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Always liked alliterative names.
  • Pioneers
  • Pines
  • Pipers
  • Panhandlers
  • Potholes
  • Protestors
  • (O)Possums
Several excellent options to represent this city...
 
Pioneers isn't politically correct these days, no way it'll be anything like that.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Always liked alliterative names.
  • Pioneers
  • Pines
  • Pipers
  • Panhandlers
  • Potholes
  • Protestors
  • (O)Possums
Several excellent options to represent this city...
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I like the (O)Possums. There's got to be possibilities with the P or O spellings and Portland, Oregon.
 
I wouldn't want it to be the Beavers - don't need any confusion with Oregon State. National media already can't keep Oregon and Oregon State straight.
 
Beavers makes all the,sense in the world since the colors are green and yellow

In all seriousness, they'd probably keep A's.
 
BBert said:
Christ you're old.

Not that there's anything wrong with that ;)

:cheers:
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Hey, there are ancient rocks younger than me.

Of course, my being old means you must be quite young, not that there's anything wrong with that.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I still think the site of the old Multnomah Kennel Club would have been a decent spot. That’s where the Grande Ronde tribe proposed building one (in exchange for a Portland area casino). But I believe that horse is out of the gate......
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That's a suggestion worthy of consideration, especially since the site was previously studied and approved by that study.
 
GriLtCheeZ said:
I can't wait to complain about how shitty our pitching is.
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Fez Von Savage said:
I'll riot if we don't name them the Marvericks.
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The Mavericks have little to no history. The Beavers produced a lot of MLB players and have a long history. I believe they were the original team when the Multnomah Stadium was built.

Little known fact, the Beavers had a radio announcer, Bob Blackburn, who left and went to work in Seattle for the Mariners the same year Schonely left the Mariners and came to work for the Portland Trail Blazers. I know they switched cities in 1970 and I remember Blackburn doing the Beavers baseball games, I'm just not sure that Schonely worked for the Mariners, although I think he did.
 
BlazerBeav said:
I wouldn't want it to be the Beavers - don't need any confusion with Oregon State. National media already can't keep Oregon and Oregon State straight.
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The national media is lazy at times. Occasionally, I still hear them say Oree-gone.
 
Not sure who it was but someone involved with his said that the two sites revealed were nit the only ones under consideration. Listening to 620.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Mike Barrett says that their architects have come up with a retractable roof design unlike anything we've ever seen before.

http://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/video/mlb-pdx-retractable-dome-or-not
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Mike Barrett and Mike Rice for Portland Baseball TV Crew! What could be better? Baseball is slow enough that you can just give Uncle Mike three drinks and let him go. The stories would be amazing. Heck, bring Schonz in to tell stories about his baseball years in the 60's. What better way to establish the franchise than with old folks and stories.
 
santeesioux said:
Hey, there's a lot of Indians and Mexicans down here!
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Yeah, and they're all taking jobs that I want such as dishwasher, roofer, concrete worker, short order cook, waitress, lawn and garden maintenance, carpet installer, dry wall installer, house painter. I'm ready to put down my slide rule and take a massive pay cut to do those jobs, dammit. Now, if we could only find a politician who'd see the obvious logic in that.
 
Lanny said:
Yeah, and they're all taking jobs that I want such as dishwasher, roofer, concrete worker, short order cook, waitress, lawn and garden maintenance, carpet installer, dry wall installer, house painter. I'm ready to put down my slide rule and take a massive pay cut to do those jobs, dammit. Now, if we could only find a politician who'd see the obvious logic in that.
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They're actually all students at OIT; the white folk are the janitors already.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
They're actually all students at OIT; the white folk are the janitors already.
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I worked with an electrical engineer from OIT at Tektronix. The kid was really good. Went from technician to engineer in one fell swoop (whatever that means).

Had a software class with another guy from OIT. Dumbest shit head in that class. I was the team leader on a project and he was assigned to my team. Had to put him over in a corner 'cause he continually made suggestions that were off track and not helpful at all.

I guess, there's good ones and bad ones in every group.
 
Lanny said:
I worked with an electrical engineer from OIT at Tektronix. The kid was really good. Went from technician to engineer in one fell swoop (whatever that means).

Had a software class with another guy from OIT. Dumbest shit head in that class. I was the team leader on a project and he was assigned to my team. Had to put him over in a corner 'cause he continually made suggestions that were off track and not helpful at all.

I guess, there's good ones and bad ones in every group.
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My parents both graduated from OIT; lots of interesting stories there!
 
Lanny said:
The Mavericks have little to no history. The Beavers produced a lot of MLB players and have a long history. I believe they were the original team when the Multnomah Stadium was built.

Little known fact, the Beavers had a radio announcer, Bob Blackburn, who left and went to work in Seattle for the Mariners the same year Schonely left the Mariners and came to work for the Portland Trail Blazers. I know they switched cities in 1970 and I remember Blackburn doing the Beavers baseball games, I'm just not sure that Schonely worked for the Mariners, although I think he did.
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Say wha....?? You must have been living out of state during the Maverick’s tenure. They produced more feel good (and colorful) stories in their short few years than the Beavers did in all their years. They actually “belonged” to Portland, not only physically but in spirit also. A Portland MLB team should be honored to be called the Mavericks......though the Hipsters also works for me.....
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
Say wha....?? You must have been living out of state during the Maverick’s tenure. They produced more feel good (and colorful) stories in their short few years than the Beavers did in all their years. They actually “belonged” to Portland, not only physically but in spirit also. A Portland MLB team should be honored to be called the Mavericks......though the Hipsters also works for me.....
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The Beavers played AAA ball and sent many players on to the big leagues. I probably was out of state during part of the tenure of the Mavericks.

Saying a Portland MLB team ought to be called the Mavericks is akin to saying a Portland NHL team ought to be called the Winterhawks and not the Buckaroos.
 
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