(stolen from RipCityMornings) If the Blazers left Portland, would you watch the NBA?

I would never watch the NBA again.

I'd probably go to wherever they moved and would probably get arrested for one thing or another.

 

I don't agree whatsoever. The umpire has the right to call that a dead ball and THEN adjudicate accordingly if the play deems it. That play deemed it. I watched it... I would have done the same thing in that situation.

Being an umpire for 5 years, I think ANY umpire in that situation would have done that. When I saw the play go down, I was hoping he would call it dead. It's just one of those weird things where you gotta call time, get together and say "what the hell just happened"... because, if you think about it... either it's a dead ball and the runner stays, or (as Ptldplatypus said) you read the play and say "Okay, I can see that this ball is live... adjudicate accordingly".

Umpires make judgement calls... I thought it was handled exactly how it was. Toronto fans didnt understand it, but I thought it was handled correctly. If that was my team that I was rooting for, I'd still understand it. Media just needs something to fill air time, right or wrong.

 

If the Blazers left there's no doubt I'd watch less basketball, probably more tennis. I'd watch a game on Sunday and the playoffs. I was pruning back the forest in my driveway yesterday and uncovered my old basketball hoop...need to get a new ball and start shooting around again..been awhile..just last night I watched the Hornets Clippers game in Shanghai...Batum looked really good and so did Lin Charlotte's not bad this season

 

I would be a Sixers fan, quality product right there.

 

Pro Tip: You can burn the new jerseys in front of their stadium, just not while the fans are still wearing them.

 

I totally understand and pretty much agree, but there is a gray area. For example in the NFL, if a play is called dead, then the ball is placed where it was when the play was called dead. Regardless if it should have been lie and the running back continued into the end zone.
If this were the NFL, the run would have never counted, whether it should have or not. That's what I am saying is regardless of being a valid call or not, the dead ball call can create a stoppage of the defense while the offense crosses the plate.
Maybe not as blown call, but a call that created controversy and should possible be addressed in the off season as to what actually should happen once an ump calls a ball dead.

Again, I agree with you all on the outcome being right and it being a super rare play that umps wouldn't expect or be prepped for, with that said, it was definitely controversial.

 

I'll go with the somewhat option. Kind of like how I view the NHL now. If the Blazers left I sure as hell would hope for an NHL team. Like what we should have right now. I might root for the Mavericks.

 

I'd adopt the Timbers; I got into soccer their first MLS season but couldn't sustain three fandoms.

 

Put me down for the option in between the wimpy fence-sitter option and not at all.

I love basketball. But if the PDX Blazers went bye-bye, I would only watch a portion of an NBA game if I had nothing else to do. Which is virtually never.

 

Vancouver would be sweet

 

Go Vantucky Blazers!

 

You say spit on his grave but you really mean this

 

Umpires discretion is huge there.

You also have to think about it this way, if a ball is hit and is questioned on wether or not it's fair or foul with a runner on first... They can gather and then go to new york (like they did), and then have to put runners where -they think they would be had the play played out- (That's the key)

The reason a call was MADE in the first place is because needs to be made in order to go to new york.

One thing I -really- would like to see, and I got this idea from the Toronto radio broadcast (with MLB.tv you can watch a replay of the game and have the radio feed synched up with the video feed. It's the only way I watch now since most TV broadcast teams suck, especially national ones) is that the MLB crew cheif (in this case, Dale Scott) would adress the crowd as to why they called what they called (and subsequently what New york called) and if needed, why they called it the way they called it. I think that would be amazing, to lessen the ambiguity of it all.

 

Man I've already watched 30 preseason games! I love it and would still continue to watch. I'd be screwed as a fan and financially though. I'm such a fan I'm going to the Celtics @ Knicks game tomorrow night. Just landed in NYC for a fight Saturday night at MSG. Let's just say it want hard to score some free tix. #GoKnicks


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It worries me what avenue you're going to take to secure these free tix....

 

#GoCeltics


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You're all bunch of zeros.

(stolen from Rip City mornings)

 

- By Ben Golliver