{"id":5912,"date":"2010-03-05T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:54:46","slug":"the-devil-made-me-do-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5912","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Made Me Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can thank Joe Torosian for my return.\u00a0 JT decided to call me out on his story<\/a> , yesterday.<\/p>\n

This column when written will also take the place of Andy\u2019s Rants as well.\u00a0 Not going to do that HD-lite stuff.<\/p>\n

There is a reason why I am called the \u201csinister one\u201d and my brother made sure I heard how mad I made the San Gabriel faithful last season.<\/p>\n

To be honest, my brother is the biggest homer you will find for Matador football, but agreed on my take of Isaac Valdez to a point.\u00a0 He also said that I like to be the one who will tell you \u201cthe sky is red\u201d when it\u2019s blue.<\/p>\n

Last add Valdez, I just think the lack of a running game really hurt him.\u00a0\u00a0 All defensive backs had to do was lock onto a receiver, the linebackers could spy Ike and you had some serious issues with timing.<\/p>\n

But I have no idea what I am talking about, even though I was with a professional team for ten years and watched enough game film to see certain things in a player.<\/p>\n

My hats off to the Brewers and Giants, both teams knew what would happen when Prince Fielder came to the plate to face Barry Zito.\u00a0 It was nice to see the \u201ccode\u201d followed.<\/p>\n

Although creative, Fielder\u2019s \u201cbowling ball strike\u201d should have been done at Miller Park and not AT&T Park.\u00a0 Just seemed a little to showing up to me.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, do we really believe that Prince actually felt that pitch Zito threw?\u00a0 Torosian would stand in the box against Barry before facing La Salle\u2019s Allie Forillo.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Baylor\u2019s super freshman Brittney Griner for acting like an NBA player.\u00a0 Her nose-breaking punch made the National sports scene for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

Griner should be suspended for the remainder of the season and she needs to get some anger-management courses.<\/p>\n

My favorite comment came from the Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe when he said, \u201cDue to the severity of the act, it is appropriate that Ms. Griner is suspended for an additional game.\u201d\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n

Poor Jordan Barncastle (the recipient of said punch) might miss the remainder of the season and Griner gets the equivalent of a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n

So she misses the remaining game this season and one conference tournament game.\u00a0 Big Whoop!<\/p>\n

Beebe needs to grow a pair and do what is just.<\/p>\n

See you all tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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You can thank Joe Torosian for my return.\u00a0 JT decided to call me out on his story , yesterday. This column when written will also take the place of Andy\u2019s Rants as well.\u00a0 Not going to do that HD-lite stuff.<\/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":[58,2255,2254,514,2253,541,36],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allie-forillo","tag-barry-zito","tag-brittney-griner","tag-isaac-valdez","tag-jordan-barncastle","tag-prince-fielder","tag-san-gabriel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}