Left Coast Sports Babe

LA City Council voted to legalize marijuana sales starting in 2018. And we thought a lot of fans were late to Dodgers games until now…. #dudewheresmyticket

LaVar Ball now wants both his sons to play overseas. Thinking Europe response “Uh, no, we have Louis Vuitton stores too.”

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Former Team USA gymnastic doctor Larry Nassar sentenced to 60 years in prison. Can they put him in general population?

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So maybe besides all the other bets on Thursday Night Football there should be an over-under on injuries?

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Cleveland Browns fired Sashi Brown, executive VP in charge of their personnel dept. #Browns fans shocked – team HAS a personnel dept?

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Are millennials into bitcoin because they missed out on beanie babies?

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Or is  “bitcoin” millennial for “tulip bulbs?”

United Airlines has a waiver for winter weather. On December 7. In Atlanta, Georgia. But no, we don’t have climate change.

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So while we work up to @realDonaldTrump & @MooreSenate can GOP start by calling for Blake Farenthold to resign?

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Pantene says the color of the year for 2018 will be “Ultra violet.” Waiting for tweet from Trump complaining that it’s not orange. #fakecolor

So Trump is going to have a physical next year. Will that include a visit to his dentist? #DentureDonald

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White House @PressSec said @realDonaldTrump will undergo a physical next year & results will be made public. Right after he releases his tax returns?

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Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks said he is resigning over asking female staffers about becoming a surrogate for his child. Why do I guess that wasn’t phrase he used? Cue Paul Anka #Havingmybaby

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GOP claims to be the party of personal responsibility. Until they get elected.#Franken #Conyers #Moore #Trump

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Donald Trump Jr tweeted an attack on Al Franken this morning. Donny claiming moral high ground is like Hillary Clinton claiming to be expert on email servers.

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Damn, now #NewMexico. Time to reset the mass shooting clock to zero again. And for NRA to claim all students should be armed

More and more teams out of the Ohtani free agent race. This is getting more and more like an episode of the Bachelor.

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Giancarlo Stanton might be deciding between #Cardinals & #SFGiants. Has anyone from Giants considered sending him average weather reports from St. Louis in summer?

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LaVar Ball pulling LiAngelo out of UCLA means the kid will miss out on potentially a great three months of college.

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And yes, this is LaVar saying he is pulling his son out. Not his son making the statement.  Yeah, this young man is definitely mature enough for the NBA.

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Stanford’s Bryce Love  named a finalist, and invited for Heisman ceremony. If by some miracle he wins, will his trophy have only one ankle?

(or an ankle brace at lease,  Love has been running on one ankle since a late October injury against Washington.)

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#Giants have fired #BenMcAdoo after benching Manning. Who’d a thunk the 2017 Jets would be the most NFL functional team in NY?

So House wants to allow Americans to take their guns and concealed-carry permits across state lines. But heaven-forbid they bring their marijuana.

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RIP #JohnAnderson, Remembering the days when those on fringe of the GOP were honorable people.

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So if GOP women who voted for Trump are called liars when they accuse Roy Moore, even with WRITTEN evidence, what makes any woman think she has better chance of being believed?

Orrin Hatch on Roy Moore – “many of the things he allegedly did were decades ago.” Of course same could have been said for Charles Manson.

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Somewhere Nixon is thinking “How the f*ck did I get impeached for a cover up of a two-bit burglary?

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If Trump gets away with “if the President does it it’s not illegal,” do we retroactively exonerate Nixon?

How long until Trump tweets “Yeah, of course I colluded w/ Russians, so what? GOP got their SCOTUS judge & we got our tax cuts. #MAGA.”

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Among many reasons I’m a Democrat – I believe more in leaving our children a world w/ clean air & water, great national parks & a good educational system, than in leaving our children a world free from estate tax.

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Going forward into December, if someone wishes you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever… just smile and say thank you. We need more nice. Seriously.

Who knew the #Silverdome would be tougher than any of the Lions teams who played in it?

Especially when the Lions have never had a problem imploding.

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Ole Miss QB Shea Patterson has permission to transfer, possibly to Michigan. Supposedly he wants “stability at offensive coordinator.” Points for not even pretending it’s about academics.

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Going to be arguments about that 4th CFB playoff spot. But who’d a thunk best team in Florida would turn out to be UCF Golden Knights?

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Tiger Woods making ESPN golf headlines even for finishing tied for 9th in a tournament with only 18 golfers and no cut. Maybe they’d have better ratings just having a “Best of Tiger’ highlight show each week.

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Post script to Pac 12 championship:   Look, USC was a better team almost all year than Stanford. But if a conference championship really means something, maybe you don’t schedule it on after short week on Friday night?
Of course, given TV and college football maybe they scheduled it Friday because the NFL has Thursday?

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As we look at all red-state #CFBPlayoff did Senate tax bill making tuition waivers taxable mean football players need to pay tax on scholarships?

So all we need to do to believe Trump, is to believe that CIA, FBI, Justice Department, all the major media except Fox, etc are ALL corrupt and lying.

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If we didn’t know otherwise sure seems like Trump tweets are calling for the impeachment of President Hillary Clinton.

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Trump railing against Hillary again, and tweets – “General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed…” Uh, maybe more like Trump’s life will be destroyed.

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#NYTimes McFarland email “If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown USA election to him.” Now Trump admin says that was sarcastic. Right. #Sarcasm

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Many Republicans held their noses & voted in 2016.  While Democrats bemoan #TaxBill , and yes, there should be standards, it’s maybe a good time for the party going forward for 2018 and 2020 to realize standards are not the same as litmus tests?

Trump’s lawyer John Dowd says he wrote obstruction of justice tweet about knowing Flynn lied. Wait, I thought Trump only hired the best lawyers?

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”
Yeah, I can understand how the working class voted Republican…. #WTF?

To be fair, Stanford football has teased fans all year with glimmers of being a great football team, and then a lot of doses of reality.

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Ole Miss hit with more NCAA sanctions. Amazing how the only SEC teams who get punished for violations aren’t the ones who go to top bowl games.

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Kate Upton asked Justin Verlander in a tweet “Which is better, winning a World Series or a honeymoon w/ @KateUpton? Even an American League pitcher should be able to avoid swinging & missing on that one.

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Jimbo Fisher gets $75 million head coaching contract  from Texas A&M for 10 years, fully guaranteed.  $75 million. But God forbid a booster buy a player dinner.

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$75 million for Fisher after a so-far 5-6 record at FSU.   Normally you don’t get rewarded for that kind of mediocrity.  Re-elected, maybe.

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Michael Flynn revenge karma cocktail: Russian vodka. With several twists. Served very cold.

What happened to Kate Steinle was horrible. Period. Anyone think GOP reaction might have been different if she were undocumented & accidental killer were white?

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So let me get this straight: Immigration laws exist already that should have kept the guy who killed Kate Steinle out of the US. But GOP demands new and stronger laws. But when mass shootings happen, ah, then they say laws are fine, we just need to enforce them.

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GOP with this tax bill is acting like they won’t ever have to worry about another election.

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Child tax credit expansion voted down because it would raise corporate tax rate from 20% to 20.94%. But yeah, GOP is party of working class. #overflowtheswamp

Trump lawyer refers to Michael Flynn as “former Obama administration official.” Waiting to see how this will also be Hillary’s fault.

Trump says reports of him firing Rex Tillerson are #FakeNews. So official reason will end up being Tillerson wants to spend time w/ his family?