So we can expect shortly an announcement from KP that he got sidetracked and really blew it signing by Miller and hopes we'll be patient while he attempts to trade him for our PG of the future...
We can also expect an announcement that: upon further review they are going to get behind the idea of putting up the baseball stadium in the Rose Quarter and getting rid of Memorial Crapatorium.
I can see why the Oregonian is so happy that Blazer management is now so transparent to the Oregonian. But some things got left out. Did the Oregonian forget to get all of Pritchard's machinations recorded about the offers he fielded for LaFrentz? That way, we won't have to go by media reports, and listen to his defenders saying that all the national reporters were wrong and Pritchard did the best that any GM could have. It's transparency, you know. Otherwise known as ceding power to the Oregonian to micromanage the team. Also known as the exposure of weak points to someone intent upon destroying you. Also, now that the Oregonian writes laughing articles deriding prior management's trying to defend itself against the Oregonian's persecution, did the Oregonian forget to become transparent itself? We the fans would like to know the Oregonian's every decision process, and how the Editor decides when to protect his friends in Blazer management. How about an expose about how the Oregonian has hidden from the public which Blazer management member it was who made the Comcast contract? After 2 1/2 years, we still have to speculate on the name, with no articles and quotes to back it up. When will the Oregonian do an investigative series into its own coverup? Also, in the last decade of finding fault with the players, have any of the thousand Oregonian employees been busted for anything? Why of course not, or the Oregonian would have told us, and repeated it ad nauseum for many years. Have any ever laughingly thrown a basketball at a friend from the distance of a basketball court? Have any ever turned down an autograph request, so we can persecute them for it? What do Oregonian employees do for fun? Do any go to ice cream parlors while they are injured, so we can say what a bad person he is? Does any brand new Oregonian employee go to his manager and say about his group lead, "I can't work with this guy" and get worshipped forever after by the Oregonian as the group's Holy Child? The Oregonian wants transparency, you know. They cover every detail, so I'm sure they have left no stone uncovered in their own back yard.
Most businesses don't have a Wins and Losses bottom line. Arrogant winning franchises, I would bet, make more money than merely confident losing franchises. It wasn't the arrogance that caused the team to lose so much money... it was the contracts of players like Damon Stoudamire and Theo Ratliff and Zach Randolph. Ed O.
You're following my same mental track. I was wondering that but it would have knocked my post off-stride so I left it out. Strange that the Editor sent Rivera instead of Quick or Canzano to cover the Blazers speaker. Those two are entwined with the attacks on the team that produced this new submissive attitude from team management. Their victory is the team's mea culpa, as personified in this speech. So maybe their presence would have made the Oregonian's bullying win all too obvious. So a reporter who isn't connected to the years-long war on the team was sent. Just a theory. But I was wondering the same thing.
You got it. It's amazing that a few years ago the persecution was much worse. Since the local media is the main source for the national media, the national media picked up the local media attitude. Then the main reason to blow up a 50-win team became, not that it was so bad, but that it was embarassing to locals when they read the national media. So we went through 5 years of a bad team to alleviate the feelings of some sensitive complainers. We were lucky it wasn't 10 years. Those advocating the blowup on the ESPN board (most are here now) said the bad times would last 1 year and I argued with them to preserve a winning team.
