Left Coast Sports Babe

Kevin McCarthy briefly attended Women’s Congressional Softball Game. My non-better angels would have loved to see a foul accidentally hit him in the balls.

But after this year seems pretty clear he doesn’t have any.

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In 2024, the Houston Astros and Colorado Rockies will play in Mexico City on April 27-28.

Since Houston is basically at sea-level, guessing this will be a serious Colorado home field advantage.

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For those going through baseball withdrawal today, there was the annual Congressional Women’s softball game played in Washington DC with women members of Congress against the DC press.

The press won 15-9, and that was after a comeback as Congressional women were down 12-0.

Not sure her politics but maybe someon should recruit former Stanford star Jessica Mendova to run for office? #RInger

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All this effort by GOP and media expended on Biden’s age.

Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell, GOP Senate leader is older than Joe. Personally I think at Biden’s next inaugural he should have octogenerians Mick Jagger, Steve Miller, Paul McCartney and the Who play….

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Give Tommy Tuberville credit. He’s giving Ted Cruz competition on a bipartisan basis for most loathed Senator.

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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy whining today on Senate floor about issues getting new police chief in New Orleans & how that may affect safety. Fair enough, police leadership matters. But why isn’t he using time & effort to stop his fellow Senator’s blocking new MILITARY leadership.

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Disney board just extended CEO Bob Iger’s contract by two years. Meanwhile in recent polling Florida REPUBLICANS prefer Trump by a wide margin over Governor DeSantis. Don’t mess with the Mouse.

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DeSantis says he won’t run for vice president next year: “I’m not a No. 2 guy.” Uh, some of us might beg to differ.

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Per CNN “A high-profile Russian general in command of forces in occupied southern Ukraine said he was dismissed from his post after accusing defense ministry of betraying Russian soldiers by not providing sufficient support.” How long until we hear he’s fallen out of a window?

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For all the GOP talk about preventing abortions a simple way to do it might be vasectomies for all boys at puberty. Reversible upon proof of marriage.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred “My single biggest disappointment is because of the kind of political process in Oakland, we didn’t find a solution to keep the A’s in Oakland.” Wow, with that kind of duplicity, have to wonder, is Manfred planning to run for office as a Republican?

(Not an A’s fan. At all. But Oakland’s John Fisher is one of the worst owners in pro sports. Which is saying something.)

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After NL barely hung on to win their first All-Star game in over a decade, SF Giants fans could have told you. NL should have saved Camilo Doval for the 9th.

But Doval gets the win. So karma is well pleased.

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“Georgia football coach Kirby Smart says he hasn’t yet solved speeding issue that’s plagued his team – 11 moving violations AT LEAST – since a player and staffer died in a January 15 racing related crash.

But Smart says he “constantly looking & searching” for ways to address it.

Uh, two people are already dead in 2023. May I suggest “take away players’ car keys?

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Doesn’t really surprise me that the GOP has become increasingly partisan against the Democratic party. But it’s still surprising and more than a little sad to see how much today’s GOP has turned against democracy, in the US and around the world.

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Jon Tester is a good Senator. But Jon is not a far-left Democrat & doesn’t agree with Biden 100%. Tester is also is the ONLY Democrat who holds statewide office in Montana.

If you don’t know how important that is look in Alabama where moderate Doug Jones lost to Tommy Tuberville.

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And not getting much coverage but Dianne Feinstein is walking around on Senate floor these days & while she looks frail, looks much better than she did than in May DiFi KNOWS if she resigns Democrats lose Judiciary majority & ability to confirm Biden’s judges.

At this point she’s a hero. Period.

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Watching the train wreck that is Senator Tommy Tuberville should make us realize just how much of a bullet this country dodged by Georgia not electing Herschel Walker.

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Tommy Tuberville actually played football for Southern Arkansas in the 1970s. A charitable explanation for his behavior these days might be too many concussions?

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Have no idea if Musk arch-rival Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads will finally be the competitor that takes down Twitter. But Threads wouldn’t have existed if Elon hadn’t himself tried to destroy Twitter. Karma’s a b*tch.

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Today’s GOP: Boycotting Bud Light after one ad featured a trans woman is somehow patriotic. But Mike Lindell’s “My Pillow” company goes broke because his wild election conspiracy theories caused MANY retailers to drop his product & it’s “cancel culture.”

Make it make sense.

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So in the same week we’re hearing a GOP school superintendent say the Tulsa Race massacre wasn’t about race, and a GOP senator saying white nationalists aren’t racist. Are they that stupid? Or do they think voters are?