Left Coast Sports Babe

Playoff schedule looks pretty set for College Football.

Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, Cincinnati.

What’s going to upset Ohio State more. Having their arch rival Wolverines in the playoffs? Or the Bearcats, the team they haven’t deigned to consider a rival?

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From Cincinnati’s little (40,000 capacity) Nippert stadium today… Alabama and Michigan hold more than 100,000, Georgia, 92,000.

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Ok, as a Spurs fan I didn’t think tonight’s game vs the Warriors would be close. I guess 5 points isn’t that close. Wtf?

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Regular reminder – if our votes didn’t matter, GOP wouldn’t be trying so hard to suppress them.

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Periodic reminder: Supporting Democrats who fight for democracy in Congress doesn’t mean thinking they are perfect in office. But it means fighting for the right to throw those who don’t believe in democracy out of office.

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So now that parents of school shooter were captured, their lawyers say they “fully intended to turn them in first thing this morning for arraignment.” Because disappearing & sparking a manhunt is what all innocent people do before turning themselves in?

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If the school shooters’ runaway parents were black they wouldn’t have been arraigned Saturday. They’d be in the Detroit morgue.

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The good news – many lives in Oxford Michigan were saved because students were so well-prepared with active shooter drills. The bad news – our kids need to be so well-prepared now withr active shooter drills. This doesn’t happen in other countries.82472

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Again, your reminder that Florida Governor Ron Deathsantis won in 2018 by about 32,000 votes and Senator Rick Scott won by about 11,000. Florida doesn’t have to be a Gestapo state. But if you live in the state, vote in 2022 like your life depends on it. Because it does.

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So Fox is gleeful about CNN firing Chris Cuomo over legal work he did for his brother. Yeah, what were the Cuomos thinking? Andrew should have just acted Presidential and had the Democrats pay his legal bills.

Not defending Chris Cuomo but his termination by CNN reminds us that Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing – that Democrats should be fired for bad behavior.

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Right wing media up in arms today about President Biden’s cold. Gosh, I missed their outrage about the Former Guy testing positive for COVID and risking infecting both Biden and Gold Star families.

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Senate vote was 69 to 28 to avert a government shutdown. On December 2. Can someone ask those 28 GOP Senators who voted “no” why they hate Christmas?

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Mark Meadows KNEW Velveeta Voldemor tested positive for COVID before meeting Gold Star families & then debating Joe Biden. But Mark stayed quiet at time & waited to share information for his book. He deserves to sell even fewer than 2000 or so books sold by Chris Christie.

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PSA: If you HAVE to post on social media about crazy women from Colorado & Georgia in Congress….can you offset it w/ positive tweets about good ones? For example if you haven’t already seen Jeanne Shaheen running out of f*cks to give with Tom Cotton…

My gracious Jeanne Shaheen just handed Tom Cotton his own posterior on the Senate floor.https://t.co/sPkPpSpbiR

— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes) December 3, 2021

Let’s be honest. Sure, the NFL is suspending Antonio Brown while they didn’t suspend Aaron Rodgers. But does anyone think if Tom Brady did anything against COVID protocols that they’d suspend him either? “If you’re a star they let you do it…”

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At this point maybe Saints should sign Colin Kaepernick. Not because I think Kap is a good QB, but just to p*ss off Goodell and the NFL.

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When even Troy Aikman says it’s a terrible call on behalf of the Cowboys, you KNOW it’s a terrible call on behalf of the Cowboys. (blind side block call that wasn’t illegal, wiped out a great first New Orleans down.)

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Don’t look now but the San Antonio Spurs have a three-game win streak.

(They’re not, however, going to get to four. Next game Saturday is against the Golden State Warriors.)

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Pres. Biden travels with Senators Amy Klobuchar & Tina Smith to Minnesota to talk about infrastructure & BBB. Media responds w/ crickets.

VP Harris travels w/ Pete Buttigieg to N. Carolina to talk about infrastructure.

Media all over it- but only to talk about potential “rivalry.” So bleeping tired of clickbait CRAP.

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All these sanctimonius GOP senators whining about cost to taxpayers of Build Back Better. Will some Democratic Senator please just stand up & say “ANYONE who supported multi-trillion cost to most taxpayers of Trump millionaire-billionaire tax cuts should STFU on this one.”

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Nancy Pelosi on abortion issue. “Sometimes, I think they need a“session in birds & bees for some statements they make. As mother of five.. as I say to my colleagues, when you have 5 children in 6 years & 1 week, we can discuss this issue.”

Again – Speaker Pelosi is bad ass.

Amy Coney Barrett says other women can just carry a fetus to term.& go on with their lives.

