Welcome Back to Blazer Beat Blog

Blazer Loyalists:

Welcome back to the Blazer Beat blog. After some winter hibernation and holiday cheer, team Sentinel returns to the court of basketball commentary.

Let me first confirm that the era of Blazermania III is here. I lived through the first two versions, first with Walton and then Drexler, and can say without question that the disease has taken the town under its infectious grip. It’s like the flu; you know it when you got it and Portland’s got it good.

This Wednesday will mark my first turn at in-game blogging. Check it out here. I intend to feature some pre-game discussions with the players, quarterly reports and real-time exclamations as the game goes along. Let me know what you think during the game…I’ll need some company sitting there on press row, me and my laptop broadcasting to the world.

Down the road, look for fellow Sentinel writers to do the same.

BTW, I have a great suggestion to the Blazers for a give-away bauble…small, cheap AM radios with Blazer logos on them. How cool would it be to know that the entire Garden crowd is listening to the play-by-play by Wheels and Rice? The commentators themselves could orchestrate some pretty cool fan actions without the opposing teams knowing it. For example, they could incite the crowd to yell “brick house” just at the right moment during free throws or tell everyone to stand and turn their back after a particularly bad officiating call.

If I don’t see you at the game, I’ll see you in cyberland on Wednesday. Golden State will be a tough challenge, but the boys of winter will be rested and ready. --- (Black and) Red Pen 1000