SB Nation User Blog: roseburgian

OT: Summer reading suggestion

roseburgian — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:32:45 -0000

Many of you may have already read this, but I finally got my hands on Jack McCallum's book, "Seven Seconds or Less," on Phoenix's 05-06 season.

It is quite entertaining, as well as a fascinating (to me) look at the coaches.

Lemme put it this way: This book is going into my regular, permanent good-gods-the-finals-are-over-and-there's-no-more-basketball-for-mooooonnnnnnths summer rotation, right after "Breaks of the Game" and "Loose Balls".

Been there, done that

roseburgian — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:19:35 -0000

And, with luck, not doing it again.

I expect most of you have read today's True Hoop entries (http://www.truehoop.com/) from Kevin Arnovitz. The post that struck home with me was the reference to a column written by Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070212/COLUMNISTS01/702120328/1062/SPORTS04

Reading Mr. Kravitz's column and--more to the point--the 148 responses to the column, was a blast of deja vu. These fans are CRANKY. Almost every responder was ticked off about (a) the "thug" image of the players; or (b) the crappy job managment and ownership is doing; or (c) "the NBA has generally gone to hell," (but the Pacers, in particular, are in whatever circle is reserved for lousy organizations); or (d) all of the above.

After heroically suppressing the urge to post a "Nyah nyah, your turn. What's that? JailPacers? hehehehe," sort of comment, I got to thinking about the flavor of the posts.

People, this was the kind of stuff I was reading about the Blazers six months ago (okay, or later, depending on who's posting--love ya, prophet and fatty!).

Now I'm not saying all is now well. But, dang, the prospects of the team are looking a heck of a lot brighter than they were six months ago. We like [most of] the players. Paul Allen is buying back the Rose Garden. And I'd say the general tenor of this site is pretty hopeful. This is progress! Enjoy it!

[sigh] This post has been brought to you by Pollyannaburgian.

Apropos of Nothing . . . (web game)

roseburgian — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:57:47 -0000

Found while perusing the Globetrotter (http://aloneconformist.blogspot.com/): They have a link to a hilarious flash game called "Alien Sam," starring an elongated Sam Cassells head valiently fighting off various scary baddies, including our own Mr. Randolph. (Well, I'm gonna take it as a good thing they consider him scary.)

(The Globetrotter picked up the link via a Bobcats blog, http://www.bobcatsplanet.com. Man, I love blogs!)

Just the ticket for time wasting:

http://remaincalm.org/aliensam.html

Me, I'm off to blast aliens.