Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 27, 2019

Hell, when I was a kid, I moved from a school district without kindergarten to one that had one. Automatically I was one of the youngest in my class. If it happened the other way around …

Kaz is pulling his best Señor Wences impression out in P3. Gil: How were Chance’s grades? Kaz: S’Awright!

P1, Kaz, don’t give up your day job. A detective, you’re not.

P2, But he’s the same age as your son would have been, Gil.

P3, Only a year? We wonder almost daily why this strip seems to be 50 years behind the times.

Maybe he started school at 6? I did, what’s the big deal?

P2: Evil Kaz: I will crush your head with this gigantic dumbbell, then I will be head coach, bwahaha (apologies to Kids In the Hall)

“So I figure he must have been abducted by aliens for a year!”

…the shake weight looks to be a big part of the Milford training regimen. Wonder if they box a kangaroo next after their set!

You’re his coach. Maybe ask him?

Our G-man discovers redshirting.

Well, here we go again….Kaz bein’ the snoopy busy-body…always seems to start in the weight room (where there never seems to be any players)

Another thing I just thought of: he may have started school in a district with an early cutoff, say Sept. 1. So say his birthday is Sept. 2. — when he started kindergarten he was already 6 years old. Then say he moved to Milford at some point, and say that Milford’s cutoff is Dec. 1. So already there are going to be kids in his class, born in September, October and November, that he’s more than a year older than, because they started school the year they turned 5.

P1- Investigate? Encroaching on Marteen Moon’s territory big boy. With a fresh score of ’roids, Kaz has a renewed zeal to dig into it. Nice universal machine behind GT. Reminds me of ours in high school.

P2- Every so often, GilPa poses like a youthful Claude Akins with a square lantern jaw.

P3- The bigger question is…..why is Milford 25 years behind?

theory seventeen: he was orphaned, lost a year moving in with his grandmother

I’m guessing Kaz had to go to his girlfriend to tickle a few keys!

We had the lower score (except in cross-country and golf) in all those 8th grade sporting matches when the other school’s student-athletes had mustaches. I suspect this attempt to improve one’s athletic performances is not red-shirt-related. Kaz is the perfect gumshoe for the case and Coach Thorp will again step in to provide excellent counsel to our old 11th-year. By early December, just in time for basketball season, just after a terrific bonfire and a trouncing of Valley Tech.

P2 – Gil pulling an LBJ and making Kaz talk to him in the toilet.

Bear down, Gil. Bear down.

In all reality , is Hadley coming back to file a reverse age discrimination suit based on the fact that younger players are not playing because an older player , Chance , is ?

“His grades are good, so apparently he’s just been promoted every year to the next grade. I suppose that can happen with some kids. I wouldn’t know.”

It’s pretty common in a certain part of the country to have athletes, especially football players, repeat 8th grade so they can be more physically advanced when it comes to college recruitment.

Tomorrow: Kaz and Gil take a steam.Notice how they always work out just the two of them? Never is a trainer Rick Scott or a Steve Boone around for the squat thrust session or the Greco Roman tickle fight

That makes sense. “You didn’t want to tell me why he’s older, so that means you wanted me to investigate, even though you already know the answer. So I violated about 5 privacy laws and here’s what I found…”

What in the hell is Gil staring at so intently in P2? Is he trying to figure out Kaz’s stupid tattoo? Is he monitoring Kaz’s form in doing curls? Is he simply monitoring Kaz’s form? And speaking of form, please form a single file line to view today’s edition of Mopped Up Thorp.

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Is he from Kazakhstan? Kaz?

P1: Of course, if this kid is True Standish he is older than the other kids.