Thanksgiving
by Dave on Nov 27, 2008 12:11 AM PST
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PrintYou guys have already started with your Blazer-themed Thanksgiving tributes in the sidebar so I don't feel obligated to write a huge one this year. I'll just offer this:
--To Brandon for being one of the most reliable, multi-faceted, and sane All-Stars in the league...
--To Lamarcus for continuing to work so hard on your body and your game and pouring in all those points...
--To Greg for being huge, dunking like a freight train falling off a bridge, and staying healthy...
--To Steve for putting in all of the hours and getting half of the credit, plus for hitting those threes...
--To Nicolas for the hustle, for blending in seamlessly, for stepping up when called upon, and for giving Sophia something to talk about...
--To Travis for sharpening that three-point shot and for being clutch...
--To Channing for the made jumpers and for making every media person in the area laugh and appreciate their jobs...
--To Rudy for moving excellently without the ball and for knowing what to do with the ball when it's passed to you...
--To Sergio for sticking with it and for those beautiful passes, especially the alley-oops...
--To Joel for being OUR guy, Portland's guy, the one who makes us feel safe about this team's effort and rebounding...
--To Jerryd for the intensity and the promise of things to come...
--To Ike for suiting up and going at it while coming back from injury...
--To Raef for a couple years of hidden service and for opening up trade possibilities...
--To Nate for having taught these kids the right way for the past couple of years so that their coming of age could be filled with integrity and have staying power...
--To all of the coaches who work long hours to prepare this team...
--To Kevin Pritchard and the scouting staff who all but created this team ex nihilo and continue to work to improve it...
--To Paul Allen who assembled the crew and gave them the tools...
--To the Blazer office staff for working with us and allowing us to provide coverage...
--To Ben Golliver for being the best interviewer in the business, working long hours every home game, and for bringing a whole new dimension to this community...
--To Casey Holdahl for being a great example of blogging as well as a friend, to Gavin Dawson for the radio time and podcasting, to Mike Barrett and Mike Rice, Brian Wheeler, Jason Quick and Joe Freeman, Dwight Jaynes, Brian Hendrickson, Greg Jayne, Henry Abbott, Storyteller, and all of the local and national media folks who have collaborated with us and whose participation and exemplary work have made this site better...
--To Nate for arranging Blazersedge Night...
--To all the girls who have sent lingerie pics to the blogger they're infatuated with...
--And by "all the girls" I mean mostly Mortimer...
--And by "mostly" I mean "only"...
--To everyone who has taken the time to read, comment, make fanposts and fanshots, and who has made this community such a joy to participate in...
I am deeply grateful to all of you. This will be a wonderful season--both the Holiday and the NBA versions--and it's wonderful to spend it with you. The best is yet to come, my friends. And the best will be all your hearts could desire.
Happy Thanksgiving!
--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
[Edit:] Ooops! To Martell...thanks for the improving defense and the long ball, both of which are going to come in handy real soon...
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Thanks Martell
For getting injured and letting fans have a peak of what is to come in Nicolas Batum.
DAVE
Thanks to Joel Freeland for being a future hall of famer.
by TheGreatDane17 on Nov 27, 2008 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
10-6
We Blazers fans are thankful for the better than expected start to this grueling part of the schedule.
My Thanks
Is to the entire TrailBlazer Organization. For giving all of their fans a chance to once again believe. In the Team that has been brought together for the fans. In the staff who have pushed diligently to create the most lovable team in the league. And to Paul Allen, for having the testicular fortitude to believe in the Blazers Dream. Be well all and Love the Life you live.
If you have nothing constructive to say about someone, I prefer that you say nothing at all.
"If Jumping to conclusions, Kicking others when they do not do well and Launching into senseless tirades were Olympic Events, some people around here would be Medal Contenders". Me
by coastrider on Nov 27, 2008 12:37 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
you probably don't care about Thanksgiving in Spain, right?
you don’t care about pilgrims spending their first fall harvest together on the new continent?
by Bust a Bucket on Nov 27, 2008 12:53 AM PST up reply actions
You are right, after all it is your history.
But many people here know the meaning and people like me, who have lived a while in the states, consider it a bit ours, too.
And we're thankful for all our Spanish friends
- especially to amlmart who kept us current on Rudy all of last season – and his friend Paco who gave us wonderful caricatures. It’s fun to read your perspective.
