Baseball Lockout: MLBlah Blah Blah

If I were an editorial artist, I'd do the following illustrations about this STUPID MLB lockout that has a very good chance of wrecking SO MANY THINGS BESIDES MISSING A COUPLE SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL GAMES.






I don't even know how I was dumb enough to believe that each side would earnestly try to save this thing before parts of the season are threatened to go away. 
And now Spring Training is delayed, and we didn't get that wonderful mental picture of Cubs Pitchers and Catchers Reporting.
Unforgivable.
They want to expand the base audience and attract a younger crowd?
TRY PLAYING BASEBALL!
That a lockout is the headline rather than things like the DH coming to the NL is just. so. dumb.
I read awhile ago that the Cards may have interest in Kyle Schwarber as a DH.
Can you imagine him hitting one on top of the scoreboard at Wrigley as a CARDINAL?
OMG. 
Anyway, please baseball, figure yourself out. 

Side note.
I'm unclear on if I'll be able to continue this blog.
It turns out that being an artist means expanding your visual universe beyond baseball, and hilariously... being an artist is actually way more time consuming than my old job.
So, I may stop.
I may do just a weekly thing (once baseball starts). Not sure.

I'm buying a tent, by the way.
A tent and tables and stuff to make myself a booth that'll look like this:

And I'll be one of those artists at an art fair.
Sounds fun.
Hope it is.

Last thing, I went into my local fish market, Hagen's.
You know those deli counter tickets with the numbers? I realized it would make a perfect bathing suit for a sarcastic cat.

Comments

[Bud]

You live long enough and you learn the one constant in life... shit happens.

Something as enjoyable and addictive as being a baseball fan seems innocent enough - a good place to "escape" the shit that's happening in this world.

Then shit happens to baseball (again).

All I can say Tim is that I've enjoyed baseball, our Cubs and your Cubby Blue-isms for over 10 years. It hurts to see baseball's self-destructive tendencies unfolding with multi-millionaires squabbling with billionaires over what should simply be a pristine game.

But perhaps your ability and opportunity to take your art talent (and whimsy) to a wider audience is a karma-like outcome. We MLB fans know that guys with talent do just fine wherever they take their game.

Welcome to free-agency Tim!

Let's try to stay in touch???