{"id":57776,"date":"2017-03-10T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57776"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:03:19","slug":"the-peterson-principle-3102017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57776","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle: 3\/10\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tim<\/a>

Tim Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

I love\u00a0watching this UCLA\u00a0team.\u00a0With freshmen\u00a0Lonzo Ball and T.J. Leaf\u00a0mixed with seniors Bryce Alford and\u00a0Isaac Hamilton it’s the most entertaining\u00a0Bruin team in years.\u00a0Throw in an Aaron Holiday and a Thomas Welsh\u00a0and they\u00a0may have the\u00a0recipe for a national champion.<\/p>\n

But like almost\u00a0everything else in life\u00a0every silver\u00a0lining has a dark cloud. In UCLA’s case that\u00a0dark cloud comes in the form of Bill Walton.\u00a0The guy\u00a0just never shuts up. Never. Shuts. Up.\u00a0I turn on the\u00a0PAC 12 Network to watch UCLA and Walton is there.\u00a0Other times the Bruins are on ESPN,\u00a0like Thursday night\u00a0against USC,\u00a0and again\u00a0Walton is there. The guy just lingers\u00a0and hangs around like a\u00a0bad cough.\u00a0And his ramblings\u00a0never add value.<\/p>\n

He talks about\u00a0Pink Floyd,\u00a0the Grateful Dead and Mick\u00a0Fleetwood.\u00a0He drones on about his partner Dave Pasch\u00a0loving coal and\u00a0how he and\u00a0USC AD Lynn Swann will forever be linked. At one point he mentions Gonzaga\u00a0but can’t remember\u00a0their nickname and says “whatever they’re called.” Dude we don’t care! How about the game?<\/p>\n

When he does finally get around to\u00a0the game he’s always a step behind. “Look at Lonzo Ball!”\u00a0Walton yells while Chimezie Metu is laying the ball in the basket for USC.<\/p>\n

He mentions\u00a0his dog, I think it’s a dog, Cortez, and how he died in his arms.\u00a0Again, hey Bill!\u00a0What’s the score?\u00a0You have any insight?\u00a0His schtick is as old as he is and completely lost on everybody except maybe\u00a0…well…the dead heads.\u00a0He’s not funny and you wonder why ESPN still employs\u00a0him. It can’t be for ratings as you can almost feel the\u00a0people reaching for the remote at the sound of Walton’s voice.<\/p>\n

Look,Walton was a great player.\u00a0Some might argue that\u00a0he was one\u00a0of the\u00a0greatest college players of all time. And they aren’t far off. But as an announcer he ruins the game.\u00a0Why? Because he babbles on about everything\u00a0but\u00a0the game. Bill, we don’t care about song lyrics and sunsets in the desert. We care about the game.\u00a0If you aren’t going to talk about the game\u00a0then don’t talk. Put a muzzle on it.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Great article\u00a0in Thursday’s\u00a0LA Times\u00a0entitled “The Pride and the Pain” by Bill Plaschke. It’s a must read\u00a0for\u00a0all parents that have\u00a0kids playing sports.\u00a0You can\u00a0still find it online.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

The\u00a0crowd\u00a0and the atmosphere\u00a0Wednesday night\u00a0at the Maranatha\u00a0game lends further\u00a0credence to the fact that the\u00a0State playoffs\u00a0are almost insignificant\u00a0compared to the CIF Finals. The Minutemen lost but did anybody really care? Sure, there were people there but let’s just say there were plenty of good seats available. That being said Pasadena\u00a0won Wednesday night\u00a0as did\u00a0Burbank and Blair, who play each other, in the second round\u00a0of the\u00a0State Tournament.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

UCLA football fans won’t like this but isn’t it\u00a0funny\u00a0what a difference\u00a0a year makes? Last\u00a0spring it was UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen\u00a0that was all the rage with talk about him being a Heisman\u00a0Trophy candidate. This year USC’s Sam Darnold, who was carrying a clipboard on the sidelines watching Max Browne\u00a0at the start of last season,\u00a0is now being heralded as the best quarterback in the nation while Rosen, who was injured last year, is an afterthought. The Trojans opened spring practice this week.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

You ever purchase a lemon that you wanted to unload as soon as you drove it off the lot but then suddenly\u00a0somebody works a deal for you and takes it off of your hands? The payments\u00a0 are gone and you’re now free to start over and make a brand new purchase.\u00a0That was the Houston Texans Thursday.\u00a0They were able to rid themselves of the\u00a0$16 million they would owe Brock Osweiler for 2017 and can now make a run at a cheaper and better model. Tony Romo? Is it surprising that the team that would make that deal is the Cleveland Browns? Of course the Browns\u00a0picked up a couple of draft picks as well\u00a0but\u00a0they’re also saddled with an albatross around their neck.<\/p>\n

They may trade Osweiler but it’s difficult to imagine somebody else\u00a0wanting him a this point. On the surface\u00a0it looks like another monumental Browns blunder.<\/p>\n

I wonder what Bill Walton thinks about the\u00a0Browns trade?\u00a0Why did they make this deal Bill? Does it have anything to do with Dave Pasch\u00a0liking coal?<\/p>\n

That’s my principle.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at\u00a0tim@midvalleysports.com or on Twitter @tspeterson40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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