Is Canzano Losing It?!

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PapaG said:
Stating facts is "boorish"? Those things happened, and the post I was answering said they did not. How I feel about them being said is another story. ;)
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I'm guessing he meant "bearish" (as opposed to "bullish"). :dunno:
 
maxiep said:
I was a Blazer fan from their inception and will die a Blazer fan. Some bad years, cheering for undeserving players, having a GM I didn't like or an owner I thought was going about building the team the wrong way won't change that. This team represents my home town.

There are better parents, aunts, uncles and cousins than mine out there, but it doesn't matter. My family is my family. There are high schools and colleges with better sports progams out there, but I have school pride. There are even better fans and posters than you lot, but fuck them. You're all Blazer fans and because of that I'll always have your back against other team's fan bases, even though we disagree in here.

I'm a knuckle-dragging simpleton who is a sucker in John Cazano's eyes. You know what? I can live with his judgment. Loyalty is a virtue.

Go. Blazers.
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:clap::clap::clap:
 
Stevenson said:
It was a fair and good column. Interesting take, provocative. That is his job. I don't get why everyone here rails on him so much. He's a sports columnist. He writes sports columns. He's a good writer, not a homer, knows his stuff.
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I disagree.

He frequently lies. He loves to speculate and saves his butt by saying, "many people are saying this", when in fact no body is. His #1 preoccupation is kicking people when they're down or vulnerable.

Frankly, he's the worst hack I've ever read- and I've read sports extensively.
 
Another thought on Canzano.

Despite the fact he's a liar, and a cluless hack, he does have writing skills. He could be a pretty good columnist if he didn't feel the need to be Howard Cosell.
 
PapaG said:
Roy texted Brian Wheeler yesterday saying he is "frustrated and disappointed" about his contract situation, and that he would be putting out a statement next week regarding it. He also used those words on KJR in Seattle yesterday. Knowing this, your entire post should probably be retracted. :)
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Well IF those are both actually true, then I can keep a little more respect for Canzano. I don't have time to scan every single Blazers blog, twitter feed, radio show interview, and everything else like some of you probably do. But that doesn't change the fact that this is all a huge overreaction (just like the draft) and people are just kidding themselves if they think Brandon won't be signed back with the Blazers.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
Another thought on Canzano.

Despite the fact he's a liar, and a cluless hack, he does have writing skills. He could be a pretty good columnist if he didn't feel the need to be Howard Cosell.
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He won AP columnist of the year.
 
TehChad said:
Well IF those are both actually true, then I can keep a little more respect for Canzano. I don't have time to scan every single Blazers blog, twitter feed, radio show interview, and everything else like some of you probably do. But that doesn't change the fact that this is all a huge overreaction (just like the draft) and people are just kidding themselves if they think Brandon won't be signed back with the Blazers.
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In other words, your lengthy post was inaccurate and came from a position of ignorance.
 
PapaG said:
In other words, your lengthy post was inaccurate and came from a position of ignorance.
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Well because I doubted he actually said it, I found a link to the interview and listened to it myself. Annndd what a HUGE surprise: My post was COMPLETELY accurate, and Brandon did NOT say he was frustrated NOR disappointed!! So I take back NOTHING of what I typed in said "lengthy" (since when is a paragraph and a half lengthy?) post. It was a TEXTBOOK job of Canzano putting words in Roy's mouth, and naturally 90%+ of Blazer fans didn't listen to the interview yet soaked it up like a sponge, just like PapaG (who's posting from a "position of ignorance" now, Papa?) lol.. :crazy:

(And by the way, no, a "text message to Brian Wheeler" doesn't mean a damn thing.)

