Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 06, 2019

And we’ll still take showers together, right?

You’ll love college even more than this. After college is when your life will really go down the tubes.

P1, It’s the huge hands. Coach. They’re everywhere!

P2, Taken straight from “American Graffiti”, (Kind of appropriate, at least.) “Fast Times Ridgemont High” and a thousand other teen movies and TV shows.

P3, Uh-oh, is Gil hinting that baseball might actually start around the time when high school baseball actually starts for a change? Will we get a full summer at Milford CC?

“That’s why I’m 21 and have been a senior forever. I don’t want to leave. It’s a cruel world Coach! I see peacocks everywhere and I’m not hallucinating.”

And after me, in college, you might even find a girl that will like you. Just think of that!

P2- ………nothing will be as important as it is right here, right now. Pirate TV, Rick Soto Polkafests and scarfing three banana splits at a time, a frustrated placebo pusher. Unlike in P1 Coach, I’m not looking for a hand out, but some relief. You see, the coarse loofah I used after practice produced this rash. Where is Rick Scott? I need some horse salve.

When this meeting ends, Gil should write down that he needs to try out more players for shortstop than start this stick in the mud.

Coming soon, the newest reality TV show from producers Rube and Wigwam, Gil Thorp, Narcisistic Social Worker. “Yeah, your life is in the toilet but what about me? I haven’t won a state title in baseball in decades and I NEED a shortstop.”

P4: “son, everything in your kid life is ending….however, everything in your adult life is beginning, and soon, you will have a miserable wife at home with bratty kids while you work a dead-end job and occupy a bar stool at one of the local gin mills for fun, so snap out of it for chrissakes”

And after that a job selling refrigerators at Sears!! Won’t that be great!!

P4 – “and in college, the showers are even better, ever heard of a fella named Sandusky?”

Movie Sequel: The Brunch Gang

P1: What’s your problem? Well, I have this stiff neck…would a hot shower help?

In all reality , Mike , ever hear of Faber College , I graduated from there . I was a member of Delta House , they’re having a party this weekend and I’ll get you invited . I guarantee you’ll change your outlook on life after attending the party.

How about for tomorrow? “C’mon, kid. Grab the janitor’s extension ladder (used for cleaning those massive gymnasium windows) and a couple of cans of Rust-Oleum and let’s do a real job on Bobby-Robby’s signs!”

Gil to Mike-"You seem obsessed with That 70’s Show. Talk to the 4 billboard vandals as if you were Red Forman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIA39PflmcI

Cue up Bruce and the E-Street Band…….“GLORY DAYS”.