????

I DONT CARE IF THE DUDE THROWS 200 MPH OR HAS A 1.000 BATTING AVERAGE OR HAS A LAUNCH ANGLE OF .850 OR WHATEVER THAT IS, YOU STILL HAVE A SHITLOAD OF DETAILS TO WORK OUT BEFORE THIS KOREAN NIGHTMARE TAKES THE FIELD FOR CENTRAL CITY.

HEY LUKE, THE “KOREAN NIGHTMARE” WILL BE YOUR TRIP OUT THERE WITH YOUR ASSISTANT WHILE YOUR TEAM PLAYS GAMES WITHOUT YOU AND YOU FIND OUT AFTER ALL THIS TRAVEL THAT THE KID ISNT INTERESTED.

WOULDNT THAT BE A KICK IN THE NUTS???

Down in front!

I wrote more and I coiuldnt get it to save and dont feel like writing the whole thing again. Maybe later.

Basically I said the bleachers made no sense where they were behind the dugout and that big roof blocking fans view. I said I went to a number of games where the bleachers were down the outfield line and also behind home plate. The dugout also looks like it has footrests in front of the bench.

Gil puts Meemaw in a position where I hoped there was a good fence blocking foul balls whizzing by.

P3 – it makes no sense why a non-family member would say something like that. Gil implies agreement with his answer.

Land of Confusion

ComicWriting 101 for Henry – Keep the score the same day to day. Yesterday Milford was up by 10, now theyre up by 1. Even when the old writer had them playing football in December, **BB, at least the score was consistent. At this rate, the confetti will be on the court and the nets will be cut down and then we’ll find out – the game isnt over for 2 more days,— and THE OTHER TEAM IS WINNING. Sheesh

Ive been to many high school games in my time, and the coaches are always standing, pacing around, yelling at their players or the refs, switching defenses and the like. Gil? He might as well buy a ticket he’s so dour. At least his assistant did her hair for the big game.

HEY NUMBER 12, IF YOUR TRYING TO SET A SCREEN, MAKE SURE THE DEFENDER CANT GET AROUND YOU. And the VT guy should be looking at Barnes and trying to block his shot from where he is.

P3 – I love when a picture can be looked at in 2 ways – we cant tell if the ball is going through the basket from above, or is coming through it from below. Plus we get a free solar eclipse. A for artwork.

F for everything else.

Hey, is it halftime yet? The band will be on the court on Wednesday and Thursday the second quarter will end. Mark my words.

**Before Barajas

Forget plylometrics – now we have girl wrestlers??

Here comes this strip, spinning out of the turn! Today we have — Coach Luke teaching a wrestling move to what appears to be the school wrestling team. Uh, its February buddy. Wrestling at my school started in October. I still remember my friend who was a wrestling cheerleader drawing a sign that said “JOIN WRESTLING” in the back of the room in study hall one day. (Big room, it was mainly used for art classes.) It wasnt a popular sport so they needed to advertise. Some of the football players also wrestled.

So its evidently just a small sample of the wrestling season we have here. And I suppose learning goes on all season, which it should. So whatever he won with in Paris I guess is ok to teach, but what the hell was he doing in Paris wrestling other then the world championships?

But girl wrestlers on a team with boys? Got a prob with that gang.

Then we have the new word – https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/a-z/what-is-plyometrics

Go ahead and read about it. It exists but its a new one for me. Havent figured out what its worth in Scrabble yet. Nothing like showing off your knowledge of the English language while not knowing jack about some sports.

Then we have the ad for the lift-a-thon at Milford. I was assuming it was only for the kids, but now Luke is assuming (hopefully incorrectly ) that Gil is or will be involved. Its not a bad idea in itself, but a paper ad does not say RSVP Today! on it. Thats for e-vites or emailed stuff.

So we can look forward to the final showdown between Gil and Luke, but who will sponsor them? The principals of the respective schools? Wonder if the cash spent on the vapes will be used to bet on the athletes? Hmmm..

Finally – I watched Groundhog Day yesterday as I do every year. I have to say its aged well. Except for the scenes where Bill Murray is on the pay phone and the telephone in his room, most of it you could plug into todays world and not notice the difference. My favorite line in the movie — when he’s on the phone with someone from Pittsburgh about the travel conditions on Day 2 of his oddysey – ” What if there is no tomorrow? We didnt have one today.” Lol.