Anyway, here's the link to the short interview. I encourage you all to listen to it carefully (warning: long link): http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...inment&PCAST_TITLE=Dave_Softy_Mahler_OnDemand
 
TehChad said:
Well because I doubted he actually said it, I found a link to the interview and listened to it myself. Annndd what a HUGE surprise: My post was COMPLETELY accurate, and Brandon did NOT say he was frustrated NOR disappointed!! So I take back NOTHING of what I typed in said "lengthy" (since when is a paragraph and a half lengthy?) post. It was a TEXTBOOK job of Canzano putting words in Roy's mouth, and naturally 90%+ of Blazer fans didn't listen to the interview yet soaked it up like a sponge, just like PapaG (who's posting from a "position of ignorance" now, Papa?) lol.. :crazy:

(And by the way, no, a "text message to Brian Wheeler" doesn't mean a damn thing.)

Anyway, here's the link to the short interview. I encourage you all to listen to it carefully (warning: long link): http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...inment&PCAST_TITLE=Dave_Softy_Mahler_OnDemand
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So you admit that you were wrong, since you ignore where Wheeler qouted Roy's "frustrated and disappointed" text?
 
I'll type it again in hopes you'll read this time: a supposed "text message to Brian Wheeler" doesn't mean anything. 100% hearsay.
 
TehChad said:
I'll type it again in hopes you'll read this time: a supposed "text message to Brian Wheeler" doesn't mean anything. 100% hearsay.
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So you are calling Brian Wheeler a liar? It's not "hearsay" when he cites a text as a source. Is Wheeler lying about it?
 
PapaG said:
So you are calling Brian Wheeler a liar? It's not "hearsay" when he cites a text as a source. Is Wheeler lying about it?
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I'd be curious to know whether Roy thought that message was "on the record."

If those words were intentionally chosen to send a public message, that's worrisome. If it was just someone venting in what they thought was an off the record/private conversation, I would take them with a grain of salt.
 
PapaG said:
He won AP columnist of the year.
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ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................................................

If you look around, there are numerous "AP sports columnists of the year", including one guy who has won 20 straight times. So how is it?

The AP has numerous "sports columnists of the year"- just how they do it is of no interest to me, but Canzano is still a liar and a cheap shot artist hack.
 
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PapaG said:
I'm beginning to feel that way.

- The Roy contract fiasco
- The Comcast fiasco
- Threats about Paul Allen not "subsidizing" the team to stay in Portland
- Elevated ticket prices in a poor economy, some as much as 300%

The Blazers sure don't seem to have much loyalty to their players or their fans. I'm happy Canzano wrote this article.
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I am as well. There is nothing worse than reading the quotes from Vulcan about subsidizing the Blazers when they signed the shitty Comcast package that only gets them coverage on one TV carrier. They were the one that made the bad decision. Now they are the one's that can deal with only being available in a percentage of the households in Portland. You want more TV revenue and coverage? Sign the right contract and quit blaming he city of Portland for your problems. We didn't sign it. You did. Face the facts. TV revenue's are the biggest money maker for teams. Not fans at home games.
 
PapaG said:
- The Roy contract fiasco
isn't really a fiasco.
- The Comcast fiasco
can be blamed on Comcast and the Dish companies and the Blazers, equally.
- Threats about Paul Allen not "subsidizing" the team to stay in Portland
are absurd.
- Elevated ticket prices in a poor economy, some as much as 300%
Most of the ticket prices that increased were decreased when the team was losing and attendance went in the tank, some as much as 300%.
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Just sayin'.
 
PapaG said:
So you are calling Brian Wheeler a liar? It's not "hearsay" when he cites a text as a source. Is Wheeler lying about it?
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I'm not calling Wheels a liar. I'm simply saying there's no way we can verify whether it's legitimate or not...we just have to take his word for it, and that's not at all admissible.

And that's completely besides the point I'm trying to make anyways. I'm not saying that Brandon is NOT frustrated or disappointed. Maybe he is, I don't know. All I'm saying is that John Canzano misrepresented what Brandon said in a radio interview and completely twisted his words into something that raised the stir that it did. That's it. And Canzano really should be disciplined for it: it's not fair to the athlete, it's not fair to the Blazers organization, and it's not fair to the fans. He owes them all an apology at the very least.

I guess this is just another example of the sad state of most of the media these days. Be careful of what you read in the news, folks. Don't just run along with the other sheep. Ask questions. Look up sources. Be informed.
 
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