First off this post is not about me selling any tickets. I don't have any tickets to sell.

Today I woke up at 4 am and began to get ready to head down to the Rose Garden to try and get playoff tickets. This was my plan until I logged on to Blazersedge and saw the post about the campers. I was silly to think that the 10 or so security guards could keep campers away until 6 am, so that's on me. It was a truly thrilling site to see so many Blazer fans lined up all night for just the chance at getting tickets.

Now that all the tickets have been sold, and are in the hands of the fans (or scalpers) I am curious what people are willing to pay for tickets. I've been searching online to see the prices for tickets and they are a little out of my budget. I am wondering though how many fans are really willing to pay $150 for a $25 dollar ticket. If these tickets don't get sold maybe the prices will be driven down. Classic over saturation of the market.

So to complete my curiosity test I have a poll.

 I love Blazers Edge. I have been lurking around here for almost 2 years now. It is always the place I go to first to check up on Blazer news and to read the various opinions of other Blazer fans like myself. In the last year I have participated a little more by adding a comment or two here and there. Most of these comments are usually sarcastic or very short but I look at is as dipping my toe in the water before I jump in.

I have never written a Fanpost before, and I hate that this is my first one. I am absolutely annoyed beyond belief of all the trade speculation in the fanpost area.  I look on the left sidebar and I see 8 out of 10 fanposts about trades. Although Dave has tried the Trade Drawer it obviously is not working. There are fans joining the site today to post their trade proposal, often times a proposal that has been proposed upwards of 25 times.

Like I said before I hate that this is my first fanpost, but I just have to vent about this. I can’t wait until Feb. 19. I CAN’T WAIT. Why? Because I miss my site. I miss our site. I miss the discussion about the players we have progressing, instead of discussing the players we have as valuable trade assets. I don’t mind speculation, every fan does it, but enough is enough people.  Let the front office handle the trades and we can keep enjoying being fans.

I apologize if this comes off as an attack. It’s not. It’s only frustration manifesting itself in a fanpost.

I honestly do love this site very much and I hope once the deadline passes we can go back to the great conversations we had before the mad rush of trade proposals.

Feb. 19 can come no sooner

GO BLAZERS!