The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for April 11, 2024

Do I want to know how many strikes you’ve gotten so far, Brutus?

I know who Babe Ruth was, but the rest of their speech is Chinese to me.

For Babe Ruth, every strike brought him closer to the beer cooler stashed in the clubhouse.

Gotta stay away from those Swingers clubs.

There’s no joy in Thornyville.

He’s more of a foul ball.

“In his lifetime the Babe became baseball’s homerun king but what most people don’t know is that he also became the strikeout king. This just goes to show that if you want to score you have to keep on swinging. So, if you don’t swing, don’t ring”. This was on a doorbell plate of a character in some dime store paperback novel I read sometime in the middle of last century. The character was a private eye-hotrod racer-surfer. Pretty exciting for a teen at the time. I can’t remember the name of the book, but I still remember the doorbell plate inscription. I learned later that it was also on the doorbell plate of the Playboy mansion.

Brutus the realist .

at least you know that also means you get to go on a home stretch to the sofa back home. ;)

Brutus, if you strike out, at least you go down swinging.

It’s okay, Brutus, the Chief will never fire you, he wouldn’t have a ready-made scapegoat.

Don’t worry Butus, maybe the “big bad boss” (BBB) will give you a pink slip and your freedom.

“When you come to fork in the road take it”

Brutus has a .004 batting average…

As Babe Ruth was well before my time, I like to think of two hitters, Boog Powell and Hank Aaron. Boog was heavy set like the Babe and did a lot of strikeouts as he swung for that homerun. But, my man Hank would usually get some kind of hit if not the illusive homerun. Brutus should model himself after brother Hank and accomplish something on the the way to stardom.

Babe Ruth had the right mind set….get on it Brutus!!!

Chin(s) up Brutus – as Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Although Wayne might have added a Thornapple Corollary to that if he knew Brutus: “and pretty much the same amount of shots you do take.”

You mean Brutus wasn’t benched permanently ?

Neither one of them are wrong.

He really should have a positive outlook on life, things are so low now they couldn’t possibly get any worse.

Hey Brutus, with the new pitch clock in the MLB, you can strikeout without even coming up to the plate, so there is that.

Babe Ruth did strike out a lot but he also hit a lot of home runs. and is one of the greatest home run hitters in baseball. Each swing could be a home run. Run with that Brutus and let a swing and a miss fall where it may…..

Is that what the candy bar was saying? I didn’t know chocolate could talk.

I’d love to see Veeblefester do what Dithers did in today’s Blondie.

How is Brutus hitting in relation to the Mendoza Line?

Well, Babe was Babe, and Brutus is Brutus. But I doubt that even the Babe could have put up with all the indignities of life that Brutus has to tolerate, and I’ll guess that (currently, at least) Brutus has a few more fans than the Babe. Go, Brutus!