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With the comment “SKULL/BONES blazes a different trail in stating that Portland’s pompous pride in Greg Oden may be premature.”

For the record, I don’t really care or mind if Portland Trailblazers fans believes that Oden is going to bring the Blazers to the promised land. The Portland Trailblazers got lucky — their #1 draft pick was deferred a year to the year when it mattered — from the season when they had the best chance of winning the top slot after a season where the team was stuck in neutral, to a season where they did not have the best chance of the top slot and the team had shown wobbly signs of moving forward.

I largely had a narrow focus: the city’s celebration –ie: the mayor (hated by sports’ fans, and there’s nothing wrong with it but he is not a sports’ fan) appearing to throw in his words– ought be reserved for when this anticipation materializes.

To the degree that I ran on into a statement of the overly enthused nature of Oden-Mania, I guess John Canzano offered the retort to such sentiments.  In the end, I have to consign it to a small market enthusiasm, and leave it at that..:

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf?/base/sports/1183258517153980.xml&coll=7

As for that racially-tinged comment, pointed out by somebody else: a Comment made by the protagonist at one point in Neil Stephensons `Zodiac’ (more or less):`Here we have a bunch of bigoted white guys (fishermen) and their heroes are all giant black guys with clubs (baseball players)’.  Sociologically, I always have to try to think of the “Observer from Mars” equation.

My only real question is, if you are happen to come back to read this: What do you think I am saying?  Feel free to be as blatant as you’d like; I just want to know.