{"id":1178,"date":"2009-05-27T06:58:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:58:47","slug":"on-the-couch-may-27-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"On The Couch: May 27, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning all!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After a few days off, I am back and ready to fire bullets.<\/p>\n<p>To say a Denver Nuggets versus Orlando Magic finals is what David Stern envisioned is a understatement.<\/p>\n<p>It is one thing to hype a Cleveland against Los Angeles battle, but to have a advertisement with Kobe and Lebron as puppets is completely idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>Stern will start hollering that they sky is falling if the Magic and Nuggets end up playing for the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said last night, Orlando has a deeper bench and use Dwight Howard in the paint to open up the three-point play.<\/p>\n<p>King James has a supporting cast with the Cavs and unfortunately fortunately for him they have decided to not show up in the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Coca-Cola 600 was finished on Memorial Day, instead of Sunday.\u00a0 Other than the yellow flag finish that saw journeyman David Reutimann win due to rain, the race had a few good moments.<\/p>\n<p>The best was the red-flag stop at 3 p.m. eastern time to honor the men that have fought for our country and also the ones that are fighting now.\u00a0 The moment of silence was spine tingling.<\/p>\n<p>After a weekend series that saw the Angels take two of three from the Dodgers, it appears that both teams are headed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels have given up 21 runs in two games against Chicago while the Dodgers have put up 23 runs in two games against Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels were happy to get Vladimir Guerrero back off the disabled list but are 3-7 with him in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>So much for needing that extra bat with pop for the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>My final thought, when the Lakers lose tonight what excuse will they use at it seems that they will have the officials on their side.<\/p>\n<p>On The Couch can be seen Wednesday to Sunday at www.midvalleysports.com.<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s Rants can be seen Monday at www.midvalleynewsonline.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}