{"id":1330,"date":"2009-06-05T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2009-06-05T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:28:36","slug":"fanview-lite-june-5-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Fanview Lite: June 5, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>T-Minus-23 until Manny Ramirez returns to Dodgers lineup<\/p>\n<p>Who looked better last night the Lakers and Kobe Bryant or the Phillies Cole Hamels?<\/p>\n<p>Better question, who looked worse; Orlando or the Dodger hitters against Cole Hamels?<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting News projects former Southman Lee Aguirre as a starting cornerback for BYU this fall&#8230;Now that\u2019s the kind of sugar daddy likes!<\/p>\n<p>I say this as someone who used to love basketball: The only way to get better is by being on the court&#8230;So how is Andrew Bynum going to get better being on the bench in foul trouble?<\/p>\n<p>Old issue, resurfacing angst, the NBA needs to dump the foul out rule and penalize teams with extra free throws for every foul committed over the limit.<\/p>\n<p>For a league built around stars, not teams, the NBA needs to keep its stars and potential stars on the court&#8230;It would be like seeing \u201cRochelle Rochelle the Musical\u201d with the understudy instead of Bette Middler&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Go Orlando!&#8230;And I\u2019m not talking Bo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the fourth quarter last night Dwight Howard looked like a tailback who\u2019d had enough&#8230;And unless the Magic is willing to go Urlacher on Kobe coming down the middle and clothes line him&#8230;they will lose this series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s Rick Mahorn when you need him?<\/p>\n<p>Mid Death Valley News&#8230;I like that one&#8230;I also liked Mid F-ing Valley News&#8230;we\u2019ve also been called by Rat Dog John Gillette the Mid Evil Valley News&#8230; To the MVN Nation (I think MVN County sounds too cheap)&#8230; Thanks for battling for us on the Trib-Star boards, and by all means go ahead, I\u2019m not asking you to stop, just don\u2019t let it get personal&#8230;Keep it classy.<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory John Scanlan question of the day (he\u2019s coming in for a guest shot on June 23rd&#8230;I gotta keep him happy folks): With an eight game lead and an obviously hurting Rafael Furcal, why don\u2019t the Dodgers put him and his aching back on the D.L. for 15 days?<\/p>\n<p>Why do Greenpeacers keep hassling me to join? Do I look like Im unemployed and living off my parents?<\/p>\n<p>No doubt you\u2019ve heard the Thomas Gray line; <strong><em>\u201cFull many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> &#8230; This applies to recently passed former NBA guard Randy Smith who toiled the better part of his 12-year career with the Buffalo Braves who are the ancestral founders of the Los Angeles Clippers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stay thirsty my friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>35<\/p>\n<p>Fanview Lite appears Monday thru Saturday here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midvalleysports.com\"><span>www.midvalleysports.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fanview, the award winning HD version, appears every Tuesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midvalleynewsonline.com\"><span>www.midvalleynewsonline.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Good Morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}