Left Coast Sports Babe

San DIego Padres fired manager Jayce Tingler after the Padres went from having a lead for the NL’s 2nd wild card on Sept 9, to ending up in 3rd place in the NL West, 28 games behind the SF Giants.

Even more amazing, San Diego’s free fall put them not only 28 games behind the Giants, but only 27 games in front of the 110 loss Arizona Diamondbacks.

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If you’re breathing a sigh of relief because home plate umpire Joe West didn’t really affect the results of tonight’s NL Wild Card game. Home plate umpire for game two of the NLDS will be …. Angel Hernandez!?!

So much for “no crying in baseball.”

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People may remember Dodgers’ two home runs tonight in Wild Card game. But Cardinals were 0-11 with runners in scoring position. That doesn’t win a lot of games, period.

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Alex Reyes lost his job as the closer in St. Louis late in the season for a reason.

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Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins, who got COVID-19 shot, says it was just to keep his job, but is still loudly anti-vaccine & is cautious about putting medicines into his body. He added that he had a bad allergic reaction to Tylenol so now carries an Epi-Pen. Who wants to tell him?

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Apparently January 6 committee can’t find Dan Scavino to serve him with a subpoena. Maybe waive some money and a camera in Scavino’s last known vicinity?

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I cannot stand Mitch McConnell. But trying to think of a time since John McCain turned thumbs-down on repealing Obama that McConnell hasn’t kept his party in line when it mattered.

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Should we really be surprised that Mark Zuckerberg, who started with a website “Facemash” to compare and rate the attractiveness of two women, is indifferent to the harm Facebook is doing to girls in steering them to content promoting eating disorders?

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GOP senators talking on Senate floor more about Afghanistan since President Biden got us out of the 20-year war, than they ever did when Americans soldiers were fighting, and dying in the country.

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Andrew Yang never ran for office before he ran for President. He didn’t volunteer on other campaigns. He never even voted in many New York City elections. Andrew Yang never wanted to fix the Democratic party. He just wanted to be President. Period.

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If millions of Americans, some of who aren’t that tech savvy, regularly find lies on Facebook about COVID vaccines microchips, and horsewormer…for starters, why can’t FB just hire some of those folks to help them find misinformation?

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Stephen Colbert tonight talking about a Biden potentially ordering trillion-dollar coin the President could deposit with Federal Reserve to avert debt ceiling crisis. Talk about a coin you really don’t want to lose in the sofa cushions.

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Amy Klobuchar quoting John Lewis in Senate hearing on Voting Rights Act in his name: “Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.” She is right, he was right. It’s why GOP is trying to take voting away from “some people.” We need laws protecting voting rights. Now.

Uh oh, ESPN doesn’t have the Yankees anymore. Prepare for seven day a week football stories …

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Yankees are out, Mets collapsed over a month ago, Giants and Jets look to be fighting over NFL draft position, while Nets have no idea if Kyrie Irving’s vaccine issues will keep him from playing home and some away games. So how bout those Knicks?

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So the NY Giants now will at least equal the NY Yankees’ total for wins in October 2021.

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So is Urban Meyer still the Jacksonville Jaguars coach because their owner feels like the season is lost anyway, and doesn’t know if he can get out of paying Meyer $12 million a year?

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Re Urban Meyer, I’m not being morals police & his nights out are ultimately between him and his wife. But how stupid do you have to be to go out in a city where you are famous, misbehave, and expect no one with a smart phone will notice?

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Of all the things that make me livid at Facebook today one of the biggest has to be that I am actually (briefly) agreeing with Ted Cruz..

(And yes, Marsha Blackburn.)

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Anyone who thinks we cannot possibly have bipartisan agreement on anything in this country really needs to watch some of this Senate hearing with Frances Haugen about how Facebook is targeting children and teenagers.

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Another reason you know today’s Senate whistleblower hearing went well for Americans and poorly for Facebook and their misinformation… Fox News website doesn’t have a single headline on it.

