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''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... and new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.

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''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year five-year relationship, Casey Wilkes' Wilkes's boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... and new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performances to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performances performance to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.



* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Pete is showing to to this after he breaks up with Joey.
* LostLoveMontage: We get one of this with Casey and Tom.

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* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Pete is showing up to to do this after he breaks up with Joey.
* LostLoveMontage: We get one of this these with Casey and Tom.



* UnlimitedWardrobe: Casey is a shopaholic, so he always has a huge reserve of clothes to chose from.

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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Casey is a shopaholic, so he always has a huge reserve of clothes to chose choose from.

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''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... an new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.

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''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... an and new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.



* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Casey tries this with Joey. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Casey tries this with Joey. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]



%%%* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a republican.
* GymBunny: Most of the cast.
* HappilyMarried: George and Spencer.
* HotScientist: Russ works in wildlife research and preservation. He also looks like a dark-sinned version of Thor.

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%%%* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a republican.Republican.
* %%* GymBunny: Most of the cast.
* %%* HappilyMarried: George and Spencer.
* HotScientist: Russ works in wildlife research and preservation. He also looks like a dark-sinned version of Thor.
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* AgeGapRomance: Tom is quite prone to these.

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* %%* AgeGapRomance: Tom is quite prone to these.



* AllJustADream: Right before Wally departs for Chicago, Casey has a long StarWars inspired dream about losing him just like he lost Tom.

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* AllJustADream: Right before Wally departs for Chicago, Casey has a long StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' inspired dream about losing him just like he lost Tom.



* BenevolentBoss: Dougie towards his employees at the bakery

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* %%* BenevolentBoss: Dougie towards his employees at the bakery



* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a republican.

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* %%%* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a republican.
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Casey At The Bat is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... an new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.

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''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey At The Bat at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... an new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfSomething: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performances to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfSomething: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performances to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfSomething: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performances to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.


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* OnceASeason: The yearly Eurovision and Christmas strips.
* ReallyGetsAround: In a cast where EverybodyHasLotsOfSex, Dougie stands out as having zero relationship commitments... and a different guy for each time. Including once a pair of twins.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Zack introduces himself as Joey's boyfriend when Joey isn't even sure they're in a date. [[spoiler: it works.]]

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* RefugeInAudacity: In the A Night Out arc, Zack introduces himself as Joey's boyfriend when Joey isn't even sure they're in a date. [[spoiler: it It works.]]]] At the beginning of the same arc, Pete just takes Spence for drinks and texts Spence's husband George not to wait up.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Zack introduces himself as Joey's boyfriend when Joey isn't even sure they're in a date. [[spoiler: it works.]]
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* AllJustADream: Right before Wally departs for Chicago, Casey has a long StarWars inspired dream about losing him just like he lost Tom.

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* BenevolentBoss: Dougie towards his employees at the bakery



* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Joey loses his job at the cable company he's seen with this.



* UnlimitedWardrobe: Casey is a shopaholic, so he always has a huge reserve of clothes to chose from.



* WhoNeedsExtraTime: Casey forces this at the end of the hockey game in the wedding arc, by scoring a goal [[TakeAThirdOption while all the other players are debating whether to have overtime or not.]]

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* WhoNeedsExtraTime: WhiteCollarWorker: Casey, Troy, and the rest of his coworkers.
* WhoNeedsOverTime:
Casey forces this at the end of the hockey game in the wedding arc, by scoring a goal [[TakeAThirdOption while all the other players are debating whether to have overtime or not.]]
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* CareerEndingInjury: Spence was an Olympic gymnast until he suffered from an injury [[UnreliableNarrator that grows bigger every time he narrates the story]] that put an end to his dreams.


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* SuperRinger: Guys in the hockey league wonder if Joey is one of these.


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* WhoNeedsExtraTime: Casey forces this at the end of the hockey game in the wedding arc, by scoring a goal [[TakeAThirdOption while all the other players are debating whether to have overtime or not.]]
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* SweetBaker: Dougie is hands down one of the nicest characters in the strip.

