Netflix to do a Jail Blazers doc

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm watching it! One of the craziest and best eras of the Blazers and the inmates of the jail are telling their side of things? HELL YES!

You mean to say you guys won't watch The Glorious Bastards of Baseball because only "the bad" players told their side of things?!?

My hope is that these guys are open and honest about things.

I want to be entertained by some of the Blazers' most entertaining players!

 

[bigbailes]

I'm watching it! One of the craziest and best eras of the Blazers and the inmates of the jail are telling their side of things? HELL YES!

You mean to say you guys won't watch The Glorious Bastards of Baseball because only "the bad" players told their side of things?!?

My hope is that these guys are open and honest about things.

I want to be entertained by some of the Blazers' most entertaining players!

Will I watch it one night when I'm bored ... probably but I just want the perspective of both sides ... not just the knuckleheads! Found it interesting reading all the posts on twitter yesterday saying how they were late teens/early 20s when that crew was here and how much they loved them and never saw anything wrong. I admit that was me at the time, I couldn't understand why my dad (a fan from the franchises first day) was so annoyed by them and me. Then I got a little older, a little wiser and gained some perspective and understood my dad was right. Yes they were entertaining and yes they were an amazing experiment by Trader Bob, but it bombed and blew up in the face of the franchise and the city. While many fans of the Blazers might not have wanted to hear the nickname, it stuck nationally for a long time.

Did anyone read the Kerry Eggers book on this team? Did it do a good job of capturing what that time was like. It is crazy to think of all the stories we know that made it to the public, now imagine the craziness we will never know about that was going on.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I just want the perspective of both sides ... not just the knuckleheads! Found it interesting reading all the posts on twitter yesterday saying how they were late teens/early 20s when that crew was here and how much they loved them and never saw anything wrong. I admit that was me at the time, I couldn't understand why my dad (a fan from the franchises first day) was so annoyed by them and me. Then I got a little older, a little wiser and gained some perspective and understood my dad was right. Yes they were entertaining and yes they were an amazing experiment by Trader Bob, but it bombed and blew up in the face of the franchise and the city. While many fans of the Blazers might not have wanted to hear the nickname, it stuck nationally for a long time.

Did it really bomb? That's the last Blazer team that had a chance to win a championship. If that is really blowing up in our faces, what do we call the last 20 years?

 

[bigbailes]

Did it really bomb? That's the last Blazer team that had a chance to win a championship. If that is really blowing up in our faces, what do we call the last 20 years?

Yea I would say it did as that team was a shell of itself after that 00 loss in Game 7, getting swept by LA the next two seasons in the first round. They were an embarrassment but as with most things in life, it's all a matter of perspective and opinion. I always thought the JailBlazer stuff hung over the franchise like a dark cloud for a long time and they tried to wash it away in the Roy/LA/Oden era but I always wondered if taking the big gamble on Roy and his contract extension was an effort to show they had a 'good guy' leading the team, even though they had to know his knees were DOA.

The last 20 years you could say is this franchise paying it's pittance for past transgressions.