{"id":2157,"date":"2009-08-09T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:55:56","slug":"off-the-cuff-august-9-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Off The Cuff: August 9, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts for a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a month from now the High School, College, and Pro football seasons will be at the beginning of a highly anticipated season.<\/p>\n<p>Is Rosemead able to win another Mission Valley League title?<\/p>\n<p>Will the PAC-10 finally catch up with USC?<\/p>\n<p>Can the Bengals finally co-exist with each other?<\/p>\n<p>These questions will take months to answer, but for the first question you will be able to catch our Mid Valley and Southeast Division previews in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little teasing about our Football Rush Week.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the Los Angeles Dodgers are heading in the wrong direction the last week as their offense has taken a couple of days off.\u00a0 Their once seven and half game lead is now down to four and half to the hated San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>After struggling for the first half of the season, the Los Angeles Angels are now beginning to take control of the AL West after the All-Star break.\u00a0 Timely hitting and a potent offense has gotten the Angels back on track.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels are only two games behind the New York Yankees for the best record in the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who doesn&#8217;t seem bothered by the whole Josh Hamilton issue?<\/p>\n<p>I feel it is his life, just because he is a sports celebrity doesn&#8217;t mean that we should pry in his private time.<\/p>\n<p>So he decided to have some fun.\u00a0 I am aware he has stated he is an addict.\u00a0 If he is aware of the fact he had a relapse then give him some slack over it.<\/p>\n<p>Just my two cents.<\/p>\n<p>Off The Cuff usually can be read Wednesday through Sunday at www.midvalleysports.com<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s Rants can be read on Monday at www.midvalleynewsonline.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts for a Sunday morning.<\/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":[169,555,28,170,556,27],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angels","tag-bengals","tag-dodgers","tag-giants","tag-hamilton","tag-rosemead"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59582,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/59582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}