Left Coast Sports Babe

Frozen Four semi-finals both came down to late one-goal wins, U Mass over Minnesota Duluth in OT, St. Cloud State over Minnesota State with a goal with less than a minute to play.

So with a UMass St. Cloud State final, have to wonder, how many people are thinking “I didn’t know St. Cloud was a state?

–

Of course, hearing “Frozen Four,” makes many of us long time SF Giants think that term is describing the attendance in the 9th inning of a blowout weeknight Giants-Expos game at Candlestick.

–

Dear Media. It’s called “The Masters.” Not “The Masters Without Tiger Woods.” Thank you.

–

Media – Joe Manchin needs to get off his ego trip.

Also media – Let’s do another interview with Manchin along with a piece saying Joe is the most powerful person in Washington.

–

Amy Siskind wrote on Twitter about walking your dog and how embarrassing it is when you know the names of dogs you regularly cross paths with, but don’t know the names of the people who own and walk them.

Those of us former Little League parents feel her pain. Even more embarrassing months into the season when you know the kid, know his name, know their position, been talking to their mom or dad all year, and have forgotten (if you ever knew) their names.

–

Although, CDC is now saying Children’s sports are likely spreading COVID-19. I miss the days when the worst thing about Little League was obnoxious parents.

–

So when is Fox News going to call for the resignation or impeachment of Hunter Biden?

–

So Matt Gaetz may ultimately be proven guilty because he allegedly paid for illicit sex and used Venmo? Gaetz is not some old luddite.. Matt is 38 years old. And he’s not smart enough in the internet age to know everything is traceable except cash?

–

So Fox News is apparently obsessed now with Hunter Biden profiting off his family name and having sex with prostitutes. Are they trying to tell us they think Hunter and not Joe should be President?

–

Would someone in GOP like to explain to us how private citizen Hunter Biden having sex with adult prostitutes is worse than Congressman Matt Gaetz also paying for sex… with at least one girl/woman who might be underage? I’m waiting.

–

Fox News is whining about Joe Biden’s “absolute power grab” with his Executive Orders on gun safety. Gosh, while I try to check in daily, I’m not a regular Fox viewer, so I must have missed them ranting about the Former Guy’s executive orders…

–

“Florida is fighting back,” Ron DeSantis- on his lawsuit to force CDC to resume cruising in the state, without vaccine passports. “This is not reasonable. This is not rational.” If Ron is talking about his own behavior as Governor, and his lawsuit, he’s right.

–

With Mike Pompeo being the latest new contributor, thinking it’s time to start a new game. Will more people from the Former Guy’s administration end up on Fox News? Or in prison? Or both?

–

As unhappy as I still am that Mitch McConnell kept Merrick Garland off SCOTUS, how wonderful is it seeing Garland as Attorney General today in the Rose Garden?

A win is a win. But I still don’t like the runner on 2nd no one out extra inning rule. #SFGiants

–

Of course, the silver lining for Giants fans, the “runner on 2nd no one out rule” resulted in the Oakland As beating the Los Angeles Dodgers today.

(and as the mother of a youth and college pitcher, at least the runner on second doesn’t count as an earned run.)

–

April 8 starts the “Frozen Four” finals for the NCAA championship in men’s ice hockey.

Not that most Americans, including me until last week, could name the teams involved…

Wonder if college hockey championships would get more attention in US if NCAA published brackets, then told us not to bet on them.

(For the record, St. Cloud State, Minnesota State, Minnesota Duluth, and U Mass.)

–

Look, I’m glad Tiger Woods is going to be okay. But his Feb crash wasn’t his first “adventure” behind the wheel. Tiger not only got lucky he didn’t kill himself he got lucky he didn’t kill someone else with his reckless driving. Maybe time to take away the car keys?

–

United Airlines sent out an email today from their “Chief Diversity Equity, and Inclusion Officer,’ headlined “DEI is part of our DNA.”

United isn’t about politics, they’re about making $$$. If you needed more proof today’s GOP is on the wrong side of history.

