Canzano swings and misses on Blazers fans, shows he really doesn't get us

what he described is L@ker fans

I couldn’t do any thing but shake my head as i read what he wrote..
Blazer fan for life.

acting like rip city is all the sudden freezing over again when nothing has really even happened? were still the 54 win team we were last year, we havent even played another game yet!

He seems to be much more about sensationalizing than reporting. His comments are inflamatory either by design or through ignorance. This tact by him certainly doesn’t help the Blazers and as a matter of fact his negative spin can actually hurt the team. I too am a Blazer fan for life. There will be no one year contracts from me. It’s a Max Deal… just like Roy will get.

on my calf, to take it “year by year”

Pretty much the only thing I like about his writing is the fact that it’s about the Blazers.

Is how did he make himself part of the story?

It’s a wondrous thing, writing curt paragraphs no longer than two or three sentences. Because, before Canzano, you wonder if such phoniness was possible. Commonly followed by a pathetic, one-line attempt at profundity.

Two lines if especially preachful.

Remembering to add a verb is not required for poignancy. Crazy, isn’t it?

To inform you, today, that John Canzano is actually paid to do this. Because when he’s not complaining about the Blazers, he composes the most saccharine human interest stories imaginable. Dripping with syrup, not only do his subjects deserve more, so does every reader that happens across The Oregonian sports section.

One year of honest writing may be too much too ask.

One year of genuine observations.

One year of not trying to stir the pot, create baseless controversy or contribute to the general butchering of the English language. Should we lose him someday, no worries. I truly believe there is is word processing software programmed with the Canzano paragraph structure allowing for a hint of folksy not to mention boundless indignation.

We understand this is just one writer, a hack no less, working for a paycheck.

We’re the readers, see.

I pray.

What a perfect jerk columnist. Self-aggrandizing, thin-skinned, with a shrill yip-dog voice. Revealingly, he always refers to Portland as “your” city, never his own. That’s because he just sees it as a stepping stone. After all, he’s from the Bay Area—a real metropolis. [And no, this isn’t provincial resentment on my part; like lots of Portlanders, I’m from SF and CHOSE to live here.]

Every town must need one of these sports “journalists,” because they all seem to have one. Maybe it’s like the bad-guy wrestler; someone’s gotta play the role. And it’s an easy role to play. You stir the pot in order to get ratings and, hopefully, you get plucked from your podunk stopover in Portland, Sacramento, or wherever and go national.

The ultimate aspiration: becoming the next Stephen A. Smith. Ah, what dizzying heights!

…I consider myself a Blazer fan. But I my fandom isn’t stagnate. To me, it cheapens your support if you say, I’ll support this team regardless of what happens!

Oh really? So you don’t care what happens? How bad it could get? Your support is unmoving and stagnate? Well in my opinon anything healthy is growing and changing constantly. That means we need to evaluate it constantly. The contention that we fans need to evaluate on a year to year basis is perfectly fine. Infact, I evaluate every move this team makes constantly, immediately.

I’ve never understood the contention that questioning is being a “bad” fan. While blind devotion regardless of the reality of the product is being a “good” fan.

and I moved to the Blazers in 2005…