The History of Blazers Edge?

by robrun2 on Jun 19, 2008 1:11 AM PDT

I've been going to this site for well over a year now, and it's always been Dave doing the posts (and now Ben, of course). What I'm wondering is how did this site spring forth? Was Dave the founder of it? How did he found this thing? Was he hanging out on some other SB Nation blog and just jumped into it? For some reason this nags me a little bit (I suppose it happens during the summer after school is done).

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It's probably not my place...

to answer this but I know a few of the facts of the case so I will and others can correct me where necessary.

Blazersedge was founded by Lance Uppercut. Mr. Uppercut then morphed into Casey Holdahl (I hope I spelled your name right, Casey) and took over for Eric Marentette over on Oregon Live. When he did so, he asked Dave, who had his own blog called Blazers Thoughts, if he would like to take over this blog.

Dave accepted, bringing a few loyal readers – including a fat guy who wrote in blank verse and a lecherous old grump – with him.

The rest, as they say, is history.

On a personal note, I’ve had a chance to meet both these guys (Dave and Casey, not Fatty and the lech) and they are both very good, very knowledgeable people. Blazerland is blessed that way.

Eric was a great guy, too, until he went to the dark side…

"You don’t visit the coast, then ask where you could get some average seafood." -tominhawaii

by -ken on Jun 19, 2008 4:17 AM PDT 0 recs

I feel bad for Eric

He probably has to go to the orphanage every day and pick out a new baby for Kobe to eat. Kobe is such a jerk! Eric was hired for website stuff, and look at what Kobe makes him do—orphaned baby soup wrangler.

It wasn’t in his job description!!

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jun 19, 2008 4:23 AM PDT up 0 recs

I thought it was dead fetuses

mmm stem cells!!! So rehabilitating!!!

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 12:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

That sound you hear is the shark jumping on Blazer's Edge.

Trade Freeland!

by rockingharder on Jun 19, 2008 5:24 PM PDT up 0 recs

And don't forget, it wasn't until long after Dave took over . . .

. . . that the Bedge joined the SB Nation fold.
This place existed independently for most of what -ken just laid out.

Blazers have a five-on-three...and they pull it back and wait for help.

by QualityPie on Jun 19, 2008 9:16 AM PDT up 0 recs

Actuallly

Lance was still at the helm when it joined SBNation in March, 2006. His first post was pretty funny (like the mention of the Blazers having no good players under contract. How quickly things have changed.)

by jorga on Jun 19, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up 0 recs

Slightly tangental, but not quite O.T.

since I think it has to do with our personal history … on our “blog memberships” in our profiles is “U.I.D.” followed by a number. Does that number indicate what number we were in joining the blog? If not, what?

by jorga on Jun 19, 2008 7:01 AM PDT 0 recs

Sorta almost...

for those of you who didn’t lose your usernames in the transition. :(

"You don’t visit the coast, then ask where you could get some average seafood." -tominhawaii

by -ken on Jun 19, 2008 7:34 AM PDT up 0 recs

I kept my profile and am 809

"My, that is a handsome fella. He must be the offspring of a Greek God!" - Bill Walton calling a Clipper's-Laker's game as Luke Walton checks in.

by JTDuck22 on Jun 19, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

I don't have a U.I.D...

how do you get one of those???

We don't NEED the draft. -Mortimer 6/18

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Jun 19, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up 0 recs

it magically appeared...

once I claimed my former self from the old BEdge, which I just did.

We don't NEED the draft. -Mortimer 6/18

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Jun 19, 2008 10:43 PM PDT up 0 recs

I claimed mine right after the new format change

but not only do I not have a UID, it shows I’ve only been a member since April 2008. I feel small and inconsequential…

"I don't trust lawyers." --David Stern

by MiledAnimal on Jun 19, 2008 10:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

It looks like your DO have a UID

Check the lower half of the your profile page, in the “Blog Memberships” section. It lists you as UID 1000, which is pretty cool in my book.

by Corvid on Jun 20, 2008 8:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

I see it!

Thanks, Corvid. I was looking on the Edit Profile page before.

Number 1000, huh? At least I’m well-rounded.

"I don't trust lawyers." --David Stern

by MiledAnimal on Jun 20, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

NEAT!!!

I’m 97!!!

I’d rather be a couple of different numbers, but I’m less than 100 and still an A, so I’ll live.

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 12:11 PM PDT up 0 recs

hmmm...

I just checked my date of signing up and realized that I went a number of months of reading and no commenting. I could have had my number!!! maybe… or not.

