Left Coast Sports Babe

If sports reporters worked like political reporters coverage of the NBA finals would be all about fans of the Timberwolves and Pacers who feel their teams were robbed.

And if Dallas and Boston were mentioned it would be all about Mavericks & Celtics wins supposedly being rigged.

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12 jurors. Unanimous. All counts.

Anyone who has EVER lived in a condo complex, or even an apartment building knows how hard it is to get even a half dozen people in a homeowners or renters association to agree on anything.

Small merices.

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Minnesota Timberwolves were blown out by Dallas in NBA Western Conference game five.

At least it didn’t happen on a slow news day.

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Every time a guilty count was accounced did an angel of justice get their wings?

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An oldie but goodie

Hey media. Forget the polls. Do some research on how many bottles of champagne were purchased and opened tonight.

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Meanwhile while the Trump rants keep coming in fundraising emails. This from Joe Biden: “Apropos of Nothing. We think today’s a great day to donate to our campaign.” Love President Dark Brandon

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How glad are Republican Senators today that the Senate is on a week-long break so they don’t have to dodge reporters in the halls of the U.S. Capitol?

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Beginning to think Donald Trump’s followers would blame liberals for Jim Jones’ followers drinking the Kool-Aid at Jonestown. #Cult

Katy Tur on MSNBC – Jurors will have to live with this?

WTF? Some of these brave jurors may have to live in fear of their lives because they upheld the law

Does Katy Tur somehow think she’s going to be Trump’s next Press Secretary?

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Another billionaire is building a submersible to visit the Titanic site where the OceanGate sub failed, killing everyone on board. Can he be required to put millions in escrow so if there’s a problem taxpayers don’t have to cover attempted rescue costs?

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Our country and Hillary Clinton all deserved so much better.

But also, for all of us who may have toasted justice and the rule of law tonight, really hope Hillary had a particularly nice wine to share with friends.

Reliever Jorge Lopez had a bad outing for the NY Mets, then threw his glove into the stands. Asked if he regretted it, he responded no, and called the Mets “the worst team in the whole f—cking MLB.”

The Mets then DFA’ed him. But if they really wanted to punish Lopez, they could have traded him to the White Sox.

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One hit with RISP in last two days and SF Giants still manage to take 2 of 3 from the Philadelphia Phillies. Timing is everything.

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As we approach the NBA and NHL Stanley Cup Finals, imagine what it would be like if one team said “We’re going to win the championship unless it’s rigged. And if we lose we are not going to accept the results.” That’s where today’s GOP is now..

imagine if the losing team in the NHL finals said if they didn’t win they’d try to stop the victory parade and steal the Stanley Cup.

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Samuel Alito on that upside-down flag. “As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.” So he’s saying he believes his wife has the right to make her own controversial CHOICE. Got it.

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The Manhattan jury appears to be taking their job much more seriously than Donald Trump took the job of being President.

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Trump airs a laundry list of grievances now several times a day wonder why someone hasn’t introduced him to Nextdoor yet?

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Saw this in a MAGA social media post “If Trump is convicted I’ll be voting for a convicted felon. How cool is that?” These are some of the same people who pretend to care about crime and safety issues.

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More than a bit depressing: I play in an online trivia game with some really smart people where after each day they report results & what percentage of players got question right

This question though – “May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen killed 4 students at Kent State. Later in May officers killed 2 at what southern HBCU

Fewer than 20% knew Jackson State..

The Philadelphia Phillies (38-17) have the best record in baseball, even after their loss today to the SF Giants But looking at the comments today on social media from Phillies fans, you’d think they were the Chicago White Sox.

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Meanwhile Wait. The SF Giants had a four run lead late in the game and actually won the game? Is that allowed?

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Angel Hernandez is retiring.

So the job of worst official in sports is available

Wonder who is going to get the title?

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Many teams have been swept in NBA playoff series. But has there been a team before that was swept after having late leads in three out of their four losses?

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From a FB friend “Interesting how a man who has no say about how his wife flies a flag at their home can tell other women what to do with their bodies.

