Left Coast Sports Babe

Good win for Stanford football tonight. But in David Shaw era especially with a lead late maybe we should use the term “prevent offense?”

Interview earlier this week, with Stanford WR J.J. Arcega-Whiteside where they asked him about being trilingual. He said, no, I only speak English and Spanish. I can understand Portuguese but I can’t really speak it. #NerdNation

The Boston Red Sox played well and deserve to be in World Series. But it does help when your payroll can absorb paying $18 million for Pablo Sandoval, $22 million to Hanley Ramirez, and $2 million to MANNY Ramirez.

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So since Red Sox  are still paying Pablo Sandoval despite releasing him, isn’t Panda owed part of a playoff share?

Maybe Boston can split a share between Sandoval and Cowboy Joe West?

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Well, at least I don’t have to feel conflicted anymore about liking a team that signed a guy suspended 75 games for domestic violence.

Rihanna reportedly turned down the Super Bowl halftime show in support of Colin Kaepernick. Waiting for “Rihanna overrated” Presidential tweets in 3.2.1…

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As many working-class Americans struggle to pay their rent, hope they can feel empathy for poor Heidi and Ted Cruz. Since on his $174,000 salary they can’t afford to buy a second home.

-Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview ratings were over 40% lower than his last appearance after the 2016 election, and less than half of Stormy Daniels’ ratings this March.
The ratings were even down almost 30% from the NFL games preceding the show.
Womp womp.

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President of the United States calls the press the “enemy of the people” and praises a Congressman who body slammed a reporter. If you aren’t afraid you aren’t paying attention.

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Been a while since I had a toddler, but do remember being told when they have tantrums they may act out in more & more outrageous ways just to get attention. Might explain a lot of these Trump rallies.

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We’re now living in a world where President of the United States deals with bad publicity from one outrage by simply committing a new outrage.

Since ESPN & Fox almost never showed Milwaukee during regular season many fans have to wonder, why is this guy named Yelich who is only hitting.167 batting second?

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Going to be interesting who gets booed more at AT&T Park, Yasiel Puig, or Manny Machado if he resigns with the Dodgers.

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Wonder how many baseball fans thought “Thank heaven Angel Hernandez isn’t umpiring ALCS so we won’t get any game changing controversial calls. ” Joe West – ‘Hold my beer.”

Kawhi Leonard got a standing ovation in his first game with the Raptors, and seems happy enough now to be in Toronto.  Of course, with Canada’s new marijuana laws, maybe he figures it won’t be long until some of his favorite superstar friends will join him.

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On July 6, 2018, Phillies beat Pirates 17-5 & tied NL record for longest 9th inning game – 4 hours, 30 minutes.   Red Sox & Astros topped that Wednesday night and there’s at least one more ALCS game this year.  Imagine had it gone extra innings?

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Alaska’s lieutenant governor resigns 3 weeks before election over ‘inappropriate comments I made that placed a person whom I respect and revere in a position of vulnerability.”
You can tell he’s a Democrat, he actually ADMITTED behaving badly.

Apparently new White House counsel Pat Cipollone had no idea his appointment would be announced in an AP interview.
Has anyone warned Cipollone he’ll get about as much notice when Trump fires him?

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Trump says he’s “too busy” to visit troops and it’s “not overly necessary.”. Maybe if we could only fight a war on a golf course?

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Trump doctrine is simple: I believe everyone who flatters me or pays me. The rest of them are all lying SOBs or bitches.

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Have to ask a question. Surely Saudis figured there would be some chance of negative publicity over Khashoggi killing.
So what story were they worried about emerging if he remained alive that was worse?

I miss the days when GOP tried to win elections by getting more people to agree with them rather than by making sure fewer people vote.