Zombie Trail Blazers shaking up their broadcasting department

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Everything Beagle said:
That’s how capitalism works; it’s a never-ending “how much sawdust can I put in this pop tart before people notice” experiment in making things worse to increase profits.

Things will only get worse everywhere. You have to hope any particular company is less worse than everywhere so that it seems good.
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It's truly sad.
 
This sucks in more ways than one. Those guys love Rip City with all their heart and even in the lean times, never losed hope that we would be alright in the end. I don't think this is by any means us trying to sell the team, more that Kolde wants more yes men to cater to him. I can see Curtin especially not kowtowing to him and letting him know what was what.

Good luck to these guys and I hope they find somewhere else to be appreciated.
 
julius said:
Wait...aren't you a teacher?!?

Or was this in a different life?
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Before I was a teacher.

I left that job because of that and finished college to become a teacher.

The boss wanted to keep me on in a lesser role, and share all my knowledge with the new guy. I felt so disrespected that I just couldn't bring myself to stay.
 
Oh good.....Kolde was involved. This should go well. :banghead2::banghead2::banghead2::banghead2:
 
glazeduck said:
The sickening, gut-wrenching irony of it all is letting Chad Doing, the absolute worst Blazers media person in history, leak the news...

Starting to feel like we might be rooting for Darth Vader and the Empire, instead of the rebels...
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As long as Dwight Jaynes and Danny marang are around this is patently false lol
 
Remember, The Vulcan mothership endorse's a centralized approach to certain aspects of running a business. Consolidation is also sold as cost cutting, and not duplicating efforts, within divisions or subsidiary.
 
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julius said:
I wonder how many fan bases would even know the name of their version of Jeff Curtin.

Not justifying things, just weird how over reactionary fans are.
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To be fair, because of HCP some of us have met them, so we do have personal stories attached to it. We're just a very small subsect though.

In the macro sense I do wonder, but we're Portland so I'm not too surprised lol
 
riverman said:
I don't think anyone around here really knows why they made this move.
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There's max 1 person here that'll know and rightfully we should only know if the team wants us to know.
 
BigGameDamian said:
Because Jody & Bert are cheap skates.
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People keep saying that but I've got nothing to base it on....Blazers have spent big money under Vulcan and just remodeled the Practice facility, put a new roof on Moda and hired a bunch of scouts and assistants not to mention starting a G league team. That's why I don't think the move has anything to do with money.
 
Whyachi said:
Hint: so Cory Jez can bring in his team of analytical Nerds that think they can run the show.
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I'm sure they have a new team lined up for whatever reason but my guess is that they are trying maybe too hard to put their own stamp on the franchise
 
This is more of a wild ass guess, but maybe Bert wants the Blazers to invest into Root Sports to take the place WBD vacated? If they did go about that route then their would be some overlap positions so therefore some people had to be let go. However I would think that one would wait till after said is done before letting people go, hence its why more of a guess/theory than anything else.
 
Well, if they're replaced with cheaper, younger folks, here is how the future may look...

Everything is based on cell usage in the arena. There will be loud music over the top of everything...and at least 3 things happening at all times. the actual game play will become less and less important. I know this because I didn't grow up having my frontal lobe overstimulated.....and I can exist with simple stimulation....and I have no side effects from it.

Attended the last game against the Warriors, and Blaze was walking around the concourse with a person manning the megaphone and there was loud music added. Some of the folks following them, were still checking their phones.

BTW......get off my lawn. :drinkapint:
 
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BassPlaya said:
Well, if they're replaced with cheaper, younger folks, here is how the future may look...

Everything is based on cell usage in the arena. There will be loud music over the top of everything...and at least 3 things happening at all times. the actual game play will become less and less important. I know this because I didn't grow up having my frontal lobes overstimulated.....and I can exist with simple stimulation....and I have no side effects from it.

Attended the last game against the Warriors, and Blaze was walking around the concourse with a person manning the megaphone and there was loud music added. Some of the folks following them, were still checking their phones.

BTW......get off my lawn. :drinkapint:
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Ok boomer. (As a millennial I couldn’t resist)
 
Strenuus said:
As long as Dwight Jaynes and Danny marang are around this is patently false lol
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It definitely feels like the lineup in The Usual Suspects, I'll give you that. But Marang is a Lakers fan who lives in Portland and figured out that he could make money saying ridiculous things into a microphone. Jaynes is an over-the-hill journalist (who used to be at least somewhat credible) but has now learned that he can make money saying ridiculous things on the internet (or into a microphone).

The difference, to me, between these two and C.I.P.... is he's been embarrasing himself since WAAAAAY before he was getting paid to do it. How he landed ANY job he has, I have no idea, but dude was doing it for free even before it was cool to say ridiculous things. The only time I've ever come close to being as embarrassed by association is when Donald Trump tried to buy the Buffalo Bills, and even that is mostly in retrospect...

I'm not a fan of Chads, is what I'm saying lol
 
glazeduck said:
It definitely feels like the lineup in The Usual Suspects, I'll give you that. But Marang is a Lakers fan who lives in Portland and figured out that he could make money saying ridiculous things into a microphone. Jaynes is an over-the-hill journalist (who used to be at least somewhat credible) but has now learned that he can make money saying ridiculous things on the internet (or into a microphone).

The difference, to me, between these two and C.I.P.... is he's been embarrasing himself since WAAAAAY before he was getting paid to do it. How he landed ANY job he has, I have no idea, but dude was doing it for free even before it was cool to say ridiculous things. The only time I've ever come close to being as embarrassed by association is when Donald Trump tried to buy the Buffalo Bills, and even that is mostly in retrospect...

I'm not a fan of Chads, is what I'm saying lol
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Lol even though I have a personal history with him (nothing bad), I actually don't know much if any of his work besides 5th quarter(I'm a 1080 guy through and through). So I'll take your word for it.

Marang and Jaynes though... My god. Marang ruined the dusty show and Jaynes is the living embodiment of old man yelling at clouds.
 
Strenuus said:
To be fair, because of HCP some of us have met them, so we do have personal stories attached to it. We're just a very small subsect though.

In the macro sense I do wonder, but we're Portland so I'm not too surprised lol
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Subsect?

Freudian?
 
That sucks. I use to deliver to his house. Nice guy in my interactions seemed like a good family man
 
Strenuus said:
Lol even though I have a personal history with him (nothing bad), I actually don't know much if any of his work besides 5th quarter(I'm a 1080 guy through and through). So I'll take your word for it.

Marang and Jaynes though... My god. Marang ruined the dusty show and Jaynes is the living embodiment of old man yelling at clouds.
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Danny's OK. He's a Blazers fan like most of us. Just has more access to the team. Jaynes' distaste for Dame , comes out in almost every back handed compliment , or smoozing over another PG. It drives me nuts. But to the hateful 3, he is a God. I do enjoy his takes on other topics though. I prefer Rip City Radio. Except for the Golf crap. Just started listening to Danny And Dusty's show a number of months back. Dusty spends way to much time on the All Things Ducks. I like the Ducks and Beavs . But don't enjoy all the recruitment BS talk. Their Pro Football takes are meh. But hey , they're all getting paid to do what a lot of us wish we could do as a job. Bravo!
 
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