FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 22, 2020

After you have the sign, you then have to use it. Good luck…

2+2-1.3=… um… 3.3? (and how would Marcus do the multiplication sign x with one hand? turn the addition sign + on the diagonal?)

Turning a boring game into a more boring game?

Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1998/04/05

Even the Astros couldn’t decode that one.

The smart batter would call TIME and step out of the batter box, tap his cleats, adjust what needs adjusting, spit, then go back into the box and make those two repeat their signage … at which point he can call TIME again …..

I see the catcher has what is known as Mickey Mouse hands.

Even if the other team could steal those signs, they would not know what they meant.

Hey, Astros! Steal these signs, if you can.

I’m impressed that his middle finger bends at a right angle!

I bet Bill Amend is going to get a lot of hate mail from Houston for this one!

Considering their athletic ability, the signs don’t matter; the best Jason (or I) could do is heave it at the plate and hope to get it in the correct postal code.

Why bother if Jason couldn’t even throw a baseball no more than two feet.

Since neither of them can throw a ball that far, what’s the point?

The only drawback is that’d it’d take forever and a half to convey what kind of ball you want thrown, and being a math whiz would suddenly become a requirement for being a pro-baseball player, and no offense to baseball players…but I can’t see that catching on very widespread.

It’s all a waste of time. Jason can barely lob the ball that far.

Marcus is double-jointed in panel 2

I guess Jason knows so much about sports the same way I do (by having a brother who always talks about it.)

I think I know how he’s going to do a zero

Ump! Can you give them some sort of penalty for delay?

Jason then strikes out the batter, who fell asleep waiting for the pitch.

I don’t know why they even bother with signals, I doubt they have more than one pitch between them.

Jason: Let’s see…what signal is Marcus giving me?

Marcus (in hand gestures): If one train leaves Santa Fe at 2:00 PM, traveling at 53 mph, and one train leaves Albuquerque at 3:00 PM…

I find it highly unlikely that Jason has more than one pitch.

Why are the stros so flatulent? They’re always getting beaned!

GO CUBS!

Only problem is they’ll NEVER finish signing e (irrational number that starts as 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995…

Or, Marcus, you could stick two fingers out, vertically, pointed outward, and add a finger in between, pointed to the side – for an unambiguous division sign.

i dunno how he does the + sign…. ow