Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for May 19, 2022

Well nothing gets by good old Gillll! I mean, other than Gregggg not being able to field balls or throws all season including whatever drills they run in practice. Assuming they practice and Gillll actually attends.

Nothing more painful than a pulled Hammie.

I don’t have any funny comments. This is the most disturbing story line I’ve read since Cody Exner

P2.5 “I may miss a lot, but not as much as you, “coach”, I mean, when’s the last time I or any member of the team has seen you at practice or a game until today?”

P4: Scene, Gil’s office. Gil stands naked in front of Gregggg and asks, “Have you seen my wiener?”

In all reality , let’s see what the the girls softball team is up to!

Gil only HS baseball coach in America that wears a uniform but no cap.

Grecian Gil wearing a cap is like a day without sunshine. Or Marty having his nips.

I see

P3 yesterday, P1 and P3, is Gilpa doing a subliminal “tomahawk chop” to protest the Cleveland baseball team’s name from the “Indians” to the “Gindians”…errrrr….”Guardians”?

P 4: “…ok…where are the seats?…”

I don’t understand how he can pitch and be practically blind at the same time.

Poor Gregg, it had to have happened on one of the games Gil chose to show up for.

The Hammm family are actually not a family at all, but spies from Pottsylvania, where Greggg was the victim of a PED experiment gone horribly wrong. Moose and squirrel to make appearance tomorrow

Heather will soon have a headline.

Gregg’s hero is the character in The Great Escape played by Donald Pleasence.

P 3: The relief pitcher keeps his sliding glove on

That Gil, he’s so on top of things. Yeah, we’ll talk about it later. After I leave Mimi at the pool and then head over to MCC to lock up my summer gig. Oh, and maybe go get your eyes examined too. OK? Great, see you next year.

Secrets out now.

So as this part sloooowly gets resolved, the other mini mystry of why Greggs father is dodging cameras will be still another story line with no resolution

I think my favorite part is that somehow between P2 and P3 both Gregggg and the catcher just left while Gillll was still talking. He ends up talking to himself in P3 as he signals the relief pitcher with the world’s biggest mitt to the mound. And speaking of biggest, the biggest parody of this strip can be found at Mopped Up Thorp:

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Next subplot – #56 hurts his arm as he is thrown into the game too quickly. Gillll told him to “get hot” and then headed to the mound where he spent 30 seconds talking to Gregggg and then signaled for the reliever. He wouldn’t have even had time to get to the warmup mound yet, now he has to pitch in a pressure situation with a cold arm.

It would be fun to hear Marty try to figure out why Gil make a pitching change.

So Gil, are you p*ssed that Gregggg got over on you about his blindness and that the whole team was in on it, or are you just p*ssed that you’ve been exposed for the disinterested derelict coach that you are?

Lasik!

Gil brings Greg into his office and tells him: “Kid, this ain’t your night. We’re going for the price on Wilson.”