Left Coast Sports Babe

Leeds United was just relegated from the Premier League. Now the team has been sold to 49ers Enterprises. (Yes, as in SF 49ers.)

I see a potental Ted Lasso sequel coming on..

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Meanwhile, the Nevada Senate adjourned Thursday without voting on a financing bill $1.5 billion Las Vegas Strip stadium for the Oakland Athletics. The special legislative session will continue next week.

Maybe $1.5 billion feels excessive when the city already has a minor league team? (The Las Vegas Aviators)

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Here’s what I don’t get. IF Republicans really believe Joe Biden is a weak President, then presumably they think any of their stable of candidates can beat him? Then why make these increasingly divorced from reality statements defending a man they KNOW is a crook?

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OTOH, we assume that many Republican leaders are defending Trump now because they are either cowards or cult members. But they also could be a third potential C word explanation – culpable.

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Ron Deathsantis really is questioning why the DOJ went after Donald Trump instead of Hunter Biden. Just a bit too much to unpack in a blog post. But for starters, Hunter never has had access to classified documents including nuclear secrets.

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Your reminder Democrats didn’t lose their minds and scream partisan politics in 2012 when Jack Smith was the DOJ person who prosecuted former VP and Presidential candidate John Edwards.

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So has Susan Collins said yet that NOW Donald will have finally learned his lesson.

Hey media. If ANY Republican member of Congress tries to claim Jack Smith’s investigation is partisan politics or a witch hunt you need to ask them one question. Have you read the indictments? Thank you. Americans tired of lies.

ICYMI, Oklahoma’s women’s softball team won their third straight College World Series, closing out the year on a 53 game winning streak.

oh, was there other news today?

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All MLB teams have talent and momentum in baseball is only as good as your starting pitcher.

But, about the Miami Marlins and their six straight. wins.

Three against the 12-49 A’s and now three against 18-44 Royals….

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Meanwhile, thinking many SF Giants fans would have been pleased if they were told in early June their team would have a better record than the Phillies, Mets and Padres.

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So one of the non political questions of the night – which Florida team will last longer in the finals… the Panthers or the Heat?

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So while the SCOTUS ruling about Alabama is good news, did the four dissenting judges really believe Alabama’s voting maps are NOT unfair to Black residents? Or do they know they’re unfair and they’re good with that?

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July 27, 1974: House Judiciary Committee approved articles of Impeachment. Seven of the committee’s 17 GOP joined all 21 Dems to approve the Articles. (Nixon resigned before he was actually impeached.) In case you forgot that GOP USED to care about criminal behavior,

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Yes, it’s too soon to pop champagne. But perhaps a nice wine would go with that “I have been indicted” whine?

I like Presidents who don’t get indicted.

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If you weren’t already a Garth Brooks fan. He’s opening a  Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk in downtown Nashville and “We’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: If you come into this house, love one another. If you’re an a–hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”