{"id":96282,"date":"2026-05-08T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96282"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:23:24","slug":"fanview-5-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96282","title":{"rendered":"FanView: 5\/8\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89497\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89497\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-144x144.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe T., always working hard&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Kick it!<\/p>\n<p>Are you telling me I missed the Skip &amp; Stephen A. reunion this morning?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you! Best news I&#8217;ve had since my electrician charged me $150 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>No one will ever accuse me of being a LeBron apologist, but the dude got hosed by the refs last night.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers weren&#8217;t going to win, but they were within five in the fourth. No team in the NBA plays defense like OKC, but they could be\u2014could, I say&#8211;be prime for a serious nose-punch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder might be having too much fun with work still left to do.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the Lakers won&#8217;t deliver that punch, but they&#8217;re exposing the vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Is James Harden the Clayton Kershaw of the NBA? A great regular season performer, every accolade under the sun, who becomes a dog during the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers need Joel Embid, but they do not need, nor should they, run their offense through Embid. With or without their center, Philly has a shot tonight.<\/p>\n<p>To see Game Three, the worst seat at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia will cost you only $205.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Day In The RamCave\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"520\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0CY359GBT\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So not only does the NFL screw over its fans by putting the season opener on a streaming service, but they also proceed to royally screw over their fans by putting the game on that disaster of a platform called Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The ear of an experienced sports fan can only handle so much Mina Kimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Next Add Healy: &#8220;She&#8217;s a lovely lady, and my apologies to her.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RamView: 5\/8\/2026 (LA Rams Football)\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7L4QiLWlEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The game (in Australia) will be broadcast to the LA and Fog City markets, but everywhere else, they&#8217;ll struggle to log in to Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And miss Terrance Ferguson&#8217;s breakout performance.<\/p>\n<p>Football needs the BFL\u2014Billionaires Football League\u2014because the NFL&#8217;s billionaires, with no competition, are abusing their fanbase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next Add Stadium Ticket Costs: At UNIQLO Field (formerly known as Dodger Stadium), two season tickets in the loge level will run you over $10,000 (possibly up to $13,000). Conservatively, add another $3,500 for parking, and you&#8217;re talking $15,000\u2014before concessions.<\/p>\n<p>And those tight-wads are only paying World Series hero Justin Wrobleski $790,000 this season. The Bums should be more like the Mets, pay everybody, and be unconcerned about production.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciated the deep dive Google ad last night that explained why traveling is legal in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs beat Cincinnati, 8-3, on Thursday to win their ninth straight. Why do I care? Someone has to stop the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>#41\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think Craig Kimbrel retired a long time ago, but had his identity stolen. This version of Kimbrel is a bigger gas can than Terry Mulholland at the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>If I only had a straight as a string 55-mph fastball&#8230;I&#8217;d be having lobster every night.<\/p>\n<p>Last Add Tickets: It will cost you 34-zops to get into the Barclays Center in Brooklyn tonight to see the Connecticut Sun play the New York Liberty in the WNBA opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1,287<br \/>\nProverbs 19:21<br \/>\njtbank1964@yahoo.com<br \/>\n\u201cRamView\u201d M-W-F<br \/>\nFollow Joe on X: @joet13b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Kick it! Are you telling me I missed the Skip &amp; Stephen A. reunion this morning?&nbsp; Thank you! Best news I&#8217;ve had since my electrician charged me $150 an hour. No one will ever accuse me of being a LeBron apologist, but the dude got hosed by the refs last night.<\/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-96282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96282","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96287,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96282\/revisions\/96287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}