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* MistakenForCheating: During the wedding chapter, everyone thinks Casey cheated on Troy with Wally. In an unusual case of this trope, he actually slept with Wally, but it's not cheating because he and Troy are not together.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Out of the blue Russ introduces his new boyfriend, Logan, who looks exactly like Casey.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: ObliviousToLove: Joey spent a long time blissfully unaware that Zack had feelings for him.
* RelationshipUpgrade: When Wally introduces Casey as his boyfriend.
* ReplacementGoldfish:
Out of the blue Russ introduces his new boyfriend, Logan, who looks almost exactly like Casey.Casey.
* SexEqualsLove: How things started for Casey and Wally.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "There is no this between Joey and I! We're thisless!"
* SorkinRelationshipMoment: Casey and Tom are unable to be chill around each other.
* StalkerWithACrush: Zack has signs of this towards Joey.



* WebcomicTime: The long updating intervals make this necessary. For example, chapter 15 takes place in a single night and 20 strips that took ten months to upload. Similarly, the two days in Spencer and George's wedding took eight months in real life.

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* TwiceShy: Basically, what happened with Casey and Joey.
* WebcomicTime: The long updating intervals make this necessary. For example, chapter 15 takes place in a single night and 20 strips that took ten months to upload. Similarly, the two days in Spencer and George's wedding took eight months in real life.life.
* YourFavorite: Wally knows Casey's favorite music and plays it at a bar.

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* AgeGapRomance: Tom is quite prone to these.



* AmIJustAToyToYou: When Joey confronts Casey about his lack of commitment.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Casey tries this with Joey. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Casey gets this towards Joey.
* BetaCouple: Spencer and George are married, commited, and refreshingly free of drama while everybody else is doing a DatingDoSiDo.



* DerailingLoveInterests: Pete gets the short end of the stick in his relationship with Joey.



* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: After his breakup with Tom, Casey spends a long time not being ready to date again.



* HotScientist: Russ works in wildlife research and preservation. He also looks like a dark-sinned version of Thor.

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* HappilyMarried: George and Spencer.
* HotScientist: Russ works in wildlife research and preservation. He also looks like a dark-sinned version of Thor. Thor.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Casey uses this as an excuse to not get together with Joey. [[spoiler:then he ends up ruining the friendship anyway.]]
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Pete is showing to to this after he breaks up with Joey.
* LostLoveMontage: We get one of this with Casey and Tom.
* LoveBubbles: Used several times.
* NoRomanticResolution: Casey and Joey get this. They are both happily dating other people, but what could have been between them is never addressed.

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* StraightGay: Nearly all of the characters are mostly this. They have their shades of camp, but the only one that may qualify as CampGay would be Wally.

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* FieryRedhead: Spence is a ginger with quite a short temper. Averted with Wally, who is just as ginger and very chill.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: Inverted for Troy, who goes to Spence and George's wedding passing as Casey's date, even if he's straight.
* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a republican.
* GymBunny: Most of the cast.
* HotScientist: Russ works in wildlife research and preservation. He also looks like a dark-sinned version of Thor.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Out of the blue Russ introduces his new boyfriend, Logan, who looks exactly like Casey.
* StraightGay: Nearly all of the characters are mostly this. They have their shades of camp, but the only one that may qualify as CampGay would be Wally.Wally.
* WebcomicTime: The long updating intervals make this necessary. For example, chapter 15 takes place in a single night and 20 strips that took ten months to upload. Similarly, the two days in Spencer and George's wedding took eight months in real life.
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Casey At The Bat is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five year relationship, Casey Wilkes' boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... an new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.

Not to be confused with [[Literature/CaseyAtTheBat the 1888 poem with the same title]].

!! Tropes found in "Casey at the Bat":

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Well, when they are single. When they find themselves in a relationship most of them keep things monogamous.
* CampGay: Wally Woodcock, a professional piano player that tours as part of a teather ensemble.
* CastFullOfGay: 99% of the characters are gay men.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: 90% of the characters are gay men, into sports, and athletic.
* StraightGay: Nearly all of the characters are mostly this. They have their shades of camp, but the only one that may qualify as CampGay would be Wally.

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