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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (17360)	2/3/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Sort of funny experience: The NBA and the Trailblazers have been bending over backwards to try to get people to go to basketball games. They, the arena owner, and the TV station have been flooding the air with "good cheer and welcome back!" Suck eggs, I say. Nonetheless, they played a free scrimmage game and gave away free food and beer and the mondo riche players walked around saying "High." They used three fourths of the newscast live from the stadium. You see more than you want to. The worst part is it's all Paul Allen's stuff that he's too cheap to pay for. Anyway, the guy with the mike is standing halfway up the seating squealing with delight about 18,000 people being there; yakking away about how happy everyone is, and he says, "Any report from Blazer Stadium would be incomplete without speaking to The Number One Blazer Fan." He's standing next to this guy who's sitting down, facing away from him towards the floor. He's got awfully scraggly long long hair that's wrapped around his head partly caught in a bandana. Funky tee-shirt and gonzo beer cup. Reporter guy says, "Hey Mike, you want to join us?" "Mike" hops up. "Sure!!" He's got the scruffiest reddish beard I've seen in a long time. One that should really be shaved off, if he expects to date. No apparent tracks on the arms, but he looks homeless. Sluffy pants. Anemic maybe. I think to myself, they put this guy on TV? As Blazer Fan Number One? To get "people" to come down to the Stadium? Come down and sit with this guy? He looks like a biker speed-freak. Push through the hostile traffic, let blood for parking, and leave your car in his neighborhood? The reporter starts talking, and lo and behold, Mike starts answering ~ cogently, coherently, and with natural aplomb. I realize it's Mike. Mike. My friend; the guy who does my shipping. (He's a Great Guy, btw.) ..... :o)