are pedestrian at best. I’m shocked each year that he finishes 2nd for columnist of the year behind Bill Plaschke. I’ve actually never heard his radio show (not an accident) but I’m sure it’s brutal. Personally, I think the Oregonian could do better. Much better.

Don’t read him, don’t listen to him, encourage others to do the same, and let his bosses know how you feel. There are plenty of other choices if you are creative (use your iPod, get a satellite radio, get stuff from BE or other resources).

I don’t listen to him or read his column. It’s tough sometimes because I want as much info as I can get on the local sports teams, and I must confess that he is a more skilled writer than some of the other locals, but I feel like if I just feed it, it stays around.

Of course you could also take the Colin Cowherd approach and love him to death until ESPN carries him away.

I really don’t like reading him at all, and even think his opinions are way off a fair share of the time. But mine could be for many people as well, and he’s entitled to his.

I actually like his radio show. I think he’s way better on the radio than in print.

That said, today when asked Roy or Drexler he said that he’d take Roy, which I have zero problem with… except that he went on to say that Drexler was lazy.

I about veered into oncoming traffic… that blasphemous indigenerate.

Lazy?

He didn’t elaborate.

In short, I didn’t vote, as I neither hate nor love him.

I’ve been reading him since he first came aboard the Oregonian. He started by basically waging war against the Blazers (among others) because he wanted them to be held accountable for their actions and act the way a professional organization should operate. This, at the time, used to really, really bug me. There were so many times he’d write something negative and I’d think “give it a damn rest already!” But in hindsight I think he did a lot of good. I can’t believe I just typed that. He exposed a lot of things the Blazers were trying to hide, the Miles agreement for one. He wrote things that made us mad because, in short, we didn’t like someone pointing out or favorite organizations very serious flaws.

Look at it this way, we love the Blazers, we (most of us) will defend them through thick and thin. He on the other hand does not. He more or less spearheaded the movement, as I see it, to get people to stop caring about the Blazers until they started acting right, and that’s a very good thing.

Now that things are going right, the organization is media friendly, we got high character guys, we are even more active in the community, our guys legitimately seem like they care, his articles are reflecting that. Those that have wandered away from the Blazers but still pick up the Sports page may read his columns and read all these positive things, because his columns have been overwhelmingly positive for some time now, and they might begin to find their way back towards the Blazers. He’s like the barometer for the Blazers. He is ultimately fair, which was just sort of hard to understand a few years ago.

With that said, his writing is pretty bad. His articles that highlight those with terminal diseases are stale and old. That makes me a total jerk for saying that, but my gosh, he can only do that article so many times. We could have it way, way worse. Try reading J.A. Adande and then come back and complain.

OK, I really cannot believe I just typed out a pro Canzano post. I need to go outside and verify the sky is blue and that my feet are still firmly planed on the ground.

Just yesterday I heard him on the radio for the first time. He has to be the worst radio sports guy I’ve ever heard. He kept trying to be dramatic, he repeated himself over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And quite frankly, he needs to take some classes at PSU on something… anything cause his lack of intellect is not only apparent but damaging to my own should I listen for more than ten minutes. How did this guy get a job? I know, I know, he’s one of those guys who e-murse-s himself in sports and has dogged determination… the later a fine quality but… C’mon.

Now I feel bad for writing this as I have defended NBA players from personal attacks but I can’t bring myself to take it back. John, if you’re reading this… seek help. Read a book that doesn’t have to do with sports. take a class in constructive thinking and read my all my posts here on BE to learn about the Trailblazers for my PTB wisdom is pure gold for the soul. PS. Other Bedgers write good posts too and I would list their names but I don’t want them getting big egos.

But, you know, he quoted my poem in his column and that makes me love him. But I won´t argue with anybody.

things in his column that I disagreed with. He promptly wrote back and agreed one time that he had been ‘emotional’. I was very impressed by that. He also told me to write him ‘anytime’.

To this day I don’t agree with everything he writes nor should I, but I do enjoy a lot of his columns and blogs.

Back when the Blazers sucked an all hell was breaking lose I used to hate reading Quick as well just because everything was always so negative. Now that things are looking up I enjoy Quick more as he is upbeat and informative.

funny how keywords Squirrell and Bill O’Reilly surface.

