Left Coast Sports Babe

Oregon State – Washington college football game came down to the last minute Friday night. And ended even on the West Coast after 11:15pm. Yes, 2:15a on the East Coast.

Forget “Pac 12 after dark,” this is more like “football for insomniacs or men with prostrate problems.

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2022 Brooklyn Nets. Started 2-6

Finally suspended Kyrie Irving for retweeting post on anti-semitic movie (& not apologizing.)

Fired Steve Nash & probably hiring Ime Udoka, fired himself for inappropriate relationship w/ Celtics team employee.

Nets 2022 slogan “Hold our beer.”

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Kevin Durant on the Kyrie Irving suspension “I just didn’t like anything that went on. I feel like it was all unnecessary. I felt like we could have just kept playing basketball and kept quiet as an organization.”

There’s a reason Gregg Popovich and San Antonio Spurs never made a move to try to sign or trade for Kevin Durant.

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Meanwhile Nike suspended their relationship with Kyrie Irving “We are deeply saddened and disappointed.”

As in “deeply saddened and disappointed we’ve already had all those Kyrie 8 shoes made we can’t sell now?

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In all seriousness, with unemployment under 4%, and Muskrat changing all the rules at Twitter, including eliminating remote work, why does Elon think the employees he isn’t firing won’t quit?

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So with an $8 a month fee and no verification at a time when Twitter is worried about losing users, will a blue check become the functional equivalent of “I’m with Stupid?”

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Something perhaps for independent and moderate voters to ask themselves. Leaving politics aside, would you trust some of these Republican candidates to watch your dog or cat while you went away for a weekend?

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Stephen Colbert was a repeat Friday night, but this stands out “71% of Americans think democracy is at risk. But only 7% identified this as the most important problem facing our country. Kind of hard to fix anything else without a functioning democracy.”

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Media: “Leading Democrats aren’t speaking out.”

Democratic leaders: Speak out and campaign across the country.

Media: So what crazy thing did Velveeta Voldemort, Kari Lake or Herschel Walker say today?

See the problem

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Dear Media.

On Sunday Nov. 6, Pete Buttigieg & Amy Klobuchar are going back to New Hampshire together to campaign for Maggie Hassan.

If Pete & Amy promise to insult each other at some point THEN would you cover it?

Sincerely, Americans tired of only clickbait coverage.

Astros hang on barely for a 3-2 win. Dusty Baker and Justin Verlander are a combined 112 years old. Right about now they feel more like about 212.

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Open message to some castigating Dusty Baker for leaving McCullers in too long in World Series Game 3, but now complaining he took Javier out too early in Game 4 after 97 no-hit pitches. There’s a reason Dusty is managing yet another MLB team deep into postseason & you’re not.

Even Tim McCarver listening to John Smoltz is thinking, “John, can you just STFU for a minute?”

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Being born in South Africa and then immigrating from Canada, Muskrat could never run for President. Is his having bought Twitter his way of saying, “If I can’t be quarterback I’m going to buy and tank the team?

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So if all of us real people on Twitter who take this app seriously refuse to pay $8 a month, a blue check will just mean you’re a sucker, paying for advertising, and/or being bankrolled by a PAC or foreign adversary?

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Good news. Paul Pelosi has been released from hospital. Bad news: Conservative media like Fox News STILL refuses to acknowledge what this was – the planned assassination of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

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Georgia voters, forget flying plane. Would you trust Herschel Walker to pick up your kids from school & get them home safely? Or to be your cat or dog sitter when you were on vacation? Walker cannot be trusted, period. Especially in the Senate. Vote for Reverend Warnock.

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Hey drama loving media. Here’s a question to get you some headlines. Ask GOP candidates POINT-BLANK on camera. “If you believe life begins at conception & you are anti-choice, will you be voting to ban IVF treatments?”

Stephen Colbert talking about Arizona Secretary of State GOP candidate Mark Finchem , part of “Stop the Steal, AND January 6 mob. “You don’t get to attack democracy & then ask to run it. That’s like a bank robber saying ‘put money in the bag but also a job application.”

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Lost in election noise, Louis DeJoy still Postmaster General. My ballot’s been received but mailed papers for work 1st class certified mail from Calif to Chicago on Oct 27. On Nov 3 it’s still somewhere “in transit.” If you haven’t mailed ballot, drop it off in person.

Anyone want to complain tonight about Dusty Baker’s handling his pitching staff in the World Series?

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And good for the Astros as far as putting attention on baseball.

Not only did the team combine for the second-no hitter in MLB history, they did it on a night when there was no NCAA or NFL football.

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Stephen Colbert, on an Arizona judge who ruled against armed “poll watchers.” Arizona judge ruled armed election monitors to stay 250 feet away from drop boxes.

“I think it’s fair to say, democracy is in danger when ballot boxes take out a restraining order.”

