I don't know... There was also MÁS Rip City and a few other posters I haven't seen around in a long time. Why isn't ABM around as much either?
I get tired of some posters, but I usually read all of the posts, even the ones I have on ignore. The great exception was Mixum. I couldn't stand what he was trying to do. fixed.
I'm sure you look forward to it. But I'm also sure 99% of them would turn you down. It's true - HCP's wife is the 1% (and not the "I'm rich, Bee-atch" 1%).
I read posts before looking at posters, and typically don't even look after unless it's something ridiculous or a great post (plus there's so many times we quote each other that it's easy to follow anyway). I'm more interested in the content of the post than the poster. With that said BNM is probably the poster who most often gets me to actually check who posted it. There's a lot of really great posters on here though!
I'm sorry to hear that! Funny you say that.... My father-in-law goes to the same tennis club as Rice. He'll chat with Rice briefly on occasion (my FIL knows I'm a die-hard Blazers fan). Anyway... probably a month or two ago, my FIL told me he ran into Rice when people were just kinda shooting the breeze outside of the playing area. I asked if Rice had his bodyguard with him (which I described as a big, round Mexican), and he looked at me puzzled and said no. So you apparently don't go everywhere they are (or were you waiting for Rice in the showers?). Actually, they're both pretty rad. Met Rice a few times over the years. MB I've only "met" once, and that was just because we happened to be in the same aisle at Costco.
I've never prided myself as a Mr. Congeniality type. But, as for knowledgeable posters Boob-no-More, Nik, Masbee, Ed O. Minstrel take the cake as far as knowledgeable. But, I feel I can hang with all of them I'm just not as eloquent. When it comes to most funny; HCP, Brainiac, BlazerCaravan, SPD and PapaG (in a laugh at him kind of way) always make me chuckle.
I value every poster's opinion here on the Blazer board except for one poster. At times, we all have off-base ideas, but typically I think everybody that is active does love the Blazers, and really enjoys talking about them with others. That poster happens to be the only poster on my ignore list, because I finally just got tired of the same "Gotcha" shtick over and over again. They may actually have some decent basketball takes if they posted them, but enough was enough.