Notice Blazers Book

Re: Name: Try coming up with a few good ones and do a poll here at S2. You might be surprised at what you learn. You want a name not that you like but that people will buy.

Tim Ferris only named his book The 4-Hour Workweek after he polled his social media following. Game changer for him.

 

Very cool, although I laughed at the hotmail address…

 

I have an old hotmail account I give to companies / people I do not know and trust. I check it when I want to and don't care if people send spam there.

Smart idea not to make one's real email public.

 

I have alternate emails too. Just not hotmail or aol.

 

I went to HS with the daughter of Bill Walton’s hand doctor. She would occasionally mention that Bill was at their house for dinner last night.

 

Those aren't as bad as Netscape or Juno.

 

My only real Blazers encounter came in the fall of 1982. I had a gift store on hwy 101 N of Seaside. I was going out of business and was locking up one evening when a car pulled up and the man and women asked me about a 6 ft tall carving of a bear that I had outside the store. Is it for sale - sure! Can you deliver it to our beach home in Manzanita - sure. Turns out it was Bucky Buckwalter and his wife Paula. Very nice people and after I delivered the carving they asked for my contact info. since I was moving back to Portland. For the next several months Paula would call to let me know when they had extra tickets for me - behind the Blazers bench. I must have gone to 8-10 games that fall. Unfortunately I had to move out of State in January and that was the end of that. I'll never forget how kind Bucky and his wife were to me!

 

I still use my yahoo email for non work stuff..... I would love to move it to gmail, but not even sure how to attack it. I have used the yahoo for so many things over the years, I don't even know what to do.

 

And they STILL own that beach house.

 

He's got to be in his late 80's. Almost old enough to be president!

 

I once went to a book signing in Rockville, MD for Bill Walton's autobiography. When I got to the front of the line, I was so flustered, all I could get out was, "I've been waiting decades for this!" At that point, a look of fear went across his face. It was then I realized he thought I was going to murder him.

I just wanted to shake his hand and tell him thank you for Blazermania.

 

Not really other than showing up courstside for games every now and then.
His son Brian works with us as a camera guy. He controls the camera mounted underneath the big screen. Great dude, been with the team since he was a ball boy as a kid. He’s always spending time down at that beach house.

 

Good points friend. Will come up with a list of at least 3 names and run a poll. Thanks!

 

Just saw this...and yes, Oswego Point

 

Roomate worked as a bar tender their early 90s…..only place outside of downtown we ventured for the bar scene. Crazy nights out there.

 

In '91, Danny Ainge came to our open gym during his offseason with Portland. After our coaches were split three ways over who should be our starting PG, they asked DA his opinion and he voted for me. I got a huge lift from that and spent a lot of time between pick up games asking DA questions and just shooting the shit (he told some great stories about Bird, the finger biting incident with Tree Rollins, etc). He was super down to earth and eventually even started conversations with some of us.
A year later, I was in the condiment line fixing up my hot dog at the Fred Meyer Challenge, when a guy leaned in behind me and said "I'll give you $100 for your hot dog". I turned and it was DA (he was incognito, hat pulled down, shades on, collar flipped up...it didn't work). I couldn't believe he remembered me and I wasn't sure how to respond. We ended up walking the rope together for a couple hours watching the golf.
The most surreal moment of that day came near the end when we were standing and watching approach shots at one of the last holes. I stood on one side of him. On the other, was a line of a half dozen people or so, waiting to get their chance to say something to him about how much they loved him or they wanted him to stay in Portland or asking something about Clyde. I asked him how he could watch anything with all the people distracting him and he said he just nods, smiles and says " thanks". All of the sudden we see Arnold Palmer coming down the fairway and the crowd all claps and whistles for him. I think Peter Jacobsen said something to him and then turned to a group of people and said something inaudible to me that made them all laugh. Arnold seemed to spend a little extra time over his ball. It was silent. He hits his shot and it skips off the water in front of the green and the ball stopped on the green, but quite a ways from the hole. Needless to say, the crowd went crazy! I look up at DA and he's yelling like a cheerleader, then he reaches over and high-fives me.
That moment made me a lifelong Danny Ainge fan.

 

I lived with a couple PSU football players in those days. It was inevitable that Cliff's little brother would pick a fight with one of them and we usually were the ones kicked out.

 

God dammit I wish he was our gm.

 

Early 1990s, playing 18 holes at Lewis River golf course with my best friend, his daughter and son-in-law.

On the freeway (fairway, opps) next to us was Harry Glickman, and another high Blazer officer, believe it was Bucky, but my memory is foggy on this.

When Harry and Bucky? saw our group, they dropped their clubs, walk over and had a short very friendly chat with my friends daughter. She had worked for the the Blazers. And knew Monica Spoelstra, who I had a long time crush on. Still miss her half time shows.

Their going out of their way to say hi was a high class act towards a former employee, and made our day.