OT - How old are you?

So far this summer, I’ve been one of the resident non-homers and have taken the minority opinion on many debates.

As for must read posters, I’d add amlmart1 (for knowledge of Spanish hoops as well as general awesomenesss), jscot, timbo (for brutal honesty), lizzy lowblow, engineer scotty and knickfan to your list.

And I’m beautiful.

and awesome at everything I attempt

But since I birdwatch I think that makes my real age closer to 68.

You should read everything Jorga and Sabonis4ever writes, even if that means rummaging through their garbage cans to find their discarded grocery lists.

And I feel like one of the youngest people here. I feel like other people have hit on who the valuable contributors, don’t have much to add to that list.

hey Kelsoballa are you from Kelso Wash? always wondered that because Im from Rainier just across the bridge.

I’m 35, and I enjoy long walks on the beach, John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock (the NBA on NBC theme), Belgian waffles, oh, and I have a wife who is cool with my hardcore Blazer fandom (she is an fairly knowledgeable fan herself). We have a 10 month old son, who I think would make a fine wing player for Dave’s baby point guard to lob alley oops to.

Originally from La Center, Washington I’m a life-long Blazers fan currently living in Portland, Oregon.

Which happens to be the best age EVER!

Moved to Southern Oregon in 1973 and been a Blazermaniac
since 1975. Loved Big Red ( & UCLA, Coach Wooden) as a little kid
and was schooled in Hustle/TEAM by my Dad on the school playground.
Total die-hard gym rat since entering college to 2004 (2nd ACL surgery)
and as a History/Ed major was a sub/coach for many years.

P.S. – PISSED OFF ABOUT COINCAST’S BLACKOUT OF MOST OF OREGON !

I’m 39.

with the maturity of a 16 year old.

Old enough to know better.

But not as old as Greg Oden looks.

Vote for tominhawaii

this thread makes me feel like a kid. Been a Blazer fan since I could see though.

I vote for myself. Read me. ME ME ME!!!

Just kidding.

I often read things without looking at who wrote it… just some kind of habit I formed. You really can’t go wrong. You will always find people on either sides of the fence, and most comments are well thought out.

at one point there was some fella that went by fatty and he typed like this with no punctuation anywhere and always in lower case and he was a very controversial type people either loved him or hated him kinda like rasheed wallace i guess you could say but even he was would bring up good points and speak honestly and really what more could you ask for.

Just stay away from TiH!

Blazer fan since I was 5. I’ve been a Bedge reader for a while, but only recently joined up to comment. Pretty much everybody on here is well spoken and informed, unlike Olive. 12sharks has a knack for posting good stuff.

Even when walking the same path, the different language and cultures put different lights and shadows in these same places we are visiting together. When you learn a different language with foreign people in this chaotic way, you will realize you need more time not actually to understand but to get to know the people, to judge them (yes, we do that horrible thing) and, finally, to get tired of them (humans get tired even of the best things of life). As the most pleasant moments always pass in the process before you get tired, wich seems the absurd goal, the longer the process is, the richer the experience is (yes, you can aply these last sentences to sex too). Appart from that, I´ve never found a better community than this one and I´m a real fan of BE even more than a blazer fan.
My problem is the time too.

Just joined today but I have been reading for a long time. I am going to try and go to at least 20 home games this year in the 100 level.

12sharks has some funny posts, like this one…

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/6/8/547530/blaze-needs-to-go#6666678

are usually from Mortimer. good mix of humor and insight. Also like jscot, engineerscotty, ratbastird, 92wastheyear, Sabonis4ever. And tominhawaii for lunacy’s sake. I’m missing some others but I can’t remember them at the moment.

Recommended reading (these guys are all max contract players):

Mortimer
jscot
timg56
jksnake99
hobobob
QualityPie
damir
myemic23
T Darkstar
amlmart1
knickfan
ratbastird
12sharks
Dr. Dave
Jorga
EngineerScotty
Eben Calder
Krang
douglast
bfan
Engineering Problem

birthday last friday

and counting.