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Anderson Cooper says he’s a regular Instagram user. “But I gotta say, it depresses me, I leave feeling worse than when I got on, not just for having wasted time, but I feel worse about my own life.” If Anderson Cooper feels worse about HIS life, what chance do teen girls have?

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WSJ “Nikki Haley calls Donald Trump a friend.” Ok, if nothing else Haley is too stupid ever to run for President. The Former Guy HAS no friends.

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For many of us 1st time we knew eating disorders could be fatal was when Karen Carpenter died. As Carpenters fan, was sad & horrified. Now, knowing Facebook is encouraging that kind of self-destructive behavior w/ young girls, for profit, is even more horrifying. And enraging.853160

California reporting lowest COVID-19 case rate in US and became 1st state to report ‘moderate’ instead of “high” virus transmission in weeks. Vaccines work. Vaccine mandates work. And yes, until we do better on the first two, mask mandates work too.

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Open note to all these who worked for Velveeta Voldemort now publicly apologizing: Leaving aside the fact that 700,000 people are permanently unable to hear your apology, the “mea culpas” would ring a bit truer if they also weren’t part of a book tour.

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Sen. Mike Lee complaining “Americans forced to go against recommendation of their doctors” w/ vaccines. 2 questions for Lee. 1. What if you’re not talking to your doctor but reading random stuff on Facebook? 2.If doctors are so important what if your doctor recommends abortion?

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Another point from today’s Senate hearing. Anyone who ever has been in junior high & high school knows about bullying… But as Frances Haugen pointed out – bullied kids (mostly) used to be able to go home and get away from it. Now with social media it’s 24-7.

Am really glad SF Giants weren’t playing game 163 today and am thrilled for them winning the division. But October 4 with no games at all, is a slightly poignant foreshadowing of a winter without baseball. “It breaks your heart, it is designed to break your heart…”

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It was pouring rain today in Los Angeles.

Would be churlish to suggest they could be Dodgers tears that a raggedy band of rejects and old guys somehow beat them for the NL West title.

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So what if we don’t institute a national vaccine mandate but require proof of vaccination to get Viagra?

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Just found out Urban Meyer’s slogan for the 0-4 NFL Jaguars is “Own it.” Since when has Coach Meyer ever owned anything he himself has done?

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Andrew Yang today writing about why he left the Democratic Party.

Yang used to call himself Donald Trump’s worst nightmare? How about many women’s worst nightmare? A man who shows up late to a complicated situation and insists he alone can fix it.31125.

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Facebook whistleblower Haugen written testimony to Senate “When we realized tobacco companies were hiding harms it caused, govt took action. When we figured out cars were safer w/ seatbelts, govt took action.” Of course today’s GOP would be against tobacco warnings & seatbelts.

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Plenty of conspiracy theorists out in force today to say Facebook crashed their own site to scrub damaging information. While I’m not a conspiracy theorist myself would be a good day for Facebook to give investigators access to last night’s backups?

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Amy Klobuchar on with Anderson Cooper – “Number one mortality rate with mental illlness is eating disorders.” And Instagram was inundating girls with eating disorders with pages glorifying eating disorders. There’s a word for that – Evil.

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Mainstream media still obsessed with covering the Former Guy’s false claims along with “Dems in disarray” narrative. So today’s reporting on Facebook “spreading hate and misinformation for profit” is a pretty spectacular self-own.

Hillary Clinton was only 69 during the 2016 election. Most regular media stories about her in the year or so after election were “Won’t she just go away?” How much better would our country be if media had responded the same way to Velveeta Voldemort?

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to… (From Miracle on 34th Street.)

Optimistic thought for the night. If the SF Giants, projected to win 75 games in 2021, can somehow win 107 games, then we should be able somehow to get #FreedomToVoteAct passed. It’s not over til it’s over.

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NBA refused Andrew Wiggins religious exemption request for COVID-19 vaccine so Wiggins got vaccinated & can now play in SF. Guessing Wiggins decided he wasn’t quite relying on Philippians 4:19 “My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”

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Apparently Urban Meyer, 57 and married, had some embarrassing pictures in a bar with young women in Ohio.

