Left Coast Sports Babe

The Indiana Fever are in the playoffs.

And a year ago most Americans would have said “What?”

You don’t have to love Caitlin Clark to love what she’s done for women’s basketball.

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If Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky make the WNBA playoffs too… well, will they outdraw the NFL. Probably not. But maybe some college football games.

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Only silver lining to the SF Giants season at this point for those of us who are political people, we won’t be distracted from the election by the MLB postseason.

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Well, only those who have been verifiably paid by Russia need to be nervous. Guess that means at least a few Republicans will be sleeping soundly tonight.

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Find myself thinking of Jamie Raskin, who said initially on the January 6 committee that Liz Cheney was very supportive after his son died by suicide, and later that they became good friends.

He told Cheney “I can’t wait until you and I get back to disagreeing about everything.”

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The alleged Georgia high school shooter is a 14 year old male… 14??!!!

It’s the guns, stupid.

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I wish we lived in a country where we saw a random city trending and we assumed it was about anything but another mass shooting.

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Today is a horrible reminder that today’s GOP feels that it’s more urgent to keep books out of the hands of children than to keep guns out of the hands of children.

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Fox News Headline “Trump vows to ‘heal our world’ after fatal Georgia school shooting: ‘It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons,’ Trump said” What headline didn’t say. Then DonOld started another sick and angry rant…

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Liz Cheney just announced she is voting for Kamala Harris. I agree with Liz on almost nothing. But she has more cojones than most GOP men. #ThankYouLiz

Do we know 100% that sensible gun control reforms will work? No. But we already know 100% that “thoughts and prayers” don’t work.

The WNBA playoffs start in about three weeks.

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Wonder if this year they might have better ratings than the MLB playoffs?

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The Chicago White Sox are now 31-109

Even mor amazingly, they have a NEGATIVE 310 run differential…. yes, that is more than 2 runs PER game

(as maddening as SF Giants have been, they are only -21 -of course losing a lot of one run games is especially maddening.

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Hey Congress. Looking for a bipartisan issue? Check out what Uber and Lyft are doing to drivers. Have an Uber ride today for $43. Driver getting $18. He says Lyft is as bad

Are they using an algorithm? Or just oligopoly greed.

If Trump’s story about Arlington National Cemetery was true, he would have released the video.

Lara Trump’s music video is so criminally bad it should almost be added to the Trump family’s list of felonie

My father, a political science professor, always told me as a child – “Presidential campaigns don’t really begin for most people until Labor Day.” So what is Donald Trump this week starting Labor Day? Nothing.

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Remembering when Joe Biden was still running for re-election. If he stayed out of public eye for more than 24 hours media would howl he was too old and decrepit to be running for President.

Trump is taking the week off…to golf? Or to rest up? Or fling ketchup bottles?

Amy Klobuchar w/ Alex Wagner about innocent people who believe Trump’s lies on Democrats executing babies after birth. “They keep hearing it, they think it’s true, it’s just NOT true. That’s murder

Sadly Amy’s right, if you only get news from right-wing media/social media, you just hear lies.

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Also Klobuchar, = warning women in Florida about Donald’s Project plans “2025 is not the number of Trump’s felony indictments…”

(She didn’t add. “Yet.”)

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Interrupt the usual snark for PSA: Republicans want us to think government doesn’t work. They want us to think voting doesn’t matter. But if we elect Harris Walz & a blue House and Senate, Democrats can get a lot done that will benefit average Americans, not just billionaires.

Well Stanford in the ACC is starting out well. Now, to be fair, this is a nonconference game next week against Cal Poly.

But from Stanford Football ticket sales “Fans can now score $4 tickets in select sections for our 4 PM PT kick against Cal Poly on Saturday, Sept. 7”

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As an SF Giants fan this is basically all we have to look forward to in the 2024 postseason.

Dreading October? Los Angeles Dodgers close in on their postseason wall

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/09/01/dodgers-mlb-playoffs-october-standings/75032048007/

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Is it just possible that Donald Trump keeps doubling down on his sacrilege at Arlington National Cemetery to keep the heat and headlines off of his support of Project 2025

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As more and more clips of JD Vance exposing his misogynistic views come to light, forget Tim Ryan’s people not doing opposition research, why did actual JOURNALISTS not find some of these speeches when Vance ran for U.S. Senate?

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I remember when journalists all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein. Though come to think of it, Bob Woodward in 2020 sat on Covid being airborne for book sales.

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If you ran a company and were looking for a new CEO. Would you consider hiring a 78-yr old increasingly addled former CEO, fired from his last job, with a history of bankruptcies, 34 felony convictions and a history of blaming EVERYONE but himself for his failures?

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Could some journalist please ask JD Vance on camera what he thinks of Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham not having children?

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Tim Kaine (on Fox News Sunday) should have gotten more attention than Tom Cotton.

Asked on Harris’s immigration proposals: “Congress really bears lion’s share of responsibility, three times since I’ve been in Senate, we’ve done bipartisan border security deals,. GOP killed each bill those three times”

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NY Times headline “How Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Unlikely Partnership Took Shape.”” What’s “unlikely” about two extreme narcisssists who seem to be motivated only by attention finding each other?

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Even William Hung is thinking about Lara Trump’s singing career: “Girl give it up.”

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Trump is claiming in a fundraising email today that “MARXIST Kamala’s weaponized DOJ had me indicted AGAIN.” Uh, this is the same man who lies regularly that Harris is stupid. But somehow she took over & now runs the DOJ as Vice President?

Kamala Harris didn’t quite spell it out like this. But, she knows, Tabasco is a food group. Fight me.