Still, 97 is sweet.

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 4:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

I too am UIDless.

by TwoDeep on Jun 19, 2008 11:00 AM PDT 0 recs

You are 79

"Lenny Suckerpunch Never bet on me" - Elizabeth "The Lizzard" Lowblow

by Lizzy Lowblow on Jun 19, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up 0 recs

you're like me

but reversed

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 4:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

Wow, I'm 73!

Who’d have thunk it. I was a Blazer’s Thoughts reader originally. This place has really evolved.

I am the master of my fate, I am the Captain of my soul. - Charles Wesley

by Earl on Jun 20, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up 0 recs

I´m 1.407. Does it make me younger?.

The Midnight Rambler

by amlmart1 on Jun 20, 2008 2:36 PM PDT up 0 recs

It all started with Lance Uppercut

aka Casey, over at blazersbasketball.blogspot.com. After a while of that, they moved over to SB Nation….I was reading through some of the old stuff and WOW! Casey predicted that Adam Morrison would be a bust, that LMA was the best player in the draft along with Brandon Roy. He also said that the next best player available was Rudy Gay. He totally nailed it. Also, he said that Leon Powe would be a solid pickup in the 2nd round. The dude was spot on.

Anyway, click on Lance Uppercut’s name and read his blog to see some of the history of the Bedge. Great stuff.

"Beards--they grow on you"

by prezofdeath on Jun 19, 2008 12:11 PM PDT 0 recs

Well...

I predicted those things too, except for leon Powe and I still think foye is good and we’ll see this year.

All the people who didn’t use the “local boy” as the excuse to draft Morrison were generally dead on as they predicted “don’t take him”. That’s what I remember anyway. I’m too lazy to find facts to back me up.

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 12:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

I liked

LMA, Roy, Gay, and even Bargnani.

I hated hated hated the idea of drafting Morrison. He just did not look like an NBA player to me. It was so screamingly obvious that people liked him for other reasons than how he’d do in the NBA.

I called Sheldon Williams being a role player at best, and even though I liked Gay I worred about him the most. He had a good chance of being like Darius Miles; had #1 pick talent, but the knock on him was EFFORT and ATTITUDE. He had an up n’ down freshman season, and fell from a potential #1 pick before the college season started to all the way to #9… which seems crazy in retrospect, but it shows how hard it can be to tell how a talented player will adjust to the NBA. He could have gone the Darius way and become complacent. I’m glad he didn’t.

So, right now, I look wrong about Bargnani. He might turn out okay though. I definitely wanted LMA over him.

I said Roy was being way undervalued like Josh Howard and Prince were, and I also used Wade as an example because people didn’t think he had a ton of upside when he was drafted. I think Foye is good (not great) now, but didn’t like him then because of being an undersized shooting guard who is forced into a PG role. That is my least favorite type of player, I think.

For some time now, I think Brandon Rush is the guy being undervalued in the Granger/Roy/Howard/Prince way.

I don’t think I followed things as closely as I do now, and can’t say I knew anything about the 2nd round, so I couldn’t make any really cool predictions like that. I also don’t watch a ton of college basketball. I’m a fake :-(

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jun 19, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up 0 recs

I definitely don't follow now like i used to

two years ago i lived in portland and had a friend into college b-ball so I got to see some of the guys play.

Since then… no b-ball for me and all i can do is read reports. Frustrating.

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 4:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

My UID is 43. That just screams old-timer...

Blazermania - It's not just for die-hards anymore.

by Blazerholic on Jun 19, 2008 1:28 PM PDT 0 recs

ahh, I dont have a UID,

that just screams noob :*(

"In KP we trust" every Blazer fan ever

by ptwnblzr on Jun 19, 2008 3:07 PM PDT 0 recs

it just means

you can pee without pain…

no wait… that’s something else.

"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned

by ratbastird on Jun 19, 2008 4:06 PM PDT up 0 recs

Oh yah

no problaem there, penicillan baby!

"In KP we trust" every Blazer fan ever

by ptwnblzr on Jun 19, 2008 9:18 PM PDT up 0 recs

Once upon a time there was a website

made of nothing but twigs and mud. Casey was wearing nothing but skins and using commador 64 computer (with a printer that contained a bird that pecked on a stone tablet ala the Flintstones).

GO says " Sir, you fornicated vertically…observe the consequences!

by 92wastheyear on Jun 19, 2008 8:00 PM PDT 0 recs