Blazers Ownership Threatens To Pull Spending With The Oregonian Over.....A Meme
That guy right there has Blazers ownership all sorts of upset. That tweet got ratio’d to hell, currently with 407 RTs and 1.1K replies, which is to be expected. The thing is, this isn’t all that crazy of a post, it’s something the Blazers do after every game to pull in the social buzz about what just happened. Sometimes, it’s positive. Other times you just blew another huge lead and are down 0-3 so naturally the internet is going to roast you. That’s sort of how this all works. All the Oregonian did was put everything together in one place. They didn’t make that meme, it came from someone in the story
So I find it a little bizarre that the Blazers are taking this so personal.
Chris is the CEO of Vulcan Sports & Entertainment and I won’t pretend to know exactly what that is but the internet tells me it’s the group that owns the Blazers. They also own the Seahawks, Sounders, and Blazer5 Gaming. Safe to say this man is pretty freaking important so if he wants to stop spending with this paper I’m pretty sure he can get it done.
My only question is, I thought this was America? Now you can only write about your local team if it’s positive? You can’t do one of these postgame social reaction posts if the Blazers lose by blowing another huge lead? That doesn’t seem right. Again, the paper didn’t write them, this wasn’t a situation where they trashed a player like what happened in OKC after KD left. All they did was see what social media was saying after a frustrating loss. The reaction by the ownership group seems a little excessive. It was Skip Bayless that called them the “trash brothers” not the paper. At least they stuck up for themselves
“In a roundup of memes and social reaction after Game 3, The Oregonian/OregonLive included several positive and negative takes by others, and the tweet landed with a thud. While it may have missed the mark with some, our job is not to cheerlead; it’s to report what is out there.”
Obviously the Blazers have every right to decide how and where to spend their money, but if something as trivial as pulling together instant social media reactions is going to be a problem if they aren’t overwhelmingly positive, they probably should stay off the internet tonight after Game 4.
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