CHUCK JONES GALLERY™ BASEBALL BUGS – MINIMALIST LOONEY TUNES – Philadelphia Phillies

All I ever wanted to do was be in sports.

Just so ya know, I’m that guy in school you hated because I was good at everything.  I made perfect grades, was captain of every team, played three instruments, and excelled at art, but what I really wanted was to be in sports.  I won piano competitions, art competitions and mathematics competitions, but that didn’t matter because, what I really wanted was to be in sports.  As we all know, the dream of being a professional athlete is just that, a dream, for most people, including me.

I decided that the best way for me to get into professional sports was through broadcasting.  My parents were so proud that I had been accepted to all the top schools in Canada and that I could do whatever I wanted.  They were not so excited however, when I decided to enroll in broadcast school at a small technical institute in Calgary.  I figured if I could join a broadcast crew, then I could be part of every sporting event on the planet! After I graduated, I worked in several TV studios, and was soon working golf tournaments, hockey games and horse races all over Western Canada. I went to many sporting events but I was seeing them through a camera lens or television monitor.  Yes, I was working AROUND sports, but not IN sports.  This was not yet good enough.