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Hey media. After another weekend featuring the Senator from South Caroline, iff you want to have a black Senator on the Sunday shows regularly to talk about the upcoming election may I suggest you ditch sycophant Tim Scott and invite Cory Booker?

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Washington Post headline. “Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she?” The operative word being “SHE.” As Mexico becomes yet another country to jump in front of the United States as far as having a woman President.

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Texas GOP Rep Tony Gonzales, who’s being primaried by a MAGA Republican.

“Are we going to be the party that governs & gets things done in conservative manner? Or the party with jesters that come here & say wild & crazy outrageous things & just try to burn the place down?” Sadly think we know answer.

Tump told donors this weekend he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators.

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Uh, why isn’t national media covering this story? Because it takes away from their “Biden losing young voters and Muslim voters over support for Israel” narrative”

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“Destructive thunderstorms and tornadoes responsible for massive damange & at least 21 deaths over the weekend, including 4 children, in parts of Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Isn’t it nice having a President who will help, even if those states didn’t vote for him.,

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Leaving aside the ridiculous amount of attention paid to the former guy’s rants, often wish the media paid half as much attention to President Biden’s considerable accomplishments as they do to RFK Jr.

This SF Giants series in Pittsburgh clearly was sponsored by the Twilight zone.

In all three games teams had at least a four run lead. All three times the team with the lead lost.

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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said robot home plate umpires are unlikely for 2025.

“We still have some technical issues.” Worse than umpires like Angel Hernandez?

But seriously, fine, if robot home plate umpires aren’t ready to call balls and strikes, how about one or two challenges a game? Why should someone strike out or walk on a pitch everyone but the umpire knows he missed.

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Trump hasn’t complained about the DOJ going after Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Yet. Wait until Donald finds out that is not only a result of bipartisan effort but also that will benefit fans of Taylor Swift.

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So Donald Trump has been whining for weeks that being in New York keeps him from campaigning across the country. Court is not in session today and he schedules a rally for …. the Bronx? No lie too small.

But why is everyone so surprised people leave Trump rallies early.

Presume many of them only get paid for the first hour.

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Just going to leave this right here re Trump bragging on deal w/ Putin over what he claims will be a hostage release as soon as he is re-elected

“Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted Jan 30, 1799) is United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens w/ foreign governments having a dispute w/the US.”

Disagree with Ohio GOP Governor Mike DeWine on most things. But he is a decent human being -reminds me a bit of Rob Portman. And just called a special session of the legislature to get President Biden on ballot in Ohio

How long until Trump calls him a RINO?

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Senate hearings matter. In 2023 Variety wrote “Must be emphasized it is not Congress that can break up alleged monopolies — but is DOJ, which is currently looking into matter.”

Have to think testimony in the Senate hearing chaired by Amy Klobuchar, where even Mike Lee was in agreement, plus bipartisan outrage in hearing prodded DOJ to act.

SF Giants were up 6-2- four runs with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th Tuesday and lost 7-6 in 10 innings

Pittsburgh Pirates were up 5-0 today in the 4th, and 5-4 with two outs and nobody on in the 9th. And they lost – 9 to 5 in 10 innings.

“It breaks your heart, it was designed to break your heart…”

Except this time at least the game was an equal opportunity heartbreaker…

Guessing for game three Thursday NOBODY turns the game off early.

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Caitlin Clark has had a good but not great start to the WNBA, and while her Indiana Fever came close, they lost today 85-83 to the Seattle Storm to start the season 0-5.

But for all those casual fans criticizing Clark for not making her previously awful team good… uh, Wemby was a unanimous Rookie of the Year and the San Antonio Spurs needed a good last month to be only the 4th worst team in the NBA.

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Trump’s supporters say his defense for four classified documents being found in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, four months after FBI raid, is that Donald needed the folders to cover a light on the phone so he could sleep. Even for an SNL skit that would be a stretch.

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Phil Mattingly on CNN actually nails it: “When Trump has no idea what he’s talking about he says he’s going to do something about it in 7-10 days.” But people in his administration were, and will be hard line on abortion, the Comstock Act. IVF, and yes, birth control.

