Left Coast Sports Babe

This year there is likely a silver lining for Yankees fans.  They don’t have to watch A-Rod flop in the playoffs.

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For the Republicans, Sarah Palin has been a great distraction from the cranky out-of-touch old man who is really in charge of things. 

So much so, in fact, that the Steinbrenner family is now considering replacing manager Joe Girardi with Madonna.

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As low as things are getting in the US elections, Canadian national campaigning might have gone lower with a Conservative ad showing a cartoon Puffin bird defecating on Liberal party leader Stephane Dion.

Actually, the McCain campaign did think of a similar anti-Obama campaign with a bird, but Sarah Palin shot it.

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For what it’s worth….  There have been a lot of lousy free agent signings in baseball – Carl Pavano by the Yankees, Barry Zito by the Giants, Andruw Jones and Kevin Brown by the Dodgers.  But at least today they all look like better financial decisions than buying stock in financial companies.