Left Coast Sports Babe

Warriors haven’t beaten up on a team in recent memory. Tonight they beat NY Knicks  by 27, and it wasn’t that close. A message to Kevin Durant just in case he’s thinking about “trying to make it there” to prove he can “make it anywhere…?”

Give Trump some credit for distraction. While we were focused on his train wreck in Washington,  Wizards outscored the 76ers by 9 in the 4th quarter and still lost by 17.

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Actually, Trump has something in common with the hapless Washington Wizards.  For the forseeable future, they’re both going to be Wall-less.

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So after Dabo Swinney’s description of where they were last night will Santa Clara change their name to “wherever-the-heck California?”

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On a brighter note for 49ers fans last night at Levi’s Stadium, with Trevor Lawrence they may have gotten a glimpse of the QB they can draft in 2021 if they keep s*cking.

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So no smugglers will ever bring drugs in by boats or planes ever again if we put up steel slats. Got it.

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Nothing Donald Trump hates more than being upstaged. So please, next time he demands airtime for a “National emergency” can some celebrity have a friend drive them slowly on LA freeways in a white Bronco?

So Wednesday morning Rush Limbaugh, arrested for abusing oxycodone and hydrocodone, will commend Donald Trump, who abuses Adderall, for Trump’s speech condemning illegal drugs in this country.

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This SHOULD have been the #Pelosi #Schumer rebuttal. From Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Serious note.  Few things get me as genuinely livid as the fact that in this country if you are a police officer killed by an American citizen, or a woman killed by a husband or boyfriend, or a child killed by a family member, you will get crickets from Trump. But ah, if your killer is undocumented, then you are a posthumous saint.

Trevor Lawrence said he hopes to win “at least 3” more championships at Clemson. If he were a basketball player he’d be packing up his dorm room tomorrow.

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Your reminder that Clemson senior QB Kelly Bryant transferred to Missouri this year after he said starting job was unfairly taken away from him & given to Trevor Lawrence.

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Hard to believe but this Clemson team needed a 4th quarter comeback led by 3rd string QB Chase Brice earlier this year to beat Syracuse.

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Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa sure looked like an NFL quarterback tonight. Unfortunately the QB he looked like was Mark Sanchez.

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Carl Grove, 90, was stripped of his gold medal in cycling he won at Masters Track National Championships after testing positive for a PED.
He blamed the result on “bad meat.” Really, wouldn’t it have been more believable to claim a tainted supplement? Like Ensure?

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Nonpolitical rant of the day: If you have about 10 items in a “10 items or less Express Line” AND you have two return items for credit requiring manager approval, AND you want to complain because you spent 25 cents for a bag last time and the handle broke… just maybe you shouldn’t be in the Express Line.

If it was a REAL national emergency , why didn’t Donald Trump have his press conference preempt the National Football Championship?

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That moment when the Bachelor is ready to start up another season tonight and you realize it’s much more reality-based than the show coming out of the Oval Office.

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About this national emergency Trump wants to declare to build the wall: he had over 700 days with GOP in control of House and Senate when he could have passed almost anything he wanted….

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So POTUS who refers to media as “enemy of the people” just got all major networks to give him free time for an immigration speech, when those same networks turned down Obama’s request for same thing in 2014.
But yeah, Democrats need to be more civil.

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Just guessing Tuesday night that Trump will
1. Declare a national emergency giving him power and unlimited money to build his wall.
2. Declare he will sign a bill to open government and take credit for it.
3. Declare victory
4. Declare he has earned a vacation.
And then, like with the caravan and his middle-class tax cut and most everything else and drug prices, he will do nothing except search for the next shiny distracting object.” 

Any Bears fan blaming Cody Parkey for the loss today has to ask themselves – if you couldn’t contain Nick Foles and Eagles when it mattered how the hell did you expect to stop Jared Goff and the Rams?

What went wrong for Ravens?  Waiting for media to ask Ray Lewis to take a stab at it.

