{"id":1590,"date":"2009-06-25T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2009-06-25T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:44:10","slug":"fanview-lite-june-25-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Fanview Lite: June 25, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Good Morning!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">T-minus-7 until Manny Ramirez returns to Dodgers lineup<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Is that the Giants fee-fi-fo-fuming just 7.5 back of the Dodgers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">What happened to the Wolf Man last night?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Even by sending Larry, Mo, and Curly to Phoenix for Shaq, the Cavaliers still overpaid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Note to Poster \u201cGreen &amp; Gold\u201d: From what we\u2019ve picked up the relationship between Anthony White and Randy Backus is very cordial&#8230;White has cited Backus as being very helpful and professional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">That\u2019s good news, I want the drama to be on the field&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">\u201cFootball Rush Week\u201d is coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">How necessary are the ESPY Awards?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Note to Recent Grads: Phil Jackson\u2019s plan of only coaching home games, just half of 82 next season, only works when you are dating the bosses daughter&#8230;which he is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">The shooting of Ed Thomas, the Iowa high school football coach, is awful&#8230;and horribly sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">I said it a while ago, but it bears mentioning&#8230;Blake Griffin, who will be the first pick in today\u2019s NBA Draft by the Clippers, needs to go play in Europe and stay the heck away&#8230;If he doesn\u2019t have talent, we\u2019ll find out real quick. If he does have talent fate and torn ACLs\u2019 can\u2019t be too far away&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Its a curse to be a Clipper&#8230;a curse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">I guess in the case of Yao, its OW!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">I\u2019m sure beating Spain 2-0 in the semis of the Confederations Cup means a whole lot for American soccer&#8230;but I think the Bonita passing tourney on Friday and Saturday is far more interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">The Bonita passing tourney is also far more interesting than the NBA Draft&#8230;Did you know the Lakers have eight former number one picks on their roster? Five of them were number ones of other teams&#8230;Including Kobe Bryant&#8230;and everyones favorite bench warmer of the month Shannon Brown, who was a top selection of the Cavaliers in 2006. The Lakers are Brown\u2019s fourth team in three seasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Thirty top picks in a draft, one legit talent, the rest are journeymen and busts waiting to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">I\u2019m a firm believer in the haircut to rekindle passion, sharpen focus, and ignite energy so I liked what Vladimir Guerrero did with his dreads&#8230;Style and fashion are less important than production&#8230;good for Vlad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Wow, something positive about the Angels&#8230;next thing you know I\u2019m gonna be watching soccer, beach volleyball, and reading \u201cOn the Couch\u201d&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Stay thirsty my friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">52<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">Fanview Lite appears Monday thru Saturday here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midvalleysports.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.midvalleysports.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Fanview, the award winning HD version, appears every Tuesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midvalleynewsonline.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.midvalleynewsonline.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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-1590","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\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}