Left Coast Sports Babe

So how long until Warren Beatty has really good offer from Southwest  Air to star in a commercial? #WannaGetAway

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But really, a week after the #Oscars how many Americans usually really remember who won “Best Picture?”

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Trump to Breitbart “I think (Oscars) were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get act together at end.” It really is all about him.

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So where’s the @realDonaldTrump terrorism tweet about the Kansas guy who killed what he thought were “two Iranians?”

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Trump Healthcare will be very simple: Any reports of someone being denied or unable to afford coverage will be deemed to be #FakeNews

The JCC (Jewish Community Center) in Palo Alto, California was closed for two hours Monday night after a bomb threat, one of over 30 such calls to various JCCs and schools today. So maybe our Tweeter-in-Chief could stop worrying about perceived insults long enough to decry this?

As some Democrats engage in yet another purity test battle, a good time to remember the words of the immortal Dr. Gregory House: “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”

Donald Trump on protests against him “I think that Pres.Obama is behind it.” Uh, sir, Obama is relaxing & living good life. Like you on weekends.

From Marc Ragovin:  “Simple explanation for the Oscar screw up: Moonlight won the electoral college.

How many of us would have loved to wake up Nov 9, 2016 & found out those networks reporting election results were as accurate as #Oscars?

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So now that #Moonlight has been correctly called as Best Picture at the #Oscars can we have a redo on the 2016 Presidential Election?

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Not quite sure what happened.  But after tonight will the Oscares announce  Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty will redo Bonnie & Clyde?. This time getaway car drives away w/ left blinker on.

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So when did #Oscars become #FakeNews? I blame Trump

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Waiting for Trump to tweet angrily that the Academy failed to nominate him for his great acting performance as a populist.

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LaLaLand still keeps the Best Picture award for movies most Americans have actually seen?

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Happiest man in the US right now not associated with #Moonlight has to be #SteveHarvey #Oscars

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Thought La La Land was good, not great. Have to think though after the Oscars that sexism trumps racism. #HiddenFigures #Moonlight

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So does Trump watch the #Oscars or just rely on Fox News to tell him who to attack?

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Baltimore Ravens safety Matt Elam arrested this morning in Miami on reckless driving and drug charges, mostly marijuana. You’d think these idiots would make enough money to spend weekends in Colorado.

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Not big Nascar fan, still think better to run out of gas on last lap leading #Daytona500 than playing safe & finishing 4th @KyleLarsonRacing

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Actor Bill Paxton, 61, died Sunday. Sad. Much too young. And also when you die on the morning of the Oscars it’s too late to be featured in the “In Memoriam” segment. #bustohell

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You know the world has turned upside down when Chris Christie is the voice of reason, saying that GOP lawmakers should have town halls. “Welcome to the real world of responsibility. I understand why members of Congress don’t like it. But you know what? You asked for the job. Go do it.”

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Judge Joseph Wapner, 97, from “The People’s Court” has died. Wonder if Trump had him on his Supreme Court list?

Back to a bit of seriousness…

This DNC chair thing is overblown IMHO. And plenty of time to come together for the midterms. But for all those who are convinced the GOP is thrilled that the Democrats chose Tom Perez – right, because they’d have just hated running against a party chaired by a Black Muslim or a young gay man…. (Ellison/Buttigieg)

Regarding the fact that Perez was on Hillary’s side against Bernie. I can understand how Sanders supporters might find that off-putting. But as someone who has been involved in local politics for decades now, I know that it’s messy. I’ve seen candidates in the primaries and in city races tell outright lies about opponents being secretly Republican, spread false rumors about affairs, illegal contributions, run attack ads that are misleading at best, etc. Unfortunately I’ve seen, as most of us have, good people make bad choices. And sometimes as awful as the campaigns get, you still have to vote in the general election for a candidate you don’t personally admire. To put it mildly.
Not saying it’s right. But it’s sausage making.

2016 Heisman finalist Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma’s QB, was arrested this morning in Fayetteville, Arkansas for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and felony fleeing the scene.
Mayfield is returning to the Sooners for his senior year, but sure sounds like he’s NFL ready.

