Props to Canzano!

[Wizard Mentor]

Not only can I not stand the guy's column, but i have some objections to whole notion of "columnists" as opposed to simple "reporters."

Be that as it may, he should be given some props when he writes a good one.
I really enjoyed his piece on Meyers Leonard:
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2012/06/canzano_the_expert_on_trail_bl.html

It's the type of article that Quick used to write a long time ago.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I refuse to give him page hits, so I'm going to take make a SWAG (scientific wild assed guess) that it's a fluff piece talking about his childhood, growing up without a father, living on food-stamps and his soldier-hero brother in Afghanistan?

Amiright?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I refuse to give him page hits, so I'm going to take make a SWAG (scientific wild assed guess) that it's a fluff piece talking about his childhood, growing up without a father, living on food-stamps and his soldier-hero brother in Afghanistan?

Amiright?

Don't forget the perennial award winner: there's so much more to life than sports.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

You are absolutely right, but not all of us consider human interest stories "fluff."

I refuse to give him page hits, so I'm going to take make a SWAG (scientific wild assed guess) that it's a fluff piece talking about his childhood, growing up without a father, living on food-stamps and his soldier-hero brother in Afghanistan?

Amiright?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

these types of articles write themselves

isnt it sad that his dad died? and then his brother went off to be a hero! everyone is so proud of nards, but he is even prouder of them! flowers and bombs, sinners and saints, yadda yadda

yeah, fluff, and beyond obvious...and borderline patronizing....typical crapbaldo drivel

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Hate Canzano, but I had to get the story of Meyers.

Canzano didn't really write that article - Meyers' history and the quotes from Meyers and his brother wrote that article. Kinda refreshing after some of the shit heads we've had come through Portland the last several years. I hope he keeps his head on straight and continues to work hard, not that I doubt his ability to do so.

 

[Nikolokolus]

You are absolutely right, but not all of us consider human interest stories "fluff."

LOL. I just think it's hilarious that it's JC's go-to move.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

LOL. I just think it's hilarious that's is JC's go-to move.

Yeah. JC does whore himself to these types of stories. If not for these types of stories, he'd have failed on-air and as a writer because people would get tired of him being an incessant twerp.

He's done enough of these to pull at readers' hearts and people kinda forgive Canzano for being an assclown.

 

[Natebishop3]

You are absolutely right, but not all of us consider human interest stories "fluff."

When it's coming from Canzano, it's always fluff. At least this time he got to write one of his "life is bigger than sports" pieces on a Blazer and not little Jimmy who fell down a well.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

LOL. I just think it's hilarious that's is JC's go-to move.

He has written similar pieces that I thought were garbage. But, I didn't know anything about MLs background before it, so I enjoyed it.

 

[PapaG]

I'll gladly take a column on Meyers Leonard over his annual quest for awards and a Cancer Kid with one last wish.

It's around this time of year that Calzano starts roaming the halls at Doernbecher's, isn't it?

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I'll gladly take a column on Meyers Leonard over his annual quest for awards and a Cancer Kid with one last wish.

It's around this time of year that Calzano starts roaming the halls at Doernbecher's, isn't it?

Yeah, his non-sports related stories kill me. I get that we're all human. But he is supposedly a sports columnist, ya know?

Can't he share those life stories on to another columnist? Or can't The Boregonian move those stories to another section. Not to be a jerk about it. It's just if I'm going to spend my money on the paper.... I want my sports section to be about sports.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

I'll gladly take a column on Meyers Leonard over his annual quest for awards and a Cancer Kid with one last wish.

It's around this time of year that Calzano starts roaming the halls at Doernbecher's, isn't it?

LMAO!

Now I have to wipe up the coffee off the keys.

 

[PapaG]

Yeah, his non-sports related stories kill me. I get that we're all human. But he is supposedly a sports columnist, ya know?

Can't he share those life stories on to another columnist? Or can't The Boregonian move those stories to another section. Not to be a jerk about it. It's just if I'm going to spend my money on the paper.... I want my sports section to be about sports.