Uh, Meyer ignored allegations about his players at OSU after ignoring allegation about his players at Florida whch may have resulted in Aaron Hernandez getting away with murder and then killing again. Karma always defers the coin toss

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People who are surprised that Mark Zuckerberg is such an a**hole clearly either didn’t watch or have forgotten “The Social Network.”

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Beaches in Huntington Beach, California are closed after a massive oil spill… Uh, this is the same Huntington Beach where they regularly mock mask mandates… so why don’t they just tell themselves the oil is harmless too?

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Sorry. But SNL opening night skit featuring Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin with brief mention of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, but nothing on Rules Commitee Chair Amy Klobuchar, or moderates like Mark Warner or Jon Tester, isn’t helping Americans’ image of the Senate.

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So why does Velveeta Voldemort want a court to make Twitter give him his account back. I thought he had created at least two better social media options.

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If you drop out of college because you won’t get a vaccine then you probably weren’t very educable in the first place.

Again, why are we seeing stories about random healthcare professionals who get fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine? Instead of the majority who do the right thing. I guess it’s a story when someone refuses to follow speed limits and causes a massive car crash too.

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Beaches in Huntington Beach, California are closed after a massive oil spill… Uh, this is the same Huntington Beach where they regularly mock mask mandates… so why don’t they just tell themselves the oil is harmless too?

So the world isn’t perfect. But on a positive note, at least we had a weekend with a President who wasn’t rage-tweeting from his golf course!

And once again, all the headlines seem to be about two senators. Maybe one reason Americans have a negative view of government is that controversy gets you media coverage & getting things done doesn’t. Media – PLEASE pay more attention to the work horses not the show horses.

The perfect game ending Thursday night.. SFGiants win, and Madison Bumgarner doesn’t take the loss. Okay really perfect would have been Madbum hitting a home run and the Giants still winning…

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As an SF Giants fan I can only hope the SD Padres bullpen were as lousy this weekend at Oracle Park as they are this week at Dodger Stadium.

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Despite a great effort and some impressive play from new Senator Jon Ossoff, GOP Congressional Baseball Team beat Democrats Wednesday night 13-12. Did it really matter? If Democrats ended up with more runs GOP would have declared an audit showed they won anyway.

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So how long until Urban Meyer retires from as Jaguars coach for health reasons?

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Senate confirmed Tracy Stone-Manning as director Bureau of Land Management 50-45. She was granted immunity for warning authorities, but GOP was upset about Tracy’s role in 1989 tree-spiking incident.

1989?!

So long ago Chuck Grassley was not quite filing for Social Security.

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Government now funded through Dec 3. Just in time for GOP to play Grinch by threatening a shutdown before Christmas.

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GOP yesterday literally trying to hold up government funding by trying to make sure no federal funds are used for mask mandates. Yes same GOP who insists no federal funds be used for abortion. Once again – pro life my a**.

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So how long until COVID tests positive for Ted Cruz?

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Just wondering. Has anyone told UTAH Senator Mike Lee, who is railing against mask mandates, that Mormon leadership requires masks at temples & the church has said they will not issue religious exemptions for those who don’t want to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

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Seriously? CNN has a story today “‘It breaks my heart’: Unvaccinated teacher may leave job over mandate.” Uh, and how many COVID cases transmitted by unvaccinated people literally STOP other people’s hearts? Permanently.

Hey media, stop obsessing about Manchin and Sinema. Start asking GOP Senators, on camera, what parts of Build Back Better they don’t think Americans want or deserve. Thank you. A country that is tired of this sh*t.

Merck says its new pill may cut the risk of reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half with people recently infected with COVID-19 Good news, if even if the pill is approved what’s to stop GOP and right-wing media lying and call it dangerous? #DyingToOwnTheLibs

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19. Always heard, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all….. So no comment.

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Amy Klobuchar on the View, saying again we need to codify Roe V. Wade – “that’s a fancy way of saying we need to put abortion rights into law.” She’s right. We do. Because GOP trying to make our country into sad combination of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Dog the Bounty Hunter.”