Left Coast Sports Babe

What’s all this fuss about Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman having been suspended for PEDs this season. It’s not like he did anything awful like kneel for the anthem….

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There were so few LA fans at the game, Rams must have wondered if they had become the Chargers?

Super Bowl ratings hit a 10-year low yesterday as Trump’s favorite Patriots won a boring game. I miss Donald’s tweet taking credit.

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Advertisers had to be disappointed.  But maybe NFL can work out a post-game endorsement deal with Tylenol PM?     ZZZZZZZ

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Rams CB Robey-Coleman now going to appeal his $26,739 fine for his helmet-to-helmet no-call against Saints. Uh, Nickell does remember that he ADMITTED and bragged about it?

(besides, his Super Bowl loser’s share was more than double the fine.)

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Some Patriots players already say they aren’t going to White House.  Because they don’t like Trump or they don’t like cold fast food?

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I’d rather be  Saints fan who isn’t over it yet, than a fan who barely noticed their team was (barely) in Super Bowl.

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Marc Ragovin  – “Jared Goff might be a Ram, but on Sunday he played like a deer in headlights.”

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https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/2/3/18210010/saints-boycott-bowl-party-super-bowl-53-new-orleans

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GOP is lying and saying Democrats want to kill babies after they are born.
Uh, no, that would be Republicans by claiming babies born to poor people don’t have a right to healthcare.

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Sherrod Brown “We don’t have to know why Trump lies to call them lies, and we don’t have to know the content of his heart to condemn his racism.”
Actually, if Trump isn’t a racist it’s ALMOST worse. Because then he knows he’s saying awful things just to pander to the worst of his base.

Regarding Liam Neesen’s admission of his past wanting to be a racist vigilante. Bad enough he had the desire. But how stupid is he now to admit it?

Stacey Abrams is giving Democratic response to State of the Union. Bernie Sanders just announced he will be giving his own response.

Can’t imagine how Bernie gets the reputation for not being a team player.

Looks like a Trump inaugural crowd, only bigger and having more fun.   (New Orleans,  Boycott Bowl.)

Can the Chiefs and Saints play next weekend for fans who actually want to see a decent football game?

Perhaps highlight of Super Bowl for most average Americans was realization that 70,000 members of 1% paid thousands of dollars to be inside where they couldn’t change the channel.

Jared Goff hasn’t looked that bad in a Big Game since he played for Cal against Stanford.

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Maroon 5, Rams 3.

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Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman started the season with a four-game PED suspension. So maybe he had fresher legs than anyone else on field?

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With 16 runs in 5 games of 2018 World Series the losing Dodgers still averaged more scoring per game than Rams today in Super Bowl.

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Trump said he would “have a hard time” with Barron playing football. Because he knows bone spurs are hereditary?

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Florida State says they’ve dismissed QB Deondre Francois. Coach Taggert “We have high expectations for all of our student-athletes and we will not shy away from those high standards of conduct.”
Am sure Seminoles would be equally principled if team hadn’t missed a bowl game last season for first time since 1981.

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Poll: Howard Schultz’s favorability just 4 percent across Dems, GOP and independents.
Well, who said America would never find a uniter.

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Pentagon just announced they will deploy 3,750 additional U.S. forces to Southwest border. I’m sure all those troops will feel great about having volunteered to protect our country from dangerous unarmed women and children.

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White House spokesman says Donald Trump’s tan look is the result of “good genes.” So his mom cheated with an oompa-loompa?

So as much of America gets ready for another Super Bowl Sunday,  fans in New England are worried if they really need to buy another AFC Champions t-shirt. While fans in Los Angeles wonder if New Orleans really will trade them Anthony Davis.

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NFL’s silence on no-call keeping Saints from Super Bowl might have been most embarrassing response to a bad mistake this year. Ralph Northam – “Hold my beer.”

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So yesterday Ralph Northam was “deeply sorry” and today he says “it wasn’t me.” Even Brett Kavanaugh thinks that’s a bit of a stretch.

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Now Ralph Northam says he once darkened his fact to look like Michael Jackson. Uh, if he were trying to look like Michael Jackson he would have LIGHTENED his face.

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Ralph Northam voted twice for George W. Bush and in 2009 Republicans tried to get him to switch parties. Just think, if Northam had he’d have his party’s support now to stay in office.

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Any classmates of Donald Trump still have their old yearbooks? Asking for a country.

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I’m a white person & maybe Green Book is too geared to white people. But damn, very different people learning to get along is not a bad message these days. Seriously. Loved the movie.

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Trump said today Cory Booker has “no chance.” So clearly Booker is a more formidable candidate than some people thought.

