Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 01, 2020

good grief

I knew you two would agree on something.

That’s the losingest attitude I’ve seen, CB!

For some odd reason, today’s strip reminds me of the scene in Mr. Baseball when Jack finds out he’s beeing traded to a Japanese team:

Jack Eliot: I’m a World Series MVP!Skip: That was four years ago, Jack.Trey: You hit .235 Last season.Jack Eliot: LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!

It also reminds me of an interesting bit I’d heard about Sadaharu Oh (Wang Chen-chih) which I really don’t know if it’s true: Oh was both the losingest manager and the winningest manager over the course of a career at one point. He had won more games than any other manager, but had also lost more.

This is why you have to know what the statistics are really based upon. Are they just raw numbers, percentages, or some other metric?

By the way, I was living near Tokyo when the movie Mr. Baseball came out.

Denial

Reality goes not care how you feel. It just is. Deal with it.

Hmmm. A statement we could apply today. Facts cannot be altered by bluster, boasting, or rewriting history. Sorry. I am just so angry because so many will die because people lied, lied, and lied. I cry for my country.

It’s like Dr Fauci and DT.

So is Chuck fooling himself this April?

Sounds like Festus (Gunsmoke) trying to explain about doctors doctorin’ other doctors … “Well now, when a doctor doctors another doctor, well, does a doctor that’s a doin’ the doctorin’ doctor the doctor that’s a gettin’ doctored the way that the doctor that’s a doin’ the doctorin’ wants to doctor the doctor that’s a gettin’ doctored or does the doctor that a gettin’ doctored tell the doctor that’s a doin’ the doctorin’ to doctor the doctor the way that the…”

He accepts it only because there’s no more room in the strip panel for another round of this.

This is the thinking so many political activists thrive on.

Reminds me of the “So you think you’re a fierce mountan lion sitting on a rock waiting for a victim to come along?” strip

Sounds a lot like Trump talking about the media, or the truth, for that matter.

“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

The Washington Generals of Little League. Each eventually won a game.

Even the most vigorous of denial of the Truth won’t change it. All it really does is put your ignorance on full display for all to see.

Maybe they’ll get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Reality is that thing that, when you don’t believe it, doesn’t go away.

12-step sponsor: Are you willing to do this?

addict: No.

12-step sponsor: Are you willing to pray for willingness?

addict: Honestly, no.

12-step sponsor: Are you willing to pray about that?

addict: Yes, okay, I am.

I refuse to accept ‘losingest’ as part of the English language. But then I am English.

Time for a pitching change.

Maybe they wouldn’t lose all the time if they actually tried training or if they actually had a decent coach.

Only accepting it because he can’t follow what Schroder said.

We know they know. And they know we know they know. But they don’t know we know they know we know they know. So we have the edge!

That circuitous list of words can be very convincing at times. Though CB has fallen for that but then he is a fighter and will emerge. His team is going to play no matter what bow may Reruns happen.

The virus sure hasn’t slowed down people’s tribalism. The ability to find a way to make political comments on one of most non-political comic strips of all time is truly astonishing . This particular strip was originally published in spring of 1973. It’s good to practice social distancing but let’s try a little social media distancing too. It would nice to have some places to go with no political talk. Strips like Doonesbury are the exception.