–

As angry as the Former Guy was that Mike Pence wouldn’t support his Big Lie and agreed to certify the Electoral College results, how much angrier will Donald be when his former VP’s book outsells his?

–

We know alcohol can be dangerous, so alcohol sales are tightly restricted. In Texas, however, drive-through liquor stores now are increasingly common and popular. And GOP has no problem with the concept. But Texas Republicans want to restrict drive-through voting?

–

Again. McConnell says not a single Republican will support Biden’s infrastructure bill. Also again, not a Manchin fan, but he’s better than the best GOP Senator. How to deal with Joe? Win more blue seats in 2022!

–

Mike Pence launching a new advocacy organization called “Advancing American Freedom.” Shouldn’t it be called “Thank You, Mr. President?”

–

So when this Chauvin trial is over, wonder if Eric Nelson, his lawyer, will stay in criminal defense or take a job with Fox News?

–

So Marsha Blackburn, 68, is complaining about $400 billion in Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill for Elder Care. Good thing the elderly, and boomers approaching being elderly, aren’t a serious voting block.

–

Gonna be interesting. NCL petitioning CDC to allow cruising from US ports, but ” company will require full vaccination for all passengers & crew as a condition of being allowed to restart operations Jul 4.” So how’s FL Gov DeSantis going to deal with what is basically a “vaccine passport” rule?

–

And if it’s $100,000 a year PER nanny for a team of three, how much is set aside for the children” future psych bills?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9447879/San-Francisco-job-posting-goes-viral-offering-100K-year-nanny.html

So now that the All-Star game’s been officially moved to Coors Field in Denver, over-under on the number of pitchers who will opt out for “personal reasons?”

–

And who knows how the economics will work out. But with launch angle being a new thing since the last time the game was at Coors, perhaps the baseballs can be sponsored by Space Ex?

–

Nine headlines on Fox News home page about MLB moving the All-Star game. Zero about Matt Gaetz. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

–

Seahawks DE Carlos Dunlap said last month Russell Wilson said he was “here to stay, let’s go Hawks.” Translation, Seattle couldn’t make a trade to one of the teams on Wilson’s list.

–

Nationals had 11 regular players unavailable due to COVID-19 protocols, somehow put together a lineup, and still won today. So yeah, this one’s just temporary but still the most successful instant major roster change in DC since inaugural day.

–

One things that’s always amazed me is how many lower-income people are against the estate tax, which only hits multi-millionaires. Maybe they really dream of being that rich someday. Wonder if we offered people a free lottery ticket if they got the vaccine?

–

So could Mitch McConnell’s statement about corporations staying out of of politics be used by Democrats in their efforts to overturn Citizens United?

–

Since CDC won’t give a firm date as to when cruising can resume from U.S. ports., Carnival Cruise Line, which hasn’t announced a decision on vaccine passports, is now threatening to move its ships out of U.S. waters. Remembering what happened last March with cruises, and all the passengers who ended up infecting people across the country, a whole lot of folks may be thinking “promise?”

–

Norwegian Cruise Line & Royal Caribbean Cruise Line headquartered in Florida. When they resume sailing summer 2021 (not from US ports) both will REQUIRE proof of COVID vaccines. NCL won’t even allow unvaccinated children.. So will Florida Gov. De Santis try to ban those cruise lines too?

–

I am trying to wrap my head around though how the same “defenders of freedom” who think it’s OK for a bakery not to make a cake for a gay couple, lose their collective sh*t over cruise lines saying “no vaccine, no cruise, period

–

A wonderful unintended consequence, if COVIDiot GOP supporters want to boycott major airlines, the skies should be safer for all the rest of us.

–

NY Times now reporting Matt Gaetz asked the Former Guy for blanket pre-emptive pardons ‘for himself and unidentified congressional allies.”. Bad enough, now want to know who ELSE asked the White House for pre-emptive pardons.

–

Officially Wisconsin election Tuesday for State School Superintendent was nonpartisan. But Jill Underly, aDem w/ union support, was up against Deb Kerr, a Republican w/ Betsy Devos & charter school support.

Underly won 57.6% to 42.4% Forget fretting about Manchin, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is up in 2022.