And for our friends all over the globe – even that one in Scotland who can be as prickly as a Scottish thistle :-)
(What happened to Lily in China?)
Not sure I like this, jorga
That’s a border-line allegation there. Accusing a Scot of being prickly and then asking what happened to some China-chick. In parentheses, as if it is an add-on related thought. As if a prickly person got rid of her, or something.
I think I’m deeply offended. You know how easily the Scots can be offended. We have to uphold our honour, and all that.
I wish I knew who this Scot is that you are talking about, so I could be properly offended on his behalf. The description doesn’t fit me, of course, and I don’t know who you have in mind. But we Scots stick together, except when we’re stabbing each other in the back. (Ever try to stab someone in the back while he’s stabbing you in the back? It’s kind of awkward, but we practice a lot. Much easier when you have a group and you can stand in a circle and all stab at the same time.)
But when someone else stabs one of our own in the back, we can get pretty testy about it. Mainly because we feel deprived of the privilege when someone beats us to it, of course.
I think I’ve forgotten what we were discussing.
And for that, perhaps we will all be thankful.
The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.
Yes, well
the problem is, I’m a Scot too. The stabbing in the back while being stabbed actually comes pretty easy. I consider it “dancing with knives”…
I hadn’t intended Lily and prickly to be related. I just suddenly thought of her when I was thinking of our global village. Do you have a guilty conscience?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
I’m thankful for the Blazers, for this site and this whole community of Blazer fans.
by neutroticblazerfan on Nov 27, 2008 1:09 AM PST reply actions
thanks especially to wheels
I work swing shift and Give Thanks that I get to listen to 95.5 the game’s broadcast of the games. Wheels is amazing. Game night or not, at work, someone is belting out a Boooomshackalacka. It never gets old. I kinda feel bad for the people who just watch the games on tv.(not really) but really, he gives so much character to the contests. It is fun to experience this through is eyes. I love this team. Thanks Wheels.
These aren’t the Jail Blazers. We’re talking straight up Outlaws
Throw it down Big Fella, Two Hands! Booomshackalacka
by big fella on Nov 27, 2008 2:05 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
+1
Wheels paints a picture. ‘Tone puts in some nice filigree. I grew up on Chick Hearn, and you can’t get better than Chick was (before he appointed himself the head coach of the Lakers in the mid ‘70s – sheesh Chick, just announce and don’t editorialize!). But Wheels is right in that neighborhood of play-by-play greatness. – Elgin
All the kids who played the blues would learn my licks with a bottleneck slide. - Richard Palmer-James
I'm thankful
Mortimer never sent me a skimpy pic.
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
with the headband? yeah. me too.
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
ha that's awesome.
Your dog is da bomb.
And that’s high praise considering I hate strongly dislike animals.
That is really hideous
--jscot
by prezofdeath on Nov 28, 2008 12:30 AM PST up reply actions
Off topic. Gavin is talking about being nervous about Oden not playing well right now. You take Dwight Howards
stats. You take into account that Dwight played 32 min a game. Greg had better stats per 32 minutes than Dwight did in rebounds and points, as well as blocks. A Greg Oden off an injury is playing better than Dwight did as a rookie.
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanks to The Trailblazers, and thanks to all the people who make Blazersedge so fun, the main writers and everbody who adds to this great site!
Thanks Dave!
Happy Thanksgiving Blazer fans! This site is such a blessing! The team has earned a great holiday off. Things are clicking and soon we’ll have Martell, too. Enjoy your day everyone and stay safe out and about! Go Blazers!
and to you and this site, dave
my favorite site. i read it every morning, after my mail but before the news.
+1
Mail? What mail? I discovered if I don’t read mail most of it goes away!
when you’ve been in a dry land even a little dew looks inviting —Dave
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." - Tom Landry
Wow
I know I’m not in the same class as those other people you mentioned and honestly I’m thankful that my site gets any hits at all….
I am thankful for such a great place to discuss my favorite team, so thanks to Dave, Ben and all the posters who make this site what it is.
Hey hey everyone
Dave and Ben….thanks and thanks again
And to the gang…oldtimers and noobs alike….thanks and …
Happy Thanksgiving to all
On drowning my daughter before she becomes a teenager (to my son)-"You know how when you want to drown someone, you first tie something heavy to the their foot?" My Son: "Yeah?" Me:"You're the something heavy"
Felize turkeydad!
