Left Coast Sports Babe

Santa’s on his way. Let’s hope next year that a bearded guy from overseas with an announced plan to invade the houses of all Americans with children isn’t put on the no-fly list. #sleightohell

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At a Jersey City Mall, apparently a wild brawl broke out between shoppers last night, with Santa and kids waiting to see him nearby. Police were called, although there are no reports on arrests. #Ifonlytheywerearmed

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Christmas miracle for @49ers could be a number 1 draft pick. #Browns win! Browns win! Browns win!

So the @49ers can’t even accept the gift of a #1 draft pick?

Makes a certain amount of sense, neither Chip Kelly nor Colin Kaepernick is likely to be with the SF 49ers next year, so they might as well keep the team from getting the #1 draft pick on their way out.

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Presumably Los Angeles is calling St. Louis asking if they want the Rams back.

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So how did this @Rams team ever win four games? #SFvsLA

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Michael Floyd, who now says he has “learned” from his DUI, is active today for the Patriots. So what has Floyd learned? If you can play Bill Belichick doesn’t care what you do off the field?

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Okay, really? The guy who harrassed Ivanka Trump on a plane was wrong. But so now her supporters are slamming his husband’s book on Amazon as revenge. Can folks just grow the f*ck up?

Sidney Drell, 90, a long-time advisor to Presidents on nuclear weapons, has died. Let’s hope it wasn’t Trump’s tweets this week that killed him.

Donald Trump said today he is dissolving the Trump Foundation. I’m sure the fact that the foundation was under investigation by the NY State Attorney General’s office had nothing to do with it.

Minnesota Vikings had a fine flight today but then plane landed and slid off the taxiway. Perfect metaphor for the team’s season.

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Tiger Woods playing golf today w/h Donald Trump. So even President-Elect couldn’t help Tiger make the cut to play on a weekend?

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A Virgin America red-eye flight from San Francisco to Boston almost made a emergency landing when it was discovered one passenger had named their wi-fi hot spot “Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097”
Someone, who didn’t have an actual Galaxy Note 7, finally fessed up after the captain made announcements, including “This isn’t a joke. We’re going to turn on the lights (it’s 11pm) and search everyone’s bag until we find it.”
Can you be put on the no-fly list for being stupid?

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Grinch alert: Starting in January, British Airways will charge for all food and drink on short-haul flights in economy class. Passengers who hope to get around this by bringing their own instant coffee or tea bags will be out of luck, however, as the airline WILL charge for hot water in a cup.
Most people’s reaction “That’s absurd.” U.S. airlines’ reaction: “How do we do that?”.

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Uh oh, the Airtrain connector from Newark Airport broke down this afternoon so many people couldn’t make their flights. Did someone connected with the airport piss off Chris Christie?

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The Rockettes have reportedly been ordered to perform at Trump’s inaugural, and those who refuse will be fired. Makes a certain amount of sense – showcasing women who are being told what they MUST do with their bodies.

Now @realDonaldTrump is furious that his son Eric cannot have donors “pay to play” for his foundation. Does this even need a punchline?

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Trump’s latest tweet. “Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: “In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity.” So true!”
So being dignified would be for Hillary to have said up front she might not have accepted the results of the election?

In Kentucky, Ken Ham, the founder of the Ark Encounter, a life-sized Noah’s Ark replica, lit it up in rainbow lights, and said “Sadly, people ignore what God intended the rainbow to represent,” which was His “covenant with Noah,” and not “freedom, love, pride or the LGBTQ movement,”
Chris Hartman, director of the Kentucky Fairness Campaign, decried the statement, but added “It makes the ark look incredibly gay.” #GodBlessAmerica

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Well, damn, reports are that #CarrieFisher suffered a massive heart attack on a flight from London to LAX. May the force be with her.

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One more comment on the Ivanka plane issue. Here’s my feeling, if someone is acting in a political capacity at a speech or fundraiser, then civil protest is reasonable. If someone is “off-duty,” then we should just all be nice.
Quite an old story but I once was a waitress at Stanford for a dinner that Casper Weinberger was attending. We were all vetted by Secret Service in advance. At the time I hated everything he was doing. But as a friend and I discussed, we were students but we were also professionals, and we treated him nicely. Funniest thing in retrospect, here there were half a dozen agents at the dinner, plus the vetting, but when I went around with coffee, Weinberger asked “could I have tea, if it’s not too much trouble.” Nice man. Horrible policies. But I did my job, and felt good about it.