Left Coast Sports Babe

Bad news when “your” team is out of the MLB playoffs- you don’t care that much.

Good news when :”your” team” is out of the MLB playoffs – you don’t care that much.

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Watching Phillies -Cardinals Wild Card game while working and didn’t really care who wins. But as an SF Giants fan after 2022, it was kind of nice to watch some other team’s bullpen melt down for a change..

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Cleveland’s baseball team had an eight-game postseason losing streak. This year, newly named the #Guardians, team won game one of AL Wild Card series. Coincidence?

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Since the SF Giants aren’t in the post season it’s easier to be objective about pundits and their redictions.

But it is worth noting that in 2014 the wild-card GIants were considered the 8th of 8 teams in the playoffs.

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And now Saturday has four elimination games by default in the new MLB best of three series:

Convenient for baseball that in the eight cities with teams stil playing – Tampa,-Cleveland, Seattle, Toronto, Philadelpha, St Louis, San Diego, New York,, there isn’t a decent NCAA football team

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Aaron Rodgers said he “doesn’t know what else the NFL can do about concussions. I just think we have to police ourselves as well and be smart about that.” And don’t we all want to take advice from a QB who ignored the NFL on vaccines and lied about it.

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North Carolina voters: GOP Rep.Ted Budd refused to certify 2020 presidential election results & wouldn’t say in Senate debate tonight against Cheri Beasley that Joe Biden was legitimate president. North Carolina, politics aside, vote for Beasley. She has a grip on reality.

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So conservative media is all in a tizzy that President BIden said “Two words – Made in America.” But okay what’s Republican problem with “Made In America” being two words? GOP has been telling us regularly they’re against math

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If you know nothing else about US 2022 Senate races please know in Georgia, GOP claims REVEREND Raphael Warnock is not Christian enough. And in Florida that Val Demings, former police chief, is soft on crime. GOP isn’t just wrong on issues, they lie about issues.

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OP rules for midterm elections: 1. Anything a Democrat ever said in the past on any issue is fair game. 2. Anything a Republican ever said, or, did in the past should be dismissed or better yet, attacked as being leaked by Democrats.

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Stephen Colbert on GOP Georgia Senate candidate: Lying about mother of one of his children only one of Herschel Walker’s problems: “Walker claimed he supervised six hospitals. He didn’t.” Stephen “I’m kind of relieved that’s a lie.” Seriouslyl And you think your HMO is scary.

This is that time of year when you think “what time’s the baseball game on…?” And for fans of 18 MLB teams, we’re done until 2023. “It breaks your heart, it is designed to break your heart…”

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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So we’re now in into the “hierarchy of hate” for many baseball fans. If your team isn’t in it, it’s not just who you’re rooting for in the MLB playoffs, it’s who you are rooting against.

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As good as the Tampa Bay Rays have been consistently, and as good as the Cleveland Guardians have been lately, most Americans aren’t familiar with players on either team.

And with MLB scheduling their first (weekday) playoff game at 12:07pm local time, 9:07am on the West Coast, that won’t change on Friday, or probably any time soon.

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Buried in ESPN story about Drew Brees deciding what he wants to do next season professionally, Brees has been working w/ Lowe’s Home Team, which “tackles critical repair projects for communities in need.

They built “new sustainable work-live headquarters to provide year-round housing for visiting volunteers in Lower 9th Ward.” The anti-Favre. #WhoDat

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GOP Senator Ben Sasse apparently will resign from Senate to become president at the University of Florida. Has anyone informed Sasse that DeathSantis would like to get rid of or at least defund public education in the state, includling the University of Florida.

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So hypothetically how many missing national security documents would be the price for Saudi Arabia and Russian officials to hike oil prices to try to help Velveeta Voldemort’s GOP candidates win in the midterms?

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“I’ve already been forgiven. And if I’ve already been forgiven, why in the world would I not be forgiven of something like that?” Herschel Walker. So seems like we’re a few days away from “Yeah, I ordered the Code Red.”

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Stephen Colbert on the Herschel Walker scandals reports apparently some in GOP knew about Herschel’s extra kids, and at least one abortion, and thought “eh, it’s not going to come out.” Beginning to wonder, what ELSE did they think isn’t going to come out?

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NY Times reports, DOJ is said to believe Tr*mp has more documents. They believe he has them? Or that he sold them? Or did a little “quid pro quo” in exchange for spiking oil prices before the midterms?

