Barrett - The Gift That Keeps on Giving - Perspective

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  1. BoBoBREWSKI

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    BoBoBREWSKI, Dec 21, 2010
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    who would post this homerism first??????

    got my answer
     
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    If you discredit Jaynes, you have to discredit someone like Barret
     
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    Canzano hissy fit begins at 3pm!
     
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    Man, you just can't stand any kind of positive thought process about the Blazers, even if it's backed up with facts, can you?

    Never mind. I think we all had the answer to that question a long time ago.
     
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    Barret starting off with expressing Gratitude for his wife and children - in an article about the Blazers on a sports blog - tells you everything you need to know about the change in the state of the team over the last year.

    Read between the lines: Umm, the current situation is a massive clusterfuck from where we were not too long ago - but hey - it could be worse. Your wife could hate you and be sleeping with your best friend; your kids could have diabetes AND kill puppies; and at least we are not the TimberWolves. Be thankful in this season of reflection.

    Please.
     
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    yeah he all but says....

    get ready for a rebuild. but hey his wife loves him.
     
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    I read it twice and didn't see anything about a membership to the jelly of the month club
     
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    The usual Soccer Moms will simply call him a hater, those of us that want hope will see it. It is a matter of perspective!

    I have a certain amount of advent over how one John C will counter the story of the magic penny.

    What a wonderful season, Christmas that is, it has been so far.

    Go Blazers!
     
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    Huh? What penny?
     
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    I am lost. Penny? Soccer moms? WTF?
     
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    I think I will go slap my girlfriend in the face and then write her a letter telling her it was because I thought there was a black widow on her cheek.

    My girlfriend will buy that about as well as most fans buy anything that MB says. I used to love how Steve Jones would tell it like it was. I wish there was someone on the broadcasts now that had a tiny bit of impartiality.
     
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    Penny?
     
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    If there was, they'd be in the unemployment line!
     
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    The penny he's talking about was from Canzano's column about how Whitsitt supposedly sold Paul Allen on a $20 million player's contract by putting a penny in the center of the table and saying that it represented that amount out of Allen's wealth. Mike Barrett says that he went to Whitsitt and the story is bogus.

    Soccer moms? I guess I'm out of the loop except that he called me one in a response to one of my posts, so I'm guessing that's a reference to a homer.

    Whatever.
     
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    http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2010/12/canzano_blazers_sit_while_thei.html
     
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    Thanks, guys. I hadn't heard the penny story. It sounds like pure bullshit. Even if Paul Allen is the 'accidental billionaire' he's still a really fucking smart guy. If I were him and one of my minions pulled that dis-respectful shit with me he'd be floating upside down on the bottom of the Puget Sound. Just sayin'.

    :)
     
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    It should be the other way around.
     
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    That story lacks something. $20 million is to Allen's wealth as a penny is to.... what?

    The answer is $10. But what does $10 have to do with anything?

    And are we really supposed to believe that Allen is so incapable of understanding his own wealth that he needs to think about a $10 bill instead?

    barfo
     
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    The answer is actually 42. What is the question?
     
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