Tammy Duckworth on with Stephen Colbert, reminding us of early pandemic Zoom fails w/ mute button-on conference call with all Democratic Senators, told her daughter to “go potty & make sure you wash your hands.” & Amy Klobuchar broke in – “Tammy Duckworth is giving us very good advice.”

–

Remember, GOP says they care so much about life they want to ban abortion after fetal heartbeats detected, because it’s not about a woman’s choice.. Also GOP – they care so little about life they want to ban life-saving mask rules, because masks should be an individual choice….

–

So it’s not that Mitch McConnell wants corporations to stay out of politics. He just wants them to make major contributions but sit quietly with their mouths shut. Just like GOP has treated women and minorities for years.

At least at as of one point Monday night the #SFGiants led the majors with nine home runs. In case your batsh*t bingo game has a baseball edition.

–

Now both Michael Conforto & J.D. Davis of the Mets have said that COVID-19 vaccine is a “a personal choice,” indicating not all the team will get vaccinated. So time to open the pool on the next games Mets will have canceled for COVID cases?

–

Anyone who wanted to see an exciting college basketball championship should have watched the Women’s game last night.

–

Reminded again tonight that blowouts in sports are only really fun to watch if you care who wins and it’s YOUR team doing the blowout.

–

Stephen Miller tweeted out a LONG eight-tweet rant attacking MLB for moving the All-Star Game. Now he does say “I strongly oppose the DH.” So let the record reflect the above is the only sentence where I will ever agree with Stephen Miller. EVER.

–

Wonder how many of these people complaining about the need for a “vaccine passport,” have ever gone through the procedure to get an ACTUAL passport?

–

Truly is amazing how same people who can believe in something with as many complicated theories as QAnon cannot believe in something as simple as a vaccine.

–

So now that United Airlines has joined other major carriers in coming out against voter suppression what’s next? Maybe this was all a plot for the Former Guy to try to resurrect bankrupt Trump Airlines?

–

Not ever going to vote for him, but Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill banning medical treatments for transgender youths.

Hutchinson said bill is “product of the cultural war in America” adding it would be a “vast government overreach.” Has an Arkansas Governor been the voice of reason since Bill Clinton?

–

Dr. Fauci today said Biden won’t mandate vaccine passports but “could foresee how independent entity might say: “We can’t be dealing w/ you unless we know you’re vaccinated.” So if cruises & other businesses require shots, can’t wait for GOP to support their free market choice.

–

GOP isn’t talking about actual cases of voter fraud, or boys pretending to be girls, or terrorists coming across Southern border. But clearly GOP thinks it’s easier to come up w/ these mythical threats than actually to have policies that help average Americans.

–

I’m proudly liberal, but open note to other liberals who judge politicians by the standards of their own blue states: If AOC or her clone ran for Senate in West Virginia, they’d lose by at least 30 points.

–

Once again, not a Joe Manchin fan, but he’s a Democrat in a red state, and liberal by West Virginia standards. He might even be too liberal to be re-elected. But if we want to make him less important – Democrats simply need to win more Senate seats in 2022.

–

Upset about Joe Manchin? Start looking at swing state Senate elections for 2022. ICYMI, Manchin would be irrelevant if not for these numbers. 4,099,505 to 4,089,472 Florida Senate vote totals in 2018 – Rick Scott over Bill Nelson. Yes, 10,533 votes. Don’t complain, GOTV.

–

The Stanford women’s basketball team is national champions., again, after winning in 1990, and 1992.

–

29 years between National Championships for Stanford women’s coach Tara VanDerveer. How long ago was 1992? Although he had withdrawn from the race in 1988, Joe Biden was still considered a young potential President.

–

If anyone watched Stanford this year, their women’s basketball team generally played pretty games. This was not one of those games. But hey, that National Championship trophy is pretty.

–

You know it’s been a while since Stanford won women’s basketball national championship when they get called for a late & critical 10 second half court violation…. which I thought didn’t exist in women’s basketball. (and sure enough, it didn’t until 2013-14, almost 20 years after their last win.)

