Talkin’ Ball should just cease to exist.

This segment didn’t bug me that much (though I’d have a hard time watching these for a half-hour or whatever), but it seemed kind of strange that no one there knew the story. Or perhaps, someone there knew the story but didn’t bring it up because it didn’t fit his agenda?

This is Talkin’ Ball and how the shows are usually. They are only interesting when they have Pendergraph or Ben on it where it’s more breaking down the blazer performances. But when they can’t find real guests (although I will admit that comedian on was pretty funny) then it turns into like blazer celebrity gossip.

It just kills me to watch it sometimes.

I enjoy it time to time but a lot of times is seems their objective is to find something to stir up, its more gossip than ‘talkin’ ball’ . Even if the team is doing good you can expect a Canzano article here shortly about a player doing something morally wrong in his opinion or nagging the coach or making up stories about the owner. Then the bi-polar effect you have Quick’s overly happy article then a week later he says something dumb like the Rudy comments.

Local based Blazer (oregon) coverage media is a joke now. A lot of times it’s so centered around the bad things that even when things are going well they still focus on the bad things (meaning that is ALL they talk about, they stop covering the Blazer performances and have become a half assed debbie downer reporter). You see it now with Mike Barret/Mike Rice on TV too, they over exaggerate whenever a player goes down. Trying to point out left and right people are falling down (They did this with Wesley Matthews, then Matthew’s came back and played like a minute later).

Sure I like the fact of non-experts talking about basketball as well, I do that with my friend. But when it is literally the focused media coming from our state is ridiculous. Does it need to have it’s own show to nag all the time?

I mean if I want to see the real ups and downs just go to blazersedge and you get real input from hundreds of people, not 4 dudes sitting around a table. Blazers go on a winning streak then suddenly they are praising them, but still nagging on pointless stuff. I remember when the Ducks won the Civil War and the Blazers were in the middle of the 6 game losing streak and they pretty much refused to talk about them at all.

Blazer coverage here is very bi-polar and constantly contradicting everything they say. One week it is “Man this team is amazing!” then the next week its “We need to trade everyone!”… and again this is not just a bunch of fans posting on a website. That kind of stuff is normal for fandom, but when it comes down to THE PEOPLE REPORTING WHO ARE SUPPOSE TO HAVE CREDENTIALS, it makes us look bad. I can see why Bill Simmons nails the Blazers sometimes.

I can also see why the Blazer players and within the organization have become so quiet in interviews. Before it was all fun, laughing at times and they did good. Now they refuse to comment, dodge questions (Cho won’t even answer) because they know our joke of a ‘media’ here will go out over hype it and treat it like celebrity gossip.

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