Those guys got it goin’ on.

oh yeah, and my age is 31. Good post BTW.

and counting…

By now you all know I’m a grandma (and I think it is terribly funny that an old female has young males recommending her posts – on a sports blog! – thank you all for validating my fanship.)

I see Grandpa Ken has checked in, but I'm even older than he.

I was looking at an old photo album with my kids today and there was my daughter in her ‘77 Championship t-shirt… And her son (my first grandchild) was born with a Blazer-L ker playoff game playing in their hospital room in May 1991. He’s the one that goes to games with me now. It’s in his blood.

FWIW, daughter met her current SO online and it’s working well. I did my “questionable” looking back in the days when the Willamette Week personals were a little more mainstream. I met some nice guys that way. (And ignored 90% of the responses I got.) No Blazer fans though. I need to meet a single grandpa with seasons tickets just in case grandson goes away to college ….

....................... and Mortimer is indispensable.

And I like to read JScot, because he is ALWAYS wrong! He’s the George Will of BE, and I mean that in the very best way.

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But I ball at a 16th grade level

Mortimer and TIH are my favorite because their random humor is just my style. Mortimer occasionally makes some decent basketball comments as well.

I like Mark Twain because of how he went off in BlogaBull and then came back and offered up the olive branch Reflecting my initial feelings as well.

I never agree with jksnake99 but admire the his going against the grain.

worst birthdays = 19 and 20

just had one and gotta look forward to the next

I enjoy these people’s comments, as well as some others:

Lance Uppercut (the man who made this all possible)
jorga (who doesn’t love jorga?)
mortimer (although his posts are long so I don’t always read them thoroughly)
ken (his comments are almost always right on, and he’s a plank-owner)
TiH (the jokester, one in every crowd, we have a good one)
Krang (very good stuff)
Eben Calder (right on, usually)
ratbastird (like his comments)
bfan (usually enjoy his posts)
fatty (yeah, provocative, and hasn’t been around for a while, but a big part of this blog nonetheless)
damir (agree with him on most things basketball)
...and a few others that I’m not remembering or bothering to look up.

I find I have a bias toward reading the people who have been around longer. I was here in the days when Lance was still an anonymous blogger and before he had even introduced this guy he knew called Dave. There are a few “plankowners” here and usually they’ve stuck around because they’re thought-provoking, considerate, and good people.

The cool thing is that a lot of the new people (a vast majority) are very cool.

28, turning 29 in November.

Blazer fan from the land down under woo hoo.

And there are too many posters who are great here, and I would certainly forget someone and then feel bad.

I DO know there isn’t anyone I don’t like, because I can’t remember anyone who wasn’t at least trying to add something to the conversation. I don’t agree with everyone, but that ain’t the point.

All I do know is, Bow4Meow hates me and is trying to build a time machine so he can go back in time to impregnate my mother and then punch her in the belly while I am inside :-( MAN HE HATES ME SO MUCH!

Mortimer! :-(

Mortimer commented on my post.
My day is finally complete.
I can rest at peace now.

I like anybody who posts in gameday open threads. If you don’t…....then I hate you.

Ima grown a$$ man, I just never act like it

as of today.

As far as who I like to read, I like everyone’s perspective. If I am into the subject, I read everybody’s posts. But for the sake of answering this fanpost’s question, I will follow suit. Many of my fav’s have been mentioned but I noticed two guys I really appreciate that until this point, were left out. The first is EnglandDan, who has disapeared over the last few months???? And the most glaring omission til this point IMO, is twodeep. I love the way twodeep thinks and have really grown to appreciate his opinion….

And I come here for all the blue haired beauties. Jorga and Ladygonegrey, text me!

I’m looking forward to the day where my age is older than the average age of the Blazers. Is that a rite of passage? Is there an awkward feeling to go to a game and root for a team that is younger than you?

going on 27. Ya never forget what it’s like to be in your 20’s. I miss Big Red’s passing.

-Ken, Mortimer, Jorga, Silkybrown & TiH are my favorites to read.

My least favorites are any repetitive fanpost that consists of a common topic and ends with “what do you guys think?”

I look young and haven’t always (confess) been a Blazer fan.

