Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 05, 2024

P3: You don’t mind if we dance with your dates?

Is that John McCain behind the cameraman?

The cameraman doesn’t look like Cappy. Who is covering this event, the Home Shopping Network?

Rod’s head seems to be floating above his body in P1.

P1: “Don’t let them intimidate you, Rod…just because they are bigger, stronger and more talented than you. Remember to embrace failure!"

P3- They don’t look like Murderers Row do they? Put your heart into it and smoke ‘em if you got ‘em Hot Rod.

Welcome to Summer School.

Once he was going pro from high school, but now Rod is having to tryout for the B league, whatever that is. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

coach make sure beth uses lume next time your breath smells like a filet o fish

Hit #11 just slightly off center and the other two behind him should fall as well.

Rod’s so destined to make the B League that he didn’t quit baseball to train.

P 3: “… if we can’t take him out now, we’ll get him later in the showers…”

Gil flying out of town and wearing a suit for this workout? For a kid that’s no longer a student? He doesn’t put 1/10 of this effort into his basketball team. Gil must think Rod’s going to give him a piece of all the endorsements and contracts coming in. And speaking of endorsements, I’m endorsing today’s Mopped Up Thorp. Although I may be biased.

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All right, your first drill is punching a coach in the stomach. Then selling vapes.

Okay, this maybe the first time a camera crew is dispatched to film a B league tryout.

What’s with the random dork in cargo pants wandering onto the floor? Where is Security?

The B League. Hmm.

“If you have a problem; if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the B-team.”

Nope.

P 2: as urine drips down rods leg

hey who let that ginger on the court ??

P1- (Rod): “Uh, Coach, everyone can hear you AND they’re filming this.”

P3- Can you guess which one is wearing a wig?

For Rod, I think the “B” in B League is going to stand for Brokenhearted

I’m hoping this arc takes a dark turn: It’s a start-up league, Rod gets drafted by a team in Amarillo, Texas, and then after a week of practice, the team folds. Gil sold his plane to pay for the tryout and can’t even fly to Amarillo to pick Rod up. Rod sells his phone to buy vapes, sells them on the street, goes to jail, and is never heard from again.

LOL, I told you Henry would come up with his own stupid fictionalized basketball league. But Henry even messed up stealing the G League, you don’t try out for the league, you try out for the teams.