Current Events and Maybe some Basketball talk

Hey yall, so I just had a meeting with my landlord and signed a 6 month lease and immediately after my room mates and I were like 'awesome let's celebrate' so we started drinking whiskey and playing music loudly and using recreational marijuana. so we're listening to Michael Jackson (MISS U) and I'm like fuck dude I should update my sports/weed blog, because I ONLY UPDATE THIS BLOG UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA. In case any new readers were unaware or yall forgot this is a 'concept blog'. Anyway I'm gonna talk about basketball too, but really guys pop culture is important and it's crazy that the king of pop is gone. Did you guys feel like part of your youth vanished? I certainly did, I jsut feel bad about what happened with that dudes legacy. It breaks my <3 [ :( ] to just hear ppl act like it's their last chance to make jokes about MJ & little boys. SRSLY yall first of all, he was never actually convicted of crimes against children. Second if he was, child molestation is nothing to make any sort of joke abt.
Anyway I noticed everyone on twitter (twitter.com/rippedcity) was pretty bummed out about it. like @dwighthoward and @chrisbosh @the_real_shaq and @kevindurant35 and @travis25outlaw were all like "that sucks abt MJ, what's yalls fav MJ song? Go (insert player's team here)" more or less.

Anyhow in basketball news, Shaq is in Cleveland, I'd like to see them fail again, I mean, come on if you have the NBAs best record and still choke how paranoid do you have to be going into the next season. I could see them doing better in the playoffs with the big shaqalier or whatever the fuck that egotistical goliath of a man calls himself. Sorry guys always though Shaq was kinda tooly, I would battle rap that motherfucker so hard, just like go off, you know whast I'm sayin like he'd be shaq-fu and I would mortal kombat his ass. Anyone good luck to that dude and 'the chosen one'. Your puppet is hilarious L. Bron Hubbard but you ain't won no jewelry yet son!

[cigarette break yall, American Spirit Blacks, I'm on a sabbatical]

Okay guys I have to go, I think I'm too fucked up to do this right now. TTYL. oh yeah BTW, my friend brian is a FASHIONISTA so check out his website www.masterofgreatness.com

what do we do about the Point Guard position?

Well that seems to be what's on Blazers Fans' minds these days... Do we keep Blake? I don't know it's hard for me not to like the guy. He's one of two Blazers who live in PDX year round, he's a white dude who endorses AND1 [(totes LOLz)Freals, I saw that shit up in slame and I was like NO FUCKIN WAY! DOPE!] and he has played for Milwaukee and Washington. Fuck man, that's like a veteran of both world wars coming home. Mother fucker's probably just happy to be here. He went from being part of two of the most disappointing franchises in the league to being on a contender coming into bloom in an area he apparently likes. I mean that dude is obviously stoked and I just imagine that trading him would harsh his proverbial mellow. I mean I just see that guy gettin traded and arriving at his new destination and just saying some shit like "fuck man I'm not tryin' to be all Starbury anything but this shit sucks". The reality is though that this is pretty likely and if Steve gets swapped for someone better well sorry man that's the way the cookie crumbles in the jungle and if that happens I will be more inclined to see whichever team your playing for when you come to the rose garden even if they suck because we all know that sometimes the blowouts are the best nights at the garden. Like I only made it to one game last season due to poverty/the economie but it was that game where we fucked the Heat up, you know the one where D-Wade seriously just looked like he wanted to fucking leave. Yeah I was at that shit and it was some dope because everyone played, fuck man Ike's getting traded at the deadline ass was even off the bench for a minute in that game. Anyhow I'm getting really off topic here, sorry it is Ripped City. Anyway Blake more than likely isn't going to a team that sucks. More likely the buzz going around is that he'll be sent to Chicago in a trade for Kirk Hinrich. I can see this one from both sides. Really at this point I'm kind of apathetic to it, I think it's an all right idea but I don't think it's as serious as everyone is making it out to be. Blake and Hinrich are very similar PGs, the general opinion is that Hinrich is a better version of Blake or that Steve Blake is the Miller High Life and Hinrich is the Miller Genuine Draft in the Blazers cooler. Well I'm a high life man, I like cheap, it's not glorious, but I think it'll work. I think with the improvement Blake has shown and the decline I've seen from Hinrich over the years, seriously pushing Detroit to 6 games in 07 to that shitfest year in 08 up to this year watching your boys draft the #1 and pretty fucking locked in Rookie of the Year at your position. You just got told you have to train the dude taking your position? Fuck man, Hinrich wants to get out somewhere where he'll still be runiing the show and I get that Portland meets his criteria for that and for a year or two he might be better than Blake would have been but in 2 or 3 years Blake might be a better PG and Kirk could be riding the pine terminally, fading out of the NBA backing up promising rookies in perpetual lottery franchises. I think Blake isn't hurting us and seeing him stay would work fine especially if we got the Small Forward figured out and our centers came together. It'd also be nice to get LA some backup. Again I'll say I like Antonio McDyess in this scenario.

