Jim Thome hit his 600th home run.
Everyone who has ever read the Dugout sent me a message saying “hey, can’t wait to read the Thome Dugout”. He’s been our signature character for over seven years now. ESPN stuttered saying “Jim” and I couldn’t tell whether or not they did it on purpose. Maybe this dumb baseball webcomic will be erased and forgotten in a hundred years, but I hope the big goofy rosey-cheeked manchild we spotlit along the way gets his big shiny face in the Baseball Hall Of Fame and is never forgotten.
Today’s Dugout follows.
The Dugout
 | WordUpThome: /mashes tater | |
|---|---|---|
 | DudeYerGettinADelmon: /is busy unwrapping length of Fruit By The Foot in left field | |
| DudeYerGettinADelmon: oh shi- | |
| **Online Host** WordUpThome has just hit his 600th career home run. | ||
| WordUpThome: /completes shoopuf-esque trot around bases | |
| WordUpThome: OH HEY GUYS WHO WANTS BEAR STYLE HUGS, COME AND GET SOME MICHAEL CUDDYER | |
 | CuddyerMak’er: lol ok /gets hugged | |
| WordUpThome: AND I’M A-GONNA HUG YOU | |
 | O_Valencia: /gets hugged | |
| WordUpThome: AND I’M A-GONNA HUG YOU | |
 | LawnMauer: /gets hugged | |
| WordUpThome: YEAH, YEAHHHHHHHH HUGS IS AWESOME | |
| WordUpThome: AND I’M A-GONNA HUG WAIT NO MATT YOU’RE MOVING TOO FASTLY | |
 | WhatErnieTolbert: /goes up for the high-five | |
| WordUpThome: BOOM, HAND HUGGED | |
| WordUpThome: Mom? | |
 | LikeAMotherThome: /stands in the dugout, clapping her hands | |
| WordUpThome: MOM I THOUGHT YOU HAD PASSED IT AWAY, I FEEL LIKE A RIPE OL’ J-WORD FOR NOT CALLING YOU FOR FIVE YEARS | |
| LikeAMotherThome: NO YOU’RE RIGHT JI | |
| LikeAMotherThome: JIM, I AM CURRENTLY AN ANGEL | |
| WordUpThome: YOU MEAN LIKE VERNING WELLS | |
| LikeAMotherThome: NO, I MEAN LIKE NICK ADENHART | |
| WordUpThome: OH | |
| WordUpThome: oh. | |
| WordUpThome: CAN MICHAEL CUDDYER SEE YOU HEY MICHAEL CUDDYER CAN YOU SEE MY MOTHER | |
| CuddyerMak’er: you mean like on a date? | |
| LikeAMotherThome: NO NOBODY CAN SEE ME RIGHT NOW | |
| LikeAMotherThome: TO THE PERSONS AROUND YOU I AM LIKE THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS | |
| WordUpThome: /sheds manly tear | |
| LikeAMotherThome: DON’T BE SAD JIMBO THIS IS A HAPPY OCCASION YOU JUST ROPED YOUR 600TH DINGER | |
| LikeAMotherThome: WHEN I WAS AN ACTUAL LADY I GOT TO SIT UNDER A TREE AND WATCH FAT LITTLE JIM HIT BALLS FARTHER THAN ANYBODY ELSE | |
| LikeAMotherThome: SOMETIMES WHEN YOU’RE PROUD ENOUGH OF SOMEBODY YOU GET TO COME DOWN AND WATCH OVER THEM | |
| WordUpThome: ISN’T PRIDE A SIN | |
| LikeAMotherThome: YEAH IT IS WEIRD | |
| WordUpThome: I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’RE HERE I THOUGHT PASSED FOLK STAYED UP IN HEAVEN AND SMILED DOWN, LIKE THE NOTORIOUS BIGGER SMALLS UPON THE RELEASE OF PUFF DIDDY’S HIT SINGLE "WE’LL BE MISSING YOU" | |
| LikeAMotherThome: I’VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR A LONG TIME | |
| LikeAMotherThome: YOU HAVE MANAGED TO STAY HAPPY AND FAT AND NICE IN A SAD AND SKINNY AND MEAN BUNCH OF PLACES IF YOU AREN’T SOMEBODY’S FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER THEY’RE DOING IT WRONG | |
| WordUpThome: YOU’RE JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE YOU’RE MY MO | |
| LikeAMotherThome: DARN TOOTING | |
| WordUpThome: MOM | |
| WordUpThome: HEY WHILE YOU’RE HERE HAVE YOU EVER MET DELMON YOUNG, HE GOT TRADED BUT HE’S STILL HERE | |
| LikeAMotherThome: YES HE HAS DIED MANY TIMES | |
| WordUpThome: OKAY BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO INTRODUCE YOU | |
| WordUpThome: … | |
| WordUpThome: I’M GONNA COME OVER THERE AND HUG THE HECK OUT OF YOU RIGHT NOW | |
| LikeAMotherThome: ARE YOU SURE, NOBODY’S GONNA SEE IT | |
| WordUpThome: YEAH THEY WILL | |
**Online Host** **Online Host** | ||
| WordUpThome: /hugs nothing | |
| **Online Host** WhatsUpChuck has entered the chatroom. | ||
 | WhatsUpChuck: HEY SON IT’S YOUR FAT | |
| WhatsUpChuck: FATHER CHUCK THOME | |
| WordUpThome: HEY DAD IT’S JI | |
| WordUpThome: JIM THOME | |
| WhatsUpChuck: I JUST SAW YOU HIT YOUR 600TH POTATER AND WANTED TO HUG THE MESS OUT OF YOU | |
