Josh Ouellette
By Josh Ouellette
Big Papa Joe (Torosian) pointed out in Fanview that the high school football season will start in six months. I am pumped. Soon there will be passing league, sooner there will be more opportunities to see who will be next year’s stars in the Mid Valley and Southeast divisions.
Look for more interviews like last weeks to come in the next few editions of Just Joshing.
March is finally here, more importantly the best games in the college basketball season will begin. This is when I actually start to care about basketball. Until March I follow both the Association and NCAA ball, not religiously, but enough to know who is a legitimate threat when playoffs and the Tournament comes around.
I like the Boston Celtics and St. Johns to come out on top.
Will the Red Storm run out of gas and emotional victories al la the Maranatha Minutemen football team? Sure it’s an abstract connection but when you look at both teams’ seasons there are some similarities.
Talking about Maranatha, I love how on the midvalleysports.com poll on the top quarterback and receiver connections is Andrew Elfers to Josh Jones. Elfers won’t have Jones next year, but he will have a great new coach in Pete Karavedas.
Talking about Elfers and young talents in the area, what about the young talents in Major League Baseball? The Washington Nationals have Bryce Harper. The hyped-up, 18 year-old, phenom got his first hit in a spring training game today.
Whoop de doo. When he gets a hit in a major league game he can have my respect. Not saying he won’t be a great player. He has more potential than any other player in the last decade. But the world of sporting news needs to stop filling his head up with smoke so he doesn’t end up a draft bust.
If the Nats are playing then so are the Dodgers. A new Manny-less era has begun at Chavez Ravine, well not really there yet, but at least in Glendale, Arizona it has. I loved Manny for being Manny. But after last season, I’ll take Jay Gibbons over Ramirez in left field any day.
Also the new skipper, Don Mattingly, has dubbed aging Casey Blake to be his choice in the two spot. Now I love Casey Blake, but he isn’t the fastest guy in the league, and those wheels aren’t going to last all season. But surprisingly when Matt Kemp is catching up to Blake at third when he is stretching a double with a runner on first into a triple, I’ll be okay with it. Why? Because Casey Blake is the epitome of true baseball. He hustles and gives all he has on every play.
I wish Albert Pujols would sign a contract already. He will go down next to George Herman Ruth as one of the greatest players of all time. But he can’t do that until he takes the $200 million, he is being offered.
I know he gives a lot of his money to his own and other charities, and I commend him for that. But if I had the chance to give everything I had to play at the level he does and only get paid five bucks a game, I’d do it.
Somebody needs to put that in perspective for him.
In bringing up perspective, can someone beat some sense into Cam Newton? Sure he’s an entertainer, but he’s no Cedric, and he might not have a season to even play in if the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) isn’t signed.
Last thought, would anybody make an Under Amour shirt big enough to fit Big Tony?
Last last thought, would anybody have the stomach to see that sight?
The Omelette can be reached at josh@midvalleysports.com
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
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