Left Coast Sports Babe

To put things in perspective, Mage won yesterday’s Kentucky Derby in 2:01.57. One of the faster Derbies… Secretariat in 1973 was over two seconds faster. He’d have won by about 10 lengths.

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“My Old Kentucky Home” has the line “it’s summer, the people are gay” in it. So Ron Deathsantis now going to try to cancel the Kentucky Derby too?

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ESPN’s Karl Ravich actually asked Mookie Betts if the Los Angeles Dodgers – San Diego Padres rivalry was as big as the Red Sox – Yankees.

And SF Giants fans just threw up.

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Though I lived in Toronto for four years and became a big Leafs fan as a kid, I don’t follow hockey that much anymore. Just as well, because nothing is certain but death, taxes, and the Maple Leafs falling apart in the playoffs.

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Prince Harry apparently flew to his Father’s Coronation the day before on a regularly scheduled American Airlines flight. Maybe Harry wanted to leave it to fate as to whether he made it for the ceremony on time or not?

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Ticketmaster in UK now offering West End shows in London for no ticketing fees!

Why? UK Standard newspaper: “unlike US, where Ticketmaster has “significant presence” UK has wider range of ticket providers- GigsandTours, SeeTickets etc…”

This isn’t hard. Monopolies hurt consumers.

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Next week on American Idol is “Disney Week.”

Many Republicans as well as Democrats love American Idol.

Waiting to see if Ron Deathsantis is going to try to cancel “Idol.”

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WTF?

From Trump fundraising email: As your next president, I will mandate federal employees to take a civil service test to demonstrate a TRUE understanding of our Constitution – and bureaucrats who do not pass will be FIRED.

They will be quizzed on due process rights, equal protection, free speech, religious liberties, 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable search & seizure & your many other constitutional liberties.” As if he himself and GOP members of Congress could pass that test.

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GOP hates math. But while conspiracy theories are flying around, amplified by some of the congressional crazies, this simple fact:

A 2021 investigation by Voice of America found that only 23% of mass shooters from 1966 to February 2020 took psychiatric medication.

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So this weekend there was a mass shooter at Texas outlet mall.

Does Cancun Cruz want armed guards now in malls as well as schools?

Let’s make it simpler. Where does Ted think we DON’T need armed guards? (Anything but sensible gun law reform.)

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If anyone doesn’t believe a Latino man can be a racist, or even a White Supremacist, suggest you watch John Sayles’ movie “Lone Star.” If for nothing else than the fact people are complicated. And there are all kinds of hierarchies and layers of racicm.

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I’m so old I remember when biggest worry going to an outlet mall was parking. Not being shot.

Mental health problems happen for people in countries all over the world. Regular mass shootings only happen and kill people in the USA. It’s the guns, stupid.

76ers coach Doc Rivers brushed off criticism of James Harden for his Las Vegas partying trip during three days off in Philadelphia’s first round playoff series vs Brooklyn.

Well, if Harden keeps playing like he did tonight in today’s loss against Boston, James is less than a week away from being able to spend all the time in Vegas he wants.

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New York Yankees payroll , $279,647,478

Tampa Bay Rays payroll, $74,537,681

Tampa Bay just beat NY and are now 10 games ahead of the last place Yankees. No punchline, I just like writing it.

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Neera Tanden, President Biden’s new domestic policy advisor, once referred to Mitch McConnell as “Voldemort” and wrote “Vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz.”

No lies detected.

Fox News website didn’t find space to cover… The video of Trump’s E. Jean Carroll deposition Eight fake electors accepting immunity deals. Great US jobs report. Fox did find space for a headline whine about Biden and Harris going to lunch at a DC taqueria. #Priorities

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Ron DeSantis, in escalating his feud with Disney “No one should be exempt from rules that everyone else has to follow.” So the Florida Governor is for a SCOTUS code of ethics. Okay then.

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Let’s make this clear. Right-wing GOP wants to have more restrictions – including potential body searches, on Americans entering public bathrooms than they want to have on Americans carrying guns.

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Wonder what happens when the Proud Boys figure out not only that their cult leader not only won’t save them, but also that he never gave a d*mn about them in the first place.

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CNN’s John King talks about both sides sitting down like adults to avoid economic disaster &figure the debt out. Uh, he leaves out that GOP refusing to pay our bills is NOT an adult position to start with. Adults cannot and should not negotiate with toddlers throwing tantrums.

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And Terry points out that when I mentioned Kayleigh McEnany and Ted Cruz as Harvard’s potential biggest mistakes that I left out Ron DeSantis. And yes, the Florida Governor is working hard to win that title.

What were the odds on either of these?

Tampa Bay Rays, 26-6

Oakland As, 6-26.

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Justin Verlander gave up two runs in five innings in his New York debut, but the Mets were shut out and lost 2-0. So maybe Verlander really will be the new Jacob DeGrom.

Understand that GOP members of Congress would never actually try to impeach SCOTUS justices. But no one, even Susan Collins, is expressing even mild disapproval or concern?

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Convicting the Proud Boys without eventually convicting the person who instigated their seditious conspiracy would be as if a jury convicted Sharon Tate’s killers and let Charlie Manson walk.

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Would some reporter like to ask Senators and House members of the “law and order” GOP why they continually ignore jury verdicts that prove how serious the sedition on January 6 was? I’ll wait

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Kayleigh McEnany, who will at least temporarily replace Tucker Carlson as Fox News’ Liar in Chief, is a Harvard Law Graduate. She might give Ted Cruz competition for “worst mistake Harvard ever made.”

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CNN’s Trump Town Hall will be moderated by Kaitlan Collins. You can take the girl out of the Daily Caller, but you can’t take the Daily Caller out of the girl…?

