I'll tell you what I hope happens... I want to see something like 8 mascots walk out and beat the hell out of him with foam bats.... or real ones.
Is Rolo still doing that Schtick? Even if he isn't he should still get into it with Blaze, for old times sake.
I was so annoyed when they first created him. I was always proud that the Blazers were one of the organizations without a mascot.
It's a fucking cat, for Godssakes. How the hell is a cat relevant to our team name/region? Even a jacked Lewis/Clark or hot Sacagawea would be better.
It's because the WNBA team had a dalmatian. So they had Spot the fire dog (or whatever) and Blaze the trail cat. It was extremely stupid.
When we had the unofficial Big Foot mascot in the early 90s, that was great. Then the Sonics stole that idea. Well guess what - they're dead. We should take that back.
btw, a nice podcast with Zach Lowe and Robin Lopez if anyone's interested: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/grantland/player?id=14284670 funniest line: "They (the mascots) are coming after my teammates,coming after my family, my brother - who is too dumb to defend himself. I mean... what do you want me to do?"