Prove IT! Black and Red Loyalty .
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 12:14 PM PST
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If you are a blogger on this site, then you are obviously a Blazers fan. We are past the trade deadline, we are in the playoff hunt legitimately since the bad-boy-blazers were in charge here and it is an exciting time for this franchise in Portland that has inited "Rise with Us." and "Stay together for the next exciting chapter". Our team in Portland is hearlded nationwide as one of the most UNIFIED lockers in the association, let alone all sports, so why does our fanbase and media supporters need to be so UN-Unified as we close in on the next reasonale step of progression for this team: their first Playoff Series?
How about, Are the Blazers going to win 50 games? Are the Blazers going to get Home Court Advantage? Are the Blazers going to win their Division? Which teams are streaking and which are stumbling into the playoff push? What players you like in the upcoming NBA draft where Portland has multiple picks again? Or the fact that Portland is leading the NBA in FANS attending home games? How much love B-Roy is finally starting to get nationwide....etc.... There are a lot better topics out there than what I have seen a lot of lately AND SOMEBODY on here needed to stand up and say ENOUGH!
If you like the Trail Blazers, and wear the Black and Red on gamedays you are not allowed to talk about these things until the season is over (failure to comply will result in being banned from BE until the off-seaosn*):
1.) Trading anyone on the team. Trade deadline is gone and this is our team for now. Playoffs are around the corner and we have no idea who is going to step up and take their games to the next level on that next level of play. Don't you think that showing mad game in the playoffs will do a lot to keep them with the team for the future? Plus, this time off will actually give most of us some good time to come up with realistic moves and figure out how they will work.
2.) Greg Oden being a bust or anything of the sort: Just how much better of a team are we with a healthy Greg Oden? We don't know yet, so why don't we all encourage this kid to be healthy and ready for playoffs, rather than sweating him about missing games when HE, the coach, and the trainers clearly don't want him to go. Give this 21 year old the space, time and support ANYONE needs to get back and do what he does, which is play hoops. We all want him to PROVE that he is what we want him to be, and Oden can't prove anything until he is back, so let's support him getting back.
That is it, 2 things that have been WAY too consuming to WAY too many on this site. Gather yourself and check your perspective... it is playoff push time and NOW is when you and I both can help this team "Rise Up."
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lol...
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out burns out farms and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
Those blazer cups are way too fragile
Talk about “injury prone”—I broke one of those just by picking it up, literally.
Settle down with those monstrous man-hands of yours
I’ve still got my Kersey, Porter, Buck, Duck, and Uncle Cliffy glasses somewhere.
Chris Dudley for three!
Only if they throw in the complete set of collectible Dale Earnhardt Jr. KFC buckets
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
they need to bring those back!
we finally have a team people like again so why not?
"Howard, he know me" Rudy
Blindly Loyalty is the Key
To a unified and happy pre world war II Germany.
Funny that you say that
Because my screen name is UNblindloyalty. I’ve had my eyes open about the Blazers my entire adult life (I admit that I was blindly loyal as a kid). I criticize the Blazers for their faults, and cheer for their successes. My friends complain that I am too negative about the Blazers sometimes, but I think that I am just a realist. But I agree with the original post, that now is the time to discuss THIS season, and how the Blazers will get into, and suceed in, the playoffs THIS year. The Oden troll posts are lame.
I will cry tears of joy when the Blazers win the Championship, and I feel a common bond with others who feel the same way.
by unblindloyalty on Mar 5, 2009 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Good Point
From now on I will only read the messages on Yahoo that discuss how our economy is going to improve from here on out.. oh wait. Guess I would have nothing to read. I just don’t understand why people would want sports to be so drastically different from real life that we would just always be happy about it. Taking sports seriously is actually part of what makes it fun.
taking it seriously...
and all out questioning a young athlete’s motives to play or proclaiming a bust when there hasn’t even been given a fair shot is not taking it seriously… that is being unrational and taking things TOO seriously.
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
Smell the Roses
Thanks PDyn’ for reminding the handwringers to just stop and….
