(stolen from RipCityMornings) If the Blazers left Portland, would you watch the NBA?

[SlyPokerDog]

Put me down for the option in between the wimpy fence-sitter option and not at all.

I love basketball. But if the PDX Blazers went bye-bye, I would only watch a portion of an NBA game if I had nothing else to do. Which is virtually never.

We'd have to talk turns doing suicide watch on @BlazerWookee

 

[BonesJones]

If the Blazers moved, then my main incentive for watching basketball (getting really involved with the team) would be gone. I would probably be most likely to switch to college basketball then.

UNLESS, they moved to Vancouver, WA. That would be sweet!!!

Vancouver would be sweet

 

[BBert]

Go Vantucky Blazers!

 

[riverman]

I would be like the Maytag repairman, admin of a forum no one visited anymore. Arranging cemetery tours of former players and broadcasters. And then a yearly trip to Seattle so we can spit on Paul Allen's grave.

You say spit on his grave but you really mean this

 

[Strenuus]

I totally understand and pretty much agree, but there is a gray area. For example in the NFL, if a play is called dead, then the ball is placed where it was when the play was called dead. Regardless if it should have been lie and the running back continued into the end zone.
If this were the NFL, the run would have never counted, whether it should have or not. That's what I am saying is regardless of being a valid call or not, the dead ball call can create a stoppage of the defense while the offense crosses the plate.
Maybe not as blown call, but a call that created controversy and should possible be addressed in the off season as to what actually should happen once an ump calls a ball dead.

Again, I agree with you all on the outcome being right and it being a super rare play that umps wouldn't expect or be prepped for, with that said, it was definitely controversial.

Umpires discretion is huge there.

You also have to think about it this way, if a ball is hit and is questioned on wether or not it's fair or foul with a runner on first... They can gather and then go to new york (like they did), and then have to put runners where -they think they would be had the play played out- (That's the key)

The reason a call was MADE in the first place is because needs to be made in order to go to new york.

One thing I -really- would like to see, and I got this idea from the Toronto radio broadcast (with MLB.tv you can watch a replay of the game and have the radio feed synched up with the video feed. It's the only way I watch now since most TV broadcast teams suck, especially national ones) is that the MLB crew cheif (in this case, Dale Scott) would adress the crowd as to why they called what they called (and subsequently what New york called) and if needed, why they called it the way they called it. I think that would be amazing, to lessen the ambiguity of it all.

 

[THE HCP]

Man I've already watched 30 preseason games! I love it and would still continue to watch. I'd be screwed as a fan and financially though. I'm such a fan I'm going to the Celtics @ Knicks game tomorrow night. Just landed in NYC for a fight Saturday night at MSG. Let's just say it want hard to score some free tix. #GoKnicks

Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

 

[Strenuus]

Man I've already watched 30 preseason games! I love it and would still continue to watch. I'd be screwed as a fan and financially though. I'm such a fan I'm going to the Celtics @ Knicks game tomorrow night. Just landed in NYC for a fight Saturday night at MSG. Let's just say it want hard to score some free tix. #GoKnicks

Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

It worries me what avenue you're going to take to secure these free tix....

 

[THE HCP]

#GoCeltics


Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

 

[Natebishop3]

You're all bunch of zeros.

(stolen from Rip City mornings)

 

[Strenuus]

You're all bunch of zeros.

(stolen from Rip City mornings)

- By Ben Golliver

 

[Natebishop3]

- By Ben Golliver

The vicious cycle continues...

 

[Strenuus]

The vicious cycle continues...

cyclical manifestions are the causation of empiricially placed data that exists for the purpose of a holistic approach to a whimiscal banter shared between numerical zeros of a web-based community.

I'm kind of a big deal.

 

[Natebishop3]

cyclical manifestions are the causation of empiricially placed data that exists for the purpose of a holistic approach to a whimiscal banter shared between numerical zeros of a web-based community.

I'm kind of a big deal.

Big words from a small man!

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Is Rip City Mornings the name of that dude's show? I had no idea.

 

[Strenuus]

Big words from a small man!

I'm 5'10!

I'm 5 foot tall, you can figure out the 10.

(I'm actually 5'10... I am not jockey size)

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm 5'10!

I'm 5 foot tall, you can figure out the 10.

(I'm actually 5'10... I am not jockey size)

5'10? Is that like the Damon Stoudamire version of 5'10?

 

[Strenuus]

5'10? Is that like the Damon Stoudamire version of 5'10?

Well, if you show up on Sunday you'd know!

 

[Boob-No-More]

Hard to say. I love basketball. It's my favorite sport to play and favorite to watch, but I'm a huge Blazers fan. If they left, I may try to find another team to follow. I grew up a Bulls fan, but that was back in the 1970s. I don't really feel a connection to that franchise anymore.

I also grew up a Cubs fan and a Bears fan. Even though the Cubs are having a magical season, I haven't watched a single Cubs game in the last 25 years. I was still a Bears fan when they won the Superbowl back in 1986, but haven't really followed them since Walter Payton retired.

I briefly adopted the Seahawks and Mariners when we lived in Seattle, but haven't followed either team for years - other than watching the Seahawks in the Superbowl the last two years.

So, not sure if I'd give up basketball all together, but I would definitely watch a lot less with no local team to connect with. When we first moved to Oregon, we went to a LOT of Blazers games at the old Memorial Coliseum. Attending so many games in person made it really easy to feel connected to the team. So, even if I adopted another NBA team, I don't think I could ever be as fanatical about another team as I am about my Blazers.

