Today's cartoon is from the November issue of Mile High Sports Magazine

I’ve held off drawing about the start of the NBA season. Maybe out of protest. Maybe out of spite. Maybe because I’m not really sure how YOU feel about it. Anyway, here’s a piece I did for the November issue of Mile High Sports magazine. This was back before we even knew the NBA would have a season. With all of the Tebowmania, the Broncos run to the playoffs and trying to sell calendars going on I just couldn’t find a good time to post it. Until now. Hope ya like it.

Contracts. Mega million dollar contracts for people to hit a baseball, shoot a basketball, throw a pass, score a goal. Meanwhile the unemployment rate hovers at 10% (or so we are told) and good honest people who just want to work still can’t find a job. If I ran the world, which I know is a scary thought, teachers, librarians, social workers, construction workers, and that waitress who is a single mother and works two jobs to feed her two kids at home would all be very, very wealthy people. Athletes? No. They’d make enough to keep them right smack dab in the middle of the middle class, which, by the way, is vanishing before very eyes throughout America. Now, if there are some among us who have to be, well, just above the poverty line, it would the politicians in Washington who stopped caring about us and their country a long time ago.
Yeah. I’d love to see some of those members of congress struggle to make ends meet. To know what it feels like to have your heat cut off in the dead of winter because you can’t pay the bill. To not be able to afford a few Christmas presents to put under the tree for your kids this year. A dose of reality, you know. And, you know, the more I think about it, maybe some of those athletes could stand a little perspective and deal with those kinds of issues as well. Some of them are pretty clueless. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this as well.

I don’t know about you but the return of the NBA is NOT on my Christmas list. In fact one way to assure a less than perfect holiday season is to ruin it with an NBA game. Any NBA game. Especially regular season games. I’m dreaming of an NBAless Christmas. That’s what I’d like this year. But it looks as though they will be playing after all. Good for them. Just don’t expect me to watch it. How about you?

Let’s face it, our kids aren’t safe most anywhere these days. First it was total strangers. Then it was priests. Now we have to keep them away from coaches and teachers who prey on the innocent. Really, what has our world come to?

Will they or won’t they? That is the question. Or is it more Who cares if they do or Who cares if the don’t?
I would be firmly planted in that last group.

I’m still trying to get used to this blogging thing even after 2 and a half years into it. Not sure what works and what doesn’t and not sure what to share and what to leave out. Sometimes I’d like to talk about more than just sports. I know it’s all people are used to me being, a sports cartoonist, doing mostly local Colorado cartoons with the occasional (two times a week at least) national sports cartoon thrown in for good measure. But there is more to life for me than just sports cartoons.
Sometimes feel only like posting the cartoons. (this is sounding very Andy Rooneyish, isn’t it). I wish I could spend more time with your comments. But time is tough to come by these days with the freelance work I do.
So I guess for now the blog is what it is. I hope that is good enough for now.