Blazers Haters, Unite (and best/worst sports teams to pay to watch, I guess…)
I try to keep cross-blogging to a minimum, not only because that’s the rules, but also because I feel like a cheater when I do it.
However, I don’t feel inspired to do a best/worst today (unless you want to comment on best/worst sports teams to pay to watch in town, where I’ll say best are Hawks and Beavers, worst are Timbers and Blazers). I was inspired, though, to rant on everything I hate about the Blazers, and what I think would make me (and maybe other Blazer fans) happy.
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Why do you say the Timbers are the *worst* to watch…?
Not to berate the Timbers, but there are four paying shows in town right now. So I can’t really plead ignorance on what’s best and worst, since I’ve seen them all.
I voted the Timbers into the worst category (although they are leaps and bounds better than the Blazers, for moral reasons if no other) because their season runs into the fall which means colder, wetter weather (I caught a horrible cold last time I went to one), soccer is always annoying to me because of the low scoring and the general feeling that noone is making progress, and I’m sick of that guy hanging from the rafters and cutting logs.
The TImbers are the best game in town. You are sick of TImber Jim? Timber Jim is the greatest mascot in the history of sport.
“soccer is always annoying to me because of the low scoring and the general feeling that noone is making progress”
Uh, what about baseball?
Did you ever see the Soccer Hooligans episode of the Simpsons? Where all of the fans are there, watching three players in a triangle pass the ball around to eachother?
This is how I feel at soccer games. I feel like the ball’s always at midfield.
I get more pleasure out of baseball, I think because there’s always the potential for one team to entirely job the other (where a good trouncing in soccer is, like, 3-0, a 17-1 game is always around the corner in baseball), and also because, even if the game is boring, there are convenient breaks built into the action so you can go grab another, um, beverage.
Even though I play soccer, it isn’t exactly a sport that’s geared toward American audiences, since we’re more accustomed to high-scoring games with lots of breaks and time-outs. I enjoy playing it more than watching it. I had a friend come along to a Timbers game last week and he missed seeing three out of four goals because we were late and he was either in the restroom, or just looking away at the wrong moment.
However, games are great if you hang around with the Timbers Army in section 107. Those people know how to get into a game.
Sho — Refreshing to see some objectivity. My listing of the Timbers as not fun to watch shouldn’t be construed as a statement against soccer as a sport. In my opinion, soccer’s not as fun to watch as baseball. Neither is golf, though in many ways both are as fun or more fun to play. I imagine half the fun of watching the game with the Timbers Army is being with the people. I’ve been to alot of games (hockey, football, baseball, basketball, and soccer) where who I was with, and what we were doing in our group, worked to make the game a better experience than it would have been if I was actually there to see the sport…
By the way, this dialogue is much more civil than the one over at my Blazers Haters Unite post on my own blog. I struck a chord with that one. About 400 hits today alone, upwards of 15 comments. I’m not used to this sort of attention…