{"id":52229,"date":"2016-03-18T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52229"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:28:11","slug":"the-ten-3182016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52229","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 3\/18\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49627\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49627\" class=\" wp-image-49627\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The TEN\" width=\"483\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(\u201cThe\u00a0TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.) On this day in 1953, MLB approved the relocation of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee<\/p>\n<p>2.) Longtime area sportswriter Fred Robledo celebrates a birthday today.<\/p>\n<p>3.) \u201cLa Roche can\u2019t hit and his kid should be in school.\u201d\u2014MVS commenter \u201cBonitaAlum\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4.) Former USC quarterback Rob Johnson turns 43 today.<\/p>\n<p>5.) \u201cGladstone will win 7 games next year!!!\u201d\u2014MVS commenter \u201canonymous\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6.) Josh Hagins &amp; Arkansas Little Rock.<\/p>\n<p>7.) Los Angeles Angels catcher Carlos Perez.<\/p>\n<p>8.) And the head football coach at El Monte is\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>9.) \u201cMarch is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a &#8216;gentleman gambler&#8217; when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely&#8230; There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.\u201d\u2014Hunter S. Thompson<\/p>\n<p>10.) \u201cI truly enjoyed the book. I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of former players and teammates; the story rekindled many fond memories. Tangent of Dreams is well written and an enjoyable read for all; even if you had never played or coached you&#8217;d enjoy the storyline and the characters. I found myself rooting for Fred-X.\u201d\u2014National Football Foundation San Gabriel Valley-Pasadena Chapter President (former Duarte HC) Tony Ortega<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangent-Dreams-School-Football-Novel\/dp\/0692588175\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458314773&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Tangent+Dreams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\" wp-image-50812\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-594x768.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Joe has captured the essence of the high school football experience. You don't have to have played or coached to be instantly engaged in the story and identify with the characters. A great read!...Lots of laughs and memories from what high school football is like on the inside.\u201d---Mike Mooney \u201cA very accurate account of high school football.\u201d---Jon Dimalante \u201cF-bombing Papa Joe, has written something truly great here...He\u2019s done a great job capturing the moments in the life of a high school football player both big and small from a unique angle.\u201d---Josh Ouellette \u201cTANGENT DREAMS: A High School Football Novel&quot; by Joe Torosian is NOW available through Amazon.com (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"274\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Joe Torosian&#8217;s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u201cThe\u00a0TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52232,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229\/revisions\/52232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}