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Seriously, anyone but me really tired of seeing Ray Lewis being honored and over at football games. Heck, NFL pretends OJ Simpson doesn’t exist. 

#JacinthBaker #RichardLollar

Thinking all Sean Payton and Drew Brees have to do to keep Saints from getting too complacent against Eagles is show a replay of New Orleans last play against the Vikings from 2018.

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Poor Sebastian Janikowski, injured in first half of Saturday’s wild card game.. Suppose it’s not much consolation for him and Seahawks that his medical bills should be covered by Medicare.

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At least 49ers and Raiders fans didn’t have to deal with playoff drama. #smallmercies

Trying to remember the last time a male Presidential candidate was referred to as “unlikable.”

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Fox News top story about funeral for California police officer Ronil Singh “who was gunned down after stopping an illegal immigrant.”
47 officers were killed in line of duty in 2018. Wonder why Singh is the biggest headline?

(And somehow Fox didn’t mention that Singh himself, while legal, came here as an unskilled immigrant from Fiji, and trained at various jobs  for 8 years to become an officer.)

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Trump today on furloughed government workers, 16 days into the Trump Shutdown ‘I can relate and I’m sure that the people who are on the receiving end will make adjustments, they always do.”
He can relate? What, because he hasn’t been able to golf in Florida?

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From today’s Trump fundraising email “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer shut down YOUR government by choosing illegal immigrants over hard-working American patriots like YOU. NO MORE!
The only reason Democrats shut down the government is because they know they can’t win in 2020. They don’t care about your safety, they only care about Presidential Harassment!”

Again , Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

QB Joe Flacco, now the backup to Lamar Jackson for tomorrow’s Ravens wildcard game against Chargers. “It’s definitely not the most fun position in the world.”
As opposed to a tee-time to get Joe home in time to watch his team watch Steelers play instead?

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DeMar DeRozan, on his first triple-double to help the Spurs trounce the Raptors, who traded him for Kawhi Leonard despite his desire to stay in Toronto – “It wasn’t emotional at all for me. … It was just a fun game for me.”
Good thing for San Antonio that DeRozan is a better player than he is a liar.

So about halfway through the NBA regular season, and basically every in the Western Conference still has a realistic shot at the playoffs.

Well, except for the Phoenix Suns, aka “Chopped liver.”

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Georgia QB Justin Fields is leaving the school, reportedly for Ohio State. Fields will apply to NCAA for a hardship waiver so he can be eligible to play in 2019: The hardship, he lost his starting job to another student-athlete. What a system.

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Can we declare a national emergency to deal with a President who thinks he can declare a national emergency over a stupid wall?
Asking for a country.

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When I woke up and read someone called Donald   Trump a “motherf*cker” my first thought was “Now which member of his Cabinet?”

Trump now threatening to keep government closed for “months or even years.”
So over 800,000 workers will continue to go without a paycheck because of his tantrum. Rep Rashida  Tlaib, who called him a “Motherf*cker”  may have been too kind

Trump said of Rhasida Tlaib’s “motherf*cker” comment “she dishonored herself and dishonored her family using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there.”
Right, the correct way to honor your son is to sleep with both a porn star and a Playboy bunny while he’s an infant….

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Trump also today “I want Apple to make their iPhones and all of the great things that they make in the United States.”
Wonder if MAGAers would cheer quite so loud if they realized this would mean needing a mortgage for a phone.

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RIP Herb Kelleher, 87, founder of Southwest Airlines. No cause of death given. Maybe he just wanted to get away?

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So is GOP problem with the video of Alexandria Oscasio Cortez’s dancing as a young woman that she wasn’t also chanting “I like beer?”

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Your reminder that Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of a Baltimore mayor, and the mother of five. So a perfect match for Trump – she has experience with mob bosses AND children.

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It  4:07 p.m. ET Sarah Sanders announced a press briefing starting at 4:10 p.m.  It started late with a brief Trump appearance but the real subject was probably “Waaaaa. Nancy’s getting too much attention.”

