Jailblazers

[Mark Padgett]

Juulie - you know as well as I do that the Blazers pick up players such as Wallace, Stoudamire, Woods, Randolph, Wells, etc. because they don't care what the "average" fan in Portland cares about the team. It's like the old line from Laugh In - "We're the phone company. We don't care. We don't have to." The Blazers are the only major league franchise in town and they only care if they sell the luxury boxes to corporations and season tickets to rich dudes and other corporations.

They won't have to start caring until they get some real competition for the sports entertainment dollar here in Portland, and that means an NHL franchise owned by someone other than Paul Allen.

Frankly, I wouldn't walk across the street to see those bums - for free!!! The alumni team is more entertaining.