I was a bandwagon L*ker fan when I was 12, and mostly a Twolves fan for KG purposes, having collected his cards. It was actually the season that the Blazers actually had the worst-ever 21-61 record that I became addicted to following them and watching games on KGW. Thus, I can claim I stuck with the team through hard times, because that’s all I’ve really known until now. Heartfelt eh?

And then KG won the championship/swept us last season, so he has fallen out of favor with me.

And last year a fellow college student convinced me to join BE, and now I know of trades/deals/updates before anyone else. I am happy.

And the posts I like reading the most are the ones from Mortimer, jscot, amlmart1, blazersorbust, Dheepan and ratbastird…

And been coming to BE since last season.
If you need info from Spokane (which normally isn’t very important to Blazer news) then I’m your man.
And honestly, mostly every that posts here on BE is good. I can’t think of anyone off the top of my head that I dislike.

...most of you in here (who voted) do not know what it was like here when the Blazers won the title. I was in the fourth grade and it was the most euphoric moment of my childhood.

It wasn’t until later that I realized the cultural significance of Walton, the 70’s, the insanity of CBS switching to the Kemper Open instead of showing the postgame celebration, etc.,... but the feeling of complete unadulterated joy, of high-fiving strangers, of parades, and of that feeling of wishing for something so badly to happen that seemed so impossible (everyone picked the Lakers and the Sixers to win easily), and then it comes true, and you feel like all the stupid things you did help to contribute to it (screaming until you are hoarse, the superstitions, etc.)... and then you kind of step back and think, “well, ANYTHING is possible”. (OK this sentence is a complete run-on but I don’t care).

I hope that everyone in here can experience that feeling again in the near future.

And yes, SandbergOnSports, I still have my Blazermania LP with all the Schonely radio calls from that season, including the one on your sig.

can’t wait for MY moment to come with this team.

Now lets do the folks we don’t like. I’ll start.

Tssbro & The Graduate

They are my arch-nemesises. I say yes, they say no. I say stop, they say go. I say goodbye, they say hello.

we have some posters that aren’t quite as, ahem, prolific as others (I myself am a member of the “prolific and frequently pointless” crew), so they tend to be overlooked. Plus, some people recently changed their names here via the new site.

One poster I like that I haven’t seen listed on the favorites list above, is Junior del Norte.

put my computer down for a few days. I’m just now back but thought I’d better weigh in here late.

Like Mortimer stated, it’s impossible to name my favored posters as there are too many and I’d forget some. It would be a LOT easier for me to list the few I don’t like, but that wouldn’t be very nice and I probably don’t remember who they are anyway.

Speed reading through the above posts may have caused me to miss it but I didn’t notice DrDave’s name mentioned. I’ll always read anything he posts. I don’t recall seeing HarryManback’s name either, which should be listed. Did I see Fisheyes or Coastrider ….. oh jeez, here I go trying to mention some who may have been inadvertently overlooked but at the same time am setting myself up to overlook others still. I quit.

Thanks Myemic and Mortimer for the shouts out .... but now I’m afraid others will be suspicious of your senses of good judgment.

(in no particular order and certainly incomplete) TiH, QPie, nightbluefruit, ratbastird, Mortimer, Krang, Jorga, damir, knickfan, Ken, EngineerScotty . . .

can we move the popularity contest to another thread? :P

But I still get carded!

Living clean and thinking dirty…

Hard living makes me look 55, until I cut my hair super short. Now I look 16 (with a 65-year-old’s liver).

When people read MY comments!!!

Thanks though!

I’m feeling rather old. Somehow 33 crept around and hit me upside the head. Still not quite sure how i stopped being 25 or 28. I’m sure I’ll appreciate how young I am when I hit 40 and start lamenting that. Won’t happen though. I’m still convinced the future will never arrive.

crud.

I think it’s time to go reserve a plot.

I knew I was really old when I saw the advertisement for War Games “25th anniversary” coming out in a few theaters. My GF hadn’t even heard of it.

Yeah… a plot and a will. I just need to make sure the GF isn’t on it as she keeps trying to kill me with her fridge, amusement rides, hot pokers, and spurs. I do NOT want to reward such treatment.

I live a rough life.

but that’s in dog years