{"id":38286,"date":"2014-04-04T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=38286"},"modified":"2014-04-04T07:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:25:38","slug":"the-ten-442014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=38286","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 4\/4\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n

(\u201cThe Ten\u201d is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)<\/p>\n

1.) St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams shoves fan after fan catches foul ball in the stands. \u201cHave to wonder how this incident would be covered if say, someone like Yasiel Puig<\/a> was the one who did it.\u201d—NBC Sports reporter D.J. Short.<\/p>\n

2.) Wake Forest hires Danny Manning as its head basketball coach.<\/p>\n

3.) Los Angeles Dodgers open home season today at 1:PM against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

4.) Norwalk plays St. John Bosco (16-0 in 2013) in Week One this fall.<\/p>\n

5.) David Letterman announces he will retire in 2015.<\/p>\n

6.) \u201cNote to Joe T.: Looking at the current shape of area sports writers (you guys and the Tribune people) you should be making all of your wagers over some sliced fruits and salad.\u201d—MVS commentor \u201cStanzied\u201d\u00a0 two years ago today in \u201cThe TEN\u201d<\/p>\n

7.) On this date in 1865 Abraham Lincoln, on this night, dreams he was assassinated. Ten days later he was killed by John Wilkes Booth.<\/p>\n

8.) Former West Covina LB Dorrin Turner is 20 today.<\/p>\n

9.) \u201cTim throws a football worse than my mother, my girlfriend and Big Tony combined.\u201d— Spokesman Review sportswriter Josh Ouellette on MVS legend Tim Peterson.<\/p>\n

10.) Los Angeles Times Reports:<\/p>\n

“DirecTV has advised us that they will not carry the Dodgers this year, and they have walked away from the negotiating table,” said Melinda Witmer, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president and chief video and content officer.<\/p>\n

A DirecTV spokesman countered that \u201cnothing could be further from the truth” and added that “fans have already seen through Time Warner Cable\u2019s deception, and this is yet another transparent attempt to manipulate all TV customers throughout the region.”<\/p>\n

With more than 1.2 million subscribers in Los Angeles, DirecTV has an almost 30% share of the market. Not having DirecTV on board is a big blow to the Dodgers and Time Warner Cable, which launched the channel in February.<\/p>\n

No other major area distributors have been signed by Time Warner Cable, but Witmer said negotations with them are ongoing. About 70% of the market is without access to Dodgers games.<\/p>\n

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