Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 26, 2016

Yes, young Master Bader, keep every inch for yourself.

“But i CAN make myself big, Dad – just watch!”“Not here, son – it’s OK at home, but in public never give an inch! Now let’s do our secret five knuckle shuffle fist bump!”

Del could add, “You also can make yourself twice as drunk if you go to Venne’s in Central City and ask for Joe.”

The dugout roof appears to be talking to itself in P1. And even worse, it’s answering itself. They also need to get Sign Man to fix that lettering on the scoreboard. He’d never do such a shoddy job.

Fist bumping from different sides of the fence. Is this practice or is young Master Bader visiting pig nosed dad at the jail yard?

In P4, Oh and son, don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

This coming from a guy who got beat down from a lady cop.

In all reality , Another thing Son how about opening your eyes , dreaming about perverted fantasies will not make you a better ballplayer .

Coming soon…Drunk Dad hops fence to argue with umpire. Gil intervenes and gets Dad in AA.

Homer and Bart!

Haven’t seen a HS baseball field with wire dugouts (instead of brick or at least wood) in a LOOOOONNNGG time.

Reading about the characters of Milford is more entertaining than the circus. Almost. Where else can you observe smiling pants, alien visits, cola box bikinis and culturally refined metrosexual basketball players? P2- Delbert’s talking double chins.

Now show me where Kaz’s car is parked and I’ll show what twice the industrial solvents can do to a finely waxed finish.

Hey, Barry got his freckles and/or acne back!

Hoo boy, I see everyone jumped on the innuendos right off the bat. (Ha, bat. Baseball.) R&W are doing this to us on purpose!P1 – “I yelled at the coach because he called me out.”P2 – “Well, you can’t do anything about being short, but you can outwork everyone else.”Huh? What? Is De Bader drunk again? And speaking of drinking, it’s not required, but having a few drinks before reading Mopped Up Thorp usually improves it.

Wow! He’s already in the slammer for the DUI. Milford sure has a small jail.

Put the hat on Pop in panel two and he’d look like Otis too.

Tomorrow, the Central City PD arrests the Milford HS grounds keeper for steeling their Bus Stop Portico to use as a dugout.

I don’t know if any of you waste time while “working” by reading Slate, but the MUT storyline brings to mind this classic “dear prudence” letter about another young athlete who doesn’t have his head in the game (double entendre bait): http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2014/10/dear_prudence_my_teen_son_is_pleasuring_himself_too_much_and_in_odd_places.html

Prior to his involvement with industrial solvents, Mr. Bader was a consultant for Tea Party Republican congressman, who “never give an inch”, instead of trying to reach a consensus or compromise. You can blame the last 8 years of congressional inactivity on Bader.

Now that De Bader has all this free time since he can’t drive for work, he volunteers to help coach Milford. Future scene from batting practice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf33MDa5Km0 (jump to 1:30)

I bet this storyline ends with another fist bump through a fence between the two of them, only it’ll be a prison fence.

Here’s one of Dad’s typical high fives at a ball game: http://www.weirdlyodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/funny-sports-gifs-4.gif

@Mr. Spridget: That’s your Mulligan. We try to keep Gil free of politicspeak and religion. Feel free to jump in with inappropriate comments and observations, but this is Milford and Ike’s still in the White House. We skip religion because we hope “He’s” not reading a lot of our commentary.

P-3: That’s right, Dad. I’ll give ’em both inches.