In case you all didn't know, Galactic Love and Starvin Marvin (aka Dirty Socks aka Da Roybot aka the self proclaimed best bowler of BE who was beaten by Prez, Xman, and myself ) have quite the wager going on.  In the near future the two of them will be bowling for very high stakes.  If Starvin Marvin can beat G. Love by more than 100 pins, she will buy courtside seats for Mr. Marvin.  However, if Miss G. Love can beat Marvin straight up, he will need to dress up in women's clothes, complete with full makeup (and be paraded around the RG at a game).  These are pretty high stakes for both of these bowlers, and since G. Love is spending all of her free time training to beat Marvin, I decided to take it upon myself to ask BE what outfit should Tyler wear when he loses.

First...we have the cheerleader outfit

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2nd we have the school girl outfit (red and black obviously)

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3rd we class things up a little with an evening gown

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4th or we can take the casual approach like Tyler's favorite celeb, Audrina

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Now that cell phones have improved in sound quality over the years from polyphonic ringtones to now full blown mp3 ringtones, users can express their personality through their ringtone.  I recall getting my first PDA phone right when Jackass 2 game out on DVD.  I became hooked with the music video they had at the end of that movie.  The Jackass crew lipsynced to Peaches - F the Pain Away.  I liked it so much that I had to download it as my ringtone the first second I could.  Well later that week, I ended up going to a packed sneak preview showing of 300.  Since my PDA phone was really high tech and complicated, I ended up thinking that I turned my phone on silent, but actually turned it to LOUD.   Well during a quiet part of the movie, my cell phone decides to ring, and the entire theater kept on yelling expletives at me and I frantically tried to shut off my phone.  It was a touch screen phone so I fumbled around trying to silence the sound, and then I tried just rejecting the call, but the entire song continued to play.  If you aren't aware, this song is just full of profanity...so the fact that hundreds in the theater could hear with mp3 clarity what was coming out of my phone made it a lot more embarassing than if I had one of those Nokia phones from the late 90s. 

So Bedge...what is your main ringtone?  Do you have custom ringtones for certain people?  If you had Ben, Dave, or any other Bedger in your cell phone and had to give them a custom ringtone, what would it be?

I have been terribly busy so far this summer doing stuff in relation to purchasing a home.  Now that I finally found a place, most of my time has been spent furniture shopping, and pouring over decorating books, sites, shows, and images.  Thank God this is happening during the off season and not during the season causing me to miss any games.

Well I recently came across something I was really interested in a few years ago...MAN CAVES!  Now that I have my own house, what better way to express my manhood and my love for the Blazers than with a Blazers themed man cave. 

I envision my man cave to include a grey painted concrete flooring with paint specs and a Blazers logo that will later be epoxied.  Then I can construct a shrine to house my memorabilia.  Of course the place will have a mounted flat screen with CSN so that I can hook it up to my computer and make a Blazers video vault to have all the games archived. 

Lastly, maybe a homemade custom poker table...also Blazer themed of course.

Anyone else love mancaves?

I was kind of hoping to save this for a midweek JD, but since there isn't a JD posted I just thought I'd go ahead and post it.  OK Bedgers...what's the most embarrassing story you are willing to admit to BE Nation?  Did you pass gas in front of someone you really wanted to impress?  Did you drunk dial/text/confess your feelings to someone?  Did you get caught with your pants down (a la Paul Pierce and Sam Adams)?

I've had numerous embarrassing moments over the years...but the most embarrassing came during the final week of my senior year in HS.  I had recently pranked a friend of mine...and he had vowed to return the favor.  Only he returned it in a very big way.  At the time I had a HS crush that was only known to my close friends.  I never really worked up the courage to express my interest in her.  So to get back at me...my friends constructed a 15 foot animated poster that confessed my love to her.  They made it in a way that seemed like I had a hand in this (however I was completely surprised).  So during a school assembly...when the entire school was present, they walked along the stage with the sign, and hung it up on the banister.  My face turned bright red as I shook my head in disbelief.  What was even more embarrassing was that the object of my affection thought it was sweet of me to do this and took a picture with me with the entire school watching.  That last week of school was rough, bc every hour someone had to bring up that story again.  I'm sure it'll be talked about during my reunion as well.

Well everyone...what is your most embarrassing moment?

A common topic that has been coming up a lot here lately is the officiating in the series.  In 5 games so far the referees have called 107 fouls against Houston and 113 against Portland.  Only a -6 foul differential!  We've seen comments and posts for the first 4 games about how biased the officiating has been.  Some have speculated that there is a conspiracy by Stern to draw in more Chinese fans by advancing Houston to the next round.  Looking at the margin of fouls called makes me wonder, are we just homers that are blinded by love of our hometown team?  If the officiating was really that poor in the first 4 games, you would expect there to be a larger margin of fouls called. 

While strolling over to The Dream Shake, they are complaining about the same thing many BEdgers are...poor officating.  So we are complaining about poor officiating, they are complaining about poor officiating.  So is one team being favored here?  Or is the officating equally poor for both teams?

As a team, our Blazers have been challenged numerous times.  Each time we have learned from our past/mistakes and have overcome those challenges.  Every question we have had about this team, has been answered.  We have shown resiliancy, ability to beat championship contending teams, able to win without Brandon/Lma, ability to end losing streaks, ability to shut out bottom feeder teams, ability to come from behind, etc.  We've had 54 regular season wins...some were blowouts, others were heart attacks waiting to happen.  Each player has had their moment to shine this year from Brandon all the way down to Shavlick in the preseason.

One of our goals this season was just to get a taste of the playoffs to gain experience for next year.  However...3 games into the series, have we learned anything as a team?  Have we seen any growth?  What have we learned about how our players are responding to the intensity of the playoffs?  Was the game 3 loss a moral victory that we can be pleased with?  How do you currently feel about our personel and what areas of concern do you have?