Comments on: For the record, it was 110-81

By: Hayduke

Hayduke — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:26:42 +0000

Man it’s fun (and easy) to get you Blazer fans riled up.

By: Thoughtful

Thoughtful — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:29:20 +0000

Hayduke, it doesn’t do any good to read if you don’t have comprehension along with it. If the fairweather fan changes allegiance based on records, and a front-runner is a sports fan who likes only the team that is winning, well I’m afraid your out of luck. The Blazer record last year was 41-41 with no playoffs. So far their record this season is 0-0, 1-0 in pre-season, and the fans filled up the seats when pre-season was still 0-0. The Blazers actually need to establish a winning record and make the playoffs to make your definitions fit your accusations. People in the stands are paying good money right now for potential, not accomplishment. You may want to consider going to school instead of simply reading. Knowledge without understanding is wasted.

By: Hayduke

Hayduke — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:18:08 +0000

Look, I know how to look things up too.

From Wiki: Front-runner can also be used to describe a type of sports fan who likes only the team that is winning. Also known as a fairweather fan, the person will quickly,and repeatedly change allegiance with athletes and teams as teams and players become “good” or “bad” based on records.

By: Hayduke

Hayduke — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:16:30 +0000

I am currently reading the dictionary (just got done with the Bible), but I am only up to letter E. You have done an excellent job of proving my point though. Where has Blazer Fan (what would the dictionary say about using caps for that?) been these last few years while the team has not made the playoffs? Not filling the Garden for an exhibition that’s for sure. Maybe you can teach that trick for reading IQs based on internet comments.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:25:44 +0000

Great recap. Was cool to see Mr. Cooper in the house and awesome to read his thoughts…

But, Dwight, you forgot to include the part about how you’re showing up with your chest painted tonight and you’re encouraging the rest of the media to follow your example.

By: Hayduke

Hayduke — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:42:42 +0000

I still wonder…who are bigger front runners? Blazer fans or Ducks fans?

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:26:44 +0000

“But what the heck. Enjoy it, folks. It’s some pretty fun stuff.”

Considering his grisled years as a sports journalist, this seems to be as close to a gushing review as we are going to get from Dwight. As for me, I am completely fine with suspending my disbelief.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:26:18 +0000

I listened to it on 95.5FM while sitting on my couch and watching the internet game tracker up on my TV. My wife couldn’t understand why I was sitting there, beaming.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:22:07 +0000

Heck, we as fans don’t need to pace ourselves. As exciting as the Blazers will be this season, we’re just working on our (ovation) conditioning!

By: Storyteller

Storyteller — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:55:40 +0000

Dwight -

The ‘win’ in the win column means very little, I agree with that. But the things that led to the win – having the team play together (32 assists), getting some nice individual performances that came within the scope of the gameplan, having 19,000 fans cheering loudly for a preseason game – those all mean a great deal.