Left Coast Sports Babe

Watching The Masters have to ask – has a ball ever listened when spectators scream “Get in the hole?”

As some wonder how Americans could have possibly voted Donald Trump into office, useful to remember, last Monday Tiger Woods was betting line favorite to win The Masters.

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All Nike golfers had to wear pink today. So has Patrick Reed made pink the new red?

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Apparently fans were rooting today for Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy over Reed. Now, while I’m not a big golf fan, have read that Patrick had has some potential character issues in the past.  Fair enough. But have to wonder, seriously, how those fans would have reacted if he looked more like someone who belonged at a fancy country club.

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And didn’t everyone have the New York Mets as the last 1 loss team in the NL?

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And didn’t we all have Patrick Reed leading #theMasters

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But hey, good news for CBS and ESPN, Tiger Woods is still playing. For those who get up early on Sunday morning.

Yeah Andrew McCutchen can stay. Welcome to  SF Giants  history.  #BeatLA

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So is the Warriors strategy to save ALL their remaining wins this year for NBA playoffs?

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Phillies 20, Marlins 1. Maybe to really speed up some games MLB doesn’t need a pitch clock, it needs a mercy rule.

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Terrible tragedy in Canada with at least 14 dead in junior hockey team bus crash. Absolute crickets from Trump for hours.  Finally a tweet saying he had called Justin Trudeau.    (Did someone from Fox call Trump to tell him to do it?)

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Millions of us in US apologize for our President

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Sad that a man has died in Trump Tower fire. But I can’t be the only one who immediately thinks “Did he piss off any Russians lately?”

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While the thought of pissing off Russians isn’t REALLY a joke. It’s probably wrong to joke about a man dying in Trump Tower. But neither should @POTUS be bragging about his “well-built building” – with no sprinklers.

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So do all Trump buildings not have sprinklers in them? Asking for a number of suddenly worried residents & hotel guest.

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Spare me any outrage about jokes over Trump Tower fire, please. When Hillary & Bill Clinton’s house caught fire “Some political pundits took to Twitter to joke that the fire must have erupted because the Clintons were burning books or destroying evidence of wrongdoing.

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If this keeps up, Scott Pruitt will indeed be fired, not for corruption, but because he is taking headlines away from @realDonaldTrump

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Trump talks about death threats to Scott Pruitt. Uh, liberals in general don’t advocate killing their political enemies. He must have been thinking of Ted Nugent.

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Awful that someone drove into a crowd in Muenster.   Motive unknown.  But we already know why – if he was white he was mentally ill. If Muslim, he was a terrorist.

Puerto Rico, still not recovered from hurricane, is part of USA. Which means illegal immigrants who make it to the island can fly to US mainland w/o border security. Maybe if we spread this around enough it will scare Trump into sending troops there.

Or at least ESPN’s long national nightmare.

Tiger Woods has, barely, made the cut at the Masters.

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Although these days it’s also almost hard to believe that the NBA pre-season is almost over.

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So Adam Jones gets called out on a pitch with bases loaded in 14th inning that was way off the plate. Alvarez hits a grand slam on very next pitch. Mean bitch Karma cracking a cold one. #Orioles #Yankees

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Anyone but me have no idea who #ConorMcGregor was. And thinking I haven’t missed much.

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Wonder if it’s occurred to USA enemies that they could completely paralyze the White House just by knocking Fox and Friends off the air?

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Jobs report said only 103,000 new jobs added in March. And half of those were due to firings/resignations in Trump’s White House.

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As weather service predicts a bad hurricane season have to wonder, if a big one hits Texas will that be enough to recall National Guard from the border?

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Blake Farenthold just resigned from Congress. Almost certainly means one thing… there are more women.

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Rudy Giuliani’s 2nd wife found out his intentions to end marriage via a press conference. Would have been great karma if 3rd wife Judith Nathan told him she was leaving by text?

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Dow down 700, jobs report half of what was expected. Nine West declaring bankruptcy. Where’s the Trump tweet taking credit?