But if  Mayfield was going to get that drunk you do think he should have stayed in  Oklahoma where cops know him & not Arkansas?  #cantfixstupid

A-Rod and Anne Wojcicki have reportedly broken up after dating for about a year. “That’s shocking, I thought they’d stay together forever.” said nobody

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Lonzo Ball’s dad to ESPN “My boy is going to play for the Lakers, and I’m going to speak it into existence. I want him to be a Laker, but I wasn’t saying he’s only going to play for the Lakers.”
Whatever Lonzo wants to buy with that 1st big NBA paycheck, he sure won’t need a helicopter.

The University of South Florida’s men’s basketball team, 7-20, not only lost to Tulsa Thursday night, but they lost two players temporarily when they apparently fell asleep at the Houston airport and missed their connecting flight home.
Hmm, guess there are worse teams to play for than the Brooklyn Nets.

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California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called Sean Spicer’s comments on marijuana “grossly uninformed.” Well, sort of describes Spicer’s comments on most everything.

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Syrian cinematographer whose film, “The White Helmets, about the nation’s civil war has been nominated for an Oscar has been denied entry to the US. So he will not be at the Academy Awards. If the film wins can Meryl Streep accept in his place?

Trump says he won’t attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Stand up to our enemies? He can’t even face real reporters.

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Do you think @realDonaldTrump knows that the #WhiteHouseCorrespondents dinner isn’t until late April?

Fortunately no fatalities but a man is in custody after an truck ran in to a crowd at a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans and injured almost 30 people. The driver of the pickup truck was said to be “highly intoxicated.” Proving again alas, that we generally have less to fear from terrorists than good-old-American bad behavior and stupidity.

Inside baseball Democratic stuff below…

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Had no strong preference in #DNCChair fight. Have strong hope supporters of all candidates can come together to fight GOP & not each other.

Time will tell. But not giving #TomPerez a chance is not very Democratic. #DNCChair

If the Democrats want to win in 2018 and 2020 it’s going to take the whole party. The progressive wing, the moderate wing, and yes, even some of the conservative wing. Big tents are not just for elephants.

Right about now the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might be wishing  Jameis Winston had stuck to shoplifting crab legs.

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Jameis Winston was speaking to elementary age children when he talked about boys being “strong.”  “But the ladies, they’re supposed to be silent, polite, gentle..”

#JameisWinston says he made “a poor word choice.” No, using F-bomb with 3rd graders is a “poor word choice.”  You’re just a sexist a**hole.

So all of these  CPAC homophobes are really more comfortable with Caitlyn Jenner & her friends joining them in the men’s room?

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Trump says the  US has ‘fallen behind on nuclear weapon capacity.’ Right, like billionaires have fallen behind with the economic recovery.

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Sean Spicer talked today about the “opioid addiction crisis” and added “There is still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and drugs of that nature. I do believe you will see greater enforcement of it,”
Opioids are in the same category as marijuana? What has HE been smoking?

Ah Caitlyn,  you didn’t notice those orange fingers behind her back?  Jenner’s Tweet on Thursday.

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Rioting in Arizona is defined now as “Two or more people using or threatening force or violence in a way that disturbs the peace.”
A new Senate bill would expand the definition to include property damage, and allow the prosecution of protest organizers if someone riots during the protest. Or if prosecutors claim they fear rioting, they could arrest people just for planning an event.
Of course, we’ve never had out of control law enforcement in Arizona.

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So at the same time the GOP is trying to gut the ACA and talk about “personal responsibility” they are getting rid of nutrition requirements for school lunches. Yeah, because 7 year olds need to make smart life choices. #SMH

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Kellyanne Conway is back, slamming feminists. (“Anti-male, pro-abortion.”) And saying “this whole sisterhood, this whole ‘let’s go march for women’s rights” has a “presumptive negativity about women in power.”
Uh, Kellyanne, most of these feminists you are talking about voted for a woman to have the power of the Presidency…

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Just a final US  thought. Apparently Betsy Devos – gasp – wanted to do the right thing for trans kids with school bathroom regulations, but was told to keep quiet and stand down by men in the Trump administration.
So maybe Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris should take Devos for a girl’s night out and a little “I am woman” pep talk… Who knows what other seditious thoughts they might sow?

Six teenagers rescued Monday by police after falling through thin ice on Central Park Pond. It was 55 degrees in New York today. Another Darwin “missed it by that much.”

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OF Dexter Fowler, now with the Cardinals, is married to an Iranian woman. He told ESPN he was planning to bring their daughter to visit family, but canceled due to Trump’s travel ban. “It’s huge. “Especially anytime you’re not able to see family, it’s unfortunate,”
And for this he is being attacked by some St. Louis fans on social media. Yo, Dexter, if you want a change of scenery, SF fans would be THRILLED to have you.

