Left Coast Sports Babe

If you didn’t read the story of pitcher Spencer Bivens, 29 years old and now 1-0 with the SF Giants, it’s worth a few minutes. Even if he never wins another game. Story is from 2022… which means he’s kept the dream alive 2 more years.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3898494/2022/11/15/san-francisco-giants-spencer-bivens

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Lots of parity in MLB this season, where in the National League only the Marlins and Rockies are realistically out of the Wild Card race at least.

And there there are the Chicago White Sox. 19 and 54, with after 73 games a minus 155 run differential.

Almost enough to have baseball fans long for English soccer where relegation down a level is a possibility. …

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Actually like Mookie Betts even if I dislike the Dodgers. But for all these headlines about what a blow it is to Los Angeles to lose their star with a fractured wrist, have to assume the Dodgers willl just find a small-market team to trade them a star with a big contact and rewriite the contract to give that player a huge deferred salary

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Thinking my Los Angeles friends may not love this Adam Schiff fundraising email for US Senate from California against Steve Garvey. But we in the SF Bay Area approve: “Once a dodger, always a dodger, and not in a good way…” #BeatLA

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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum this morning talking about Trump -“This guy is tireless, he’s committed, he’s smart, he’s funny.” After statements like that, how does Burgum get the boot-polish off his tongue?

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Uh, absolute top story on front page for New York Times on Saturday was headlined: “One week that revealed the struggles of the anti-abortion movment.”

Almost as if the NY Times is sympathizing with the anti-choice movement taking away women’s rights and putting women’s lives at risk.

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One problem with the media being so in the tank for Trump these days. It feeds into Donald’s narrative that he is going to win and if he doesn’t that the election is rigged. Not like Velveeta Voldemort needs any more ammunition to try again to overturn an election.

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Trump fundraising email from this weekend

Sat, Jun 15 at 6:54 PM “You still awake? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I CAN’T GO TO BED UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!” Note the time stamp. It’s not even 10:00 PM in Florida. Donald is telling us he’s too tired and old to be President.

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And the same weekend Trump said at a rally of President Biden “”I think he should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test and I aced it. Doc Ronny. Doc Ronny Johnson. Does everyone know Ronny Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor, and he said I was the healthiest president…

Yes, ICYMI, Trump bragged about passing a cognitive test and forgot the name of the doctor – Ronny Jackson -who gave it to him.

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Admit I clicked on story about President Biden’s dog Commander biting Secret Service agent, though thought dog was no longer at White House. Was right. Commander isn’t in DC now. These are newly released records from Sept 2023. Yet it made headlines. Competence isn’t clickbait.

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