–

How cool is this, there was actually a pre-game show for the NCAA’s Women’s Basketball final. Okay, so it’s a not a Miley Cyrus concert. But baby steps.

–

In Orange County, head of Florida Dept of Health says “1/3 of county’s COVID-19 hospitalizations were people younger than 45.” Also remember, most under-45s in Florida who listen to DeSantis think COVID is harmless, so if they don’t end up in hospital, they won’t get tested

–

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned vaccine passports because they “reduce individual freedom.” So what’s next in Florida, banning driver’s licenses and kids being vaccinated to attend school?

–

Apparently some in GOP were scandalized to discover with a picture of Jill Biden in a short skit, ankle boots and fishnet hose, that FLOTUS has great legs. This would have never happened with Former Guy’s wife. Since she had already left nothing to the imagination.

–

Thinking on Easter that for all GOP wants to wrap themselves in religion they’d have turned Mary and Joseph down to vote if Joseph had forgotten his ID as well as forgetting to make hotel reservations.

–

Someone sent me an online trivia question “What state is home to the Peeps factory?”

You mean “Peeps” are made in a factory? I thought they were hatched. This is so disappointing.#HappyEaster

–

Only mention of Matt Gaetz on Fox News website Sunday was under the “Entertainment” headline on SNL from last Saturday night. Well, that’s been rectified. Now the Entertainment headline is “Lori Loughlin reacts to her husband’s release from prison.” Meanwhile about five stories on Hunter Biden.

–

Visitors to the Former Guy’s website can also request a personalized greeting from him, presumably for the right price. Can we call it Scam-eo?

–

How much would GOP heads explode if some Democrat suggested making vaccine passports a valid Voter ID?

If you’ve never paid attention to #Pac12 basketball & were impressed w/ UCLA tonight against Gonzaga, let me I remind you – TWO Pac 12 teams, Stanford and Arizona, on Sunday will deservedly play for NCAA women’s basketball championship.

–

Without using Google, wonder how many so called sports fans can say what cities Baylor and Gonzaga are located in…. (actually guessing more than a few would have a problem naming the states.)

–

Nothing against Atlanta Braves players but maybe team that proudly embraces fans doing “The Chop” doesn’t have a lot of standing in weighing on MLB’s decision in dealing with a racist voting law.

–

Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that MLB’s decision to move the All-Star Game was “Corporate Communism.” Uh, MLB figures they will have more viewers and sell more tickets if they act against voter suppression. Sounds like the purest form of capitalism to me

–

The Venn Diagram of those who don’t take COVID-19 seriously and those who want to suppress voting rights has a lot of overlap. So if MAGA types are going to boycott baseball, then this will make going to games safer for the rest of us!

–

Happy Easter. So wonder how many who are convinced the Bible is against abortion, homosexuality and transgender people also think the holiday requires a rabbit of indeterminate gender giving out chocolate eggs?

–

GA Brian Kemp’s press conference “They will stop at nothing to silence all of us.” “All of us” translation – “White Republicans who want to silence black voters.” Got it.

–

More Republicans condemned Liz Cheney for voting to impeach Trump over a fatal insurrection than have condemned Matt Gaetz over alleged sex trafficking and sleeping with under-age girls.

–

Matt Gaetz has been accused of sex trafficking & sexual relationships with underage girls. So would GOP take those allegations more seriously if Gaetz owned a pizza parlor?

–

In both cases right now it’s all still allegations not proven in court. But I’ve lost track of Democrats who’ve already spoken out against Andrew Cuomo. And somehow I’ve missed the list of Republicans who are speaking out about Matt Gaetz.

–

So as the Former Guy tells his supporters to boycott Coca-Cola, who’s going to tell him that Coca-Cola makes Diet Coke?

Wow. Congratulations to Arizona. Joining Stanford in an all #Pac12 final. With two women coaches. For some reason ESPN doesn’t seem thrilled about not having an East Coast team in the NCAA’s women’s basketball championship. #MarchMadness

–

Stanford women’s basketball team has spent 85 days in various hotels since December when Santa Clara County shut down sports. And none of them have complained. Weaker sex my a**.