Not a Curt Schilling fan, but after he defended Milo Yiannopoulos, without apparently hearing Milo’s remarks dismissing the idea pedophilia with 13-yr olds, Schilling sent an apologetic series of tweets ending with “I’ll accept any and all abuse thrown my way for not thoroughly going through ALL the material before responding.”
What a concept. A Twitter apology?

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TSA left a security area open and unattended this morning at JFK this morning and 11 passengers walked through; Security cameras showed three set off the metal detector..
So wonder what agents were doing at the time, dumping dangerous bottles of water?

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Lonzo Ball’s dad “”I’m going to tell you right now, he’s better than Steph Curry, to me. Here, put Steph Curry on UCLA’s team right now, put my boy on Golden State and watch what happens.”
Not sure about possible vaccines but we sure have a narcissism epidemic in this country..

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Mike Pence “You can anticipate that the President and all of us will continue to call out the media when they play fast and loose with the facts.”
Exactly, playing fast and loose with the facts is Trump’s job.

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Sacramento GM Vlade Divac today said the team traded Cousins because he thought future offers would be worse, as they had a “better trade offer for the star center two days earlier.
Well that should make disappointed Kings fans feel better…. #sarcasm

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As of Feb 20,  San Francisco at full average rainfall total- for full season Jul 1-Jun 30. All this rain really getting in way of ark building.

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Jackie Schlegel, executive director of an anti-vaccine group in Texas is angry because vaccine advocates want to “chip away” at parents’ right to choose.
The right to choose. Uh yeah, and she said it with a straight face. #GodBlessTexas

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#HRMcMaster is Trump’s new National Security Advisor. Seems reasonable & capable. Did he give fake crazy answers in interview?

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So Trump is firing people who made derogatory statements about him in the past. Back in Sept. Trump himself said “the generals have been reduced to rubble, reduced to a point where it is embarrassing for our country.” Just saying.

NBC News is reporting that Russian experts are preparing a dossier on Donald Trump’s psychological makeup for Putin. And a senior Kremlin advisor says “among its preliminary conclusions is that the new American leader is a risk-taker who can be naïve.”
What was their first clue?

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Give Trump credit, he might be the first U.S. President to start a war with Sweden.

So the meaningless NBA All-Star Game is over. Now we can get back to meaningless regular season games.

Well the East did hold the West under 200. #AllStarGame

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You know, it would have been nice to have just one winter in California between those with  daily drought stories and this year’s daily storm alerts.

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Time to start a pool: Where will Trump’s next fictitious terrorist attack supposedly take place?

But for now,  congrats to all those who had #Sweden in the Trump insult pool.

Has someone explained to @realDonaldTrump that it’s not really Swedish terrorism when you can’t figure out assembly instructions from Ikea?

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Gaslighting appears to be so much a part of #Uber culture amazed that Travis Kalanick wasn’t offered position in a Trump cabinet.

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Trump “you look at what’s happening #lastnightinSweden..” Another atrocity from the planners of the Bowling Green Massacre?

Trump loves to talk about fictitious terror attacks, but when it comes to actual massacre in Quebec City, crickets. Wonder why? #whiteguy

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Back during the OJ trial, there were some African-Americans who thought he was guilty, but they were so unhappy with the police and the system that his acquittal was a happy change. Have to wonder if something like this is going on with Trump, that some of his supporters might think he is saying and doing crazy things, but having been so unhappy with the status quo, they’re still happy for the change.

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Bus to hell from TC  “North Korean Dick Tater Kim Jong-un supposedly was behind his half-brother being poisoned at an airport in Malaysia. He denied any involvement, but a spokesperson said “It’s a dog eat dog world”.

Sigh. Wasn’t that long ago that Warriors managing to lose to Nuggets by 22 points would have been best #WTF comedy fodder of night.

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But seriously, a Warriors-Nuggets game MIGHT have been projected as a chance for the all-time NBA three-point record in one game to be tied – just not by Denver.  (24 tonight)

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Okay, now it’s serious. Donald Trump has to stop grabbing headlines, especially with New York papers. Because Derek Jeter and his wife are having a baby. #Letsfocusontheimportantstuff

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Rotten apple story of the day. Although sad, because he probably was abused himself. Jeffrey Sandusky, 41, Jerry’s son, has been arrested and charged with 14 counts of sexual offenses involving children.