The Oden Era, Day 621
Come on Dude
You are the biggest pessimist I have ever met in my life, how dare you sit back and say you are a realist. Your so negative your name should’ve been Eeyore, I wont dare mention some of the negativity that you have spread through out this season. I bet you wish we still drafted Durant. You want some tears, I’ll give you some tears. After I post this I’m coming over to your cubicle and going to get mid-evil on you with some needle nose pliers and soldering gun. Really, you a Realist , Man now I’ve heard it all. Now go prepare yourself pain train, because it’s a coming choo-choo. ;-)
Calm down big fella
I want the Blazers to win tonight.
I think they will lose, given that they are playing a road game against a playoff team on the second night of a back-to-back.
Does that make me a realist or a pessimist?
Eeyore? Please. I’m still waiting for you to come over to my cubicle. “Mid-evil”?? Is that some sort of medium evil, between low evil and high evil??
by unblindloyalty on Mar 5, 2009 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
Comrade!
You wear the Party Red da?
In America, you vote for polls!
In Soviet Portland, prolls vote for you!
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
those jokes are harder to write
than they seem.
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
They can't be that hard can they
Let me try.
In America, you write jokes!
In Soviet Portland, jokes write you!
Easy as pie.
jokes?
don’t quit your day job.
Give the man his "M"!!!
by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Mar 5, 2009 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
Now get back to work
Must continue to provide many tax $$$ for benifit of our mother Portland .
Teat Teat Teat!
The Oden Era, Day 621
explain without the accent please
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
"una canasta a Pau en la cara" Rudy
by Honka Playboy on Mar 5, 2009 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
i'll explain
in the 80s, there was a “popular*” russian comedian named Yakov Smirnov. his comedy routine consisted primarily of pointing out the differences between american culture, and soviet culture. he did this primarily by switching the noun and the verb of the sentence about american culture when he referred to soviet culture.
example:
BOY IS NICE TO BE HERE, HERE IN AMER-I-C-A YOU PLAY THE BASKET BALL FOR FUN.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA THE BASKET AND BALL PLAYS YOU. WHAT A COUNTRY!
most of perceived differences were lies and propaganda, and he was exiled from Hollywood where he now performs his routine in the modern day gulag of Branson Missouri.
*lost in the quarterfinals of StarSearch to Sinbad.
dinasour type of guys choir boys
Hmm, McCarthyism, great idea....
what we can do is put together a list of the “haters”, build this list up and then when things are good and everyone is healthy and the blazers are winning, we can say… sorry Ney-sayers, no room on the boat for you.
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
I don't know about this with us or against us angle....
But I’m sick to death of trade posts and smart-alec “Oden is a bust” smurfs. Write what you want to write. Free speech and all that. But do so knowing it’s wack. Lame. Tired. And uninteresting. If the blog is a community well, you’re urinating in the drinking water.
"Bayless is awesome." -Clyde Drexler
It is a hiatus, not a "with us or against us"....
I have proposed a time frame to refrain from beating the proverbial dead horses on this site. It is a temporary hiatus….
It is a STIMULATION PLAN for the BEdge fans, we need to get stimulated to focus on all the other things going forward… everythign except trades that have no barring on this season and garbage about how Oden is a complete bust. Let Oden have time to prove it through out the rest of the season how much he wants his career to be a success and how tough he is, then pass judgement then.
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:10 PM PST up reply actions
I just noticed something!
This is an *unofficial post (as indicated at the bottom). For a minute there I was worried the original poster might ban me.
the * refers to the "ban"
Of course it is an empty threat because I am just a blogger, unless Dave wanted to get on board with me and start handing out temporary Bans, but I doubt it, and therefore the *unofficial astericks next to the Ban comment.
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:11 PM PST up reply actions
I have been a Blazer fan
since 1976. I follow them because of the team, not because of individuals. I support the team completely, even if I have issues with individuals on the team (not playing defense, not rebounding, etc…) Everyone needs to sit back and enjoy the ride. Everyone needs to realize that this team is young, but gaining ground on the entire NBA every day. Do we have the “PERFECT” team? NO, but we did not have that team in 1977, either.
