{"id":64025,"date":"2018-07-06T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=64025"},"modified":"2018-07-05T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:48:38","slug":"the-ten-7-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=64025","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 7\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Author Hunter S. Thompson advised Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay to draft Ryan Leaf instead of Peyton Manning with the number one overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Dodgers (47-39) open a three games series against the Angels (44-43) Friday night in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Oklahoma City Thunder payroll has surpassed the $300 million mark with the signing of guard Raymond Felton.<\/p>\n<p>4. The Utah Jazz signed guard Dante Exum to a three-year, $33 million extension.<\/p>\n<p>5. The Dodgers acquired right-hander Dylan Floro from the Cincinnati Reds for two minor leaguers.<\/p>\n<p>6. On this day in 1983 the Angels Fred Lynn hit a grand slam to lead the AL to a 13-3 win over the NL in the 50th MLB All-Star game at Comiskey Park in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>7. Former New York Yankee\/Dodger second baseman Willie Randolph turns 64 today.<\/p>\n<p>8. Also on this day in 1980 Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies fans seven St. Louis Cardinals to reach 2,836 strikeouts, the most by a left-handed pitcher in major league history.<\/p>\n<p>9. Temperatures for the SGV Shootout at Arroyo Saturday are expected to hit 110 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.&#8221; &#8211; Steve Carlton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/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-64025","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\/64025","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=64025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64026,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64025\/revisions\/64026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}