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
And - feliz turkeymom as well
- Elgin
All the kids who played the blues would learn my licks with a bottleneck slide. - Richard Palmer-James
My thanks
My Thanks goes out to you, Dave, for being the level headed father type to make this blog the best in all of sports blogs. Also to Ben (really Dave? Can you call what he does “working long hours”? ) for sharing the great insight he is provided. Thanks are also to the entire Blazers organization, past and present, for giving me a franchise i could be proud of(mostly). Thank you to all the great people on this blog as well who make some great conversation possible for someone who doesn’t get to talk face to face with too many people about the blazers since there are only bandwagon L*ker fans in San Diego!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake-but for the nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparations-for armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economy-for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government-for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
Also to Ben (really Dave? Can you call what he does "working long hours"? )
While I don’t think Ben works full time hours or anything, it sounds like he keeps a surprisingly busy schedule to keep us flush in updates and post-game details. Sure, it’s a job for many of us to be envious of, but it’s not an easy job either.
I may not always be on the same page as Ben, but I definitely appreciate that he puts in a lot more time than we see here on the site.
i think that could be a little mistrued...
all i meant was that Ben is probably having a blast doing all that “work”…i know i sure would be! No offense intended Ben! You do a great job.
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake-but for the nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparations-for armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economy-for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government-for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
you’re right… it doesn’t feel like work at all…
by Ben Golliver on Nov 27, 2008 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
Quit slacking, then!
The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.
I'm also thankful
for the Sportcenter #1 highlight from 11/26/2008 where Sergio lobbed the ball to a streaking Rudy for an ally-oop-reverse-dunk that beat out LeBron’s monster block for play of the night! Sic. Just plain Sic.
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake-but for the nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparations-for armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economy-for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government-for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
That was awesome
The whole time I kept thinking “Ohhhh these East coast jerks, they didn’t even wait for our game to be over and they already made their highlight reels! DANG THEM TO SUMTHIN’ OR OTHER.”
And then boom, Rudy is #1 (or #2 at NBATV, where I first had this thought). Sweet.
Morty
I'm already mad I missed the top 10 plays last night.
Fell asleep shortly after the game and the morning SC had changed to the top 10 Thanksgiving football moments. (Leon Lett at #1, of course!)
Happy Thanksgiving
If you have a bible handy, check out Psalm 103:1-5. Some great things to reflect on. Thanks to all of the wonderful BlazersEdgers insight is not in there however, so for that Thanks!!
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life,(of the Blazers), (of KP's madness), of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
by BlazerandBeaverBELIEVER on Nov 27, 2008 10:26 AM PST reply actions
I'm thankful for Dave, Ben, and the Blazers's Edge's.
And Dave needs to stop leading me on, because after each “burlesque” picture I take and send to Dave (to liven up the relationship), he always texts back with “too blurry send again” and so I do, and then he responds “toooo blrrrrry snd agn!!111” and I send it again and then he keeps responding back with more and more typos and misspellings, until after 8 hours the texts stop and there’s no new front page updates for 24 hours (at least).
It is crazy. I can’t help it if my mere image in a strategically draped fur coat causes even the strong minded like Dave to suffer from an awesomeness overdose! It’s worth it for front page shout outs, of course.
HAPPY GIVING THANKS!
Blazers Edge is one of the best anythings ever in the history of the moon and the stars and Earth. I love everyone here, am thankful I can talk the Blazers with ya, and I hope everyone has a great holiday season (even if you think Oden is a bust, and are thus a jerk).
Mortimer
+1
Mortimer, you’re on a roll with me.
Happy Thanksgiving Every 1 !
when i get sad, i stop being sad & become awesome again. true story.
Dave walked right into that first paragraph
If I could bring myself to use expressions like LOL or ROFL or LMAO without feeling like a fourteen year old girl, I would use one or more of them here.
Well played. Profoundly disturbing… but well played.
Q: Is Greg favoring his knee?
Frye: He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors.
by KP Corleone on Nov 27, 2008 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
LOL
Use it like a 57 year old man pretending to be a 14 year old girl. It gets quite easy. Not that I’m 57, but everyone could pretend I am, so it doesn’t matter. I’m kind of forgetting how old this persona is supposed to be, anyway. Sigh. Old age does that to a guy. Or a girl.
The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.
Happy Turkey Day
Thanks for putting together such a quality site day after day after day, Dave and Ben. You guys provide better insight and information than the entire sports-oriented “media elite” combined (to borrow a term I heard on a visit to Alaska). I know your role is supposed to be synthesis of information, and all, but you guys really go above and beyond. Bright things are in your respective futures.
