Left Coast Sports Babe

Sarah Palin said she resigned as Governor of Alaska because she had a “higher calling.” I like the one about hiking the Applachian Trail better.

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Alaskan Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, who will succeed Governor Sarah Palin after she leaves office this month, called Palin “Alaska’s greatest gift to the United States.” Greatest gift to the United States? Well…maybe not exactly. Greatest gift to U.S. comedy writers?. Absolutely.

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But give Palin credit on another front, if David Letterman was planning on taking the weekend off, he’s now been spending it working for Monday – as in “The Top Ten Reasons Sarah Palin Quit.”

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Sarah Palin noted as one of the reasons she quit that as a lame-duck Governor, since she was not running again in 2010, that she really couldn’t do anything good for the state. Residents of South Carolina are responding “Yeah, what she said.”

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Although, let’s be fair. Governor Palin was inaugurated in December 2006. She served an entire year and a half before she was chosen as John McCain’s running mate. And has been back in the state, off and on, since the election was over. So that’s two and a half years – with time off for campaigning, speaking, and fundraising – out of a four year term. And the media dares to call her a quitter??

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Although the Philadelphia Phillies are in first place, they have one of the worst records in their home ballpark of any team in baseball. In fact, their home to road scoring ratio is worse than anyone’s, with the possible exception of Bill Clinton. (or Mark Sanford.)

By the way, anyone else rooting for Tim Lincecum and Tim Wakefield to start the All Star game? Only about 20 years and 40 mph between them.

And congratulations to Joey Chestnut, three time winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest. So the Japanese are putting our automakers out of business. Americans still rule when it comes to eating.

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And a belated happy Fourth of July. The way things are going in the U.S., you have to wonder if they aren’t celebrating in Britain too – as in the 233th anniversary of “It’s not our problem.”

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