Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 14, 2020

Fail, fail, until you succeed.

oh, the pressure, huh?

You need to get a hold of Joe-Cool. I’m told that he is a real swinger.

B-but then, you did ask him to get his teeth into it the last time, CB!

I preferred Snoopy in the old timey strips when he was still a dog. He was funny much more often in those old strips. This one is just dumb and could have been done with a human character much better. In these latter strips, there is nothing Snoopy does that has anything to do with being a dog. Schulz had plenty of wonderful human characters that could have handled all of Snoopy’s bits, except his friendship with Woodstock. I never got why he used Snoopy this way.

Better the bat than you, Charlie Brown!

Maybe the WW1 Flying Ace should step in….

It’s a rare time where Snoopy acts like a real dog.

there’s no biting the bat in baseball

Luckily it’s not an aluminum bat.

I have been biting the bat in frustration several times over these last months. And not because of baseball.

“But there is no joy in Peanuts—mighty Snoopy has struck out…” ⚾

Well at least Snoopy’s getting plenty of fiber!

Snoopy is a good dog. By the way, I think the other players prefer the marks on the bat.

I need that last panel on a t-shirt. It so represents my mood these days.

What about bats not being good for teeth? Though I’m pretty sure those aren’t teeth “marks”. Rather, Snoopy’s drilling holes clean through the handle with his teeth. Probably looking to have a place to either run a lanyard through so he can carry it without holding it or add streamers to it and give it to Lucy so she’ll at least have a good excuse why she struck out her next at bat.

Just imagine the ball is the cat next door.

Such teeth Mark’s may weaken the bat and affect your scores.