Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 13, 2018

Panel 3: anyone who can hit homers with his fists will get my vote for a scholarship!

Pelwecki sounds like the kind of player who hits 18 home runs with 21 RBIs and a .218 batting average.

Well, Gil, Starkist wants tuna that tastes good.

P1 Either those guys are giants or the backstop in pretty low. Looks like a little league park. No wonder Palwecki is hitting so many home runs. He is not too self absorbed…do you think he gives a hoot about the team????

P1, Guess you’ll be playing for the Milford American Legion next, Moose.

P2, So how come you never invited me to your golf camp, Coach?

P3, You should try using a bat, in that case, Moose.

Moose has more get poor quick schemes then Ralph Kramden. When he first appeared in the strip he was going to be the next great Milford QB. Finally made fifth string a year later. Last summer he planned on becoming the next great tight end until the basketball dude took up all of his practice time. He did end up as a part-time fullback though. Now he wants to be the next Babe Ruth. I believe next year he’ll be driving the team bus to the away games. To the moon, Moose!

Hey Coach — Grades? SAT? In your first year at Milford, you found time to personally tutor Bobby Watkins in math. What happened?

In all reality , Forget the infomercials about coachs’ baseball camps and traveling all star baseball teams. You need to go to the Dominican Republic and attend a baseball academy . Look at all the MLB players they turn out.

After reading BStarFish’s comments about Moose’s scheming, I leave you Gilfanatics with Supertramp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUdhaDCvPWY

So … how will the Moose/Bader storyline intersect? Bader sets a school record and no one notices, sending him to the brink? Double D drops the Bader story for a Moose feature, which triggers Bader after seeing them together while he’s driving? … Will Marty Moon offer Bader an open mic to unloa … wait, maybe vent his spleen is a better phrase? … Will Mimi take this time with no facetime for the softball team to interview applicants for the pool boy position after her most recent one decided to go into the preisthood after a torid two week-fling? And what about Gil trying to strong-arm the board into renovating the shower facilities with extra money for “perks” that Gil declines to elaborate on?

All this, and maybe more, during the next episode for “Didn’t They Have Kids?”

Gil’s going keep making the calls only if the one phone in the office is available.

Meanwhile , American Idol singing star Rick Soto will appear on the Main Stage at the Milford 4 H Club’s Annual Fourth of July Rodeo and Pig Roast , in all reality .

Why in the name of Big Ken Brown have they gone off on this Moose tangent? Enquiring minds want to read double D’s double B story in the Trumpet. I smell cover-up

Gil is all about squashing dreams. Thanks Coach!

P-1: More proof this story takes place in a distant decade when kids actually played outdoors.

P-2: Gil answers KP’s question about Hockey.

P-3: University of Phoenix?

P 2.5: “Joe Sharkey got away with being one-dimensional because it was 1971…If you want to get noticed, you gotta do more now than just hit a few long flies off of high school pitching son…”

Yeah, like all the calls you made for me. Maybe the JayCees need players.