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Christmas Dump 12/25/07

In about 15 hours, Portland will be wearing red at home for the first time this season in the holiday match up against the green Sonics.

"I think they are ugly, but everybody else wanted them,'' Przybilla said. "Look at these things. I'm going to look like a big ketchup bottle out there. It's just ugly man."

Hoopsworld came out with there rankings and has the Blazers listed as high as FIVE ahead of the likes of Phoenix, and L.A. Crazy what a little win streak can do for national exposure and respect.

"5. (5) Portland Trail Blazers - With games against Seattle, Minnesota and Philly, the Blazers could be sporting a 13-game winning streak by next week."

Ray Ratto came out with a column today that was amazing in my opinion, and exemplifies what all of us think and feel, difference is he's a national writer and were not. So it's nice when he publishes something like this here little article.

" More to the point, they spent the past several years teaching America how to destroy a franchise. Losing was bad enough, the crime thing was worse, and the open-sore feud with the Oregonian, Portland's million-ton media elephant -- all of it testified to a tin-eared operation seemingly hell-bent on actively offending every person in town.

But between the much-encouraged firing of general manager Steve Patterson in March, the winning of the best pingpong ball in the NBA Draft lottery and the subsequent selection of Greg Oden, the Blazers thought they were on to something. That subsided when Oden went down with microfractures in his right knee, but Oden remained a fixture in the community, and the team went on without him -- slightly older, true, but still the third-youngest team in NBA history, and now with someone other than Oden to love in Roy.

Taken in and of themselves, none of these items is that special, but when combined, the Blazers trump every other hot-team-warms-cold-town story you've got. Sunday's Oregonian, for example, devoted a large chunk of its Sunday cover to a huge picture of head coach Nate McMillan, who was neither wearing a Santa hat, rescuing kittens from a burning building nor buying toys for the economically repressed."





GET READY SONICS!!!

Happy holidays!!!

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Thanks Devyn
This was a nice Christmas present.

--Dave

by Dave on Dec 25, 2007 3:13 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nice Dump Devyn
Merry Christmas

Oh yay.

Dump the Sonics

Do it! Tonight.

honkaplayboys.com

by BlueBooYay on Dec 25, 2007 9:55 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

great diary
thanks for the links and great quotes.

by sergioFTW on Dec 25, 2007 7:09 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Gotta Love Iverson's Defense
He's not even paying attention. He's looking at Rebecca Harlow.
I'm hip, I'm slick, and all the women want my phone number!

by silkybrown on Dec 25, 2007 7:57 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

And that's why
we need sideline reporters.

by ojala on Dec 25, 2007 8:33 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Rebeca for 6th man of the year!

Holding down the Blazer fort down in California...

by Devyn on Dec 25, 2007 9:04 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

What's with Outlaw's left leg in this pic?
He must be winding up so that he can block the game tying three to secure the win.
I'm hip, I'm slick, and all the women want my phone number!

by silkybrown on Dec 25, 2007 7:58 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Great Pic!
Thanks. I've noticed before that Travis is "pidgeon-toed". Part of his charm. And it keeps his opponents guessing because they can't tell where his feet are headed.

by annthefan on Dec 25, 2007 1:46 PM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Travis is the anti-LeBron
LeBron is duck footed, Travis is pidgeon toed.
Nature bats last.

by fisheyes on Dec 25, 2007 10:37 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Thanks
That was a nice dump.
Happy Holidays and Mele Kalikimaka!

by tominhawaii on Dec 25, 2007 7:40 PM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Thanks for the Diary
Informative and encouraging. The word is starting to spread but will they love us still when the streak stops?

I do take issue with his characterization of the Oregonian. Not many of us pay homage to canzano and it was mostly his feud. Wasn't Patterson here for several years?

by lee3022 on Dec 25, 2007 9:26 PM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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