{"id":97302,"date":"2026-07-08T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=97302"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:37:43","slug":"fanview-7-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=97302","title":{"rendered":"FanView: 7\/8\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-97101\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Oscar-Madison-2-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Oscar-Madison-2-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Oscar-Madison-2-63x70.png 63w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Oscar-Madison-2-134x150.png 134w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Oscar-Madison-2.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Kick it!<\/p>\n<p>Call me crazy,&nbsp; but when you give up three goals in less than twenty minutes, it doesn&#8217;t mean you got robbed. It means you choked.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to get into conspiracies, since he&#8217;s tight with Argentina&#8217;s Javier Milei, Trump probably called FIFA to make sure the fix was in for Messi &amp; Friends.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since everyone is ascribing so much power to Trump, I figure I might as well cash in.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of milking something, Egypt&#8217;s collapse yesterday was its biggest fold since the &#8217;73 &#8220;Yom Kippur War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a Lakers fan, but I really like what they&#8217;re doing this off-season: the trades, the signings, the draft picks. I have a feeling the LeBron Era will soon be relegated to the Cedric Ceballos section of franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>I hated to see Marcus Smart move on, but given his age and what he might want at this point in his career, I can see why they didn&#8217;t bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>Kevon Looney is a good addition, and Jonathan Kuminga, if they can swing it, would knock it out of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Also, given that Dodger ownership is calling the shots at Crypto, I wouldn&#8217;t expect them to suffer for too long with Luka Doncic going forward if he doesn&#8217;t produce. No one player will ever be bigger than this management team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Add Lakers:<\/strong> I think there is a lot of untapped upside to Walker Kessler.<\/p>\n<p>Good News For The Rams Department: Alaric Jackson won&#8217;t face criminal charges. It looks like Jackson&#8217;s got community service in his future.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the NFL will chime in with a two-game suspension to virtue-signal a message of some kind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought Jackson could be looking at a six-game benching, but without criminal charges, that&#8217;s a little harder sell for the league. So, I expect it to be two games.<\/p>\n<p>With a 38-54 record, there are worse things in life than being a Mets fan\u2026I mean, you could be an Angels fan. An Angel fan, who saw Shohei Ohtani hit his 300th home run last night&#8211;for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>#78\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or does it feel like Wimbledon hasn&#8217;t happened this year?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts on the Final Eight:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>France\u2014<\/strong>Thank goodness the Napoleon is richer, creamier than most desserts\u2014and has no raisins! But it&#8217;s not enough to overcome Dien Bien Phu.<br \/>\n<strong>Morocco\u2014<\/strong>I actually have a student rooting for them, but have they recovered from losing to the French at the Battle of Isly?<br \/>\n<strong>Spain\u2014<\/strong>Had a friend get yelled at for showering twice in one day during a visit to Valencia.<br \/>\n<strong>Belgium\u2014<\/strong>The King Leopold II redemption tour won&#8217;t be enough.<br \/>\n<strong>Norway\u2014<\/strong>How long did they last during WW2? Three hours?<br \/>\n<strong>England\u2014<\/strong>The whole King\/Royal family thing bugs me. Maybe if Cromwell was still employed as the Lord Protector.<br \/>\n<strong>Argentina\u2014<\/strong>Blanking around and could be about to find out. Cruisin&#8217; for a bruisin.<br \/>\n<strong>Switzerland\u2014<\/strong>What language do they speak in their locker room? I hear it&#8217;s High German\u2026 You&#8217;d think, after all these centuries, they&#8217;d come up with something of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> I am fully committed emotionally to Argentina, but I&#8217;ll let Norway hold the clipboard because I liked the <em>633 Squadron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Really Last Add Lakers:<\/strong> Walker Kessler? Have the Lakers pinned their hopes and millions of rocks to a whiskey brand?<\/p>\n<p>The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1,325<br \/>\nJeremiah 29:11<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! Call me crazy,&nbsp; but when you give up three goals in less than twenty minutes, it doesn&#8217;t mean you got robbed. It means you choked. If we want to get into conspiracies, since he&#8217;s tight with Argentina&#8217;s Javier Milei, Trump probably called FIFA to make sure the fix was in [&hellip;]<\/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-97302","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\/97302","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=97302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97303,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97302\/revisions\/97303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}