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Little League Drinks Friday, July 22, 2005 • read strip Viewing 90 comments:

God that is so sad

The crazy thing is how accurate this is. When you got depression/neuroses every time you screw up your head fills with dozens of little league moppets screaming obscenities at you through their endearingly chipped baby teeth.

Really? My neuroses sound like toads saying "Useless" or Lee Cornes.

Chubby for the Red Dwarf reference, my friend!

They are ticky-tacky shits who grow up to live in ticky-tacky McMansions. To hell with them.

They're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same.

That song was popular when I was your age.
With the 'whatever' of 4 decades that can pass like a blink, I can in all seriousness urge you to think and live likewise, outside the ticky-tacky box.

I just started my senior year of high school a couple of days ago, and that is extremely relevant advice. Fuck that ticky-tacky box! I won't let you down, scorpio.

yay for you mystkmanat!

Chubby for a fellow high school senior.

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Is it neccessary to post this every time Roast Beef has an episode?

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I am so confused. For a moment I thought this was feeble stammering followed by a forced admission that it is, indeed, fun to say that that dude comes from Circumstances. Instead it turned out to be the kind of playground harassment that contributed to those circumstances. I chuckled before realizing, and now I feel dirty and betrayed.
These are the everyday events that someday coalesce to become Circumstances.

NO

No.

No.

No?

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I genuinely believe it is, yes.

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I could go for some blue nehi right now

Nice avatar arcibi

I appreciate how you both use Eastman & Laird depictions of the famous terrapins, albeit one of them is a sculpture thereof. Not saying I got beef with the 'toons, but I'm just showing my nerd chops.

I've got a ragin' hardon of hate for the toons, if that's any help. Maybe we could average out our feelings and both simply loathe the animated version?

Foot clan 'robots' being slaughtered en masse? Bah.

That's as bad as the Spectra 'robots' in Battle of the Planets .

Come to think of it, I knew a Star Wars fan who insisted that Imperial Stormtroopers were robots. Kids today...

Then again, in my own ignorance (of US sugary treats), I didn't spot that it was Nehi that Mrs. Smuckles brought for the kids. I read it as 'Blue Nehl', which I thought could be an off-brand version of Blue Bols. It might have gone some way towards explaining Ray's passion for liquor.

When I was about those kids' age, we had a kid in P.E. who was a midget. His nickname was Nehi.
He was a pretty okay dude, actually. Didn't take any other crap except what he had to take for being tiny.
Little guy sure tried.

Yes, radishes....

It ranks among the harshest put-downs (must be clever to count).

Fived for "Like the doctor." The kid who dropped that one was pretty talented.

I concur...healthcare related humor is pretty adavanced for little leaguers...

I've got Samuel H. Invis-i-ble
Instead of a mom and a dad
He's nev-er taken me to the zoo
And I've nev-er seen a doctor

...He's Samuel!

From panels one and four you can tell that Ray wears the 99, which seems pretty accurate.
Also I never noticed before how Beef has no number and a crappy home-made hat.

I like that he is just wearing a white undershirt.

cigarettes, lottery tickets, malt liquor, and nail polish.
no, it does not appear that a baseball jersey is part of the Kazenzakis monthly budget.

You forgot meth. That's like most of the budget.

I thought you said "math" at first, and I was going to correct you saying math is also something that is not included in the monthly budget.

I like his excitement over coke AND pepsi.

haha you know he just yelled out the highest number he could think of

Oh, man. Thanks for pointing that saddest thing out. Made me notice how Beef's brim is flat as can be. This makes me want to go hang myself from the shower curtain rod now.

Also, compare the letter on the cap to Ray's. Looks like Beef might have drawn his on.

That completely would not work. Use a door.

Unless you're tall. Then that won't work either.

there have been those times.

notice how they lose the baseball game the second time

Why yes. Yes I did.

The dudes have no mercy.

poor poor poor Roast Beef. That's harsh.

It's strips like this that make you wonder how Ray and Beef ended up being such close friends. It seems like even hanging out with Beef would have made Ray something of a pariah, yet you know they were close despite this.

Somebody says he's uncool, he'll just sit there bein' cool, and they'll be wrong.

Considering how well his associates munched, I'd say he could get away with a lot more than just being friends with poor Beef.

Having friend like Ray is probably what pulled Beef through.

That last strip is horrifying...

Whoops, meant panel (any Philippe strip is usually instant 5).

thats rough on Beef

Beef's pain is our gain.

this strip is just pure, brutal pain.

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Saddest thing.

in the first panel, beef's speech bubble includes punctuation and is in a larger font.

It looks like that speech bubble's pointing to number 14 to me -- the tail kind of hooks to the left at the tip.

Agreed.

God, have I been Ray.

I'm pretty sure my folks forgot to pick me up from a Little League game once. Might even have been the game where I hit a triple and the fat-ass volunteer dad coaching third base just said, "If youda dug it out you woulda had a homer." Effing Little League.

the fact that that is still with you really shows how one can be affected by such childhood experiences...

I think I hate Ray in this strip. 'Heh'.

You hate a guy because he's popular?

Maybe hate him because he didn't stick up for Beef.

Beef is the only one of the little leagers to have hair.

The alt text for this strip may be the only ever mention of Pat's mother. And it may not even be true.

Pat has a mom?

This was about to be a really cliche comic until the very last panel

Is there a meaning to 7 14 62? I feel like I might have seen that before.

Absolutely, yes. 7 x 2 equals 14, and 62 is also a number. Good catch!

Har.

slut-of-a-bitch has entered my vocabulary

Awww.... Poor Roast Beef!!! ;_;

Rough chuckles.

Well played.

Ray is the only cat with round ears here. Even his ears show that he has nothing to do with being on edge.

He's an American Curl. I'd post the link but I don't know bbcode.

Circumstances, Kazenzakis. Population: 1.

should strips that make me really sad get low ratings?


no, they develop the character and whatnot.

If you notice, on Ray's day, the A's won by 7 runs. On Beef's day, they lost, with 0 runs. And a slightly darkened sky.

How exactly do you pronounce "Orangina"? :P

On its own it rhymes with "Argentina". Combined with vodka, however, you get the VoGina, which rhymes with "queaf".

Like "vagina," duh.

"Yeah, like a doctor!" One of the best anti-poor kid lines I've ever heard. Another one I once heard was "y'know... what's free." The insult-ee was smelly.

Sorry, meant to say "Y'know... water's free". The insult-ee was smelly.

Slut-of-a-bitch.

Astute baseball fans will note that the Achewood A%u2019s have an excellent run differential.

Ray had to hit himself so hard on this day.