I dunno about you guys, but I can’t picture an alliance between the Outdoor Galore Store, Ex-Sportsmart employees, and Enis’s Good Sporting adding up to a viable challenge to the cold, calculating machinations of HomeTeam SportStores.
Of course, it might be only because of the people I’m lookin’ at in today’s strip. But, y’know, looks can be deceiving.
Greg, I don’ know if this was your original plan, but I *want* a sheep following around the Hometeam threesome! No one would get the joke, ever!
SHEEP! SHEEP! SHEEP! SHEEP!
I’m assuming that “Sheep” was a typo of “Shemp”, otherwise it wouldn’t need to be capitalized…
… but NOW I want a QUARTET of sheep…
… with the fleece around their heads properly trimmed, in order to look like each of the Stooges!
#Greg_Please_Make_It_Happen
P. Enis doesn’t understand the power of owning a privately held company that isn’t in debt. There’s no reason for Hubris to sell. I think Lowell is understanding how Hubris does business. Bob has him pegged. Can’t tell a cooler from a boat.
Good quality outdoor equipment is a must have!!
A cheap plastic kayak or a high quality carbon fiber kayak. You’re entering a class 4……which one you want to be in?
Hubris knows…..
Ya gotta watch that quality stuff, too. You can get hold of gear that’s out of one’s league. I worked a deal and got myself a Savage Fury once. Took it down the Ocoee a few times. Damn near broke my ankle the first time down. That boat was made for folks with a skill level far above my own.
That’s true! But skill can be learned. Poor quality makes one want to quit.
Very very good point. My father refused to sell cheap department-store style ‘starter guitars’ even though people came to his music store asking for them. He explained that if you have a guitar that’s incapable of staying in tune, you lose enthusiasm for learning to play it. People still brought their horrible Sears guitars to him for “repair”. People remember hearing that Johnny Cash or somebody started his career with a Sears guitar, and assumed somehow that Sears was still selling the same guitars they were in the 40’s.
My folks bought me a Sears classical guitar for my first guitar. I went to a music store in Shreveport, LA while stationed there and bought myself a nice guitar (not a $1000 guitar, but still good quality) that I still have now over 40 years later.
Stuff that doesn’t stay in tune is past frustrating. I played an Italian renaissance lute for awhile. It was a lovely instrument but humidity or the lack of it would cause it to drift while you were tuning it. I got an electronic tuner to help, and when it was in it was incredible. Spend 20 min tuning, put it in case in a plastic bag, to carry 5 minutes across campus in light rain, take it out, Whey did you even TRY to tune it? Oh well.
Now that Lowell finally gets it (it’s about [CENSORED] time, Lowell), I could see him working well with Hubris. Mal and Pete, however….
He understands Hubris, and why he chooses to do business that way.
That doesn’t mean he wants to do business that way also. I think it might be more of a “respectfully disagree” sort of situation. After all, Lowell loves business for its own sake, and just HAPPENS to have wound up in the sporting-goods trade, while Hubris is in business specifically because of sporting.
I think we started to see in change in Lowell’s thinking when he decided to go down the hill in the wagon just for the thrill. There may be hope for him yet. I doubt there’s much hope for P. Enis and Mal, at least not now.
Lowell is starting to look like Shelly! Maybe it’s a sign that he’s evolving.