The Schonz's Catch Phrases (via Casey)

Great piece over at Lance's Center Court blog. Schonz talks about
--Bingo Bango Bongo
--Lickety Brindle Up the Middle
--Rip City

Good stuff. Read it!

over 2 years ago prezofdeath 21 comments 1 recs |

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I always remember him talking about the coffin corner and the middle of the court was the cyclops.

"I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better." jonestr

Reporter: Four assists tonight too, Travis. You're starting to shed that idea that you're just a shooter. You're starting to pass the ball more too...
Travis: (Deadpans) Aw, I just got tired..

by farmboy on Jun 2, 2009 11:03 PM PDT reply actions

Terry Porter on the Dribble Drive

through the Cyclops at Center Court!

by Cyclops@Centercourt on Jun 2, 2009 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions

But I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot! Said the Cat in the Hat. To the fish in the pot.

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Jun 3, 2009 9:32 AM PDT reply actions

wasn’t that vmore of a saying of Steve “snapper” Jones

"I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better." jonestr

Reporter: Four assists tonight too, Travis. You're starting to shed that idea that you're just a shooter. You're starting to pass the ball more too...
Travis: (Deadpans) Aw, I just got tired..

by farmboy on Jun 3, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

I always think of Schonz as the voice of the jail Blazers era

by tominhawaii on Jun 3, 2009 9:38 AM PDT reply actions

He was the voice of much more than that

And he had retired by the time that era really began.

He was basically the voice I knew most, other than my family, growing up in Portland in the 80s and 90s….

Proud member of Duck nation!

by skywaker9 on Jun 3, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Wasn't he on the radio in the late 90's?

by tominhawaii on Jun 3, 2009 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions

He was forced out (and he was forced out) in 1998

Looking back, it was the beginning of the slide of the franchise that wouldn’t show up on the field until after the 2000 playoffs. He had called every game in the franchise’s history to that point though, over 2,500 of them…

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by skywaker9 on Jun 3, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks

by tominhawaii on Jun 3, 2009 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, if anything

Wheels was the voice of the Jailblazers

Whitsitt forced the Schonz off the air, the FO wanted a fresh voice. Bad, bad, bad decision

Schonz being replaced would’ve happened eventually, but I’d prefer it be on his terms. If Bill could’ve kept calling Blazer games until Kevin Calabro became available? Now that would’ve been golden

(I like Wheels OK on his radio program, just not as a shrill pbp voice)

by two4larue on Jun 3, 2009 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I totally agree with you

Calabro would have been great here. I like Wheels on his radio show but can’t listen to him call a game. Thank goodness I can get the Mike’s.

by TallTimber on Jun 3, 2009 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Nobody said it was going to be easy...

by bamkapow on Jun 3, 2009 12:29 PM PDT reply actions

that brings back painful memories of the the "bad guys’ making a run the blazers

"I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better." jonestr

Reporter: Four assists tonight too, Travis. You're starting to shed that idea that you're just a shooter. You're starting to pass the ball more too...
Travis: (Deadpans) Aw, I just got tired..

by farmboy on Jun 3, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions

You've GOT to make your free throws.

VENTURA: It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you -- I'll put it to you this way, you give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

by 22baylor on Jun 3, 2009 12:41 PM PDT reply actions

Clyde go’s coast to coast

"I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better." jonestr

Reporter: Four assists tonight too, Travis. You're starting to shed that idea that you're just a shooter. You're starting to pass the ball more too...
Travis: (Deadpans) Aw, I just got tired..

by farmboy on Jun 3, 2009 12:47 PM PDT reply actions