{"id":1870,"date":"2009-07-11T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:56:52","slug":"off-the-cuff-july-11-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"Off The Cuff: July 11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told Scanlan not to read it.\u00a0 He still did.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Mitchell Report is now buried.\u00a0 No need to talk about it any longer on to baseball.<\/p>\n<p>When a team is struggling at the plate like the San Diego Padres, it is only a matter of time that they get no-hit.<\/p>\n<p>Two nights ago San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum was two-plus innings away from getting\u00a0 a no-hitter against the Padres.\u00a0 Only to see his no-hitter go by the wayside in the 9-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to last night, when Jonathan Sanchez came one error away from a perfect game against the Friars.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it even more incredible is he was demoted three weeks ago to the bullpen and got the call when Randy Johnson wen on the disabled list this week.<\/p>\n<p>Even you would have said Sanchez was going to get the no-no before Lincecum I would have laughed.<\/p>\n<p>On a non-laughing matter, did you see what happened to Erin Andrews on Thursday night?<\/p>\n<p>She took a line drive shot to the chin.\u00a0 It would be real easy to make a crude comment here but this a family show.<\/p>\n<p>As pretty as she is, I would take Lindsey Soto over her in a heartbeat when it comes to reporting games.<\/p>\n<p>Soto knows her stuff and is a real professional when it comes to being prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully FOX will bring her back for the High School Game Of The Week.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any real surprise that the Los Angeles Angels defeated the over-paid New York Yankees.\u00a0 It seems that every season the Angels win the season series.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, with Vlad Guerrero and Torii Hunter out, the Angels got pop from Kendry Morales and Erick Aybar.<\/p>\n<p>On that note, its off to the SGV Shootout!\u00a0 Stay safe everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Off The Cuff can be read Wednesday thru Sunday at www.midvalleysports.com.<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s Rants can be read Monday at www.midvalleynewsonline.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told Scanlan not to read it.\u00a0 He still did.<\/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":[169,333,335,170,331,334,149,332,336],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angels","tag-erin-andrews","tag-fox","tag-giants","tag-lincecum","tag-lindsay-soto","tag-padres","tag-sanchez","tag-yankees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","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=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}