fuck dudes I seriously forgot I was writing a blog, went to do a quick Tweet on www.twitter.com/rippedcity and peeped this weirdo @ www.twitter.com/gabfrab started reading his tweets to my room mate and got distracted. I don't wanna reread everything I wrote so I'm going to try to start up again as best I can with a little bit of recap and make this next part a little less rambly.
A lot of folks think we're gonna have Blake and Hinrich involved in a trade, probably with a few other players involved as well.
I'm cool with it but I'm not really super stoked on it either. I think we'll have a strong team next year either way.
I think Bayless is the safest, now that we dumped of Sergio he'll get more minutes and just back up the starter every night and hopefully establish that he'll be the future starting PG on the Blazers. That's what a lot of people are hoping for and I think it's highly plausible. I don't think he's going anywhere.
So that's about all I can handle for writing about the Blazers Point Guard Crisis 09 Edition for now I'm gonna go smoke a cigarette. Follow me on twitter if you've got it and leave me feedback!

the day after draft day

alright gang it's the day after draft day hangover, after poppin bottles all night hearing the names of the strongest draft class in history and hearing name after name get called we just kept partying because we had the number one pick and we took SAM BOWIE! OVER JORDAN! oh fuck it's the day after draft day and I don't feel well... Nope, not this year, no way dude, we had a nice quiet traft day, for the first time I can remember Kevin Pritchard just kind of sat there, made a few quiet moves in the chess game that is being a general manager in the nba, and took his time. He's not making his move of the year right now, he's gonna wait to give us the offseason 09 prize. A free agent? We have cap room now thanks to giving Sergio a ticket on the Aloha Express all the way down to Sacramento. Purple just ain't sergio's color, I say the Kings will make an awesome move and send Rodriguez to Milwaukee, sure it doesn't make sense, but if it happens don't be surprised. Know that I called it. Anyhow I think that signing a free agent is the most likely scenario for KPs move of the summer. I like the idea of bringing Antonio McDyess over from Detroit to back up Lamarcus Aldridge. We all know the real move that needs to be made though and that's at the point guard position. I hear a lot about Hinrich coming over, I'll have a seperate blog on how I feel about that soon.
Portland also will have the option to use the cap room from Sergio's Farewell Tour to make a lopsided trade so this as well as the free agent option gives us a lot of possibilities. So as we've established KP is leaving his big move for after the draft. But fear not, he wasn't making noise but he was playing it smart. No break out stars but a few guys that given a few years can really make a difference, fix up some size issues and add some toughness. Well played Kev, no mega Pritichslaps this year just quitely working on establishing western confrence dominance in the near future.

welcome to ripped city

Hi yall, brief intro blog as to what ripped city is and is about. RippedCity is an idea I had a while ago out of my love for the Blazers, Basketball, Blogging and smoking weed I decided the right thing to do would be to start a Blazers oriented sports blog that I only update under the influence of marijuana. So that's basically what I do here, so it's pretty stoney, hopefully fairly informative and fans of dro and basketball should both be able to enjoy it.

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