{"id":96068,"date":"2026-04-29T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96068"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:13:18","slug":"fanview-4-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96068","title":{"rendered":"FanView: 4\/29\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe T., always working hard…<\/p><\/div>\n

By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n

Kick it!<\/p>\n

Nick Van Exel should have trademarked “Cancun” for as often as we hear it at this point in the NBA season.<\/p>\n

I like the NCAA tourney, but really? 76 teams for both the men and the women? I think 40 teams is stretching it these days.<\/p>\n

The NCAA owns the NIT, push the other 36 into that, and tell everyone else to stay home.<\/p>\n

Six days since last Thursday, and I’m all in on Ty Simpson. It was never personal. It was strictly the business of where he was drafted. But he’s a Ram now, and I’m not about to “Atwell” him.<\/p>\n

Do I think Mike Vrabel should be fired? No.<\/p>\n

A lot of the KBM is rah-rah-ing Jalen Hurts, but in truth, if there were a market for him, someone would have traded for him by now.<\/p>\n

Last Add Rams: I ran it through Grok, and Sean McVay is doing more national media (damage control?) in April of 2026 than he did in April of 2025.<\/p>\n

Tuesday night was an example of why OKC will repeat as NBA champions\u2026The Celtics losing a close-out game at home against the 76ers is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Love watching Wemby, great player, but has anyone ever roughed him up? Has anyone bodied him up regularly? This is my contention for all of the NBA’s top players in the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

Could a current player actually thrive in a physical league? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

I remember when I was coaching in youth tourneys, I would tell my guys, “Hey! Get physical with that candy boy!”<\/p>\n

I never said cheap shot, or hurt anybody, but some players don’t like it when things get physical. And I’m curious about that regarding Wemby because I don’t think there’s any other way to stop him. <\/p>\n

Next Note NBA: The first step\u2014only the first\u2014to fixing tanking is to stop weighting the lottery. Meaning the team with 15 wins has the same number of bingo balls as the team that missed the play-in with 36 wins.<\/p>\n

The Lakers host the Houston Rockets at Crypto tonight for Game Five. If you want to see Austin Reaves’ expected return, it will only cost you $191 to sit alone in a section that the late Jim Healy would refer to as being of the horseshoe variety.<\/p>\n

#34\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth\u2026<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Rays, currently second in the American League East, have won six straight. Has anyone\u2014other than me when they played the Dodgers in the World Series\u2014ever rooted for the Rays?<\/p>\n

Don Mattingly being named the interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies surprised me. I didn’t even know he was still collecting checks from baseball.<\/p>\n

Mattingly might be the most forgotten Dodger manager since Grady Little.<\/p>\n

Little did lead the Dodgers to a wildcard berth in 2006, where the Mets swept them\u2026<\/p>\n

So I got that going for me\u2026which is nice.<\/p>\n

The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n

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