{"id":20528,"date":"2011-11-21T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:13:01","slug":"whos-the-best-prep-sportswriter-outside-of-the-mid-vote-in-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20528","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the Best Prep Sportswriter Outside of The Mid? (Vote in Poll)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20544\" style=\"width: 99px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Eric-Sondeimer.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20544 \" title=\"Eric Sondeimer\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Eric-Sondeimer.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sondheimer<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20545\" style=\"width: 83px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Robledo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20545\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20545 \" title=\"Robledo\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Robledo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robledo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18952\" style=\"width: 91px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18952\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18952 \" title=\"Andrew Campa\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0088-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who is it?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Mid Valley Sports staffers are not eligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times:<\/span><\/strong> Yeah, he doesn&#8217;t exactly cover the Southeast &amp; Mid-Valley divisions, but its Sondheimer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Miguel Melendez, Pasadena Star News:<\/span><\/strong> Takes all the abuse from the locals but keeps producing a solid product.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aram Tolegian, San Gabriel Valley Tribune: <\/span><\/strong>Generates tons of interest in local football.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Andrew Campa, Pasadena Sun: <\/strong><\/span>Move from Whittier Daily to the Sun, was like Lebron going from Cleveland to Miami&#8230;Well not exactly, but it was a big move.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jeff Tully, Burbank Leader: <\/strong><\/span>The guy, not enough people know about. Consistent, solid, and still drawing a paycheck from the L.A. Times. Too bad he&#8217;s pretty much in a no-man&#8217;s land for coverage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fred Robledo, San Gabriel Tribune: <\/strong><\/span>Where doesn&#8217;t this guy pop up?\u00a0Think how long he has been doing it, and he does all the sports. You may not like his taste in jeans, but he&#8217;s a pro.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Steve Ramirez, Whittier Daily News:<\/strong><\/span> Stevie R. rolled into prep coverage about the time the Mayflower crossed the Atlantic&#8230;He may not be a big personality, but its hard to not like a guy whose nose is always at the grindstone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Charles Rich, Glendale News Press: <\/strong><\/span>This guy is pretty good&#8230;and if you&#8217;re stuck at a high school baseball game that is dragging in the fifth inning he&#8217;s the one you want to be sitting next to. Great stories about his time growing up back east. Like Tully, he&#8217;s stuck in the Twilight Zone of coverage.<\/p>\n<p>We miss someone? Tell us who&#8230; Also spare us the &#8220;He sucks!&#8221; argument.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Mid Valley Sports guys are excluded from this poll because if they win, it would looked rigged. If they lost, it would be too devastating to the ego \ud83d\ude42 )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}