Left Coast Sports Babe

The Olympic games are open. Meaning for the next few weeks, Americans will care passionately about sports they normally pay no attention to, and will ignore again in August. But, hey, it’s all about potential gold. (It’s like we’re a temporary nation of trophy wives.) – USA! USA! USA!

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Bloody shame that baseball has been dropped from this year’s Olympics: Otherwise Chicago Cubs would have had a great chance to win as the world’s best amateur team.

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Am overseas, but in the San Francisco Chronicle online the men’s 400 meter individual medley results were  hidden all day under “spoiler alert.” Okay, the event is over in London,  but it happened in the afternoon in San Francisco, and the only reason it’s a “spoiler” is that NBC has their head so far up their “peacock” that they are waiting to show it until primetime.-

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Mitt Romney’s next foreign policy stop is Israel, where his fundraisers will be closed to the press. What, so the media doesn’t catch him talking about looking forward to a good kosher bacon cheeseburger?

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Mitt Romney has been attacking President Obama for supposed security leaks. So he goes to England and blabs about a secret meeting with M16?

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Spoiler alert?  Michael Phelps finished out of the medals (4th) in his first Olympic event. What if he and Tim Lincecum had the same performance enhancing drug?

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East Coast bias? What East Coast bias? ESPN said Marco Scutaro would look forward to joining fellow Venezuelans Pablo Sandoval and Henry Blanco on the SF Giants. Except that HENRY Blanco is on the D’backs. Gregor Blanco is on the Giants. (How quickly they forget that perfect game saving catch.)

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Josh Hamilton is in the middle of a July slump that has him getting booed at home in Texas. Note to Rangers’ management, if you’re that unhappy with Hamilton, the SF Giants will take him.

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And yes, we like our golds in the U.S. But a week ago, or a week from now, how many people knew/know what a 400 meter individual medley is?

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Donald Perry, 60, the longtime spokesman for fast-food chain Chick-fil-A died Friday. He was 60.  The cause of death was not released.  Of course a lifetime of fried chicken sandwiches could do that.

(Of course, a twisted mind could say that maybe God didn’t like the anti-gay comments, but I wouldn’t say that.)

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From Gary Bachman:  Skydiver Felix Baumgartner yesteday completed a record-breaking 17-mile dive. No one has fallen this far this fast since Joe Paterno.

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