Left Coast Sports Babe

For those of us already going through withdrawal.

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Small cat, large human. This Wemby guy is good at basketball

Ivanka Trump claiming that she can’t testify during the week because her kids are in school during the week sounds like a Saturday Night Live Skit.

And remember, Ivanka didn’t complain about her kids in school when she was pretending to be a world leader jetting around the planet on Air Force One with daddy

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Dear Mr. “I’m a Christian first” MAGA Mike Johnson:

Christianity is predominant religion in Ukraine, with 85% of population identifying as Christian according to 2022 survey. So GOD would tell you it is absolutely wrong to abandon Ukraine now!

Sincerely, Americans tired of BS

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Bad enough that Alabama voters chose not to keep the great Doug Jones. If they HAD to elect a Republican Senator at least they could have re-elected the plausibly human Jeff Sessions.

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Don Jr. claiming he had nothing to do w/ allegedly inaccurate financial statements for Trump real estate business. “I rely on accounting team to tell me what’s accurate, that’s why we have accountants.” So Jr’s defense: he hires bad accountants & is incompetent. Got it.

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President Biden traveled with/ Agriculture Secretary Tomc. Vilsack to talk about what his adminstration is doing for rural America.

Apparently it went well. But no real media coverage. They were in Northfield, MN. Imagine if Joe had said he was in Northport (in WI), or made another gaffe, THAT would have been national news.

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A jury deliberated fewer than five hours to find Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of all seven counts. From 3:15 pm to 7:45 pm. Did it take the jurors that long because they wanted to order dinner?

Congratulations to Bruce Bochy on his fourth World Series. And can I just add “f*ck analytics.”

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Bruce Bochy still doesn’t have a World Series clinching celebration at home.

Will Smith has now become the first MLB player to win a three World Series rings in a row with three different teams.

Was bummed when SF Giants didn’t re-sign Smith after 2019. Maybe they can get him back for 2024?

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RIP Bobby Knight, 83. Since he coached for years in Texas (at Texas Tech) will they honor him at the World Series tonight by someone throwing out the first chair?

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New California Senator Laphonza Butler talking today on election workers getting threats of being lynched or shot.

“80% of election officials are women, & their gender is often a factor & subject in their harassment & threats….”

Why isn’t there more bipartisan condemnation of these attacks?

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Tommy Tuberville, keeping his ridiculous holds in place, says it will only take two hours to confirm each nomination. Now, I agree the Senate takes too many days off. But okay, Coach, do the math. Over 350 nominations. 350 x 2 hours is 700 hours. 20 hours a day for a over a month. With no weekends.

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Even GOP Senators have had enough of Tuberville’s antics. Actually quoting Lindsey Graham “every single one of us can find something we disagree with the administration on, these military leaders have nothing to do with it.” Come on McConnell, do your damn job & rein Tommy in.

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Tuberville made a point of lying tonight on Senate Floor that he never referred to military leaders whose careers he is holding up as “desk jockeys.”

Direct quote from Sep 23. “He’d mentioned these aren’t officers who are warfighters, these are desk jockeys in Pentagon. Reality is these folks have been warfighters for 20 yrs.” – Vet & GOP Rep. Mike Garcia.

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Meanwhile President Biden went with Agriculture Secretary Tom VIlsack to Minnesota to talk about what his adminstration was doing for rural America.

Apparently it went well. But no real media coverage. And Joe was in Northfield, Minnesota. Imagine if he had said something about being in say, Northport (which is in Wisconsin)?

THAT would have been national news.

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But Velveeta Voldemort confused Sioux Falls with Sioux City, had to be corrected, and it was barely a story.

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Depending on their testimony,, how long until Donald Trump says he doesn’t really know his children?

So owner Mark Davis has fired Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels and GM David Ziegler. Because they’re the ones who’ve been telling Jimmy G to throw the football over receivers’ heads? Got it.

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Kept World Series game on in background because baseball has no clock and yeah, once in a great while, miracles happen. Turns out my faith should have been with the Spurs.

From a 20 point deficit and then down 3 with 7 seconds to go..

THE SPURS PULL OFF A MIRACLE!

Wemby finishes a putback dunk and then Johnson steals the ball and lays it in for the game ‼️

The Spurs finish the game on an 18-7 (33-19 in the 4Q) 😲 pic.twitter.com/E76VdZVBxX

— NBA (@NBA) November 1, 2023

Minnesota Vikings pick up QB Joshua Dobbs to fill in for Kirk Cousins. Dobbs will have to learn Vikings play book fast. But hey, it’s not rocket science. And even if it was. Dobbs had a 4.0 at University of Tennessee… majoring in aerospace engineering.

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UAW strike against Big Three automakers was headline story used by media as example of problems for President Biden. So having strike over should be big headlines as Biden win, right? It’s barely being covered, except locally. National Media hates having a competent President.

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About Senate confirmation process, as Democrats finally get Jack Lew, who served in Obama administration, as Secretary of the Treasury, confirmed as ambassador to Israel.

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I get it when someone is completely unqualified… ie, Betsy Devos & if Biden picked Democrat like that, I’d understand GOP outrage.

But elections have consequences, and shouldn’t President be able to get most of his choices in without drama?

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Nikki Haley apparently is polling as #2 now in Iowa. Of course, we’ll know if Haley seriously is gaining traction in the GOP primary…. Donald Trump will start attacking Nikki with nasty nicknames and calling her a RINO.

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Mitch McConnell told Senate Democrats issuing subpoenas to prominent billionaires & conservative activist over donations to members of Supreme Court would be “totally inappropriate.” Actually Mitch, what’s totally inappropriate is having stolen 2 SCOTUS seats in the first place.

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Chuck Schumer calling out Tuberville’s holds after Marine Commandment Eric Smith, doing two jobs for months & barely sleeping, had heart attack last weekend. Ex-coach is not pro-life, he’s risking military leaders’ health, risking women’s health & risking American lives… Enough.

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New Speaker Mike Johnson tells Fox News, saying he’s not bothered by people calling him Christian fundamentalist or supremacist. “There are entire industries that are built to take down public leaders – effective political leaders like me… “Effective?” So what has he done? So far, nothing.