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Trump will go down in history as the first leader ever to prepare for declaring a national emergency by spending the weekend golfing.

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And again folks,  because anyone who reads this knows how much I’m still mad about the no-call that kept Saints from Super Bowl and how much  I adore Drew Brees  (just given NFL sportsmanship player of the year, voted by his peers)  –  your reminder of his request “Pour that passion and emotion into your families & communities.”

http://www.drewbrees.com/the-foundation/

The foundation helps cancer patients, and children especially.  Donating the price of a beer or two would be cool.  Besides, who cares about watching the Rams and Patriots anyway?

Yeah, more important things than sports, but just think, if referees didn’t miss that call, almost ALL of America would be briefly united on SuperBowl Sunday – if only in rooting for New Orleans Saints, aka “Anyone but the Patriots again.”

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And we wouldn’t have lost the age vs. youth story with Patriots-Saints. Brady is a whole year older than Brees.

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To be fair, Los Angeles fans are very caught up with this LA-New Orleans controversy.  As in, is there any chance the Lakers can talk the Pelicans into trading them Anthony Davis?

Not running for office, and never thought of blackface, ever. But I did tell a lot of Polish jokes when I was in elementary and high school. Anyone else got a confession?

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Now Donald Trump says he’s losing ‘Massive Amounts of Money” in this job.
Gosh, if there was only something he could do to show that, like releasing his tax returns.

Again, not sure on 2020 at all. But this alone is almost enough to make me vote for Cory Booker. – When asked if he talked to Obama as he finalized his decision:

“I miss Obama, and I miss her husband, too.”

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And although while I’m glad to see Cory Booker in the Presidential Race. But can we Democrats please remember – NO ONE, not our spouses, best friends, children, etc, agrees with us 100% on every issue.

There is not a single candidate running for the Democratic nomination who has not f*cked up something. Maybe we can start focusing on what each of them do right, and who shows they are the most likely to do good for our country?

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If Democrats spend the energy we normally spend attacking each other in the primaries on attacking Trump we cannot lose in 2020.

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Okay, I get stupid things in college, I even get stupid things in front of an old-fashioned camera in college.  (Alcohol possibly being involved.)  But when you’re definitely sober later, deciding a blackface/KKK costume picture is one of the thing you want your classmates to remember you by…?

This is going to get me in trouble, which I why I am posting it here and not on Twitter. But as Ralph Northam’s career sadly but justifiably goes down in flames, I can think of two CURRENT politicians whose followers never criticize them – Trump and Bernie.

from Marc Ragovin   “So it’s the Friday before a Rams/Pats Super Bowl, or as Belichick likes to call it, a “pre-shoot”’

Reviews of penalties are being discussed a lot this week in NFL, and some complain it will take too long. Two responses — first, you limit the challenges, the same as other challenges, and let the booth call them in last two minutes. But second, and this goes for all sports – put a one-minute time limit on replay reviews. If you have to watch for 5-10 minutes from a ton of different angles, then whatever humans called on the field is reasonable.. The egregious ones take 30 seconds or less.

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NCAA is penalizing Missouri, including a 1 year football bowl ban, after finding a tutor did academic work for 12 student-athletes.
What a shame for those young men who have dreamed all their lives of playing in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

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Lost in all the other outrage these days, pitchers and catchers report in about two weeks. And Bryce Harper still hasn’t signed with a team.

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17 cars caught fire on roof of a garage at Newark Airport this morning, 15 of them were destroyed. Hope the airport at least waived the parking fees.

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Wait…. “According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a canine officer alerted other officers to the presence of 254 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside an 18-wheeler carrying cucumbers.”
#DogsNotWalls

So if per today’s unhinged Trump tweet storm the “Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!” why is there any need even to consider another shutdown?

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So after Trump threw his entire intelligence team under the bus today, who do we have next in Trump Resignation Bingo?

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Forecasts for Chicago are temperature rise from-25 below yesterday to low 50s and rain on Monday. Over 75 degrees.
So didn’t Trump just tweet that he wanted to see some global warming?

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in Orlando, a UCF student was arrested outside his dorm, with a fully automatic AR-15 in his car. Arrested. Not shot. Don’t even need a picture to know what color he is.

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So GOP insist ALL AOC’s ideas, even the most extreme ones, have been adopted by Democratic party, while crickets about Republican members of Congress like Ted Yoho, one of 7 to vote against back pay for furloughed workers.

Eight women have died in the past six years after patronizing a discount plastic surgery clinic in Miami.
But seriously, discount plastic surgery? Isn’t that like half-price day-old sushi?