BNM

 

[Natebishop3]

Bunch of old fogies on this forum.

 

[Strenuus]

Hard to say. I love basketball. It's my favorite sport to play and favorite to watch, but I'm a huge Blazers fan. If they left, I may try to find another team to follow. I grew up a Bulls fan, but that was back in the 1970s. I don't really feel a connection to that franchise anymore.

I also grew up a Cubs fan and a Bears fan. Even though the Cubs are having a magical season, I haven't watched a single Cubs game in the last 25 years. I was still a Bears fan when they won the Superbowl back in 1986, but haven't really followed them since Walter Payton retired.

I briefly adopted the Seahawks and Mariners when we lived in Seattle, but haven't followed either team for years - other than watching the Seahawks in the Superbowl the last two years.

So, not sure if I'd give up basketball all together, but I would definitely watch a lot less with no local team to connect with. When we first moved to Oregon, we went to a LOT of Blazers games at the old Memorial Coliseum. Attending so many games in person made it really easy to feel connected to the team. So, even if I adopted another NBA team, I don't think I could ever be as fanatical about another team as I am about my Blazers.

BNM

I hear ya. I grew up a cubs fan (Harey Carey ftw). But as I got older I migrated towards the Mariners, and follow them. I always keep tabs on the Cubs and am excited to see them in the LCS. I'll be pretty excited if they go all the way, but not as excited as I would be if they did it when I was between the ages of 8-18.

I am very patient with winning championships, as you can tell. (Cubs, Mariners, and Blazers being my teams. I have not been alive for any championships. But I love it. It'll make it that much sweeter.)

 

[Boob-No-More]

I hear ya. I grew up a cubs fan (Harey Carey ftw). But as I got older I migrated towards the Mariners, and follow them. I always keep tabs on the Cubs and am excited to see them in the LCS. I'll be pretty excited if they go all the way, but not as excited as I would be if they did it when I was between the ages of 8-18.

I am very patient with winning championships, as you can tell. (Cubs, Mariners, and Blazers being my teams. I have not been alive for any championships. But I love it. It'll make it that much sweeter.)

I go back even further - Jack Brickhouse FTW! I remember when Harey was the White Sox announcer. The father of one of my best childhood friends worked for the White Sox for 40 years. So, even though I was a Cubs fan (they broke my heart in 1969), I went to a lot of games at the old Comiskey Park. Even got to go up in the booth and meet Harey when I was 10 or 11.

BNM

 

[Sedatedfork]

Bunch of old fogies on this forum.

Growing old sucks. But, it's better than the alternative.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Bunch of old fogies on this forum.

Right. And when you're telling your grandkids about how you used to listen to the Schonz call the Blazer games back in the day, they're going to roll their eyes and call you a fogey.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

basketball has always been my love for both watching and playing. if the blazers left portland id be devastated, but id probably still be a fan of the team if it remained the blazers with the same kick ass logo.

if the blazers were removed from the NBA completely me being a fan of the sport and not the WWE shit show the NBA has turned into would probably just start watching more college ball. the is if my liver survived the initial depression binge drinking

 

[Boob-No-More]

Growing old sucks. But, it's better than the alternative.

Yep, and I think I'm lucky to have grown up when I did. I got to see a lot of really cool shit (watched Neil Armstrong take his one small step live and STILL remember it like it was yesterday) and a lot of really great basketball. I remember Wilt and Kareem going head-to-head in the 1971 and 1972 Western Conference Finals. I remember Bill Walton making 21 of 22 FGA in the 1973 NCAA title game.

Some things about being old suck, but I also have some really great memories.

BNM

 

[Sedatedfork]

Yep, and I think I'm lucky to have grown up when I did. I got to see a lot of really cool shit (watched Neil Armstrong take his one small step live and STILL remember it like it was yesterday) and a lot of really great basketball. I remember Wilt and Kareem going head-to-head in the 1971 and 1972 Western Conference Finals. I remember Bill Walton making 21 of 22 FGA in the 1973 NCAA title game.

Some things about being old suck, but I also have some really great memories.

BNM

I turn 40 in January. Have some great memories, but ahh to be young (and you are probably like ahem, you are young).

 

[MickZagger]

I turn 40 in January. Have some great memories, but ahh to be young (and you are probably like ahem, you are young).

I turn 30 in January.

As for the topic, I'd be devastated. But I'm just a hoops fan in general. I enjoy watching the sport, I think its a great sport. My focus would probably shift even more towards NCAA basketball.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

If we had no nba, my late winter/spring would be spent eating more than usual... I'd probably become a bigger (literally lol) baseball fan though.

 

[riverman]

Growing old rocks if you keep a sense of humor...it's growing old grumpy that sucks..you can get away with a lot of shit when you're a senior citizen..just takes longer to pee

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Growing old rocks if you keep a sense of humor...it's growing old grumpy that sucks..you can get away with a lot of shit when you're a senior citizen..just takes longer to pee

I've actually started to let go of my pride and accept the senior discounts. It's a nice little bonus. And as my old friends and I like to joke (because we have no other choice), at 18 we could pee forever and wash away entire forests. Now we're lucky we don't fall asleep at the urinal, or when we don't dribble all over our shoes.....yes, a sense of humor helps at our age.....