I actually shook hands with Murray at the Western Open golf tournament years ago at Cog Hill- he was an annual celebrity golfer there and he always played with Scott Simpson in the pro-am. I saw him in a crowd of people near the ropes and stuck my hand out far enough that he could shake it. Really cool.

I also have a friend I met about 12 years ago who worked on the set of the movie.

Feel free to add your own thoughts on the movie or on Bill Murray, who was one of my favorite actors, and of course I knew him from Saturday Night Live back in the day.

Of course our own Ned Ryerson is in the movie too!

What I dont find attractive is that seaweed you’re eating

The girls are having a post practice lunch. Nonsense. Nobody in teaching golf does that. They just met. The writer knows nothing about golf its obvious. Or football or basketball. Why fly to Arizona for 1 lesson and complain to someone about that. Talk about your golf game. This is a teaching pro not A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR.

This girl isnt David Leadbetter. Even so, Mimi cant afford his prices – $3,500 for 3 hours. Heh.

And Ericka, its Mimi. You were just calling her Mrs. Thorp 2 days ago. You dont just call her Emily.

I wrote much more but it got erased and I dont have the heart to do it all again.

Hey its football

We wanted football, I wanted football, and gosh darn it, we HAVE football. Or had, as this is an old game from 1987. Seems like we’ve waited 35 years for this anyway..

We first got a VCR in 1986; it was for my moms birthday, and I still remember how cool it was to put in a tape and record stuff, then watch it again. The first movie we watched? Terms of Endearment with Jack Nicholson. Not a bad start, and I started recording many things, sports, movies, TV shows, overnight stuff I never could stay up for, (one movie was The Paper Chase which was on at 2 am on Channel 9 and had a scene that was unviewable due to temporary loss of the cable signal and I didnt see it until years later) and over the years compiled about 170 tapes which I still have mostly in a box in the basement and others in a nice 2-doored pullout furniture piece designed for VHS tapes that is in my bedroom. I labeled them as I went and thank goodness I was so fastidious because 170 tapes would be a lot of work to detail all the programming on them at this point. I quit recording stuff when I finally decided I had so many tapes I would never have the time to watch them all, plus the space they took up was getting to the point that enough was enough, and of course I had also acquired a number of prerecorded tapes which took up more room, and at that time DVDs were more common, so I collected a few of those, which were quite slimmer as you know. Now I rarely add to my collection except in rare cases, as most stuff is either on Youtube or now that I have a DVR which came with my conversion to satellite a few years back, I can merely record anything I want and its stored within the confines of the TV, not adding to the finite space of the house.

So every so often I pull out a tape and watch it, (yes I still have a VCR, its a DVD?VCR combo that serves my needs well) and yes I have a few games from 1987 too. Most of my tapes have held up pretty well and its cool to watch the old commercials and the hairstyles from the 80’s and 90’s whenever the mood strikes. ( I always thought Joan London’s hair was gorgeous back in the day with her big perm on Good Morning America)

So anyhoo, Gil is coaching a game in which Luke Martinez is on his opposition. And young Marty Moon is on the mike. But we have a cliffhanger during the broadcast. Unless this is a Batman episode, a football game doesnt take a break in the middle of a play. So we must stay tuned until tomorrow for the result of ONE PLAY. Marty wouldnt take a break mid-play in real life. Not in 1987, not now.

But this is a comic strip. And Barajas is writing it. So we wait.

“How not to advance the plot” for dummies

I really thought today was gonna reveal something about Keri’s odd personality but no– we flip back to last Tuesday. The only problem with that is we dont even know what today is. I thought we had Marjie D AND football back too, but it was too good to be true. Back to the uneven nonsense that this new plot has become. I forgot all about the Linda Lindas until today. Their need to be in this strip is next to zero. Didnt we just look at 2 newspaper issues back to back, 1 telling a blatant lie and the next exagerating a high school football matchup before it happens? When did games have previews that warranted front page headlines, even in a rag like this one?

One thing that hasnt changed is this late season football. Its Veterans Day and we’re still in mid-season form. Get on the stick or we’ll have Frosty saying “Happy Birthday!” before the final gun is fired.

Hard to believe the Linda Lindas were at the school library so late that Keri cant get up the next morning. Cant they schedule this hoo-ha on a Friday or Saturday night?? Check another ‘makes no sense’ box.

In honor of Hurricane Nicole thats currently ravaging Florida our song today will be this rarely heard gem from Point Blank in 1983. I swear I’ve had Sirius radio for 12 years and havent heard this played once. Its way too good to be so off the map. Of course in high school I heard it all the time.