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When Trump says he has a plan for something that he’s going to give us the details on in 10 days why doesn’t someone, anyone in the media have the courage to ask him… So sir, what about your healthcare plan, or your infrastructure plan…?

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Nikki Haley announced she will be voting for Trump.

So congratulations to all those who had May 22 in the pool.

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Nikki Haley says she’will be voting for Trump. So for all those Never-Trumpers who saw her as a sign of hope, this quote from Scarlett O’Hara about Ashley WIlkes – “I loved something I made up. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it.

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Democratic Senate is confirming Biden’s 200th judicial nomination today. 200 judges. If Mitch McConnnell were majority leader, many would have been blocked – including Ketanji Brown Jackson. If you didn’t already know we need to work hard to keep the Senate blue.

The NBA is potentially 4-7 games away from a Boston-Dallas final.

The NBA is also potential 4-7 games away from an Indiana-Minnesota final.

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As a fan of underdogs if the San Antonio Spurs aren’t in it, I’d enjoy watching the later. Guessing NBA and their sponsors may not agree with me.

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ESPN headline ” Embattled WR Rashee Rice attending Chiefs’ OTAs.”

Embattled? That word means beset by problems or difficulties.

Rice was been charged with one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury and six counts of collision involving injury for his involvement in a six-car crash on a freeway, where he was allegedly racing at speeds up to 119 MPH. All the victims survived., but Rice is lucky he’s not in prison for at least manslaughter.

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Listening to Fani Willis talk with Rachel Maddow about needing 24 hour security, another thing national media isn’t covering enough: How many people, from election workers, to Dr. Fauci, to judges & DAs live now in fear for their lives just because they dared to challenge Donald Trump?

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As Trump whines nonstop about being cold, and is working on an excuse as to why he won’t testify, your reminder. You know who didn’t complain and testified for 11 HOURS?

Hillary Clinton.

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As Trump continues to whine about the ‘freezing cold courtroom,” the only logical explanation is that he knows putting on a jacket or sweater makes him look even more fat.

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How is CNN going to cope when this trial is over and they actually have to go back to covering real news?

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Meanwhile Democrats are trying to resuscitate the bipartisan border bill this week, and dealing with other issues like trying to include Dental care in Obamacare, plus other issues including bipartisan issues like monopolies and price fixing.

Not that actual real legislation counts with today’s national media as “real news.”

Exciting for SF Giants fans to beat the Colorado Rockies tonight, a team that came in on a 7 game win streak. OTOH, even with a 7 game win streak, the Rockies came in at 15 and 28. Yeah, do the math.

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Sunday May 19 – don’t have to be a major NBA fan to love this phrase – Back to back game 7s.”

-Reserving judgement on Scottie Scheffler arrest for now and assuming all the details will come out. But one thing seems true.

As talented athletically as he is, if Scheffler were black he’d probably have been shot.

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So tired of NY Times BS.

This headline “They Supported Biden in 2020. What Made Them Change Their Minds in 2024?”

Can’t remember a headline “They supported Trump in 2016/2020. What Made Them Change THEIR Minds in 2024?

And guessing there a LOT of voters in the last camp.

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Lots of coverage of the situation in the House Oversight Committee between Marge Three Names, AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Less coverage of how it started: Marge told Jasmine “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”

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Many if not most women use hair color at some point in their lives. No shame in it. But it’s pretty rich that a woman who clearly gets her blonde out of a bottle attacks another woman for false eyelashes.

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Expensive teeny tiny violin shortage alert.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who lives in a $27 million home in San Francisco. says he can no longer eat in public in S.F. because he is too well known due to his company’s popularity.

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Had friend I would sometimes hang out with at annual California Democratic conventions.

He was appointed a judge, immediately resigned as a delegate and stopped attending local Democratic events. SCOTUS judge Alito knows better. He just doesn’t care.

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Does Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker think that part of a woman’s “vocation” is to take blame for her husband?

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Trump did make it to see his son Barron graduate. “

Donald and his ten-vehicle Secret Service motorcade pulled into the school with just minutes to spare.” And presumably left minutes after for his fundraiser tonight. Father of the Year #sarcasm

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Meanwhile, President Biden spoke on the anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Educatio. Wonder how long until GOP tries to get SCOTUS to overturn Brown too.

Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch called a time out when the T-Wolves were down 9-2 with 9 minutes left in the 1st quarter in an elimination game 6 against the Denver Nuggest. Whatever he said, can he bottle it?

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Minnesota won 115 to 70.

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Apparently per ESPN “The Shohei Ohtani bobblehead giveaway snarled traffic outside Dodger Stadium on Thursday.”

As opposed to traffic normally only being snarled on days ending in Y.

Guess ESPN doesn’t get to Dodger Stadium much.

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Ronald Acuna Jr led 2023 MLB with 73 stolen bases. Cincinnati Reds’ Elly De LA Cruz today stole 4 bases vs the Dodgers to move to 30 for 2024. In May. And the weekend is young in Los Angeles.

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South Dakota Governor Kristin Noem is coming to California tomorrow to be the headline speaker this weekend at the GOP convention in Burlingame.

So if you’re anywhere near San Francisco Airport, hide your dogs.

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Dow briefly crossed 40,000 today. Waiting for NY Times to say how that’s bad for President Biden.

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J.D. Vance held up judicial nominations to protest DOJ investigating Trump. Tommy Tuberville held up military nominations to protest abortion.

Neither Senator actually works on behalf of Americans. And they both showed up this week for Donald in NY.

Taxpayers deserve better.

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GOP representatives Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert & Andy Biggs were all in NY courtroom today supporting Dear Leader instead of doing their jobs.

Not that they do their jobs when they are in DC. Remember, if Trump is returned to White House, these clowns will be his inner circle.

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Bobby Zirkin, a former Democratic State Senator in Maryland, is running something he calls Democrats for Hogan.

The same Bobby Zirkin who resigned in 2020, and then who lobbied on behalf of the Catholic Church in opposition to the Maryland Child Victims Act, which would extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases? Seems like a real winner. #sarcasm

If a black man had been convicted by a jury of murdering a white pro-Trump supporter during a protest in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott would not only not have pardoned the man, he’d be demanding the death penalty.

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Some question Michael Cohen simply because of his animosity now towards Donald Trump. Considering how Trump throws and has thrown EVERYONE under the bus when they’re no longer useful to him, seems like animosity is the normal and sane response for ex-employees and supporters.

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If Trump is as innocent as he claims, why isn’t he demanding to take the stand to defend himself?

KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said his wife Isabelle, would be the “first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.” Wonder if Butker has discussed his theory with teammate Travis Kelce in reference to Travis’s girlfriend.

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Nice to see the SF Giants put a huge 12 foot TV out facing McCovey Cove during games.. Too bad the team is unlikely to hit more than a ball or two out there for the rest of the season.

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And the fees just keep on coming.

2500 Penn, a “Placemakr Experience condo hotel” in Washington DC, has a $59 per stay maintenance fee.

Isn’t “maintenance” kind of a base requirement for any hotel?

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Michael Cohen to Maggie Haberman “Please start writing and I will call you soon.” So exactly how is NY Times today going to deal with this by attacking President Biden?

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Trump talking about his GOP VP hopefuls helping him evade the gag order at his trial “I do have a lot of surrogates and they are speaking very beautifully.” This is like a twisted version of the swimsuit competition in the pageants Donald used to run.

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Some Republicans seem more upset that Kamala Harris said f**king than that Donald Trump, while married to his third wife, was f*cking a porn star and a Playboy bunny.

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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum wants us to be outraged Judge Mercham donated $35 to Democrats a his daughter previously worked at progessive consulting form. Meanwhile SCOTUS Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni was actually involved in Jan 6 insurrection. Move along, nothing to see here.

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The GOP Presidential candidate is in a New Yoru courtroom for one of many felony cases against him. The Speaker of the House and several GOP leaders are going up to New York to support him.

Meanwhile what are President Biden and Democratic leaders up to? Doing the jobs we elected them to do.

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Awful story. No joke,

8 people killed when bus carrying 53 farmworkers crashes, many victims are in critical condition.