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I remember a liberal friend saying “I hate Reagan, but he could speak at my funeral anytime.” Can anyone imagine @realDonaldTrump speaking at a funeral? He’d quickly blame Dems & immigrants for the death, then praise himself for the rest of the service.

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This was a lot funnier from Nathan Lane as Albert in “Cage Aux Folles” #KevinWilliamson

“The doctors are only doing their jobs. If you’re going to kill someone, better to kill the mothers. That will stop them.
Oh, I know what you’re going to say. “If you kill the mother, the fetus dies, too.” But the fetus is going to be aborted anyway, so why not let it go down with the ship?”

But didn’t everyone have the SFGiants up 3 to 0 after 1 inning against Felix Hernandez?

And then knocking Hernandez out of the game with 8 runs in the 6th.

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SFGiants scored ten runs tonight  in a game started by future Hall-of-Famer Felix Hernandez.  Even the eight they scored against him was more than they have in all five previous games this season.#baseballisafunnygame

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Since we all know how much Trump hates being upstaged, can only imagine what he’ll do if Tiger Woods has a good first day at the Masters.

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Police believe YouTube shooter had only recently bought the 9mm handgun she used. California has reasonably tight gun laws, imagine if she could have gotten an AR-15.

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If MLK , or somewhat like him, were alive today, wonder what nasty nickname @RealDonaldTrump would use for him on Twitter?

If Jeff Bezos were a Trump supporter, @realDonaldTrump would be touting Amazon as an American success story. And would have nominated Bezos to his Cabinet.

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As Trump attacks immigrants, important to remember he had to hire temporary foreigner workers because he couldn’t find enough Americans to do the work at Mar-A-Lago. Sort of the same problem he’s had looking for wives.

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Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen says Trump will “soon” sign order deploying National Guard troops to United States’ southern border. Hmm, maybe on May 4? Anniversary of Kent State.

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Two GOP members of Congress have called for EPA Sec. Pruitt to be dismissed. So apparently most greed and corruption is fine, but a $50 room in DC is beyond the pale.

Trump says mission in Syria is “coming to a rapid end.” But won’t say when troops will leave. Probably about the time he releases his tax returns.

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Rudy Giuliani is heading for his 3rd divorce. Hope this doesn’t get in the way of his attacking Hillary Clinton over her marriage.

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Of course it’s a free country, but anyone but me have just a bit of a problem listening to Melissa Ethridge shilling for Applebee’s? #Cometomywindow?#WTF?

After less than a week in MLB,  Pittsburgh is the last undefeated team.  As we all expected.

Giancarlo Stanton was booed after 5 K’s in his Big Apple debut for Yankees. At least he’ll get more understanding from that warm fuzzy New York media.

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Madison Bumgarner says #SFGiants estimate on his return might be “a little conservative.” Which is potentially great news. The team needs his bat.

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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia bought out entire Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto for a week. Hope what he paid includes some compensation money for bartenders.

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Despite all the Twitter jokes, of COURSE Trump knows where Baltics are. They are on the board right next to Mediterraneans.

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Official TrumpStore, which sells Trump organization branded items and DonaldJTrump store, which sells political merchandise, BOTH use USPS for shipping. But I am sure they only pay the highest rates….

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Trump (falsely) tweeting that Amazon shipping costs with USPS should not be bourne (sic) by the American taxpayer. Beginning to see how this man thought Betsy Devos was qualified to lead education.

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If Americans get angry when the price of food or gas goes up a few cents, imagine how if they’d feel if Amazon suddenly stopped Amazon Prime?

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Trump attacking Amazon in part he says because they are hurting mom-and-pop retailers. As opposed to his beloved donor Walmart?

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White House is now strongly backing EPA head Scott Pruitt. I wonder who Trump lets stay at his DC hotel for $50 a night?