You make it easy to be a Blazers fan, and a lot of people out there (myself included) wouldn’t be nearly as interested and invested in this team without you guys as tour guides.
I started out as an Oden fan, and found myself watching every game start to finish and yelling at the refs and cheering for Joelzilla even when the big guy was out “with a foot.” You guys played a big role in that.
Similar sentiments for the rest of the Bedge community. Some of the best fans in the country are in P-town, and a lot of them are on here. Happy holidays.
Q: Is Greg favoring his knee?
Frye: He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors.
(sobbing quietly with pride)
On drowning my daughter before she becomes a teenager (to my son)-"You know how when you want to drown someone, you first tie something heavy to the their foot?" My Son: "Yeah?" Me:"You're the something heavy"
by 92wastheyear on Nov 27, 2008 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
that poor sucker
may never come off the bench this year – but if he ever does get a real shot at some playing time, there will be many suprised Blazers fans hollering his name (and heading for the Trade Machine to make some weird-a$$ deal). – Elgin.
All the kids who played the blues would learn my licks with a bottleneck slide. - Richard Palmer-James
Thank you...
Blazers for turning into the classiest and most promising team in the NBA.
Dave, Ben, and Bedgers for making this the best site to talk about this fantastic team.
Happy Turkey day. Enjoy the day off everyone, because tomorrow night we get right back into the trenches with Naw’lin’s Flying Insects.
-Tyler
Oden and LaMarcus and Roy, oh my!
thanks to you Dave
for steering this ship, and all the high quality writing. Thanks to you Ben for your great articles and excellent sense of humor. (You both are very funny when you want to be, and serious when you need to be – good job to both of you.)
Thanks to all the cool people who write in and give your opinions. Thanks to the Blazer fans from Spain, let’s continue to hear from you all, a lot.
Thanks to justin.tv (no thanks to Comcast).
And thanks to the Trail Blazers, who finally figured out how important it is to Portland that it just has to have an excellent basketball team, filled with (and run by) excellent citizens of Earth. – Elgin.
All the kids who played the blues would learn my licks with a bottleneck slide. - Richard Palmer-James
Happy US Thanksgiving everyone.
We had Thanksgiving in Canada last month on October 13th ( The second Monday in October here ). So today isn’t a holiday here. I’ll take this opportunity to wish all a Happy US Thanksgiving. And even though I am not American I’ll take pages out of some Blazers Edgers books and say that I am thankful for the good of Blazers Edge. Thankful for many other things Blazers and otherwise. Anyhow Happy Thanksgiving.
by CanadianBlazerfan on Nov 27, 2008 6:18 PM PST reply actions
My turkey had laudenum in it
Just kidding.
1. Dave & Ben you both are awesome. Dave, you are one of the best communicators via the internets. The optimistic prose and flowing rhetoric wrap a red blanket around our scorned, dissapointed , dissillusioned , hopefull, excited Blazer Lovin’ hearts. Your posts are truly enjoyable to read. Thank you. For “hiring” Ben which exhibits your humilty in accepting that you need to team up with a young, more hip , more techonologically savvy Ben to connect with the youth of Blazer Nation . Ben, thank you for taking pictures of Nic and being a very responsible reporter and journalist.
2. Thank you to all the fans on BEDGE. I am convinced that the Blazers fans are the most knowledgeable in the whole NBA. That sounds narcissitic and smacks of excessive homer-ism but seriously, read other team’s fan blogs, we are killin everyone about as bad as we beat the Kings the other night.
3. More thank you’s to the posters on here for keeping the site enjoyable and maintaining the fun atmosphere.
4. To the Blazers, for comporting themselves with class and dignity on and off the court. I would like to add to LMA that iTS OK TO BE MEAN SOMETIMES!
5. Thank you KP for drafting two knuckleheads late in the first round and then trading them for Nic Batum. Thank you KP n’ staff for being awesome and allowing Blazer fans to deify you because of your awesomeness. Thank you to Martell for getting injured and letting Nic play which made all the “Nic is Kevin’s first mistake” posters shut their ugly mouths (joke) .
