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1. 10 days ago on Gil Thorp

   The part that [irritates me] is that this strip had a format and style for decades. Despite not knowing a thing about how to properly maintain this format, HB decides he’s going to write the strip. When called out for essentially creating a new strip using the Gil Thorp cast, he doubles down on both his ignorance and arrogance.

2. 10 days ago on Gil Thorp

   It’s what his generation does-they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to start a new project and work to make it successful. Instead, they take an already established well-known intellectual property, gut it, and ruin it. Less hard work for them and it feeds their inflated sense of self.

   Due to its format and nature, this strip should have been easy to maintain. By not doing so, HB’s actions reflect both his intentions and his arrogance.

3. 4 months ago on Gil Thorp

   In an exchange of comments with me, he has stated that he both “loves this strip” and “is taking it in a new direction”. I will leave it for you to decide how contradictory those two statements are.

4. 5 months ago on Frazz

   See comments above from e.g., steveh64 and Doug K.

5. 5 months ago on Frazz

   Your sentences conflict with one another: “To read it strictly ‘the bat AND ball cost $1.10’ as in the TOTAL PRICE FOR BOTH!”: this sets the total price for both at $1.10.

   “the ball CAN ONLY BE TEN CENTS!”: in conjunction with the previous quote means the bat costs $1.

   “the bat cost a dollar more than the ball”: the previous conclusion with the first quote means the ball costs 0 cents, conflicting with the second quote.

   As noted above 5 cents for the ball and $1.05 for the bat is the correct answer.

6. 5 months ago on Gil Thorp

   Just saw his 6/25 comment about how he feels sorry for [certain commentators]. Was tempted to reply that such feelings also flow in the opposite direction. But I am not sure if “feeling sorry for” is the proper phrase in that case……

7. 5 months ago on Gil Thorp

   I agree. There are two kinds of fiction: reality fiction and fantasy fiction (for lack of better terms). The current writer’s [cough, cough] background is in the second kind when this strip was (and should always be, IMO) of the first.

   I commented a few days ago on the .751 batting average. That issue is just another symptom of the infection this strip is suffering from-the writer [eyeroll] won’t/can’t take the time to make things plausible and just throws out the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps I am old fashioned, but if it were me writing this, I would have taken the time to reverse engineer a batting average that worked in the real world.

8. 5 months ago on Gil Thorp

   It is irritating, isn’t it? This never would have happened during any of our games. [Insert something about fiction not having to be grounded in reality.]

9. 5 months ago on Gil Thorp

   I did a quick check. Smallest number of AB’s I could get was 169. If she went 127 for 169, her BA would be .751479, which would round to .751.

   You are correct in that the extra .001 is difficult to hit even with rounding.

   It seems to be that 169 ABs would be EXTREMELY high for high school. Being generous and rounding up to 5 per game, that gives about 34 games for a season that lasts about 10 weeks. Do they even have time for practice???

10. 6 months ago on Gil Thorp

    see also my reply to our esteemed writer above.