{"id":1778,"date":"2009-07-03T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2009-07-03T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:39:11","slug":"off-the-cuff-july-2-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Off The Cuff: July 2, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is wondering if I ran away from that discussion yesterday, I haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI have no vendetta against the Dodgers as their most loyalist of fans said I do.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up watching the the Boys in Blue when I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the infield for all ages with Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey.<\/p>\n<p>It was when Fox took over the team that my allegiance began to sway and the Dodgers didn&#8217;t feel like the team I grew up swooning over.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems my colleagues believe that I have something against them.\u00a0 Well really I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I just think that going to Dodger Stadium is like a &#8220;E&#8221; ticket at Disneyland.\u00a0 You get there and you just don&#8217;t know where the fights will occur.<\/p>\n<p>In the five times I have visited Chavez Ravine, there have been more fights in different sections of the stadium then I can count.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the how difficult is it to read a teams name on a jersey.\u00a0 Apparently real difficult if your a Dodger fan in the bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>In a game I went with John Scanlan, a innocent Dodger fan was wearing their St. Patty&#8217;s Day jersey while the Blue Crew are playing against the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Poor guy didn&#8217;t know what hit him.\u00a0 As he got up to get something he was being berated, booed and heckled by his fellow fans who couldn&#8217;t read the name&#8221;Dodgers&#8221; on the front of the jersey.<\/p>\n<p>I know it happens at Anaheim as well, but it becomes quite ridiculous when you take your children or wife to game.\u00a0 How do you explain to them a Dodger fan is being led out in cuffs?<\/p>\n<p>Off The Cuff can be read on Wednesday to Sunday at www.midvalleysports.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is wondering if I ran away from that discussion yesterday, I haven&#8217;t.<\/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":[6],"tags":[94,265,28,266,264,268,267],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","tag-anaheim","tag-cey","tag-dodgers","tag-garvey","tag-john-scanlan","tag-lopes","tag-russell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}