{"id":902,"date":"2009-05-04T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-05-04T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:39:10","slug":"fanview-lite-may-4-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Fanview Lite: May 4, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Guilty. Yeah, way, way back when I bought a Jack Kemp football card thinking: \u201cThis guy could be president some day&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he got teamed with Bob Dole&#8230;Not too good chief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is it too soon to start getting excited about the Dodgers?<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six million over three years on Mets southpaw Oliver Perez makes federal bailout money seem well spent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course after being a Carlos Perez supporter at one time, big contracts to lefties named Perez make me nervous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why is it when a name you haven\u2019t heard for years pops up in baseball, its because he was playing with the Baltimore Orioles?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why baseball experts are questioning the depth of the Dodger rotation; is there anything wrong with Eric Stults and Jeff Weaver?<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting one-two punch since the Angels ran Gary Ross and Paul Hartzell out to the hill in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Think of those great expressions: \u201cSpahn and Sain and pray for rain\u201d, \u201cTanana, Ryan, then start Cryin\u201d, \u201cHooton, Sutton, and Nutton\u201d&#8230;I can see it now: \u201cStults &amp; Weaver, who needs Tom Seaver?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well all the jokes can\u2019t be good, you have to expect that once in a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time to Get Noticed Dept: San Marino\u2019s Andrew Sloan, 6-1, 1.88 ERA, is one of the reasons the Titans have won seven in a row and lead the Rio Hondo League this season.<\/p>\n<p>While I don\u2019t think I would ever pass him the ball, even with a gun to my head, the Bulls Joakim Noah is like Kurt Rambis on crack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Understatement of the year, Chicago needs a caboose that can score in the paint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Old legs and fatigue are the only things possibly preventing Boston from getting by Orlando&#8230;the Celts have too many weapons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a USC uniform I loved him, in a Celtic uniform Brian Scalabrine sickens me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Scanlan question of the day: He might need to go down with an injury to prove this point, but can I make a case that Orlando Hudson is off to an MVP- like start for the Dodgers?<\/p>\n<div>Fanview Lite appears daily, Monday thru Saturday here at www.midvalleysports.com<\/div>\n<div>Fanview, the award winning version, appears weekly at www.midvalleynewsonline.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Good Morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}