6. Thank you to Oden for working so hard and sticking with it.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcreaft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. [speech at GOP Presidential Convention 1992] Rev. Pat Robertson
dave didn’t have a choice in hiring me. there was a gun to his temple. i said, “it’s admin rights or your life.” dave’s a smart guy. he made the right choice.
by Ben Golliver on Nov 27, 2008 11:04 PM PST up reply actions
I think I'm more technologically savvy than Ben
but his random notes is the trump card to all else. Those bad boys seriously make you feel like you were at the game on the fifty yard line at midcourt.
by bdizzleistheshizle on Nov 27, 2008 11:11 PM PST up reply actions
Younger, OK
But more hip?
Let’s set the record straight here. Here’s the latest picture I have of Ben entering one of his Media Row Reports:
And here’s me getting ready to do one of my Game Previews:
Judge the relative hipness as you wish. It’s your call. I just thought you should be informed.
—Dave
the only inaccurate parts of the picture of “me” are the cigarette and the glasses. otherwise you’ve captured the magic pretty much perfectly. right down to the least hip bayless face the world has seen.
by Ben Golliver on Nov 27, 2008 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
The goal
was more or less to make you do a spit take on your monitor. Which, by the looks of that picture, has a resolution of about 16×12. It’s got the full four-color spectrum though, right?
—Dave
That would be
magenta, cyan, yellow, and…oh wait. That fourth color is just a wad of chew. Nevermind.
—Dave
oh indeed it does. not to mention whenever i get writers block i simply crank the nob on my printer until the screeeetch screeeeetch triggers the right brain reflex and the proper simile or metaphor pops out.
that big black hole underneath my monitor is actually a trashcan. many a first draft of posts that started “Kevin Durant really would have been the answer tonight” nearly fill the trashcan to the brim.
and you DONT want to know what i’ve got in my six boxes of huge floppy discs. but, yes, your suspicions are confirmed. mortimer is involved.
by Ben Golliver on Nov 28, 2008 12:02 AM PST up reply actions
Oh geez
Don’t get busted with those disks, man. He’s not underage but I think he’s mentally impaired. That puts you in a serious grey area legally.
—Dave
lol that picture is TOTALLY bogus
you’re supposed to be dressed in your jammies in your mom’s basement.
That is really hideous
--jscot
by prezofdeath on Nov 28, 2008 12:26 AM PST up reply actions
Actually the 2nd picture is sad - had to cover up the Michigan T-shirt for the shame of the pounding the team is taking!
when you’ve been in a dry land even a little dew looks inviting —Dave
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." - Tom Landry
I always pictured Dave more like this
The Rudy Fernandez of pastors at an elite church, surrounded by hotties eager to learn more about the world after service is over.
by Norsktroll on Nov 28, 2008 8:05 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
LOL...now THAT is funny.
That used to happen more often before, you know, the whole marriage and kid thang. First of all kids add 20 pounds to everyone involved. Second they grab ALL the attention! But back in the day…well… OK, so it usually wasn’t the hotties themselves, it was grandmothers with available nieces and grand-nieces and granddaughters and cousins’ stepchildren ranging in age from 17 to 57. Apparently it’s quite a feather in your cap if you set up the pastor with his future wife, even if the marriage is illegal in 42 states.
Kinda glad those days are over, actually.
—Dave
Thanks
I took the photo after service at a university campus this year, so naturally the majority of people in attendance was young and since it was summer their outfits were a little scantier. I just remembered that scene and found it fitting for this post :)
They were serving refreshments after the congregation on the porch and held some informal chats. If I remember correctly two of the girls in that picture were Danish, and just interested in the workings of a US ministry. Maybe it helped that he looks nice, and he was a really smart guy including economic concepts into the sermon. Also, two of the (guest) preachers were women from a Lutheran-Episcopal ministry, which is still unusual in some European churches.
Actually
those look a lot like the girls who used to (ahem) hang around with pressing theological questions. Pony tails. Huge book bags. Clothes that can’t decide between conservative and naughty.
Despite my previous protestation… (sigh) in some ways those were the days!
—Dave
Only at Blazers Edge can we read more latin than in Law School!
Thanks Dave and Ben. My wife is a Latin teacher and we get such a kick out of so many references. As for:
ex nihilo
That is very high praise coming from a Pastor!
when you’ve been in a dry land even a little dew looks inviting —Dave
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." - Tom Landry
I learned something new
I’ve always spelled it
nihlo
but now i’m informed! enlightened! awakened!
That is really hideous
--jscot
by prezofdeath on Nov 28, 2008 12:27 AM PST up reply actions
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