That said, Oden is not a bust, heck, he has not even had a chance to show what he is made of without someone bustin on him about whatever.
Trades are over and gone till we play our last game this year, hopefully sometime in June!!!!! So get over it!! We are not trading anyone until the draft this summer, and even then, it WILL NOT BE Oden. He is our center for years to come, and I will enjoy watching him every game as he grows and grows.
Killer instinct. When you have your opponent down, you do not help them up. You step on their throat!!!!!!
by Misplaced Blazermaniac on Mar 5, 2009 12:47 PM PST reply actions
Agree completely with a caveat
There are still ‘negative’ things to discuss involving the team.
1. How do we improve our team defense?
2. What are our potential stumbling blocks for the playoffs?
3. Are we ready to trust that Portland IS a good team?
And less negative but more confusing:
If Greg and Martel are ready to play for our first round of the playoffs, do we try to integrate them or keep the rotation we’ve got going?
Exactly... there are plenty of good topics to discuss a multitude of perspectives on...
Just not these two:
1.) Trades
2.) Oden being a bust
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
hahah
Agree completely, except for the things that I want to complain about…
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
Let's trade PortlandDynasty
for cap space.
When I rule the world, everyone will know how to use Excel.
jscot... went from good to bad
now it is official, jscot is a troll and on the McCarthianism list of bad-fans
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
I am a bust....
but at least I can blog and I am not a handwringer….
Nor is my name Donkey Shins, your momma musta not liked you none.
by Portland Dynasty on Mar 5, 2009 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
no way
make them throw in a conditional second round pick..
"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum
They'd never do it
and I want him gone.
When I rule the world, everyone will know how to use Excel.
yea maybe I'm being too greedy
reading all of the comments following the bad post this is clearly an addition by subtraction situation
"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum
and a server farm to be named later
If there’s one thing we need around here, it’s more bandwidth. Addition by subtraction, as well.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
this should be a fanshot
no wait.. this should be common sense..
"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum
I would love
To see an end to all the negativity, I am almost to the point where it isn’t fun to come to BlazersEdge anymore because every other fanpost or comment is about how we aren’t doing well, nate should be fired or Oden is a bust.
I hope I can get a bunch of championships, like 15. " - Greg Oden
Good call, dude.
There’s no use to talking crap all the time, because the season’s almost over. We can’t trade Travis Outlaw, as much as we need to. Moment this season’s over, back to business.
We need to keep Guantanamo Bay open for all critical Blazer fans
Also make every fanpost framed with rainbows, lollipops, and gumdrops.
The cake is a lie. Do not bake it.
Gitmo is useless
The Americans running it don’t really have the guts to use real interrogation, the kind that these vermin need. Extraordinary rendition is where it’s at, baby. That will teach them to criticize the Blazers.
When I rule the world, everyone will know how to use Excel.
Now we are arguing about what we can argue about. Nice!!!!!
Endless cycles. Such as dog chasing tail or Simpson’s reruns.
Dude....
This site is a glorified rant! Get over it. There is something for everybody, education, information, trade rumors, sex, lies….etc. Ok…maybe not the last two. Nobody is forcing you to read posts you don’t agree with or are sick of. Embrace the sheep!
I love pro basketball
the first championship series I saw on TV was Willis Reed’s Knicks beating Wilt Chamberlain’s Lakers; been watching ever since. I love watching the Blazers, even when my stomach aches watching them get beat upon. But I will not, absolutely not march goosestep with your outlandish request. Thank God you’re a nobody.
P.S. Brandon and LMA are fantastic; Oden is not. Everyone else are great to watch, except for Greg who plods on the court. Hopefully he’ll lose 30 pounds and snap out of it.
I hate it when someone tells me how to be a fan
It is an individual thing. Every one has their own way, just like you do.
THANK YOU
You know what you are talking about haha
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