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Getting really tired  of resetting the US mass shooting clock. #YouTube

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Who knows for sure, but the father of Nasim Aghdam, alleged YouTube shooter who allegedly fatally 3 other people then shot herself, reportedly “hated” the company.

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Conservative men – “if only she were armed” No, wait….

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Nasim was armed with a handgun.  Imagine if California had the same gun laws as states like Texas, then she could have settled her imagined scores with an AR-15.

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Now it’s Cheatin’ Obama?!! But somehow I’ve missed the derisive nickname Trump has for Putin?

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Trump reportedly to meet with Peter Thiel at White House dinner in hopes of learning how to attack Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google. Ladies and gentlemen, your President of the United State

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Ok, who had one of the last two undefeated teams in MLB for 2018 being the Pittsburgh Pirates?

So how did Villanova lose 4 games this year?   #NCAAChampionship

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No disrespect for Sister Jean and Loyola-Chicago, but Donte DiVicenzo is a Catholic guy playing for a Catholic school. #EvenGodLovesAHotHand

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Police in Philadelphia greased utility poles to prevent fans climbing them in anticipation of  Villanova winning  #MarchMadness championship. I’m so old I remember when the biggest sports hooligans were European soccer fans.

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Twins players were upset when Orioles catcher Chance Sisco bunted against the shift for a hit in the 9th when Minnesota was leading 7-0. Uh, if they thought game was over, then why did the Twins shift?

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Donald Trump is so enamored of Sinclair Broadcasting; it’s like he’s cheating on “Fox and Friends.”

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So how long until Sinclair news anchors start having to blink out messages in Morse Code?

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In Texas, a black woman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for mistakenly voting when she was on probation. Meanwhile, Ethan Couch serves 720 days in jail for violating HIS probation for killing four people while driving drunk.  #WTF?

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Too soon to start a pool on the date of Couch’s next arrest?  #Affluenza

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Amazing, Trump is praising leaders who won sham elections in Russia and , Egypt. And attacking the lawfully-elected-in-a-landslide Governor of California.

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Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow says he has no plans to stop advertising on Fox News and Laura Ingraham show. Not sure if @KNBR will run those ads again, but just guessing when most @SFGiants fans hear this Mike might not want to bother.

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FoxNews supporting Laura Ingraham “We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.” Unless those voices are black or teenagers – then they should just shut up and dribble or go to class.

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Again, a reminder, Trump created the DACA crisis, and has refused every Democratic and bipartisan deal to fix it. The term, ladies and gentlemen, is “gaslighting.”

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On a positive note, not only are Parkland kids articulate and engaged, they will outlive all the GOP trolls bashing them. #MarchForOurLives

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So after 2017 many might not have been surprised SF Giants scored 2 runs in 4 games in LA against Dodgers.   That they WON two of those games on the other hand…

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Looks like God may have decided to abandon Sister Jean in favor of Notre Dame women’s team. #MarchMadness

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All things being equal I think I want to be rooting for the women’s basketball team with a woman coach.

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Really glad for the Fighting Irish’s underdog Final Four victory.  On the other hand, I think I have fulfilled my lifetime quota of rooting for Notre Dame.

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Wolverines coach John Beilein believes school will officially honor the complete Fab Five sometime in future. And then will Michigan vacate the honor?

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David Hogg today got an Twitter apology from… Frank Stallone. And millions of Americans are going “who?”

Steven Bochco has passed away. RIP. And “be careful out there.”

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So Melania has separate bedroom, plus Secret Service has to make it lot harder to meet porn stars & Playboy bunnies. Maybe that explains the late night cranky Trump tweets.

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Uh, think anyone at the White House will dare tell @realDonaldTrump that new potential immigrants have nothing to do with DACA?

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Jesus – “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’ @realDonaldTrump – “NO MORE DACA DEAL.”   and yeah “Happy Easter!”

Democrats right now – Pro-DACA, pro-education, pro-environment, pro-healthcare, pro-gun control, pro-higher minimum wage.
GOP right now – pro “anything-Trump-sees-on-Fox-and Friends.”