I used to not even have an issue with the quasi-sports articles, but it's become such an obvious formula for Crapzano that it's clear it's all about him and his awards, and not about telling a story.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I actually work with a guy who used to be an editor for the Goryonion's sport desk ... let's just say everything I suspected about Canzano was pretty much confirmed by this guy -- and my co-worker doesn't strike me as an axe-grinder.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

i heard clownbaldo is into testicle torture

 

[Natebishop3]

Well he figured out that when he writes a "Jimmy fell-down-the-well" story, he wins awards. The thing is, I wouldn't care that he wrote the stories if he wasn't using them as a tool for advancing his career, or as a giant rock to beat over our heads and make us feel bad about taking sports so seriously. Every article has a tone of, "you love the Blazers, but so does little Jimmy and he's dying from cancer so shame on you." If he wants to write human interest stories, that's great, but I really think he should move over to the Living section. A lot of people, myself included, watch sports to get away from the everyday problems in the world. You can't watch the news without hearing about people who were shot, people who lost their jobs, or giant forest fires. Why should I have to see those kinds of stories in the sports section as well?

 

[PapaG]

A guy gets on a plane and is seated next to an attractive woman. She is reading a book and he sees the title is Sexual Statistics. He tells her the book looks interesting and asks what it contains.

She says she is reading about male genitals and says Native American men have the longest and Polish-American men have the thickest.

The guy says "That is very interesting. By the way, my name is Tonto Kawalski."

 

[Natebishop3]

I actually work with a guy who used to be an editor for the Goryonion's sport desk ... let's just say everything I suspected about Canzano was pretty much confirmed by this guy -- and my co-worker doesn't strike me as an axe-grinder.

Oh he's a piece of work. I spent enough time around him at the practice facility and at games. The guy has an ego, and he thinks he's real shot shit. Definitely a "big fish in a small pond" mentality. It would be interesting if he went to a bigger city and watched his so-called star fall out of the sky. He wouldn't even rate in a place like New York or Los Angeles.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

i heard clownbaldo is into testicle torture

Makes sense; my balls shrivel up into my torso whenever I read one of his articles.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

i heard clownbaldo is into testicle torture

Not to take this there..... I hope his daughter has thick skin, because as she gets older, I could see kids picking on her about her dad.

Not saying it's right/funny/cool (because it's absolutely NOT), but I can see it happening, and I just hope she is tough enough to brush it off (or convince her dad to retire).

 

[crandc]

Not to take this there..... I hope his daughter has thick skin, because as she gets older, I could see kids picking on her about her dad.

Not saying it's right/funny/cool (because it's absolutely NOT), but I can see it happening, and I just hope she is tough enough to brush it off (or convince her dad to retire).

I sure hope not, for two good reasons.

1) We don't pick our parents and it's not her fault her father is a moron.

2) If that happens Crapanzo will write a sob story "bigger than sports" column about his daughter's suffering and probably embarrass the hell out of the poor girl.

 

[Natebishop3]

Not to take this there..... I hope his daughter has thick skin, because as she gets older, I could see kids picking on her about her dad.

Not saying it's right/funny/cool (because it's absolutely NOT), but I can see it happening, and I just hope she is tough enough to brush it off (or convince her dad to retire).

I think the kids will be too busy making fun of her lack of hair to care about who her father is

 

[jlprk]

The long, long article just repeated what we've already read in the national media, except for 3 new data bits:

1. The older brother is 22 months older and 7 inches shorter. So barefoot, they are 7-0 and 6-5.

2. The mother's back condition is not untreated. She has had drugs. She and possibly the brother, who has 1 month left in the Marines, will live here with Meyers. (I always read this for every rookie, then months later I always read that she moved back home. Does the mother get in the way of girlfriends?)

3. I had already looked up in Wikipedia the famous people from Robinson, Illinois (population 7000) and had found Mr. Heath, the inventor of the Heath Bar. From this article I learned that the candy bar factory is in Robinson.