Left Coast Sports Babe

Phil Mickelson is leading a group trying to buy the San Diego Padres.

Hope someone has told him the Padres’ propensity for low scores is not, as in golf, a good thing

.A 19 year old Phoenix woman was arrested on child abuse and aggravated DUI charges after police say she left her five-week-old baby strapped in a car seat on top of her car and drove off. Poor mom. Had she just done the same with a puppy she might have been offered a job with “Arizonans for Romney.”

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An Al Jezeera documentary says that the U.S. Govt at Guantanamo Bay is torturing prisoners with songs from Sesame Street? Really? I don’t think our government would do that. Torture with “It’s a Small World,” maybe.-

Oops, A brain surgeon had to enlist the help of a company with metal detectors after he buried an engagement ring on a Florida beach for a surprise proposal, and then FORGOT where he put it. They found the ring, and his girlfriend did accept the proposal. Guess this goes under the category “Well, it’s not brain surgery.”

A new report finds football players who are caught smoking pot face particularly lenient penalties in the SEC, with Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State the only schools  who suspend athletes at all for the first positive test. “I’m shocked”, said absolutely nobody. –

The city of Oakland officials are offering $100 gift cards to residents who hand over a working gun at the Oakland Police Department today. Not a bad idea, as long as the gift cards cannot be used to buy more guns.

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“Turn back the Clock” day today at A T and T Park, as the teams wear uniforms from 1912. If the Cubs and Giants really wanted to be authentic, however, one of them would have signed Jamie Moyer.

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Uh, define “work.” In an SFGate.com story by Henry Schluman, SF Giants star Melky Cabrera talks about living with his mom “When I made my major-league debut I told her, ‘That’s it. You don’t work anymore. I’m going to work and take care of you. I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things. I don’t know how to cook. I don’t know how to wash. So my mom does that for me.'”

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After his on-air tirade against an umpire resulted in a reprimand of undisclosed details from MLB commissioner Selig, Chicago White Sox announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson said it “won’t happen again.” Translation, ‘I heard from Bud, I choose to keep my job.”

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