Steve Patterson, the new president of the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team, was in the paper last Friday, the day of the crucial baseball financing vote in Salem, saying negative things about bringing major league baseball to town. How's that for class?

What a sorry organization the Blazers have become. Once Paul Allen finally ships out the overpriced bad apples (which looks as though it will take a few more years), I hope he finds someone to buy the team from him. I wish the McMenamin brothers would take over the Blazers -- how cool would they make them? In the meantime, I'll see you at the Rose Garden, not.