–

After SF Giants relievers got seven outs yesterday while giving up eight walks, and hitting a batter on route to blowing a 6-1 against the Mariners, the bullpen today had a combined effort with 2 2/3 innings and zero runs.

A very good thing on Easter weekend, saved a lot of eggs being thrown at the television.

–

Meanwhile, Evan Longoria and Buster Posey are on pace for 162 home runs in 2021. Just saying.

–

Well, at least the Mets are going to be undefeated through opening weekend.

–

Okay, how many folks in NBA are laughing that GOP suddenly thinks MLB is the “woke” league.

–

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says taking the MLB All-Star game from Atlanta is “cancel culture.” Uh, no. Actually, it’s a free market decision. And MLB’s decision is they would have lost more money keeping the game in Georgia than they will lose by moving it. Period.

–

MLB 2021 All-Star game plans to honor Hank Aaron: Hank Aaron would have wanted the game moved

–

Reminder, many of these GOP voter suppression bills are happening now because GOP voter suppression efforts, including crippling the USPS, didn’t work well enough in 2020.

–

Idle thought – How many of the GOP who are silent on Matt Gaetz are complicit because they saw and enjoyed his cellphone nude pictures?

–

FL Gov. Ron DeSantis today issued an executive order on Friday banning “vaccine passports.” New Florida motto “Come for the Sun, stay for the COVID?

–

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claims a “vaccine passport” would create “‘two classes of citizens.” Actually, COVID-19 creates two classes of citizens – alive and dead.

–

So awful that another member of the Capitol Police lost his life in an attack today. I’m waiting for the apology from GOP members of Congress who said heightened security around the Capitol is unnecessary.

–

SD Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted complaining Biden’s infrastructure bill “gives $80 billion to Amtrak to build rail lines to every state EXCEPT Alaska, Hawaii, or SOUTH DAKOTA.” I think we should start GoFundMe for first reporter who asks Noem on camera about a rail line to Hawaii.

With so many MLB teams starting out with a greatly reduced number of fans in attendance, shouldn’t there somehow have been an Opening Day game in Olympic Stadium honoring the Montreal Expos?

–

Now at least three, probably four Nationals players have tested positive for COVID-19 picked up during Spring Training. Again, MLB players are tested without symptoms. How many other visitors, asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, have brought a viral souvenir home from Florida?

–

Marjorie Taylor Greene released CrossFit video saying that exercise “is my COVID protection.” Right, proof of this is that no professional athletes ever get the virus. Speaking of which, how’d that Nationals-Mets opening day game go.

–

Felt badly for Amy Klobuchar today because her beloved Twins blew a 3 run lead in bottom of 9th then lost in 10. Then SF Giants took 5 run lead to bottom of 8th & lost in 10… “It breaks your heart, it’s designed to break your heart.” A. Bartlett Giamatti.

–

I remember long ago Little League game where opposing coach cruelly, since it was kids, went to the mound after a bunch of walks & yelled “can anyone here throw strikes?” Tonight’s SF Giants game felt like that

(Giants hit 4 home runs, Mariners had only 5 hits. But between 9 walks, one hit by pitch, and an error, Seattle scored 8 runs. – almost all off relievers starting in 8th inning. )

–

At least the Dodgers and Yankees lost.

–

And yes, 2020 Comeback Player of the Year, Rockies’ Daniel Bard, who was out of baseball since 2013, did get Dodgers’ Mookie Betts to end game with bases loaded to save 8-5 win. Sometimes I love baseball. When I don’t hate baseball. See “SF Giants.”

–

Many in GOP claim their anti-trans efforts are just about protecting female student-athletes. But they didn’t say a word when Betsy Devos reworked Title IX to make it more difficult for victims of campus sexual assault.

–

Wow. Southwest Airlines and American Airlines have come out up front telling Texas not to roll back voting rights. Your move, United.

–

Even in San Francisco Bay Area. “Council Poll found the highest level of COVID-vaccine hesitancy among registered Republicans, w/ 31% wavering on whether to get shot. Just 7% of Democrats expressed any reluctance about the vaccine. Folks still dying to support the Former Guy.

