{"id":1736,"date":"2009-06-08T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2009-06-08T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T03:43:15","slug":"mondays-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mondays-quick-hits-1736\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods went directly from Ohio, where he made the entire PGA his bitch yet again, to New York to play a practice round at Bethpage Black, the site of the U.S. Open in just under two weeks. This is seriously bad news for the rest of his opponents &#8211; it clearly shows that he is intensely focused ad ready to defend his title. Add in the fact that he&#8217;s obviously in top form, and you have the makings of a heavy favorite. There are few things better than watching him when he&#8217;s in the zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings want Brett Favre to decide this week whether he wants to quarterback the team this year. Favre is unsure what he wants to do. Pardon me while I go puke.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Hamilton has an abdominal tear that requires surgery, and he&#8217;ll be out of action for at least four to six weeks. I say at least because this is the kind of injury that can cause serious woes for a hitter &#8211; Hamilton&#8217;s teammate Ian Kinsler missed three months last year with abdominal problems. This is fast looking like a wasted year for Hamilton. That&#8217;s a real shame. I saw him play a spring training game in Arizona this year, and his swing looked absolutely brilliant, so I had high hopes for him. The most amazing thing is how well the Rangers are doing this year without a significant contribution from their best pure hitter.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a fan of European soccer then get ready to hear a whole lot more about Real Madrid. In a sign of their intended aggressiveness, the shattered the world record for a transfer fee when they anted up $94 million to sign Brazilian star and 2007 World player of the year Kaka. They already have a pretty god team, and it doesn&#8217;t seem like they are done, either. It will be very interesting to see how much money they throw around and who they go after next.<\/p>\n<p>John Daly failed to qualify for the u.S. Open today. That&#8217;s disappointing &#8211; it&#8217;s always fun to watch a trainwreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods went directly from Ohio, where he made the entire PGA his bitch yet again, to New York to play a practice round at Bethpage Black, the site of the U.S. Open in just under two weeks. This is seriously bad news for the rest of his opponents &#8211; it clearly shows that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,135],"tags":[248,924,283,922,923,21,215],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl-handicapping","category-sports-handicapping","tag-brett-favre","tag-john-daly","tag-josh-hamilton","tag-kaka","tag-real-madrid","tag-tiger-woods","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}