The driver of pickup that caused crash, a white man, was arrested for DUI resulting in manslaughter.

Wonder if Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who never misses chance to attack immigrants who harm Florida citizens, will say a word?

The WNBA will finally start some charter flights for players.

(yeah, I know some are thinking, they didn’t already have charter flights? Nope, they’ve actually been illegal.)

About time. I am 5’3″ and get cranky if I am not in economy plus. Cannot imagine what it’s like to be a basketball player in coach on a commercial flight. Let alone dealing with baggage, missed connections and other headaches.

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Republican Senator Katie Britt has introduced a bill to create a FEDERAL DATABASE of pregnant women that will be tracked by the government.

Dear Charles Barkley.

Since the state seems fond of big sports names running for political office, and you are a smart man.

Would you consider running for Senate in Alabama?-

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SF Giants, delayed by three hours returning from Colorado, lost to a Cincinnati Reds team who had on an eight-game losing streak. Nick Ahmed has a sprained wrist, Jung Hoo Lee has a sore wrist, Jorge Soler is out with a shoulder injury…Patrick Bailey has been on the concussion list, Austin Slater might be joining him..

Maybe it is a curse for not re-signing Renel Brooks-Moon

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House Republicans are now drafting articles of impeachment against President Biden for not supporting Israel staunchly enough.

Wonder if anyone has mentioned this to Pro-Palestinian anti Biden protesters.

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A reason Donald Trump won’t choose Nikki Haley as his running mate: She’s better looking than he is and more likable. He cannot stand being upstaged.

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How long until some Republicans who didn’t see the Aurora last night blame Biden?

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So Trump is trying to convince the American public that he is a brilliant detail oriented man who focuses intensely on everything. While he tries to convince a jury he is a distracted man who lets his staff take care of everything.

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Barron Trump has declined being a delegate at the RNC convention this summer. Mother knows best?

Second win for the SF Giants when they gave up 4 runs or more. In ALL of 2024. Almost 1/4 way through the season. Siri, what is “offensively challenged?”

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Meanwhile the Colorado Rockies 8-28, will play the Chicago White Sox 9-28, at the end of June.

Will the series be sponsored by Charmin?

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NBA has to be disappointed as far as TV ratings and merchandise sales that the Lakers and Warriors are out of the playoffs. On the other hand, at least right now the odds seem slim for an Indiana-Cleveland Eastern Conference final.

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Trump supporters tried to get rid of Fani Willis over dating coworker & allegations she didn’t pay 50% of trip costs. including a few nice bottles of wine.

While Aileen Cannon stays at Sage Lodge – a lovely $1,000 a nt and up, way up, luxury resort in Montana -sponsored by conservative law school. Why can’t Dems go after her?

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Don’t remember a single Republican or right-wing pundit telling Ken Starr that the Clinton cigar story was too much of a salacious detail.

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Ted Cruz about the current trial and Stormy Daniels “There is no person on Planet Earth that believes Donald Trump has been celibate all his life.”

Note to Ted Cruz from Planet Earth.

Trump is not on trial for adultery, though you would have impeached Bill Clinton over it. Donald is on trial for trying to buy and bury stories about his adultery to interfere with an election. Thank you for coming to MY Ted talk.

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So since RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in medical science why did he trust doctors to diagnose and reportedly treat a worm in his brain. Asking for a country tired of crazy.

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Had to pause and replay to make sure I heard this right.

Manu Raju reporting House killed Marge Three Names’ efforts to remove Speaker Mike Johnson.

CNN’s Jake Tapper to Manu “Thank you. breaking news, very exciting…” “Very exciting?” This is NOT a damn reality show. This is our democracy.

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Can media stop saying Kristi Noem is “taking hit after hit” this week? Nothing that is happening to Noem isn’t self-inflicted. Even Michael Vick realized he f*cked up and at least publicly has tried to make amends.

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126 women in the US House right now. 25 women in the US Senate.

And the one who gets the most coverage from major US media is the crazy one from Georgia who passes no legislation but has an insatiable need for attention.

Enough.