Portlander in Spain

by david1978pdx on Apr 28, 2009 7:15 PM PDT

Hello to everyone back home in Portland! Went along with my wife on a business trip to Zaragoza, Spain... And, here I am at 04:00 crawling out of bed and turning on the TV on while trying no to wake my wife, so I can watch the game.

Watching the RG from all the way over here is really wierd... Especially, since I have season tickets and I would have been at the game tonight if it were not for this trip. Hope you are all enjoying Mike and Mike. All I've got are two Spanish homers who all they care about it Rudy and Serg. LOL!

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Turned the volume up a little...

I love it when the play-by-play announcer says… “un triple de RRRRRRRudy Ferndandethh”

by david1978pdx on Apr 28, 2009 7:25 PM PDT reply actions

They should send us Rubio too

We could be the Spanish national team in the NBA

by KitIsh on Apr 28, 2009 8:19 PM PDT reply actions

I can dig it

Wouldn’t be the first time Ricky has replace Sergio, tough.

by david1978pdx on Apr 28, 2009 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Your Devotion....

May very well be the reason we won….. Good work

by Roadblazer on Apr 28, 2009 9:36 PM PDT reply actions

I wore my NBA socks today

My NBA socks always do the trick.

by david1978pdx on Apr 29, 2009 3:27 AM PDT up reply actions

I lived in Madrid for six months last year

…and when I told people I was from Portland, half the time they didn’t know where that was, and the other half of the time they’d go off about Sergio and Rudy. That’s what Portland’s known for in Spain—-the Blazers. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the average Spaniard’s mental image of N. America is New York, Los Angeles, and anywhere a Spaniard is playing in the NBA (Portland, Memphis, Toronto)

by like15 on Apr 28, 2009 10:31 PM PDT reply actions

…which is pretty funny when you think about it (as if Portland and Memphis are major American metropolises)

by like15 on Apr 28, 2009 10:34 PM PDT reply actions

You would not believe the "homer" level here in Spain

The guy from Marca (leading sports paper) just plainly bashes McMillan every time Sergio does not play or Rudy plays less than 20 min. That’s his basic recap of the game. Unbelievable.

by medmelon on Apr 29, 2009 12:50 AM PDT reply actions

Homer level?

The majority of you, guys, believe Spain is in South America, so your level is Peter Griffins?

by makelele on Apr 29, 2009 1:29 AM PDT up reply actions

what I was trying to say

by “homer” level is the bias showed by most of Spanish print journalists (mainly the Marca guy). Nothing to do with The Simpsons. A close Spanish translation would be “casero”

from Urban Dictionary, homer
Someone who shows blind loyalty to a team or organization, typically ignoring any shortcomings or faults they have.
“That guy is a total Broncos homer, they haven’t done anything good all season!”

by medmelon on Apr 29, 2009 2:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Sorry

Then you are right, but its quite comprehensible… We´re supporting our people and i think Sergio could be much better

by makelele on Apr 29, 2009 3:58 AM PDT up reply actions

I know

haha, more like they bash McMillan every time… Recaps usually go like this:

If Rudy and Sergio played and they did well: “Rudy and Sergio prove how wrong McMillan has been all season by winning the game almost singlehandedly”.

If only Rudy plays but he does well: “Rudy saves McMillan from total failure after he makes the terrible mistake of not playing Sergio”.

If they play, or one of them plays and does so and so: “Rudy/Sergio couldn’t get their flow going because of McMillan’s wild and incomprehensible rotations”

After game 3 it went something like this: “McMillan embarrasses himself and humiliates Rudy”

Well you get the picture. It’s incredibly funny

by fanfaraway on Apr 29, 2009 1:10 AM PDT reply actions

I'm starting to think

you work for Marca…

Don’t forget the classic “Roy loses the game because he didn’t pass the ball to Rudy”

by medmelon on Apr 29, 2009 3:07 AM PDT up reply actions

lol

by Falcao on Apr 29, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions

I like Spain

by tominhawaii on Apr 29, 2009 3:01 AM PDT reply actions

You have to know what you're doing when you read marca

It’s a soccer newspaper, never read a recap there, and they’re clearly biased for anything related to Real Madrid. Barça is leading the spanish soccer league by 4 points, and marca has spent like 5 covers this month about how scared they are of Real Madrid…

On the other hand, they get good tips regarding trades, who’s declaring for the draft and that stuff, you just have to translate it into reality.

Oh, and by the way, McMillan would never get a job as a coach in Europe, and not because he doesn’t play Sergio, so it’s understandable that european press attacks him.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

by DaniBCN on Apr 29, 2009 7:40 AM PDT reply actions

of course

you’d expect some bias towards Madrid, the same way Barcelona-based sport papers (Sport and Mundo Deportivo) tend to favor their local teams. That’s all part of the game.

But the comedy of the front page just reaches a new level with the Blazers recaps, like fanfaraway says. You can just check out the boxscore and you’ll know what they’ll say.

And you’re right on the tips and else, which shows they know their stuff on NBA, more the reason to do some proper reporting.

by medmelon on Apr 29, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions

I had a great time in Spain

But you, their food was really a let down for me. Most of their tapas were pretty good I thought but the main courses were generally not so tasty. People were nice though.

by ericande on Apr 29, 2009 10:07 AM PDT reply actions