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Paying Up

Once again the folks at GoldenStateofMind prove that bloggers on this network are nothing if not classy.  They paid up in timely fashion, and what verses these were!  I hereby nominate GSoM Writer YaoButtaMing as the official poet laureate of SportsBlog Nation!

Blazers Edge,
I alleged,
That we Warriors would have you sledged,
But in the end,
We were the ones unfledged,

You see,
You were right,
Your blog is in flight,
To be the best in sight,
And I can't believe,
My warriors didn't achieve,
A morsel of respect,
And thus I am a wreck.

But where do I begin?
Your logo has me doing back spins,
With the amazing font,
Your endless grays,
With red-ish rays,
I have to give you so much praise!

But it's not about your looks,
Or your hooks,
It's about a writer named Dave,
Or should we call him David?
Because David beat Goliath,
One man versus the five of us,
Dave is boisterous,
Precious,
Exhibits coolness,
And is absolutely tremendous,

And boy does he have a community,
Posting 500 comments a game,
It's a real shame,
That GSoM can't complain,
For we are too blame,
And one day hope to gain,
What you are able to maintain,

Tonight it was Zack,
To the attack,
And this rookie named Roy,
Who took all our joy,
We didn't have Davis,
But no excuse for our laziness,
Credit the Blazers for their win,
And putting us in our dead spin,

Congratulations to the Blazers,
Making our Warriors act like geezers,
Even with all your brilliance,
We still have one thing in common,
We both have great readers!

Thanks a TON to the GSOM guys.  They may come back to make us pay in the last game of the season...  Yikes.

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

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Next time ...
it should be in hexameter verse. After that I want a sonnet!

by bfan on Mar 12, 2007 5:43 AM PDT reply actions  

"A Perfect Sonnet"
Lately I've been wishing I had one desire,
Something that would make me never want another,
Something that would make it so that nothing matters,
All would be clearer then
But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments,
And watch it all dissolve into a single second,
And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet,
Or one foolish line
'Cause that's all that you'll get,
So you'll have to accept,
You are here, Then you're gone

I believe that lovers should be tied together,
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather,
Left there to drown,
Left there to drown in their innocence
But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter,
I've read all of the pages and there's still no answer,
The only words before I know will soon come after,
It's the only way it can be.
So I stand in the sun,
And I breathe with my lungs,
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth,

Seeing everything you've ever seen was just a mirror,
Spend your whole life sweating in an endless fever,
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing water,
Wishing you were a ghost
But once you knew a girl and you named her Lover,
And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summers
But autumn came,
She disappeared,
You can't remember
Where she said she was going to
But you know that she's gone,
Because she left you a song,
That you don't wanna sing

Singing: I believe that lovers should be chained together,
Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters,
And left there to burn,
Left there to burn in their arrogance
But as for me I'm coming to my final failure,
I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better,
But still ended up becoming something other,
Than what I had planned to be

-------------------------

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers,
And laid entwined together on a bed of clovers,
And left there to sleep,
Left there to dream of their happiness.

"Kill the bear! KILL THE BEAR!!!" -- Statler & Waldorf

by QualityPie on Mar 13, 2007 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

Speaking of GoldenStateofMind ...
Check out their blog today. There's a great photo of Freddie dunking while he's smacking Al Harrington in the face. My favorite part is the expression in Foyle's face, though. What do you think he's thinking about? ...

by bfan on Mar 12, 2007 5:50 AM PDT reply actions  

Just read their open thread
Interesting to see things from their POV.  (Including comments about our open thread.)  
Think the one play that got the most comments was Zach's dunk :-)

Too many references to "jail blazers" but since there seems to be a trend to snide nicknames I guess we're stuck with that one.

Nice nice comments about Dave & the blog.

by jorga on Mar 12, 2007 10:18 AM PDT reply actions  

They have honor.
They lost the game, they admit it, they don't seem to be bitter towards us, in fact they are acting with a lot of class.  Much respect for GSOM.
Bingo, bango, bongo!

by Babyshoes on Mar 12, 2007 11:12 AM PDT reply actions  

They were running some
serious smack at the beginning of the game, but they toned down by the end of it.  They were very respectful of the edge, though.  Few on the blog seemed to realize that the Blazers were only a couple of games behind the Warriors in the standings.  Too many still think of the Blazers as the HORRIBLE DOORMAT they were last year.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate??

by shenanigans on Mar 12, 2007 4:33 PM PDT reply actions  

Haha
I'm reading some of the comments, here are some priceless ones:

Looked into the crystal ball

Got my 100% accurate predictions right here!

B-diddy: 23pts-15 dimes-10- rips, 7/7 FG, 3/3 3pt
J-rich: 37pts-7 boards
Jax: 12pts-8 helpers
Al: 22pts - 9 boards
Dris: 11pts - 16 boards

Bench:25 pts

That's right, 140 points easy!!!!

This one's gonna be a blowout, 140-110.

---

Ok we need to break this record for posts. Our blog is the best in the world and we need to get 500 posts tonight just to show those Jailblazer fans.

[/snicker]

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so blazers edge gets 300-400 comments huh? must be because the blazers are such hot garbage that everyone stops watching the game and logs online. over here we have a team that is at least worth watching.

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we know the Blazers can't shoot any better. We're still well in it.

---

and most of their comments are like play by play commentary, cuz they're too stupid to go look at Yahoo's box score!

---

Randolph hitting 3's

Come on.

---

that one play with jarret jack yellin at the refs until he got the call was bs even though it was the right call.

[They are actually complaining about the refs?!? Guess they haven't seen the Blazers playing this year...]
---

Roy's...

Killing us. I knew he was good, but not this good...

---

[laughs hysterically]

by damir on Mar 12, 2007 8:04 PM PDT reply actions  

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