Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM

The Randy Foye video segment is *very nice indeed.* A high quality person — and that’s what we like around here!

Comment from thewiz87
Time August 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM

i kno i haven’t blogged abt our wizards in a minute for those not hip with the lingo lol minute meaning long-tyme lol let me start me start by giving my congrats to ernie for signing Orberto he will def be a help in the post combining him with randy foye, mike miller, caron butler, jamison, Arenas, haywood omg we have a lot of potential this coming season if anybody has direct access to ernie can you tell him to trade Stevenson & mike james what are they still doing on my roster lol with nike & javaris we need to start making some calls i believe we are very close to compiting for a title this season n if can trade stevenson n james away n possiblly get another skilled small foward / shooting gaurd on this roster we will be dangerous maybe even make it to the finals honestly i have no problem with stevenson nor james i just don’t see them fitting with the teams rotation they’ll just be taking minutes away from foye, miller, butler, javaris, young, Mcguire but by tradin them we can idk whose available orr not im just saying shop arnd im most certian we can get something for those guys especially with mike james having only 1 year left on his contract come on ernie i’m hungry for a ring year not only for myself n but everybody thats part of these organization from mr. ape polin to the person working the tickets hopefully their a wizards fan idk lol u get my point stevenson n james will NOT n can NOT help the wizards cause this year n going for a title but they do have value in a potential trade so please i’m tired of seeing those two on my roster make some calls make that happened lookin foward to the season -thewiz87

Comment from neal
Time August 17, 2009 at 2:11 PM

Oberto instead of Joe Smith doesn’t figure with me. Sure, Oberto will be good for chemistry. But has Smith every been considered a bad apple? And isn’t Smith a much better player? There’s a good chance that some time during the season Haywood or McGee will be out for a while and our third C will be logging a lot of minutes.

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM

Title?

To me, it’s a big question mark if we can secure home court advantage in round 1 of the playoffs. The elite teams of the East — Cleveland, Boston and Orlando — all improved significantly this off-season, and Atlanta won 47 games this year and hasn’t gotten worse.

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM

neal — Oberto has been a little less consistent than Smith, but at his best he’s actually been better (’06-7 & esp. ’07-8). Last year he fell off a little. If he can play like he did 2 seasons ago, he’ll be a steal.

But both these guys are well into the down side of their career; no predicting for either of them.

Comment from GlingGling
Time August 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM

Wizards ranked 9th overall, 4th in the east.

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/powerrankings/08/17/offseason.rankings/index.html

The Randy Foye video was good. HQ character, we’ll have good locker room.

Comment from AUNDRA
Time August 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM

The Randy Foye video was great and it was important for me to see because just like our own Agent Zero he has a great story to tell and I’m all ears! The character that he portrays is right up there with the best of them and I hope he makes a great impact and foundation right here in the Washington DC metropilitan area with his outreach programs! I see the stars at night win I think about this guys potential and I hope everything he hopes and dreams come to fruition. Good luck you are now part of our family!

Comment from AUNDRA
Time August 17, 2009 at 6:45 PM

The pet word for the entire season is what can you bring to the court on a consistent basis. Consistency,consistency will be the word I use all year long when it refers to break out players like Randy Foye,Andray Blatche and Nick Young, Mcgee and also Deshawn Stevenson because the house needs a great foundation if it is to last and we need a great base to hold all the weight! The words need to be written and the coaches need to implement the plan from the start to accomplish it so theres no miscommunication to whats expected!

Comment from GlingGling
Time August 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM

AUNDRA, what happened to your caps lock?

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 17, 2009 at 9:40 PM

Nice to see us ranked so high. It’s going to be fun to watch us — we are a very different team than we’ve ever been.

Comment from getabigboyoffense
Time August 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM

SportzWiz, I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing the same things that I am, but the blog web site doesn’t seem to be functioning as it should. Frequently, when I click on the option to access the blog absolutely nothing happens; other times I might get an error stating that the page is not available. While it’s not a big deal now, this is probably going to be a real issue once the season starts and we have a lot of bloggers trying to get on the blog at the same time.

Comment from SportzWiz
Time August 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM

gabbo did the error you saw come on just Thursday and Friday?…There was a small area that had an issue with the blog over that two day stretch and that problem has since been fixed.

Not sure on the other issues you are talking about…

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 18, 2009 at 9:22 AM

WordPress is a very simple, robust platform — many millions of WordPress blogs, some of them much higher traffic than this one, work reliably day in and day out.

That tells me the people who put up this blog for you don’t really have the skills they need. The season is coming, as Getabig says; do we really want to be clanking bricks online when it’s here?

Ask somebody in the organization for some help and a little budget to get this straightened out.

Comment from SportzWiz
Time August 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM

Tom have you noticed any problems?

It was not the hosting site, personally I havent had issues since the first week or two we went up. Trying to figure out what problems people are having…

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Actually, despite what I said, I haven’t had a lot of problems lately — though I did have a couple of periods a few days ago where the site gave me an error message.

Often, however, I have to *reload* the browser page before I can get the blog to take a comment — don’t know what causes this.

Without any doubt, there are more problems than I experience with any other blog that I can think of, and more than there were before the “redesign.”

Comment from SportzWiz
Time August 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM

what do you mean reload? sorry just trying to get the specific issues.

there have been some BIG fixes with the change…

Comment from datonypony
Time August 19, 2009 at 4:27 AM

Sportwiz I got knocked off the blog twice last week just to let you know.

Comment from SportzWiz
Time August 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM

datonypony, do you remember when? (again thursday and friday in a small area we had issues)…When you say knocked off where you able to get on the page and then when you posted it knocked you off? Thanks.

Comment from Tom Mandel
Time August 19, 2009 at 10:12 AM

I haven’t had any problems in some days; lets hope things are stable.

Comment from SportzWiz
Time August 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM

i havent either Tom… If you do have issues let me know and we will work on getting whatever kinks you have out.