I’ll represent from the SLC.

Please.

Now, if they don’t have Skyliner Hamburgers, on the other hand…

is my favorite bad habit….

In English, gourmet is a noun and an adjective, and it has been a noun since at least 1820. It means a connoisseur of food and drink specifically.

That the food that is there, if it’s your flavor, is some of the best in the world.

Personally, i like a variety of flavors, and portland has a lovely variety.

I had a dream the other night Rudy did a forward flip while dribbling.
I declined to tell her about it.
She already thinks I have an unhealthy obsession.

I will teach my children to hate the Lakers so much that they’ll lead a genocide of anything Laker related as adults, but I still think it is wierd and out of place to yell BEAT LA when greeting a new player to the team.

I think maybe, like, HEY RUDY or I LOVE YOU RUDY or GET OUT OF MY DREAMS, RUDY, AND INTO MY CAR are more appropriate than “Beat LA” when no game is taking place and Rudy may not even know we even hate LA.

Are we going to yell BEAT LA when we’re playing the Timberwolves?

Don’t ya think it was sorta off topic, even if it is obviously Blazer related?

My children, at least the first few, will likely be born in Los Angeles. I will dutifully teach them to hate it with all of their hearts… or at least to hate the Lakers. But, on their first day of school, I won’t be chanting BEAT LA. Isn’t really the time or place and doesn’t make sense.

Mortimer

I must admit that my thought process about starting the “Beat LA” chant wasn’t overly deep or complex.

I am an Oregonian, born and raised, and had the misfortune to spend 4 years of my life in school in the LA area. Suffice it to say that I have more pent up disrespect for LA than most rabid Blazers fans.

Maybe it wasn’t the right time or place, and if I had it to over again, I might not have started the chant.

But weather is was approproate or not, once you start chanting Beat LA wih a few blazers fans around, it gets going in a hurry which is somehow refreshing, even if it is in the wrong venue.

Secretly I imagine a conversation between Rudy and KP on the drive from PDX to the Rose Garden.

KP: “What do you think of Portland?”
Rudy: “Those fans are crazy and they seeem to love me.”

Rudy: “I really liked it when they were chanting Rudy, Rudy Rudy… But what did they mean when they said beat LA?”
KP: “This might take a while, but in order to be a Trailblazer, you need to understand the distaste the blazers fans have for the LA L**ers. On October 28, you get to prove yourself in your first NBA game and show these fans what you are really made of.”

talk about a euphoric feeling.

i’ve always wanted to try tapas, but i was unsure of the quality i’d find in portland since we dont really have much of a spanish population here. i’ll give it a shot. is it worth the price?

There’s just something about the sheer gluttony of it that makes me feel that going in there would be akin to beating a whale to death using a baby seal.

don’t discriminate.

That’s the thing.

“Wow, this is such a cool place”

That’s why BE is so nice. We don’t do favors for Henchmen.

wow.

that is hilarious.

That story is true!

An annoying drunk guy bugged KP that night while KP was watching the game and KP talked tough and scared the guy away.

It was cool. Maybe it didn’t fit the culture of our current Blazers, bar fights and whatnot, but I woulda had KP’s back. And don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t even close to a fight and this annoying drunk guy who always annoyed me when I watched games there wouldn’t be any use in a fight, but KP wasn’t taking no guff. He had a game to watch, dammit.

(Since I don’t think I did a good job setting up this story, this occurred during the 2006-07 season, Roy’s rookie year. I was at a sports bar in Santa Monica watching the Blazers play the Nuggets when KP, then the assistant GM, walked in and I recognized him on sight like a loser and creeped him out. I met him, thanked him, asked him to stay in Portland, and he was as KP-esque as you would expect KP to be. Then I proceeded to hang around over his shoulder and “watched” the game “with” KP)

Mortimer

When were the Olympics held in Greece?

a) 2008
b) 2002
c) Shaddupayouface

If ya thought I was nitpicking you, I apologize, I wasn’t trying to do that.

I think some of the people who are still sore from the Nate/Sergio battles of yesteryear (seems so long ago now) might not think Nate is being totally honest with his Rudy feelings, and I could see them feeling like Nate is just paying Rudy lip service to appease both Rudy’s worries and the dedicated fans of Rudy.

So, interpreting it that way, I thought maybe you were saying Nate was embarrassed by his previous comments.

And all I’m saying is that I think Nate just doesn’t like big to-dos, and is generally subdued in those circumstances, not really reading what you were saying as a sly joke, which it was.

I didn’t think YOU weren’t excited about Rudy joining the team, not at all! I’ve seen you love what he can potentially do like the rest of us… I figured you were hinting at the possibility that perhaps NATE doesn’t feel like that completely. If I was Nate, I would be a little worried after this big arrival of Rudy… he is going to have such an up and down year and while I fully expect him to play alongside Roy OFTEN over time, they might not be ready for that just yet and Rudy will be stuck in the 20-25 minute range, which I see as something that will annoy many fans. And then Nate hears it from the media all year, and unlike in Sergio’s situation where the guy isn’t all that great to NEED to get on the court, you really do gotta find minutes for Rudy. Somewhere.

If Rudy doesn’t struggle a bit and have an up and down year, he’d be the first Euro wing player to not do so. Pau Gasol had a great rookie year, and I can’t think of any other prominent Euros who really hopped into the NBA mid-sprint and never missed a step.

Rudy is going to get focused on a lot, and this type of to-do only helps/hurts that, so I’d probably be subdued as well. Ok, I’d at least ACT happy for appearances sake, but I’d be worried that since the kid ain’t an Oden, with a clear position and role and starting spot, this kind of build up for a rookie year could end in some fans/media feeling dissatisfied.

I see nothing wrong with what you said though, so I apologize if I appeared to be jumping on you (again).

Mortimer

i knew it.