| WordUpThome: HEY DAD AFTER THE GAME YOU WANNA, I DON’T KNOW MAYBE GO SHOOT SOME DEERS WITH GUNS AND THEN HOLD UP THEIR HEADS SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE LOOKING AT THE CAMERAS | |
| WhatsUpChuck: THAT WOULD MAKE ME THE HAPPIEST PERSON ON THE WORLD | |
| **Online Host** WhatsUpChuck has left the chatroom. | ||
| WordUpThome: SIGHING SOUND | |
| WordUpThome: /gets ready for life with 600 home runs | |
| DudeYerGettinADelmon: ay jim who dat qvc lookin lady you was huggin | |
| WordUpThome: THAT WAS NO QUALITY VALUE CONVENIENCE LADY DELMON YOUNG THAT WAS MY MOM | |
| DudeYerGettinADelmon: oh you mean the one that died | |
| WordUpThome: YES | |
| DudeYerGettinADelmon: o aight ay look tell her if i get to heaven again an she aint got no manna imma choke her ass |
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After reading this I now want to hug someone.
/touched
I have been looking forward to this dugout all year and it has in no way been a dissappoint
dissappointment
Love it!
I hope “happy and fat and nice in a bunch of sad and skinny and mean places” goes on Thome’s Hall of Fame plaque.
Greatest JI
JIM THOME strip of all time. OF ALL TIME.
That’ll do, B. That’ll do.
600 TATERS
Second all-time instance of Jim Thome lowercase! A fun bit of “The Dugout” Trivia, Jim Thome Edition!
THIS THOME COMIC MAKES ME WANT TO FU
FULFILL SOME OF MY OTHER DREAMS
Aw.
If anything I would think this Dugout will stay on the internet forever as the foremost Thome #600 tribute article . . . because, as we know, the internet NEVER forgets. Congrats, JI
JIM!
DudeYerGettinADelmon: o aight
ay look tell her if i get to heaven again an she aint got no manna imma choke her ass
Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
*hugs*
There is no way I could, mathematically speaking, love this any more.
i love the dugout. congrats wordupthome
THAT WAS AW
AWESOME.
this is funny and touching and appropriate, which is two more emotions than i am equipped to deal with at one time. SO MANY FEELINGS!
Uh I’m pretty sure Thome is the skinniest guy in Minnesota
@monsieur Minnesota has the 13th lowest obesity rate in the country. Probably in the top 10, now that Pat Williams is a former Minnesota Viking.
“LikeAMotherThome” is absolutely perfect.
I didn’t sent a message, but I was definitely waiting for this one. Beautiful.
I hearby deduce that this Dugout has been roped.
I can’t decide which line is my favorite,The NOTORIOUS BIGGER SMALLS, RIPE OL’ J-WORD or VERNING WELLS.
/Aw, who am I kidding, I just really want to high-five someone right now just to say BOOM, HAND HUGGED!
//seriously this post is awesome
///john cena gay
Kinda sad that it wasn’t hit off Farnsworth.
Sheer brilliance. I can’t believe WhatsUpChuck had never been used before
Jim talking in non-capitals was a shock. I’m not sure if my brain can recover from that.
LikeAMotherThome is a fantastic name. You keep out-doing yourself.
Keep up the fantastic wo
work
Awesomely funny.
/Mike Piazza gay
This is so, so perfect. “NO, I MEAN LIKE NICK ADENHART” had me dying.
/not literally
Thome’s dad is awesome.
WELL DONE SIR
BOOM, HAND HUGGED
If Jim Thome is not voiced by Patrick Warburton in the Dugout movie I will have words with your casting director.
This Dugout had me at “O_Valencia,” and got better as it went on. Amazing job, and CONGRATS JI
JI
JIM
PUFF DIDDY
I would like to reiterate the love for the screenname “LikeAMotherThome”.
Sniff, sniff – sheds a manly tear.
Fantastic!
I especially love “CuddyerMak’er”
Brandon, you’re like a hero Thome.
Growing up, I think my 3 favorite Phillies of all time were Pete Inkaviglia, John Kruk and JI
JIM THOME.
It really is kind of heartwarming to see him hit 600.
And yea, I was (am) a fat kid.
Very pleased with this, and very happy for Thome.
The best line was ‘HAPPY AND FAT AND NICE IN A SAD AND SKINNY AND MEAN BUNCH OF PLACES.’ I know its humor, but I’m not sure truer words have ever been spoken.
I feel like a ripe ol’ J-word for laughing at a Nick Adenhart joke, but man, that was funny.
The reason it took me, what six years?, to get the the Word Up Thome pun is I hear it as “to-me” which of course makes LikeAMotherThome perfect and easy to get.