I’ve e-mailed Canzano a couple times to vehemently disagree with this topic or that, and once to comment about his choice of attire when first spotting up on some local midnite sports broadcast… I mean he had on some earth tone with a brown tie. I felt compelled to inform him such attire is not going to fly on tv… which probly explains why he is currently CTC’n on 955. Nevertheless, JC always promptly replied and courteously. I have respect for Canzano despite my biggest upcoming complaint—yesterdays interview with Travis Outlaw.

I have to be careful how I say this because Canzano has so compartamentalized my thinking as to complete a straight thought is like navigating a maze. Here it is already- Canzano couldnt have “dumbed” down that interview anymore had he not asked him how the fishing has been. After a series of obvious and leading questions it was clear Travis was being treated to the kind of interview reserved for kindergartners. AND then Canzano had to make the point, nay belittle the untrue Travis IQ, which he differentiated between his Hoops IQ. It was a terrible interview that served Travis Outlaw no credit accept to prove he is more humble then me, Canzano and who cares else.
To finish it off after the interview Canzano blamed it exploding in his face because of a cultural misinterpretation.

Too bad JC doesnt keep up with the Bedge…

Strike one-- picking out his own wardrobe
Strike two— conducting an embarressing interview w Travis

but that doesn’t mean I always disagree with him.

A lot of people dislike Canzano because they disagree with him. I respect the heck out of the guy because of it. I may disagree with him routinely too however he is never boring to read. He writes about sides of sports that most sport fans never have the opportunity to hear or see. You accuse him of ever selling out because he writes what he truly believes and it comes out in his writing.
No one is forced to listen to him because there is competition. I like Primetime however when it comes to anything that has to do with basketball they don’t know what they are talking about and I don’t believe they would talk about it at all if it weren’t demanded by the listeners. I think we are lucky to have Canzano in Portland and I enjoy reading his material and listening to his views on 95.5.

I don’t read him any more (as a rule), but what I remember reading is more than a few negative stories featuring one-sided half-truths. He does his job. Writes crap that ticks people off, gets talked about around town, paper continues paying his salary.

Best thing we can do is just ignore him.

I think Canzano is intelligent for sure with a good dash of ego. He seems to have his finger on the pulse of Blazer fans though. I used to get so frustrated tuning into 1080 fan only to hear them gloss over some blazer news. There was really no need to listen to the fan anymore when you could come to BE and get more complete and many times more current information. Canzano and Gavin & Wheels give us fantastic coverage of the Blazers. It is such an improvement.

I think I really dislike is when Canzano makes himself the story: Colleen Belloti, Damon drug test, seeing darius at a strip club & etc.

....................................... or not, you tell me. Canzano is MOSTLY good stuff. He’s not aftraid to punch on the home team when they need it—although he does it sometimes when they don’t…

Canzano ATTEMPTS to be an iconoclast, whether there are false icons that need smashing or not. When there are dirty deeds being done, he’s definitely a credit to the fourth estate. When there’s nothing going on, when he attempts to rake muck that doesn’t exist, he can be very annoying. He seems to see himself as a sort of prosecuting attorney entitled to a certain number of convictions whether there are crimes being committed or not…

All in all, though, he’s much more positive than negative. Do I “love” him? No. Do I “hate” him? Absolutely not. He’s MOSTLY GOOD.

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Won me over once he started working on “The Bald Faced Truth”. I was a major hater on him because he was constantly reminding Blazer fans of the team’s faults, however I have now started to believe that it may have been the culture of the team that brought on this negativity and less about him trying to spark a fire.

His show is quite good, and today he went out of his way to ask Blazer fans not to rejoice in Darius Miles drug problems, and that is very commendable. He opinions are worth listening to. As far as reading goes, I haven’t read anything he has written since 2005, but I might start reading again if he keeps up his great analysis.

I enjoy that segment…. i went to the 955 site but couldnt find an email link. It would be nice to know so I could just send him an occasional Johnny on the spot inquiry…. my first would be “do you believe in Bigfoot?”

He’s just a guy who writes and talks about NW sports for a living. He does a generally good and fair job about it. He makes the occasional mistake—so what? You talk like he’s responsible for everything bad that has ever happened with the Blazers. He’s on your mind like a girl. Get over yourselves.