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Wonder if/when we’ll learn the identity of the person who worked at Mar-A-Lago, who is now reportedly cooperating with Federal prosecutors on classified documents? And how many minutes after their identity is revealed will Trump claim he never met them?

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Five members of the Proud Boys found guilty by a jury of felony seditious conspiracy for January 6. Fox News website has nothing on the story. They did, however, find space to cover Trump attacking Biden for not going to King Charles III’s coronation.

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And later today- I’m sure you’re all shocked to know that Fox News not only isn’t defending Clarence Thomas, but also they haven’t even mentioned how Harlan Crow paid the tuition for Thomas’ grandnephew at two private schools.

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So CNN’s Town Hall with Velveeta Voldemort is scheduled for next Wednesday at 8pm. Thinking a good goal would be the show ending up with CNN’s worst ratings ever.

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Two mass shootings in two days in Georgia. On January 1, Governor Brian Kemp signed a new law saying you longer need a permit to carry a gun in Georgia. It’s the guns, stupid.

ESPN headline “Young Jets players in awe of new teammate Aaron Rodgers.”

Wait until Aaron screams at them to get off his lawn.

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Not sure what’s more improbable, that the Tampa Bay Rays are the best team in the American League. Or that their closest competitor in the league is the Baltimore Orioles?

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How much worse do the Oakland A’s have to look before Las Vegas says, “Never mind, don’t come, we’re holding out for a major league team?”

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Seriously, the 1962 Mets lost 120 games. – The A’s are on pace to lose 130.

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Turns out Herschel Walker was grifting so brazenly you wonder if he was auditioning to be Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate.

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150,000 ride Walt Disney World’s monorail daily. System has had ONE (human error with a switch) fatality since opening 1971.

Ron DeSantis got bill passed to require State Dept of Transportation to start inspecting monorail.

Florida’s king of petty.

Your tax dollars at work

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Is it considered a gender discussion in Florida if you refer to Ron DeSantis as a whiny little b*tch? Asking for a friend.

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So Cancun Cruz thinks we should have armed guards in all school. Does he think we need armed guards at all offices, bars, parties etc, since mass shootings now are happening everywhere. Police departments can’t even hire enough qualified people. It’s the guns, stupid.

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Just saying, since Muskrat is all about attention, positive or negative, would the fastest ever destruction of a company’s reputation and brand be considered enough a win for him that he could sell Twitter and move on?

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Media needs to keep reminding Americans of two facts: 1. Using debt ceiling, paying bills for money already spent, as leverage for budget is basically hostage taking move. 2. Complete BS to say Democrats won’t negotiate when GOP won’t even put BILLIONAIRE tax cuts on table.

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A new law that Florida Governor Desantis will sign allows state law enforcement officials to conduct random audits of businesses suspected of hiring undocumented workers. Over under on number of white employers who will go to jail over this? I guess you can’t go below zero.

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The E. Jean Carroll rape trial, with supporting witnesses testifying, reminds us of a question again…. How many people have to be lying for Donald Trump to be telling the truth?

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The debt ceiling is not the budget. The debt ceiling is not the budget. The debt ceiling is not the budget. Why is this so hard for the media to say?

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They’d only be in their early 70s now. 53 years ago, May 4, 1970. RIP Allison, Wiliam, Jeffrey, Sandra. #KentState

NHL Florida Panthers are restricting sales for their playoff home games against the Toronto Maple Leafs fans to American residents, in hopes of keeping Leafs fans from buying too many tickets and taking away their home ice atmosphere.

Well, I’m sure that won’t fire up Toronto fans or get them to ask American friends to buy tickets which they could pay them back for…

It’s now approaching three weeks SF Giants outfielder Bryce Johnson, 27, has been on injury concussion list with no return date in site. Johnson is a young man in top physical condition. After HIS concussion, is anyone testing Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is 81?

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In NBA’s Western Conference, 1, 4,6 & play-in 7 seeds are left. In Eastern Conference it’s 2,3,5 & play-in 8.

League complains about fans being hurt by players sitting for load management, maybe NBA needs way to make regular season wins give a team a bigger playoff advantage?

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Seems to me we could sum up the debt ceiling potential crisis in one sentence: Democrats believe we are obligated to pay our bills. Republicans don’t.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot. If you’re thinking about whether or not you should see one of those living legends from your youth when they’re touring — the answer is yes.

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Montana legislator Zooey Zephyr is suing for being censured by Republicans. And look, no one said GOP has to like Zooey and what she says. But if annoying colleagues was grounds for censure or removal, for starters Ted Cruz and Rand Paul would be out of the U.S. Senate.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. is now claiming he’s a “Kennedy Democrat.” Oh please, the only Kennedy he resembles is Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, who left Democrat party & now despite Vanderbilt/Oxford education pretends to be an “aw shucks Foghorn Leghorn” man of the people.

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It’s Sunday. So are all the restaurants who decided to make a point about boycotting Bud Light over their partnership with a trans woman closed for business? Because if it’s all about God & Bible, I do remember that commandment – “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

Right wing media making a hero of 12 year old boy who said he was sent home from school to change his shirt that said “there are only two genders.” Uh, wait, I thought GOP is trying to legislate that children can’t talk about gender in school, period.

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Spent weekend at New Orleans Jazz Fest, so feeling qualified to opine about bathrooms.

1. Porta potties are gender neutral so who cares?

2. With the bathrooms labeled mens/women; 99% of folks don’t give d*mn what your gender at birth was as long as you don’t dawdle & keep line moving.

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First grade memory, going with my father Saturday night late to the newstand to pick up first edition of Sunday New York Times. There wasn’t a paper I grew up respecting more.

And now this BS headline “Rape Case Places Trump in Legal Jeopardy. Politically, He’s Thriving.”