We need to upgrade from Canzano and Quick with a sign and trade

thinks that the Blazers have screwed up the relationship beyond repair.

Wow

These guys have been waaay off so many times. I dont pay them any attention anymore.

but could someone reference when exactly one or both of these guys have “made stuff up?”

obviously the hedo fiasco was bad but even ESPN screwed the pooch on that one.

its just funny I don’t hear people complain about quick when he’s breaking news that people like. no one is closer to the team and the players.

Yellow hummer, dog fighting, drag racing, metal detectors, Darius miles, Steve Patterson , John Nash, Ruben Patterson, bonzi wells, trading cards, and his favorite catch phrase- jail-blazers. He loves the negative, and to his credit has somehow built a career off of all the worst things that have happened to our team. He is a hack and does not deserve respect as a journalist. The only thing I give him props for is being able to, with very meager writing skills, somehow pull the wool over enough peoples eyes to actually get paid for it.

…I’ve read quite a bit of overheated Blazers coverage over the years. I’m pretty sure Steve Duin (way back during his sportswriting days) had a flair for the overdramatic, and I’m positive Dwight Jaynes could be the same way. For example, I seem to remember that Jaynes, circa ‘92-’95 lamented, as if he was writing a squalid political obituary, that the Drexler-era squad would go down as the Buffalo Bills of the early nineties NBA. They didn’t, and even if they did, who cares? I still loved watching that team and I treasure the memories I have of them. The world kept turning.

I agree things are a bit worse with Canzano, and Quick sometimes gives me the impression that he thinks he’s Bob Woodward. I’ve made this point here before, but I’ve always held the opinion that sportswriting is a shallow occupation, and these guys must realize that. I think that whatever import there is to be derived from sports journalism (and indeed professional sports in the U.S.) has come about almost entirely because of this country’s tortured racial history: the accomplishments of Jack Johnson, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali (to list the most obvious names that came to mind) were magnified in importance due to the larger civil rights struggle. It was certainly proper to study the careers of these (and countless other) black athletes with seriousness because they were genuinely important political and historical figures.

But beyond that, I couldn’t care less about sports journalism-I read it like I would an entertainment column. If anyone thinks that baseball’s current troubles with PEDs are anything approaching a major scandal in this country at this (or any other) time, they are purely and simply foolish (those gales of laughter you hear are coming from the halls of Goldman Sachs or a thousand other shadowy and dank corners in the republic). Sportswriters often write as if baseball’s troubles (or the various legal problems of NFL players, etc.) are really so terribly important, and Mr. Canzano might be the most conspicuous example of that tendency we’ve yet seen in the Portland press, and I’ve always thought that his ilk realize this, and so they go about making structurally unsound mountains out of various molehills as if to make up for the superficiality of the task at hand. I suspect that the aforementioned Steve Duin, having long since switched to writing about politics (both local and national), human-interest stories, and occasionally touching on art and literature, is much more fulfilled professionally than he was when he had to treat personnel moves or college recruiting like they were acts of badly-needed legislation.

Quick skewered GO back in December. It is definately worth a re-read.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/12/11/689694/why-quick-matters

As fans, most of us would generally like to hear very positive stories about our favorite team. When someone writes negatively about our favorite team, our initial reaction is to attack.

The biggest problem I see with Quick is that he is predominantly a journalist, but sometimes pens opinion pieces. This can be confusing. Additionally, he is often time the conduit of bogus info from the organization. I am sure he is not thrilled about it, but in this day and age of instant news, Quick has a deadline and needs to print what he hears. Otherwise, he is out of a job and we are filleting some other writer.

My biggest problem w/ JQ was his intention a couple of years ago to leave the Blazer ?Beat at the Oregonian after a particularly bad season. Somehow, the team improved and he stayed. I didn’t follow the details all that closely, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

By Roy and LMA (who have the same agent). They know they hold all the cards because their fan base will hate them if either is not resigned. They’ll max out.

I have said it before and I will say it again. Canzano is a Jim Rome wannabe. Talking rude to callers and talking in short sentences with long pauses doesn’t make you cool. His ego is getting out of control. Sorry John, Jim didn’t make a rise by bashing his small market’s team management, having 80 year old fans on the show (and then bashing them), all while moonlights as the teams beat writer. No self respecting sports figure out of our region would ever consider coming on his show because he has no creditably. He needs to go, I hated listening to the LA sports show host, but at least they didn’t try to piss of the organization everyday.

My buddies mom was talking to him one time and he admitted to her that he hates watching sports and that if it weren’t his job he wouldn’ t do it at all. He was completely serious. His columns are nothing more than the puff piece human interest garbage they have on the local news. He’s a joke. But he’s also America’s #1 Sports Columnist. So I could be wrong. Quick is legit.

He was a columnist I could appreciate. Not so for JC.

Quick is very solid when he sticks to reporting and doesn’t swerve into spin.

His behind the locker room door series was awesome, and his features have really provided a human side to the players in Blazer black and red. He’s not perfect, but he’s probably better than 95% of beat writers out there.

I can’t read Canzano, though, even when he writes about things I care about (rare). His writing style is somewhere between annoying and nails-on-a-chalkboard, and his opinion pieces are shallow fluff; he never seems to peel back any layers in his pieces, it’s all surface stories with him. And, of course, his personality rubs me wrong, especially after growing up reading Terry Pluto, a sports columnist who actually writes about the teams he follows, has sources, and seems to empathize with fans instead of telling them how they should feel.

so it’s really hard to report on the team year round. Unfortunately our two ace reporters JQ/JC have decided that their own personal theories are now news worthy.

and we picked up BE as a FA instead. Huge upgrade.

The guy has had it rough. He wrote a love letter to his girlfriend, and she never reciprocated.

I think Quick is pretty good. He does irritate me at times but it’s like when me and one of my friends gets into an argument – we move on and I still respect him. And I don’t want someone who just parrots management and the players all the time, they need to be challenged. Even the stuff about Oden… he seems like a great guy and I’m glad he’s in Portland but he did go through a stage of frustrating surliness - Quick pointed it out, perhaps excessively so, but at least he wasn’t a mindless suck up.

That other guy should go to another market where they would appreciate his shtick. I have long debated whether to put together a fanpost that hones in on why he should leave this market, why I think his resume is massively exaggerated, etc… but I don’t like hating on people so I’ll leave it to someone else.