Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 16, 2023

Real awkward part is when fans are keeping track of the pitcher’s strikeouts by putting up a K for each strikeout and they get to the third strikeout.

Pig should ask more questions about the game, starting with who’s on first base.

So Pig is one of them, seeing Nazis everywhere. He’d be right at home with several of the commenters here.

triggered much, Pig?

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Silly Swine.

Ever see Leni Riefenstahl’s OLYMPIAD?

And RF is right flank and LF if left flank? It looks like Pig just flunked flank.

You like to score games. Why?

Never mind. Different strokes, etc.

And me thought SS means stainless steel.

I think it is worse with certain car companies making cars using the ´SS´ designation, they are much harder to rip apart.

Chevy Super Sport comes to mind, but now we have KIA Killed In Action!

Nazis!!! Cartoon Policeperson P.W. says NO POLITICS IN PBS!!!!

For those of us oldsters it is Social Security.

Pig’s right! Goat should be using position numbers (shortstop = 6) when scoring.

The real problem is three or more consecutive strike outs.

Pig has a lot to learn about sport statistics.

Then Pig said: "Why are you sitting on MyPillow®?

For boomers in the 60s- Selective Service, today Social Security also the US Secret Service.

Wait’ll he sees three Ks for three strikeouts.

I would do that while watching the Washington Senators play in D.C.

My dad was aware, but it still made him look twice when he was in the Philippines and K K K was everywhere. (It’s the abbreviation for the anti-colonial revolutionary society.)

I believe that would be Costello.

And dull, dull, dull.

What about all those KKKs?

LOL… Something else for Liberals to be offended by. As if they need anything else.

As well as steam ship.

Rat is close though….

What else would “SS” stand for?

Who cares. I don’t give a darn.

On scoreboards, strikes are recorded with ’K’s. There’s a reason every third ‘K’ is backward, and it’s not to make it easier to count ’em up.

It would be funny if there weren’t so many lurkers furiously combing the comments here, waiting to pounce at any perceived offense…

My mother taught me how to score baseball. We’d go to Forbes Field and watch the Pirates. Wonderful memories.

You know, this kind of knee jerk reaction wouldn’t surprise me in the least in today’s thin skinned over sensitive world.

It’s not “SS” it’s “6”…

This is exactly what society has become.People not understanding and taking offence and proceed to “cancel” what they don’t understand.

As Pig joins the throng of those who casually, haphazardly, and blithely label others “Nazi”.

6 is Short Stop. That’s why a double play is “6-4-3” not “SS-2B-1B”. Goat needs a lesson!

Fun Fact!: In Germany, the band KISS uses a modified version of their logo in which the “SS” looks like reversed “ZZ”. Search “kiss german logo” for comparison images.

Just record the shortstop as 6.

Ahem. It’s not “SS,” proper scoring uses a “6.” – Sinscerely, That Old Guy You Avoid.

Not to mention boring as heck.

wait… all those Chevies were glorifying Nazis??

Shouldn’t those ellipses be hand clap emojis?

The best SS is 316LSS

And in 8th grade study hall, Madison East, all windows were open, and all radios were tuned to the 1957 Milwaukee Braves.

Or Social Securit.

Baseball is so confusing that a tall person can be the shortstop.

Pee Wee Reese wasn’t even short.

Or 6 for short.

Explain the infield fly rule to him, Goat… and then watch his head explode.

I grew up filling out the scorecard during games. I did that for many years. I drew my own at home, but they would sell programs at the ballpark with the roster/player info and a blank scorecard. I don’t know when that stopped.

And Pig is so ignorant! And, leaping to conclusions is his chief exercise….

I keep score at every M.L.B. game I attend in person. It helps me stay focused on the game, and it allows me to see later all that’s happened in the game.

Goat would be justified in punching Pig, at the same time telling him there is no crying in baseball.

whos on first whats on second…