It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (mine)

[crandc]

Re: It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (m

An article in the current Sporting News, although about a baseball player, is I think relevant. I will quote:

I don't think we as fans really fathom what it means to be "injured" when you're a professional athlete. We get frustrated with injuries whether they damage our favorite team or our fantasy team...but I'm not sure we really understand them. We see them either as temporary blips, acts of God (in which case we imagine the "out 4 to 6 weeks" designation means players just go in some healing cave during that time rather than going through grueling, painful rehabilitation) or as some sort of failing of the players, as if being "injury prone" were a personal choice rather than a cruel cosmic joke. We don't get it. We can't.

I cannot imagine how frustrating and frankly terrifying injuries must be for a professsional athlete. You spend hours and days and weeks and months honing your body - your sole instrument of employment - to perfection, in order to survive in a freakishly competitive environment where there are a finite number of jobs that are desired by literally millions of people - and then one day someone accidentally steps on your finger or your foot gets stuck in a random segment of grass and your knee explodes. Then it's all over. All that work is gone. And all you have to show for it is weeks upon months in the training room and guys calling in to talk radio to call you soft.

 

[PapaG]

Re: It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (m

What's funny to me is that of all of the current threads on the front page of the Blazer forum, this is one of only three featuring either a direct quote from a player or a statistic relevant to the Blazers, yet it is the one that an Admin chose to complain about with a public post. Zags has a thread about Jeremy Pargo being scouted by the Blazers and Hornets, and HCP has a thread quoting Mike Conley, Oden's agent, on Greg's readiness to play next season. Another 23 are based on the opinion of the OP, and 2 are game or playoffs threads.

Of course, making a thread pointing out a very real statistical fact such as Andre Miller never getting out of the first round of the playoffs is grounds for a flame war, so what was your point, Ed?

 

[Ed O]

Re: It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (m

What's funny to me is that of all of the current threads on the front page of the Blazer forum, this is one of only three featuring either a direct quote from a player or a statistic relevant to the Blazers, yet it is the one that an Admin chose to complain about with a public post. Zags has a thread about Jeremy Pargo being scouted by the Blazers and Hornets, and HCP has a thread quoting Mike Conley, Oden's agent, on Greg's readiness to play next season. Another 23 are based on the opinion of the OP, and 2 are game or playoffs threads.

Of course, making a thread pointing out a very real statistical fact such as Andre Miller never getting out of the first round of the playoffs is grounds for a flame war, so what was your point, Ed?

Stop being a whiner, SlyPokerDog. Or at least stop for a few minutes.

Ed O.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Re: It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (m

Just like old times again!

 

[PapaG]

Re: It's not their move, it's my move. Everyone says it's their move. I think it's (m

Decent thread to look back on from last May.

It was, at least, until Ed O. hijacked it at the end.