–

As a woman, I find idea of Matt Gaetz showing nude pictures of women he slept w/ to his Congressional colleagues disgusting. Although it’s actually disgusting enough just to imagine a woman voluntarily sleeping with Matt Gaetz.

–

So are GOP members of Congress all going to profess as much ignorance about pictures of nude girls and women on Matt Gaetz’s phone as they professed about the Former Guy’s tweets?

–

CDC highest REPORTED B.1.17 COVID-19 variant case counts are in Florida. Michigan has the next highest number of B.1.1.7 cases. Wonder how many people in Michigan have vacationed or been snowbirds in Florida?

–

So Melania is trending because some in GOP are attacking Jill Biden for less than perfect Spanish, while saying Former Flotus is fluent in five languages. This is an April Fool’s Joke, right?

–

Your reminder, despite all the obstacles posed by the pandemic, nothing actually went wrong during 2020 election. Except that Democrats won the Senate and the Presidency. That’s what GOP wants to “fix.”

–

Washington Post runs a story with the headline story: Emergent plant that ruined Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses had prior FDA violations

Buried lede: Emergent, (a longstanding government contractor_, got one of the biggest Warp Speed deals, $628 million. The deal was made by HHS Dept which was led by Asst. Sec Robert Kadlec. As WashPost previously reported before joining Trump administration, Robert Kadlec was paid Emergent consultant & formed start-up company w/ Emergent’s chairman….

Hope it isn’t a bad sign that Opening Day is also April Fool’s Day.

–

(“Don’t remind us” responded Mets fans.)

–

-LA County Sheriff says cause of Tiger Woods’ car crash last month has been determined, but as of now they won’t release details due to privacy issues – until & unless Woods approves. In all seriousness, if Tiger doesn’t approve, does anyone think the details won’t leak?

–

–

Fox News 10/29/20-“Today we can confidently say our border more secure now than any time in our history,” acting DHS Sec Chad Wolf 3/31/21 “Migrants stream through gaps in border wall following Biden’s order to halt construction.” Fox thinks real April Fools are their viewers?

–

There are few punchlines I can write that would seem more satirical than this truth today – that the media actually seriously covered dog poop being seen in the White House and wondering which dog was responsible.

(Has anyone considered one of the Former Guy’s GOP lapdogs?)

–

-Considering the media’s obsession with Champ and Major can only imagine what will happen when a First Feline does something like bring a mouse into the Oval Office.

–

Joe Biden on his plan “If we act now, 50 years from now we will look back and say “This was the moment that America won the future.” It finally really IS infrastructure week.

–

Better late than never award: On March 31, CEOs of Delta Airlines & Coca-Cola called Georgia GOP new voting law “unacceptable,” adding it was ““based on a lie” that Former Guy won the election. Fine, now can they promise not to donate to any politician who supports the lie?

–

If Major Biden’s stress from moving to White House means he needs to bite someone on occasion perhaps Joe could earn bipartisan support by having the dog visit the Senate chambers and say hello to Ted Cruz?

–

President Biden said he’d support moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over the new Georgia voting law.MLB usually stays out of political controversy. But what might make that happen? If potential All-Star players said they wouldn’t play unless it was moved.

–

For all I’m seeing some worries and complaints about COVID-19 vaccine side effects, all the side effects appear to be temporary. As opposed to the potential permanent side effect of no vaccine, which is death.

–

So are we just going to have to keep flags at half-staff now in America with mass shootings?

–

In our latest mass shooting, in Orange, California – “four dead, including child.” For all who think the death of a child will make a difference to gun safety legislation – it didn’t with Sandy Hook.

–

If you’re a Republican complaining about the cost of Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan but you were fine with $2 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, can I respectfully suggest you STFU?

–

If you think $2 trillion is too much for infrastructure please provide a list of bridges you are okay with having fall down. Thank you.

–

It’s not just bridges, one big part of Biden’s infrastructure bill is broadband. And who leads the major Senate broadband bill…? The senior Senator from Minnesota. Stay tuned for the next episode of the Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg platonic rom-com.

–