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Bernie Sanders told CNN he didn’t realize women in his 2016 presidential campaign were being harassed because “‘I was a little bit busy running around the country.”
Trying to imagine if a woman made that excuse.

So an American citizen is supposedly arrested in Moscow and Trump State department responds by issuing a travel warning for… China?

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As Trump rants today about the Pope having walls, guess if he ever traveled beyond his own properties, he’d know that anyone can enter Vatican City, and you don’t even need a passport.

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Nancy Pelosi said she’d give Trump $1 for his wall. Considering Mexico is paying for it shouldn’t that be enough?

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So maybe Trump would give in on the funding bill if instead of offering him $1 for his wall Nancy Pelosi just offered to fund some great shutdown commemorative coins?

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Dianne Feinstein says she is supporting Joe Biden for President. Well, of course… she’s always thought Joe was such a nice young man.

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Today’s reminder that Nancy Pelosi is badass -: “As President Reagan said in his last speech as President: ‘If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.'”

Tickets for the College Football National Championship  Game Monday are down as low as $151 on Stubhub.
If this keeps up there’ll be so many empty seats fans will think they’re at a 49ers game.

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And hey, who’d a thunk people might not want to show up for an Alabama-Clemson matchup.  Why, those teams haven’t played each other in about 370 days.

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Not sure if an eight-team playoff would have produced more interesting games.  But it might have produced more ticket buyers.

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NY Giants GM Dave Gettleman on 2019. “My commitment is to make this team the best team it can be. If that happens to have Eli playing quarterback, it does.”
Translation. maybe if Eli wants to play at the Meadowlands he should talk to the Jets?

(a friend of mine suggested, Rutgers?)

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RIP Daryl Dragon, 76, the Captain of “Captain and Tennille.” With luck he’ll go to heaven where no one has to hear “Muskrat Love” ever again.

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How many children growing up in Fox News households are going to get “F”s on future history tests that ask about the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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Donald Trump telling Mitt Romney to be a “team player” is like Bernie Sanders telling a Democratic senator to be a ‘team player’

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Now Trump is claiming that even though Mattis handed him a resignation latter, he “essentially fired” his defense secretary.
In other words “He didn’t break up with me I broke up with him. Nobody breaks up with me.”

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Fox News ridiculed Elizabeth Warren for drinking beer on camera in a Instagram New Year’s Eve video at her house. So they think instead of running for President, Warren should be nominated to the Supreme Court?

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Happy New Year’s. And to all my friends on both sides of the aisle -may your troubles last as long as Donald Trump’s promises.

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Tickets for the National Championship game next Monday night are now going for as low as $200, less than half of face value.   So wait, fans don’t even want to come to the 49ers Levi’s Stadium to watch teams that don’t suck?

Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley “I would be ecstatic if he didn’t [coach again] “I’m done. I want him to be done. He’s too intense.”
Over-under on how many months he’s around the house before she begs him to go back to work?

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On New Year’s Eve, Stanford won the Sun Bowl and Oregon won the RedBox Bowl. Two Pac 12 wins on the same day? Hope this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse.

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Melania Trump posted a smiling selfie from Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve.  Well, of course she was happy, she was in Florida while Donald stayed in Washington, D.C.

I’m so old I remember when Christmas and New Year’s holidays meant seeing cheerful pictures of the First Family smiling and enjoying time with their children.

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Just wondering, how much of our taxpayer dollars are going to shuttling Melania back and forth to Florida, AND paying for double Secret-Service while she, Ivanka and Jared vacation and Donald stays in DC?

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Now that she’s running, the attacks on Warren, who wouldn’t be my first choice, have begun. But somehow I’ve missed all the stories questioning Bernie’s likability.

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Trump afternoon tweet – “For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations…”
Wonder what Justice Merrick Garland thinks…

So if Mitt Romney REALLY wants to make a statement to Trump, perhaps he can actually vote against any budget with money for a wall?

Your daily reminder from December 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”