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Has it occurred to GOP voters in Georgia that a man who will lie about beating his wife, how many children he has, and about paying for an abortion, will lie about EVERYTHING? Including giving a d*mn about the state.

Washington Nationals ended the 2022 season 55 and 107.

Nats fans are shocked, how did the team manage to win 55 games.

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The man who ran on the field during Monday Night Football and was tackled by the Rams Billy Wagner is now filing a police report against Wagner.

Uh, so maybe the guy’s defense against a trespass charge is insanity?

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Especially considering as bad as Los Angeles’ defense looked against the less than vaulted SF 49ers offense, Wagner might have had one of the best Rams tackles of the night.

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In SF Giants last game of 2022 season -Austin Slater originally called out on a foul ball. He was furious. When umpires figure out their mistake and give him another pitch, he puts it in the upper deck at Petco. Sometimes I just love baseball.

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Senator Reverend Warnock’s first speech in Senate “Some people don’t want some people to vote.” As we watch GOP circle wagons around Herschel Walker, it’s increasingly clear those “some people” trying to suppress vote are showing THEY’RE the ones who shouldn’t be voting.

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All snark aside there’s probably a good & simple reason why woman who says Herschel Walker paid for her abortion hasn’t revealed her name. With today’s MAGA extremists she probably figures her life is at risk & at very least she would be opening herself to nonstop harassment.

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Alisyn Camerota FINALLY with some pushback to GOP’s Scott Jennings when he lies to say Democrats want to pay for abortions until moment of birth. “That is not true Scott, as you know.” Though then she adds ‘Let’s move on.” Let’s make it simpler. “Scott you are lying.”

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Recent CNN / Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows 90% of Americans think the US is having a mental health crisis. And the 10% who don’t think so are probably a large part of the cause.

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A new poll shows DeSantis significantly ahead in Florida, but also shows Charlie Crist has a slight lead among female voters. Sigh, if true proves again men are just too irrational and emotional to vote.

Marjorie Three Names says she’d like to talk to Elon Musk and would put together “a roundtable of all the most brilliant people who have been unjustly banned from Twitter.” And comedy writers at Colbert Late Show and NBC SNL going “we give up, can’t top that.”

If there are other women for who Herschel Walker paid for an abortion, now would be a good time to come forward.

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Congrats to Aaron Judge, with now 62 home runs.

Judge in 2022 has walked 111 times, with 19 IBBs. By comparison, Barry Bonds in 2001 was walked 177 times, 35 intentional. No way of knowing how many pitchers were roided then – rumors were a lot – but imagine if more of them had actually pitched to Barry.

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So how many more scandals have to come out about Brett Favre before GOP asks him to run for US Senate?

Wonder if one reason many Republicans won’t denounce Herschel Walker is that they are just fine with their wives, girlfriends, daughters…. getting abortions, but they just want to control all other women.

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Question for all these journalists trying to get bestsellers out of secret information they learned: Just how treasonous and/or dangerous would something have to be for them to alert police or Congress instead of saving it for their books?

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Ron Johnson now is saying January 6 wasn’t an “armed insurrection.” He ran like everyone else when the mob broke in.

Ron Johnson isn’t THAT stupid. He just thinks Wisconsin voters are.

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Death toll in Florida from Hurricane Ian is rising, property damage is incalculable at this point, and we haven’t even started talking about state’s insurance crisis. So expect a LOT of deflection & distraction from Governor DeSantis. Starting with media blame & immigration.

Only good thing about Maggie Hagerman being on Stephen Colbert Tuesday night. Been pretty tired lately. Great excuse to turn off the TV after the monologue.

RIP Loretta Lynn. Ahead of her time on women’s rights. Honor her memory by voting BLUE in Nov.

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“It’s gettin’ dark it’s roostin’ time Tonight’s too good to be real Oh, but daddy don’t you worry none ‘Cause mama’s got the pill’ From “The Pill, 1975.”

Another verse from the Pill

“All these years I’ve stayed at home While you had all your fun And every year that’s gone by Another baby’s come There’s a gonna be some changes made Right here on nursery hill You’ve set this chicken your last time ‘Cause now I’ve got the pill.”

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa has officially been ruled out for Sunday’s game against NY Jets as he “continues to progress through concussion protocol.” Fact that this is news should tell you all you need to know about the NFL’s interest in the well-being of their players.

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Rookie QB Kenny Pickett is expected to replace Mitch Trubisky as Pittsburgh Steelers starting QB.

And Bears fans are just giggling.

