This gets 26 episodes, yet Poochinski and Dog Police died in the pilot phase.

These kids are not dealing with their father's passing well.

Swamp thing's up next

Once the average USA network line up was made up of "original" series like this and the occasional import from Canada like "Check It Out!" with Don Adams.

But what about the kids on the losing team? Surely they have families and feelings, too, right? I get that the Blue team will be sad if they forfeit, but I think losing a clean, fair ballgame would be considerably less emotionally derailing than losing a game to a dog possessed by the spirit of a murdered cop.

Also, that's some terrible coaching at 25:50. All you have to do is do your best? But what if his best isn't good enough?! That's ridiculous. I'm all for helping kids with low self-esteem gain confidence, but do it at some OTHER time, please, a time when the fate of the whole season doesn't hang in the balance. There's a lot more riding on this game than the ego of one entitled middle-class white kid; you've got the hopes and dreams of EVERY child on the dream to consider. Timmy is a blue falcon who clearly can't handle the pressure, and he should have been benched.

Also, Timmy wasn't a "hero". He made a suicide bunt, which was a stupid decision considering the base situation, and was only saved by the girly incompetence of the first basemen. And THAT kid, boy, you know he's going to catch some shit for that play. He will be shunned by his peers, forever known as "Butterfingers", and I can almost guarantee you he doesn't have a sorcerous talking dog to help him through the trials ahead. Twenty years from now, he'll probably wind up a divorced, out of work, oxy-addicted, self-loathing closet-case, while Timmy becomes a dull, shallow, vainly materialistic lawyer, working for a mid-scale law firm and driving his own shit kids to little league games in his asshole Lexus for assholes.

Fuck you, Timmy, you jerk.

Dat mom.