Everything going on in the Blazers being bad currently, I thought there should be something said. Despite how little I talk now about basketball I used to be a Major trailblazers fan. Unfortunately, as a warning, if you have met someone who has been a fan for more then a decade you need to go and give them a hug. If they had done more then two decades then please let them know everything is all right. They keep cheering for their home team but it never gets any better and are constantly hurt.

Greg Oden, Sam Bowie, our drafting has been painful. Our scouting even more painful. During all these times there had been some pride that came from being better than we actually were. We would make playoffs sometimes but often were stopped by Kobe’s Lakers. Then we also had the JailBlazers. That was a time most fans could go on without. I bring all this up because now one of the biggest stars in modern Portland history wants a trade. He has not been given the tools to succeed and he would like to get a championship.

Understandable, if the management is not getting you the help then you need to leave, not happy with it, but it speaks to the leadership then to him. We have the timbers and thorns, which Soccer in America is the lowest of the major sports, and that is it. All of which is rather infuriating because there have been efforts to get Portland a MLB team. We would need to get a capable arena for them and we would need to have enough people back it causing everything to be at premium rates.

Then there is the hockey chance we had. We could have had a hockey team. Portland could have had a pro hockey team. We could have had the NHL give us a team, and we have the arena so we don’t have to pay to build one. so much money and we would have a team in the playoffs if they mirrored Seattle currently. Nope, they decided we did not need the money. Brilliance.

We don’t even have arena football anymore, not because of issue with fans, but because we had management that couldn’t figure out how to be honest about their finances. Another major sports team would have done wonders right now because right now Portland does not have a lot, we don’t have titles, or major scenes and we have more interest in either soccer or alternative sports in America. Look, you can go back in this blog and find receipts.

It is aggravating when people seem to try and fuck it up for the sake of their own bottom line, or their own stupidity, and unfortunately if stupidity was a sport then Portland and the people running the sport scene and management would be able to have medaled for the past 20 years. There is a market here, but stupidity seems to stop it, and right now it seems to stop a lot. Still bothers the ever loving piss out of me.