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Listening to Florida sheriff being interviewed about people who have died:”It’s going to come down to medical examiner to determine if deaths were storm-related or no.” Translation: Ron Deathsantis is going to press hard for examiner to list cause of death as anything but Ian.

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Fox News loves to put “Dem-run city” in headlines. With all finger pointing now in FL on Ian, wonder why Fox didn’t mention Tampa, where Dem. Mayor Jane Castor urged public to evacuate day BEFORE county order. “If you can leave, just leave now; we’ll take care of your property,”

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Herschel Walker can’t remember how many children he has. Does anyone think he’s only been responsible for one abortion?

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Radical GOP legislators in Alabama, which 24% black, have SCOTUS case on trying to make 6 of 7 congressional districts in the state, majority white.

Rachel Maddow “Think overturning what’s left of Voting Right Act too radical for SCOTUS to do? Remember this is court that overturned Roe V. Wade.”

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The Dow rose 760 points Monday. “Siri, tell me a stock market story we won’t hear on Fox news.”

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Why is CNN Jake Tapper promoting Maggie Haberman’s book – calling it a “fantastic read?” Is she giving him a cut of royalties?

He literally ended his interview “Go buy it.”

One word. NO.

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We may never be done w/ COVID. Client attending wedding in 4 days, just got Plaxovid rebound case, feels pretty good.

But he decided to be responsible & stay home instead of risking infecting others. The hotel in Sun Valley is charging a large cancellation fee they wouldn’t waive. How many would think “If I have to pay I’ll just go?”

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Non-snarky PSA: Over the last few years have had several travel clients lose track of time and let passports expire. Worth checking validity now. Also even more worth making absolutely sure you are registered to vote.

Congrats to Seattle Mariners, who are in the postseason for the first time in 21 years… as a wild car.

Fortunately this year the wild card round is best of three instead of win or go home. Otherwise, with the way smaller market teams get shunted to day games, Mariners could have ended up in a one game playoff, and been gone before the first day’s primetime.

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Meanwhile, SF Giants will not be in the postseason. But who thought a few weeks ago they’d be alive (barely) until the last weekend of the regular season.

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As Florida begins the slow process of rebuilding after Ian we are about to discover many people’s definition of socialism “Government money going to anyone but me.”

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Senator Ron Johnson, and Wisconsion gubernatorial Tim Michels won’t commit to accepting 2022 election results.

Even the most hard-core Packers fans wouldn’t advocate throwing out scores of every game the team lost. These guys are not just anti-democracy they’re bad sports.

Florida Senator Rick Scott even voted against disaster relief. For all those who claim Democrats think Republican voters are dumb, Republicans are the ones that act like their voters are too dumb to notice what they do.

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And if you think Democrats saying GOP has birth control in their sights next are just fearmongering or being modern day Chicken Littles… Remember how many people thought Roe v. Wade was settled law.

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What are the chances that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will actually utter this phrase? “Thank you Joe Biden.”

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On Tuesday, before Ian hit, even though President Biden had approved a disaster declaration for Florida, Fox News headlines were all about how Biden hadn’t called Florida Governor DeSantis yet. Now Joe has called Ron THREE times. Fox News – crickets.

Mary Peltola, first Democratic congressperson from Alaska since1950, and first native Alaskan, is a better and more interesting story than Marjorie Three Names. So why isn’t media giving Mary at LEAST equal attention?

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1. Democrats are NOT for open borders. And we need immigration reform.

2. But with so much devastation from Hurricane Ian perhaps US could temporarily make it legal for refugees already here waiting for hearings to work on cleanup & repairs in Florida & other affected states?

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Smetimes I can’t decide if media really thinks they want would-be dictator Velveeta Voldemort should be running the country. Or if they just think he’s good for ratings. And can’t decide which is worse.

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Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell sang “pave paradise and put up a parking lot.” But “don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” could equally apply to democracy. VOTE!

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Apparently teachers go on Bachelor in Paradise. Personally don’t care what (legal) things people do in spare time. But why is GOP right-wing so afraid children will be triggered by knowing teachers have same-sex partner, but seeing teachers making out w/ random folks on TV is just fine?

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Wasn’t it a Republican who once said “I believe in a kindler, gentler nation?” I miss those days. A friend’s wife works at Disney World. Guests today were already complaining about the two days they missed of vacation.

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So as Velveeta Voldemort has now gone after Elaine Chao in a particularly nasty way guess that puts Mitch McConnell in the Ted Cruz club of men who put defending their wives below kowtowing to a deranged would be dictator.