Coney Barrett is from a wealthy family in New Orleans and has never had to worry a day in her life about health insurance. (Or for that matter about child care or paid leave if one of her pregnancies made it exhausting or impossible to work.)

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In an interview with Fox, the man who allegedly ran down over 60 people and killed 6 in Waukesha says he’s being treated like a “monster.” Maybe because he IS a monster?

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Not that Chuck Grassley is personally dangerous, except maybe to “pidgins,” but listening to this 88 year old man ramble on about fighting gun control legislation should confirm to reasonable people listening that some changes are desperately needed.

So if President Biden starts borrowing hyperactive kittens and lets one run loose at every press briefing and speech will the media start paying more attention to them?

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Suburban Texas school district near Austin has banned Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” The short story is less than 4,000 words. So if you’re not already outraged, read it & you will be. (GOP would clearly prefer kids not learn about ‘groupthink.’)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

Now Notre Dame is looking for a new football coach.

For those trying to guess who it is, have any college football coaches today indicated they aren’t changing jobs?

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Notre Dame is currently ranked #6. Fighting Irish AD Jack Swarbrick Tuesday: “I believe we’re one of the top four teams in the country. I think we can play with anybody.” Yeah, except Notre Dame DID play #4 Cincinnati. And they lost.

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But what, besides not being in the top four with College Football Playoff Rankings, upsets THE Ohio State University more.

The fact that Michigan is in the top four

Or the fact that Cincinnati, the 2nd biggest university in Ohio (and also public) is ahead of them.

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Big game last night between Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns, billed as a possible Western Conference championship playoff preview.

And hey, what could change between now and then? We’re only a little over six months until the conference finals in the playoffs, –

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Official GOP tweets today five hours apart:

“Life is precious. Republicans will always stand for the sanctity of life.”

“NO Biden vaccine mandate!”

Siri, what is an oxymoron?

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How many of these folks who are sure GOP will repudiate Gosar, Boebert and Greene were also sure Republicans would repudiate Velveeta Voldemort?

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Mike Lee, again speaking against vaccine mandates “I’m vaccinated, my family is vaccinated, but it’s not my decision, and that decision shouldn’t be forced by the federal government. So he’s saying “My body, my choice.” Got it.

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So would any GOP Senator who claims they are anti-abortion because they are “pro-life” like to explain why they are against BBB -which with universal pre-K and child care assistance helps actual parents and children?

I’m waiting.

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WTAF? South Dakota Senator John Thune on Senate Floor talking about “radical abortion lobby,” and saying overturning Roe V. Wade will just return jurisdiction to the states. Of course, Thune knows wealthy women in South Dakota will just be able to drive or fly to Minnesota.

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Shouldn’t be hard. If GOP is right that Americans will hate Build Back Better bill then they should stand aside and let Democrats pass it. Then in 2022 Americans can give their review of bill at voting booth. Oh, that’s right, GOP doesn’t want many of us to be able to vote.

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Senator Cory Booker today on children now expecting school shooters “If we’re willing to truly love our children, we won’t just teach them fear…How many more times will members of this body have to speak on the floor about the unspeakable?”

His great speech got no attention on major media. Meanwhile, they all had stories about the latest craziness from the GOP crazies.

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Dear media: Since ratings seem to be all you care about: Chris Christie has sold about 2,000 copies of his book.

You know whose book is a best seller & who sold over 500,000 copies of their last book?

Hillary Clinton

Maybe you should start giving HER the star treatment.

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So the school shooting suspect (not using his name) in Oxford, Michigan is white. Though didn’t we already know that because he was arrested unharmed?

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Can we please STOP using the name of the murder suspect in Michigan?

If we’re going to tweet names from Oxford on social media we should tweet these four:

Tate Myre

Madisyn Baldwin

Hana St. Juliana

Justin Shilling.

Thank you.

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Again, almost no media coverage of Biden’s Infrastructure and Build Back Better speech Tuesday.

So if instead of giving a strong positive speech Joe included several ranting childish insults against his opponents THEN would media have covered it like one of Former Guy’s rallies?

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Media: President & Democrats don’t talk enough to sell Build Back Better.

So yesterday, Biden brings Amy Klobuchar & Tina Smith on AF1 to Minnesota to talk & sell Build Back Better. Media: Let’s cover latest insanity from Boebert, Ghislaine Maxwell trial & Dr. Oz’s run for Senate.

Another marcher in GOP fraudulent residency parade:

Stephen Colbert last night reminded us.. “Dr. Oz may not just have fake medical claims, he may have fake Pennsylvania claims. He’s running there despite living in NJ for years.”

Georgia Senate candidate Hershel Walker lives in Texas..for starters