Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 18, 2021

How can you drop it if you don’t catch it first?

If the Peanuts gang were to have a hockey team — with Charlie Brown still as manager — would Lucy’s excuse be having the puck zip by her?

Borrow Snoopy’s hockey stick, Charlie Brown, and swing away.

You’re a baseball manager, a bat would serve nicely as a stick.

Why not have her sit in the bull pen? No, that’s where the pitcher gets ready.

Hit her with a bat, Chuckles.

And if he were Ian Dury, he could hit her with a rhythm stick.

Too bad that a pitcher has no excuse for having a bat on the mound!!

Plenty of baseball bats around, Chuck.

What did I tell you about puns?

Which you could get away with then, today you would leave yourself open to charges of assault and abuse…

THEN DO IT, CHARLIE BROWN.

You’re the pitcher, CB, hit her with a curve ball.

I guess that one went over Charlie Brown’s head.

There’s always the bat, CB

Try wrestling.

Good old Chuck must have felt like Casey Stengal from the ’62 Mets during most of their games.

CB still has time to bean her with the ball.

Lucy ><

Chuck needs to shove the ball down her throat. That way at least it would shut her up and the rest of the team could focus on a win.

What other game has some kind of a stick.. a pole… a bat?

Joe or Dom? Vince even? Probably Joe I’m guessing.

You can always use a baseball bat on her.

That’s kind of a lame joke (not really funny)

Keep at this and you might catch it, Lucy!

Fire her butt immediately.

That might be a 2 minute penalty for ‘throwing the stick’ a violation of rule 637. If 2 minutes seems like 1.389 years, it’s Simon Bar Jonah timeline conversion.

And you can shoot the puck into her open mouth

CB wouldn’t have the guts to hit her.

Roundhead, with this lass around you can never win the game.

No, actually you couldn’t. But her teammates might