Joe T.
Kick it!
I believe a few apologies are in order…Last Friday I rolled into the Mt. View Alumni football fundraiser. I took pictures, spoke with a few players, and then left before tacos were served.
Did you hear that? I LEFT BEFORE the tacos were served! Contrary to popular belief I’m not a mercenary.
Question: What is more exciting than the NBA Draft?
Cherokee Duane Barker told me he was offended at the Dodger game Friday night when they played the cavalry charge over the public address system in an attempt to rally the home team.
In a few weeks we’ll be updating the “Mid Valley Primer”, which serves as a glossary for all the sayings, nicknames, and tags we’ve been using over the last 13 years.
One of the categories being updated will be the “bubbas”…In the past any offensive/defensive lineman 250 and above was listed as a “bubba”…In the future any lineman between 240 and 275 pounds will be listed as a “bubba”…Linemen between 275 to 300 pounds will be listed as “SUV Class”…and anyone 300 pounds or more will be listed as “Sports Writer Class”.
Example: “Gabrielino has a pair of Sports Writer Class offensive tackles.”
(Well all the jokes can’t be good, you have to expect that every once in a while.)
The irresistible force and the unmovable object met at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night when our Big Tony Solorzano sat in the all you can eat right field pavilion.
Duane and Tim remember the pavilion they had big fun there!
Speaking of the Dodgers, does first baseman James Loney cry himself to sleep every night? Or does he laugh like a grifter who just pulled off the big con?
Answer: What is more exciting than the NBA Draft? Everything!
Rio Hondo Prep people are really excited about their opportunity to take a nice big wet bite out of Arcadia to open this coming football season.
After the Kares demolished Village Christian last year one local coach told me he wouldn’t schedule Rio Hondo Prep ever.
“What would I gain Joe?” He said. “I beat them and all I’ve done is beat a school with three or four hundred kids. And if I lose to them guys like you are never going to let me forget it.”
He’s probably right about that…we’re real partial to that whole “On this date in history…” thing…
The Dude abides…
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Job 25:2
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Jeff S,
Played tackle football together since the 1st grade? That may be a bit of exaggeration – but I do understand your point. Even in the prep football heaven counties of Texas, where they bleed pigskin, you don’t see a whole lot of “tackle” football for 7 year olds.
I think if you asked local coaches, they would say less than 25% of their freshman team have played organized contact football at all. At age 14, most of these kids are getting their first taste of real hitting, blocking and tackling. Of course, those freshman kids with 4, 2 or even one year of Junior All American (Pop Warner) will have a huge advantage in their first year of high school football.
There was a day in the SGV when the Pop Warner system also served as a “boot camp” for the high school which fell into the same geographic area. Such was the case for teams like the Alhambra Thunderbirds and Rosemead Rebels, who had 11 and 12 year old kids running dives, counters and sweeps in the same sets as the high school varsity program did. The lower level coaches knew of and supported many of the same offensive and defensive strategies as the high school football program did. Friday night “field trips” had the younger kids watching the varsity games and being awed seeing the same plays being executed and worked to perfection. The whole thing fed off itself – and bonds and friendship developed as well as exchanges of knowledge and further pledges of support going back and forth. A true symbiotic relationship, with both parties benefitting from the other.
And of course at the high school level, the freshman and soph team ran an even closer to dead on “same play” mentality as the varsity team did. Lineman knew blocking schemes in their sleep by junior year, which gave coaches ample time and opportunuitty to work on other refinements in their game. DB’s knew rotations and knew what was expected of them. This was not the case everywhere – but it was common in those cities where coaching tenure and longevity went beyond one or two years. Coaches like Salter, Beam, Hamilton and Crutchfield all saw some benefits from this “arrangement” whether formal or not. It is definitely a thing of the past.
total consumption at the game, 6 dogs, 4 begs of peanuts, one tray of nachos, 1 chocolate malt (not included in AYCE price), one snow cone.
Amount taken home for later consumption, 2 dozen dogs, 2 dozen peanut bags, 4 bags of popcorn(Per request of Mom)
People talk like Prep has 100 pansey students. Most of these students have played tackle football together since 1st grade.Yea, Arcadia has 3500 students, but very few have played much more than 5 years of tackle.Make no mistake, Prep is a good football team.Should be a good game.Lets try to keep it positive so more teams will play Prep in the pre season.
I am pretty sure RHP is closer to 100-150 kids which makes them even more impressive
Actually, Boss, it was Sunday night for Hello Kitty Bobblehead Night. I’ll be making a return to Right Field next Saturday, departing from my season seats in left field to celebrate my brother’s 41st Birthday. Then it’s back to Left Field for the last four bobbleheads in the series.
From Joe T.: Okay, but the question everyone wants answered is how many Dodger Dogs did you put down?
It’s a lose lose situation for the apache faithful… You win and it was against a sub par team in the lowest division and if u lose well then that looks extremely bad on the 2012 team!