Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 13, 2021

Wow, all that excitement we got for the first girls game. A girl(?) dribbling. The end. They’re not going to waste Vic’s talent for the girls, you can bet that.

Hey Tessi, shake a leg. Everybody else has showered and dressed and you’re still wandering around in uniform reading your stats.

Now for the long drive home from Toledo, Ohio. Milford really shouldn’t schedule so many long road trips.

And speaking of long, you didn’t have to wait long to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp – https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Are we having another one of those quarterback-quaterback storylines developing?

Did Tessi not realize she was talking out loud? If she’s aware that it’s unseemly to gloat over your stats after a loss, why did she do it in the first place?

Too soon to tell if Milford High is ready for its first same sex relationship. Readers? And who the heck are the Bowsher Blue Racers?

P# “Blue Racers” really??? A school would have a snake like that as a nickname? Hopefully we will see more of this unfold in the locker room or in Corina’s bedroom when she invites Tessi Milton over to study (?) with her.

P1 Is that the mysterious #3/#34 sitting to the left of CK chewing on a towel?

I think what’s going on is CK is restraining herself (so far) from punching out TM’s lights for being more interested in her own point totals than how the team performs. CK has already knocked heads into football players who missed the point. Might be a lot harder on TM when she’s on the same team as CK… Or should be. TM is just off by herself trying to look good and not really on the team.

P1, Hmm, this sounds an awful lot like the Master Bader story. Does Tessi’s father have a drinking problem and sell industrial solvents? Stay tooned. The good news, maybe Corina’s mom will send her to Swifty-Mart.

P2, Yeah, Tessi you should have scored more points! You lost the game for us!

P3, Well, that will be a big disappointment to all of the Milford quarterbacks.

Tessi doesn’t understand the concept of putting the team’s performance above her own. It’s time to stage an intervention, and then brownies as a parting gift!

My friend Bruce went back to Ohio, but his city was gone.

Vic ends up doing the girls games and ends up in trouble for some of his nicknames. Just imagine.

P 4: “…I think she’s really cute!…”

Tessi looks a lot like Molly Kinsella. The coke carton bikini girl who later worked at MCC and stiff armed Coach Steve Boone’s romantic overtures.

P3:..“leaning that way. Anybody got a butter knife?”

Is this the first time we’ve seen CK smile?