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If Trump’s going to do Presidential business in public at #MaraLago maybe activists should apply for positions as waiters?

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So we now know answer to a future trivia question, who was 1st person to resign or be fired from Trump administration?

So let’s see, because Hillary was careless enough to have her emails on a private server, we ended up with a National Security Advisor who was talking illegally with Russia. And he’s likely to be replaced by a man who was sharing classified information with his mistress. What a country.

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Stephen Miller  “The powers of the president…will not be questioned.”  Would be nice to have feeling that anyone in administration has read Constitution.

Trump apparently using an unsecured Android phone. Hmm, is it really good idea to be alienating high tech folks in California? #Hackers

Bummer,  Michael Flynn resigns before @SNL has time to figure out which woman would have played him on next week’s show.

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“I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. ”
“Inadvertently briefed” and “incomplete information.” Doesn’t Flynn know the password is “alternative facts?”

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Now Trump’s Labor Secretary pick Andrew Puzder’s nomination may apparently be in trouble. Hmm, dealings with Russia, no experience with what the department does, complete incompetence…. all those are fine, but hiring an undocumented housekeeper might be disqualifying?

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Former Goldman Sachs exec Mnuchin confirmed as Treasury secretary. Must make those folks who voted against Hillary over her speeches proud

Grammys start  Sunday at 5p PST. The “In Memoriam” segment should be done by 8p.

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SF Giants are inviting Barry Bonds as a special instructor in Spring Training. Instructor? Based on last year thinking Bonds could still out hit most of the team

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So some folks are upset because the Naperville Rib Fest has booked Toby Keith for their opening night concert.in June, since he also performed at the inaugural. Really? No one is making anyone buy tickets. Seems more interesting that the best gig the country singer can now get is the Naperville Rib Fest.

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An Orlando Police officer resigned a week after being reprimanded for arresting a man when she mistook doughnut glaze in his car for methamphetamine. Guess she couldn’t face being known as a cop who couldn’t recognize something from doughnuts?

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You’d think if Democrats could pay all these protestors they’d have just paid people back in Nov. to vote for Hillary.

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While Trump was not wearing an earpiece while Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was speaking Friday, the President was seen smiling and nodding during the speech. Probably because he was agreeing with the voices in his head.

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Wonder how many games of golf Trump is on pace for…?

Just imagine if Obama had a place he referred to as “Winter White House” that had $200,000 initiation dues. #MaraLago 

Wonder when Trump will present Ivanka with a Purple Heart for all the suffering she has endured.

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Did Bud Selig leave idea of starting a runner at 2nd in @MLB extra innings in a farewell note in the new Commissioner’s desk?

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Spring Training starts next week.  About time. February is kind of a comedy wasteland for sports humor.  Although to be fair, in New York, the Knicks and Nets are doing their part.

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Anyone who follows my FB feed knows I argue with my father all the time on social media. Have to wonder, what would it take for Ivanka to say “Dad, just STFU?”

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And the classiness just keeps on coming. Kellyanne Conway this morning on “Fox and Friends: “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff. I hate shopping, but I’m going to get some myself today. It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it. I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it everybody. You can find it online

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But really, did KellyAnne Conway expect women would take fashion advice from a woman who wore a high school band uniform to inauguration?

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Trump will do anything to get people to buy Ivanka’s clothes except order her to have them made in America

Uh, oh, so did our President just commit billions to California? In a meeting with airline execs, when “you go to China, you go to Japan, they have fast trains all over the place. I don’t want to compete with your business, but we don’t have one fast train,”
Paging Jerry Brown.

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Now Trump back to tweeting John McCain is a loser. Wonder how far he has to go before McCain might actually vote against him in Senate

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Another angry Trump tweet -“Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie), now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?
Shouldn’t Vietnam expert Trump be commending Blumenthal on his alternative facts?

Nordstrom stock up 4% yesterday, and up again today. Just saying.

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Could #BettyWhite on @SNL play someone in Trump administration. Because I really would like to see him DARE go after her.

So is @realDonaldTrump calling new AG Sessions asking him how to fire judges?

Let’s get to the real outrage: Donald Trump’s Twitter tantrums keeping internet from fully enjoying George & Amal Clooney’s pregnancy.