Saw last night at East Burn. Crowd there was not into the game at all.
They have the tap room projection screen, two HD screens, only distraction was the clacking of ski balls.
Also, I'd think Blitz is great for games if you can handle the Pearl.
Grand Central if you wanna $pend, maybe they'll have playoff specials.

Saraveza

Thanks for the recommendations! It'd be great if you could post the address too as a help to your fellow lazy Bogtownies.

Saraveza: 1004 N Killingsworth St
East Burn: 1800 E. Burnside
Grand Central: 808 SE Morrison

Carry on.

I was at Ladd Blitz during the NCAAs (round of 8 I think?) with a few people. We left to go to the Blazers game, but from what I heard from my friends who stayed to watch NCAAs, the wait staff changed every single TV (and there are a lot of them) to the Blazers game, right at crunch time of a college game, much to the angst of lots of college b-ball fans sitting there watching.

I tried to like Blitz but the people who work there, I just don't know if they understand that they're working in a sports bar. Or a bar in general. I didn't know about their conversion from sports bar to lounge, but it doesn't surprise me.

Belmont has a couple good options for sports watcheration: Triple Nickel (37th) and Belmont's Inn (34th) are both a bit grimy but in a lovable way. Triple Nickel doesn't normally get to be a Blazers bar because they don't have comcast, but all the playoff games are on either nat'l networks or KGW, so you can enjoy your cheap-ass-strong-ass pours with Blazermania.

Thanks Scoots! They have been struck from the list, and my heart.

In other news, Blitz may have made a dicey business decision.

For some reason I thought this was going to be a post about sports bras.

What about the Jolly Roger at 12th and Madison? They have like 800 tv's in there...

What about the Jolly Roger at SE 12th and Hawthorne? Tons of tvs and cheap greasy food.

Please take the Agency off of this list. That place can suck my left nut. Expensive beers + Blazer games go together like Portland and black people.

At the Thirsty Lion we have three 50" HDTVs and one 60" Big Screen TV. Plus we have the sound on for all Blazer games.

Thirsty Lion Pub
71 SW 2nd Ave
Portland, Or 97204

The Thirsty Lion charges about $8 for a beer and Concept Entertainment can suck my left nut as well as the Agency.

I don't know if HUB (Hopworks Urban Brewery) has TV's or not, but I do know they have a Blazers-themed Porter on tap. "The Terry Porter" of course.

I plan to be sipping a few this second season.

Sloan's is so great! I watched the game there last Friday and the guy next to me cheered so exuberantly that he broke his chair.

Jeeze s.mirk, I thought you were Mr. Markley.

Sloan's is great. Also right up the road on Vancouver is Club 1222. Saw Cleveland play our I-5 team there on my birthday with the fabulous Ms. Griffith.

I would also vote for Alberta St. for the after-parties.

i second the call for a post about sports bras

how does marathon miss out on all this hawt action? best gyros, personal pitchers, and more tvs than stick-shaking could hope for. w burnside and something 20ish

The Gladstone Street Pub (37th & Gladstone) isn't huge but they do show every Blazer game.

Hrm, yeah, I dunno if Hopworks has TVs. I'm guessing yes. I do know that they just added three pinball machines. And according to the pinball operator, the place has good food and brews!

That is a ridiculous lie Garrett. $5.50 for a 20oz Import/Micro. Also, I doubt anyone has a desire to suck either of your nuts. Which maybe why you're so cranky all the time.

Thank you - know we know where to stay away from for the next few weeks! We accidentally stumbled into a place that is NOT a sports bar, but has TVs last week when some Lakers game was on and the crowd trying to turn it into a sports bar was irritating as hell.

@Ritchie

Touch a nerve did I? It still doesn't take away that the Thirsty Lion is a fake Englishish pub that is ridiculously overpriced and run by the folks who dreamed up Barracuda and Grand Central Bowl. Overpriced seems to be a common theme among Concept Entertainment run bars. What do you charge for one of your famously watered down cocktails these days? $7.00 for well or is it $6.50 when one the suburbanite frequenters come in and order a round of appletini's to have a "real english pub" experience.

Balls sucked. Thanks Ritchie.

It's a European style pub and since you asked, wells are $4.00.


Wouldn't all Irish, English, Norwegian, Japanese pubs in this country be fake?

Yes, they would be. And that's not a value judgment, but a fact.

Ritchie, what the very fuck is a "European style pub"???