Left Coast Sports Babe

tonight’s entry is NOT pc, apologies in advance.) 

The latest story out of NewYork is that Governor Spitzer paid over $80,000 to prostitutes for sex.

Women around the country are outraged, just think what he could have gotten for that amount had he spent it on his wife for jewellry?

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Apparently that night in February Spitzer overpaid, and kept a few thousand as a credit.

Which at this point should be worth about as much as a Sharper Image gift certificate.

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Even Kobe Bryant is thinking,  man, the fun should be free, you spend the money afterwards. Hey man, want the number of my jeweller?

The Dodgers are still selling their right field pavilion all-the-junk-food-you-can-eat tickets for 35.00 advance, 40.00 the day of the game.  The same cost as last year.

So  at least there is one place in Los Angeles the price of gas isn’t skyrocketing.

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And Duane Wade will have surgery and so will be done with NBA professional basketball for the year. Besides that,  this season he won’t be able to return to the Heat either.

Apparently Spitzer was arranging his tryst with the prostitute in a Washington DC hotel room.

I guess this is what he meant by getting crime out of New York?

This just in, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been overheard during a sting and has admitted involvement with a high level call girl ring.

Good to know our federal wiretapping system is helping to keep Americans safer!

I suppose as an Obama suppose it would be very very wrong of me to hope that he might have been also arranging something for his good friend Bill Clinton?

Another question in a strange year.   Governor Spitzer is a superdelegate and a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton.   Can you be a superdelegate if you have been indicted?

Hillary Clinton won a narrow victory in the popular vote in Texas, and a larger victory in Ohio.

So last Thursday it snowed in DALLAS,  and Saturday Ohio was hit by a major blizzard.

Does this mean that one older woman who is not supporting Hillary Clinton might be Mother Nature?

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And in retrospect, it’s amazing that so much controversy was stirred up last week about NAFTA and… Canada?!!.   Though maybe not so amazing for all those Americans who lost their jobs to Canadians.  Especially all those poor hockey players.

But there are singers and musicians and actors too.  Not to mention that our longest running American game show, Jeopardy, has been in Canadian hands for decades.

Just one question, if we overturn NAFTA can we send Celine Dion back?

UCLA’s men’s basketball team has now won two games in a row, against Stanford and Cal,  that they had basically lost without the referees making bad calls. 

Who knew that college refs would become the superdelegates of the NCAA?

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The movie “10,000 BC” opened number one in theatres this weekend.

Apparently a lot of people are curious about what it was like when John McCain was born.

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Obama advisor Samantha Powers had to quit the  campaign after it came out that she called Hillary a “monster” in an interview, even though she thought the reporter had agreed not to print it.

In related news, Bill Clinton is frantically calling journalists to remind them what “off the record” means. 

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Although this t-shirt is already for sale on Cafe Press : “Monsters gat things done – Hillary 08”

So NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is going to go all out to prevent  future SpyGate scandals.   Wonder if his plan includes putting all NFL teams under strict surveillance?

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The following Clinton quote is actually from the New York Times:

Hillary Clinton campaigned in Cheyenne this week,  and while promoting her experience said she had “been in the Oval Office a few times.”

Almost as often as Monica?

The Democrats are grappling with the problem of what to do with the disputed delegates in Michigan and Florida.

In Michigan, the issue is simpler since only Hillary Clinton’s name was on the ballot.  In Florida there are a couple issues, first that all candidates were named on the ballot, second, the request from Miami that any do over this winter also involve the Heat.

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The San Francisco Giant’s slogan for 2008 – All out, all season.  It was bad enough that…”all out, all season” could be uncomfortably accurate fto describe the team’s batting, or lack thereof. 

But as Noah Lowry joins Omar Vizquel and Ray Durham on the injured list, maybe what they meant was “All out, FOR all  season.”

Wish I had written it.

A key aide for Barack Obama was quoted as calling Hillary Clinton a monster. Hillary was so upset upon hearing this she broke through her chains and stormed the village.

After hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent, and millions of votes have been cast, the Democratic primary could be decided by a group of party leaders and insiders known as “Super delegates.”

It’s hard to do, but by comparison, the Dems could make the BCS look good.

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All of these millions of votes could just basically be disregarded?    Don’t we usually invade countries when they do that?

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Many people have ideas as how to decide who gets the advantage.  Bud Selig suggests the candidates’ teams play an otherwise meaningless exhibition game.

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Now Hillary Clinton is saying that John McCain has more experience than Barack Obama.

So do Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

“Experience” got this country into the mess we are in.

Judgment will get us out of it.

Today Packers fans woke up to the sad news that Brett Favre had retired.

And Bears fans woke up to the sad news that Rex Grossman hadn’t.

As many colleges start worrying about their positions in the NCAA  tournament, Mike Krzyzewski remains relaxed about getting a number one seed.  After his long tenure at Duke he is counting on superdelegates.
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So can we now say Randy Moss has 27 million reasons to be happy he’s a Patriot?

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Texas Tech lost by 58 points to Kansas on Monday night.  Are we sure the game wasn’t played in the Alamodome?

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And not satisfied with touting her “35 years of experience,” Hillary Clinton talked monday about her “lifetime of experience.”  Since it’s all about the years, would her presumptive running mate be Senator Robert Byrd?

The new Will Ferrell movie “Semi-pro” was the most popular of the weekend, but did not do nearly as well as most of his other films in their first weekends:

Of course, many New Yorkers stayed away because they thought it was a documentary about the Knicks.

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Another new movie, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is getting a lot of positive pre-release buzz.  But considering that Harrison Ford is now 65 years old, might a better title have been “Indiana Jones and the Gold Watch?”

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Harrison Ford is indeed 65 years old.  Or as John McCain calls him, “a mere child.”

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign is thinking of suing over the complicated Texas primary system.  In addition, they are trying to seat the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations, and use superdelagates to win the nomination.   If this all happens it could mean that the months of primaries will just have been an expensive time consuming exercise that won’t really decide anything.  

Sort of like the NBA regular season.

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A complaint many have about the Clinton campaign is the sense of entitlement, that they were experienced, talented, and that by simply showing up they would win.  Unfortunately that only works if you are Tiger Woods. 

There has been a mini controversy over John McCain’s being born in the Canal Zone.  Barack Obama has co-sponsored a bill that makes any child born to US Military Personnel stationed overseas, automatically a natural-born US citizen.

Hillary Clinton is considering sponsoring a bill to revoke the statehood of Hawaii.

Hillary Clinton started running an ad asking “Who do you want to be answering the phone in the White House at 3am?”

So we are supposed to think that she will be especially alert because she will be awake and waiting for Bill to come home?

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And one of George W. Bush’s top aides, Tim Goeglein,  had to resign today after admitting to plagarism.    CBS  News reported that twenty columns he wrote for an Indiana paper had material copied without attribution.

President Bush was shocked – one of his aides actually reads?

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And back to sports:    The San Francisco Giants  are already starting the season without Barry Bonds.  Now they learned this week that two of their highest paid players, 41 year old Omar Vizquel, and 37 year old Ray Durham, are likely not to be available for the season opener with injuries. 

Maybe GM Brian Sabean misunderstood what it means when they refer to the National League as the “Senior Circuit.”