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DOJ doesn’t grant immunity like people give out candy on Halloween. How long until Velveeta Voldemort says he never knew Kash Patel

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Murders in major cities have actually gone DOWN in 2022 from 2021. But you would never know it from Fox News. Which covers every murder in a blue state they can find, especially if the suspect is a person of color. Fear itself is winning.

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Among the more ridiculous things GOP wants us to believe is that election liar Ginni Thomas never talked to her husband about the 2020 election.

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Kari Lake denies that she mocked Paul Pelosi being attacked, despite her laughing and joking on video about the attack during a campaign event. Should we be shocked that an election liar wants us to believe her over our lying eyes and ears?

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Mike Pence on Instagram “I was always loyal to president Tr*mp but in the end came on difficult times.” Might “Difficult times” be the best understatement ever for “he tried to have me killed?”

All joking aside, , here’s really terrifying thing about possibility of some radical GOP candidates winning in the midterms: Americans always say, if it doesn’t work out, we can vote them out. But many radical Republican election liars want to eliminate future fair elections.

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Turned on what I thought was World Series Game Three and it appears instead to be a Home Run Derby.

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16-4.

That score, for all those who think the 2022 World Series is over because of Phillies shellacking the Astors in game 3, was the score in game 5 of the 2002 World Series, SF Giants over Angels. Then Giants took 5-0 lead in game 6. And we all know how that turned out.

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And now Brooklyn Nets ‘have agreed to part ways’ with head coach Steve Nash.

But they’re keeping Kyrie Irving.

If you needed a reason to cheer for any other NBA team.

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Herschel Walker has home in gated community in Dallas. J.D. Vance has house in San Francisco. Dr. Oz has mansion in New Jersey. None of them give a flying fig newton about states they want to represent in US Senate. Georgia, Ohio & Pennsylvania, vote blue for your states!

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Besides being the husband of the Speaker of the House, Paul Pelosi is an 82 year old man at that.

Guess we shouldn’t be surprised that some of same GOP who want to cut off seniors from Medicare/Social Security don’t give a d*mn about if seniors get assaulted.

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Lindsey Graham loves a microphone and the camera. Shouldn’t he be thrilled at the chance to testify in Georgia? Heck, put it on pay-per-view and use the money to help save social security. #ratings

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Dear Americans.

Democrats are not taking your guns.

Republicans do want to take your Medicare, your Social security, your reproductive rights, your voting rights… #VoteBlue

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As awful as the attack on Paul Pelosi was…. this part of the story isn’t getting enough attention:

Today’s motion to detain suspect said he allegedly “named several targets, including a local professor, several prominent state & federal politicians and their relatives.”

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Fox News has been talking about Paul Pelosi’s attacker being dangerous immigrant. Suspect is from Canada.

Although speaking of dangerous people coming here from Canada, you know who applied for a Canadian passport through Canadian-born mother before he moved to USA?- – Elon Musk

(And of course there’s cancun cruz.)

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CNN reporting in some close Senate races – North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, there aren’t high profile candidates.

But Cheri Beasley is great candidate, And Catherine Cortez Masto & Maggie Hassan are great Senators. They aren’t crazy.

CNN thinks crazy sells. #VoteBlue

Justin Verlander hasn’t done very well on the mound in World Series appearances, but some off field social media kudos. When the Astros bus pulled up to Citizen’s Bank Park today, some Phillies fans were taunting Houston players, including flippng the bird.

Verlander flipped a few birds back – Then posted on Twitter – “Whole interaction was in jest as all the fans around you were just saying hello in their native tongue. So I responded in kind.”

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World Series game 3 postponed for rain. Well with the expanded playoffs pushing postseason into November, MLB is lucky it isn’t snow.

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Rachel Maddow nails it tonight: GOP mantra has become “Elections don’t count.” I’m so old I remember when Republicans wanted to win by getting a majority of votes…

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Stephen Colbert on Halloween “To all the kids out there still riding a sugar high, welcome to late night!.” What Stephen really needed to add, and to all the school teachers out there, with four days left in the week, you have my devout sympathies

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Now Velveeta Voldemort writes the election was “stollen”. Talk about icing on the cake to prove the guy is nutty as a fruitcake..

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United Airlines waiver puts it clinically “Brazil Political Event- Extended Oct 28 – Nov 13. Travel waiver for voluntary changes for travel to/from/through Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo

“Political Event” = President not conceding election loss. What’s US going to be like Nov 9?

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Remember when Obama beat McCain. And Senator McCain was on Colbert talking about his loss. “I sleep like a baby. Woke up every two hours and cry.”

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It just gets worse on Fox News – now they are working on “illegal immigrant” angle on Pelosi’s attacker.

Because he was apparently born in Canada and came to US about 20 years ago and they don’t know his legal status. What’s next? Demands for a wall on the northern border?

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Paul Pelosi is still in ICU.

And not a single Republican who joked about the attack on him has apologized.

“Deplorable” is way too mild.

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And Kari Lake was still joking Monday afternoon at a campaign about the attack. There really is no bottom.