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By Joe Torosian<\/p>\nBy Joe Torosian<\/p>\n
Kick it!<\/p>\n
When the Lakers sold again, and it looked like the Buss family would be completely exiting any relationship with the team, I saw a comment that Doc Buss was probably rolling over in his grave.<\/p>\n
Names come off of teams all the time. I don\u2019t think anyone could have envisioned a time when the name O\u2019Malley wouldn\u2019t be attached to the Dodgers\u2026but we know what happened.<\/p>\n
I think what is actually causing Doc Buss to roll over in his grave is what is happening between his children.<\/p>\n
Note to Jeanie:<\/strong> Walk away and live in peace.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got a problem. I like Marcus Freeman, but I hate Notre Dame.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll take the Fighting Irish over Georgia, Ohio State, and Oklahoma\u2026In fact, I\u2019ll take anyone and everyone, even the Russians, over the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n Last Add College Football:<\/strong> While I\u2019ll root for them, doesn\u2019t Indiana at #6 feel a bit high?<\/p>\n It\u2019s come up in private with close friends and in comments on my Rams podcast\u2026and that\u2019s: \u201cAre the Chargers really going to go into this most important of all seasons with Trey Lance as their QB2?\u201d<\/p>\n My response is Jimmy Garoppolo is out there, and Bolts OC Mike McDaniel was his OC back in their Fog City days.<\/p>\n Speaking of football, I got this after yesterday\u2019s column: \u201cJoe, what\u2019s your problem? Do you hate women in sports?\u201d<\/p>\n I have a wife and three daughters and some of my closest associates in my \u201cday job\u201d are women.<\/p>\n No, I don\u2019t hate women, but I hate women calling play-by-play in any sport. I think in almost all broadcasting cases, in a warped allegiance to representing diversity, a woman will be elevated over a more qualified man with a better voice.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got no problem with them being in the booth\u2014if they\u2019re good. Did you hear Jourdan Rodrigue on the Rams broadcast Saturday? A hundred times better than Mina Kimes…a hundred times better than Aqib Talib.<\/p>\n Hannah Storm, Linda Cohn, and Michelle Tafoya were all good. And does anybody remember Jeanne \u201cGo-Go\u201d Zelasko?<\/p>\n Until the call for diversity includes halfbreed Armenians by any means necessary, I will never sing opera, be added to a choir, or be asked to do narration for the remake of The Shawshank Redemption.<\/em><\/p>\n We are gifted in some things, we are not gifted in all things.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just what it is, and the tone of a woman\u2019s voice, no matter how much they try to deepen it (see Beth Mowins), it just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n Next Add Women:<\/strong> Let\u2019s also remember that the platforms that wedge women announcers in on us are also the platforms that put the majority of these women through a \u201clooks\u201d test.<\/p>\n And before you cite Holly Rowe\u2026while she is a competent reporter, she\u2019s used for ballast.<\/p>\n Does anybody envision, at any point this fall, a Kyle Tucker moment? I\u2019m waiting for the meme\/AI of Tucker and Edwin Diaz being shown the exit gate at Dodger Stadium, with Timmy Trumpet blasting \u201cNarco.\u201d<\/p>\n #95\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth. \u2026With a 51-73 record and 23 games out of first place, it\u2019s close but not enough.<\/p>\n Next Add Lakers\/Last Add Women:<\/strong> By the way, if you want insight into what is happening with the Lakers & Buss family\u2026Ramona Shelburne is a go-to on this matter.<\/p>\n The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n 1,342<\/strong> By Joe Torosian Kick it! When the Lakers sold again, and it looked like the Buss family would be completely exiting any relationship with the team, I saw a comment that Doc Buss was probably rolling over in his grave. Names come off of teams all the time. I don\u2019t think anyone could have envisioned […]<\/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-97884","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\/97884","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=97884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97885,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884\/revisions\/97885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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