Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for January 14, 2020

…who is the disheveled lass with the beach ball in P2?

Amazing how the whole school; counselor (believable), secretaries (who I assume this mystery lady is, less likely), all the teachers (maybe), all of the students (no) is in on all the inside scoop for this valedictorian battle.

Is Mimi yelling to Alexa about her stupid plan to increase her scoring? I mean the other two girls are 50 feet away but heard every word.

And speaking of heard, have you heard that today’s installment of Mopped Up Thorp is already online? Well it’s true!

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Ignoring the fact that Alexa’s GPA is only a fraction of a point off the max so Mimi’s analogy makes no sense, does she really want her players to be that selfish on offense?

Assuming they play between 15-20 games I predict Alexa will graduate with a GPA of 237.95.

P4: Hack-A-Chris

P1, Sounds like Gil should have had her on the football team. It wouldn’t be the first time.

P2, That child psychology crap might work on your husband but it won’t work on me!

P3, So she just has to average 4 ppg and she’ll have a perfect GPA? Great coaching job, Mimi! Did you learn that from Gil?

P3- Some true blue friend Phoebe is as Alexa leads off 1988 with the first EES of the year.

I see that I haven’t missed much over the last three days (decades).

Girls’ uniforms don’t still have sleeves, do they?

P 4, (what she’s really whispering): “…maybe all four of us can hit the showers at the same time later…”

Re: the valedictorian aspect of this story:

I’m predicting that it’ll be resolved by naming Alexa and James co-valedictorians — Alexa, for the female students and James, for the boys.

Motivation 101 Thorp Style!

Wait – I just realized something. The girls are wearing practice jerseys! What gives, every team in every sport wears game jerseys at practice!