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The Sideline really loves a great idea.

This week, The Bee's entertainment reporter/columnist/blogger extraordinaire Mike Osegueda came up with a doozy: Bring Barry Zito to Fresno and let the supposed San Francisco Giants ace pitch for the Grizzlies while he's in his slump.

This season -- one in which he's getting paid $14.5 million -- Zito was 0-6 with a 7.53 ERA before getting demoted to the bullpen last Sunday.

Osegueda's idea to bring Zito to the Valley is so good, it has been picked up not only by The Sideline but by Yahoo's Big League Stew blog and on the Yahoo.com home page.

The tail end of Osegueda's blog goes:

Here at The Beehive we'd like to announce the beginning of a campaign to bring Mr. Zito to Fresno, to be the star* of The Grizzlies, the Giants' AAA-affiliate. In San Francisco, Barry Zito is just another hippie with an acoustic guitar and an 80-mph fastball. In Fresno, he could be a God.

Picture it: Zito could use that absurd $126 mill contract of his to buy the Security Bank Building and live on whatever floor he wished that day. He could play his guitar at Cafe Corazon on the days he's not pitching. Heck, he could even be mayor -- we love quasi-celebrities.

The rest of baseball is mocking Barry Zito. But in Fresno, we know how it feels to be mocked. Together, Fresno and Zito could form like Voltron and rise up as one powerful force. It could be the greatest curveball that Barry Zito ever threw.

*Note: We use this word to denote status, not actual pitching ability.

Since Zito's demotion, The Sideline would like to note that Zito had yet to be used as a reliever entering Saturday's game at Philadelphia. Friday would have been the left-hander's turn in the rotation, and missing it marked the first time he's missed his spot in the rotation during his nine-year major league career.

Spicin' things up in women's golf

McALLEN, Texas -- Florida teenager Vicky Hurst broke the Duramed Futures Tour's 54-hole scoring record last Sunday, closing with an 8-under 64 for an 18-under 198 total and a three-stroke victory in the ... get this, the Jalapeno Golf Classic.

The 17-year-old Hurst, from Melbourne, Fla., broke the 54-hole scoring mark of 16 under set in 1999 by current LPGA star Grace Park.

"It was awesome," said Hurst, who will graduate from high school this month. "My goal is to make it to the LPGA Tour. "I'm just playing with the same mind-set I had as a junior and giving it the best I have."

Hurst -- who earned $11,900 for her first pro win -- then set off for the LPGA Tour's SemGroup Championship with a goal of just making the cut this week. "I just need to go out and focus on my game one shot at a time."

At the LPGA event, the young Hurst played more like another LPGA star with the same name, 1998 Kraft Nabisco winner Pat Hurst.

And amazingly, the two Hursts were tied for 19th after two rounds and then both shot 2-over 73s in the same threesome Saturday to again get paired in today's twosome tied for 11th at 6-over 219.

Now the teenager who just wanted to make the cut is only one stroke behind world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa, who is in a five-way tie for sixth at 218.