Left Coast Sports Babe

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers for their World Series win after an epic New York Yankees defensive collapse in game 5.

When you win three titles in five years let’s talk. #SFGiants

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Finally gets his postseason average over .200 and drops a fly ball to start the Yankees collapse against the Dodgers. Heck of a time to turn into Arson Judge. Maybe he should have signed with Giants.

(For that matter Ohtani hit .105 in the World Series, but by taking a $2 million contract for 2024, Shohei made sure Dodgers had plenty of money to build a team around him.)

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California taxpayers, whether or not you are Dodgers fans, you are sharing in their win…

Shohei Ohtani, who may well return to Japan in a decade, or retire in a state with no income tax, is only being paid $2 million a year until he turns 40 in 2034 (then $68 million a year for 10 years.)

So the state loses out as well as other MLB teams who might benefit from the luxury tax.

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Fox News’ Jesse Watters today said if “I found out my wife secretly voted for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair… that violates the sanctity of our marriage…

And your reminder that Jesse, this same a**hole who talks about the sanctity of marriage, started an affair with his current wife while married to his first wife

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How many MAGAs who wear F*ck Joe Biden shirts are upset because they think (wrongly_ that he called them garbage?

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Didn’t love Arnold as California Governator. But he is a mostly reasonable man I disagree with on some issues, and he loves our country. Applaud his courage and decency in saying he will make the choice to vote for Kamala Harris “I will always be an American before I am a Republican.”

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Trump: “I want to protect the women of our country … I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not”

When you’re a star they let you do it.. Hard pass

SF 49ers’ Nick Bosa, who apologized before 2019 NFL draft for racist/homophobic social media messages, says he’s now “more comfortable expressing his political beliefs.

Wonder why?. In 2023 49ers & Bosa agreed to 5 yr, $170 million contract extension w/ $122 million guaranteed.

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Marc Ragovin sending this Mario Mendoza to playoff Judge: “I want my line back.”

(Judge is currently hitting .152 in the postseason.. He picked a bad time to turn into the hitting equivalent of Clayton Kershaw.)

From the great Will Durst “Dear New York Yankees. If you weren’t going to use Stanton and Judge, the polite thing to do would have been to let us have them. Signed S F Giants.”

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Imagine if say, Melinda French Gates had a million dollar lottery to people signing a petition for reproductive rights. GOP and right wing media would demand she be looked up and voters be disenfranchis

Andrea Mitchell says she is stepping back from her daily MSNBC anchoring activities.

Who says there’s no good news? Of course it would have been better news years ago.

(is there such a thing as a “Happy belated retirement” card?

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The most popular provision of Obamacare / Affordable Care Act is allowing young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Tammy Baldwin wrote that amendment. Yet another reason to re-elect Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate

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Elon Musk is the richest man in the world.

Jeff Bezos is the second richest.

When one is 100% behind Trump, and the other canceled his newspaper’s endorsement of Harris, tell me again how Donald is the candidate of the working class?

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A man already complaining about alleged voter cheating in Pennsylvania is a man who thinks he’s going to lose Pennsylvania.

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Yes, some of Washington Post columnists are still speaking truth to power. Based on his defensive defense of his decision today, how long does anyone think Bezos will allow that?

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Even some Trump supporters distancing themselves from yesterday’s anti-Puerto Rico rally joke.

Not JD Vance: “Maybe it’s a stupid, racist joke. Maybe it’s not. I haven’t seen it.” But we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America.”

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J.D Vance rant over Biden quote taken out of context (Joe said “his supporter’s garbage, not his supporters are garbage) “”This is disgusting. Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country. There’s no excuse for this. I hope Americans reject it.

-What happened to Mr. “We Have To Stop Getting So Offended?”

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Clearly Elon Musk, who is ineligible to be President/King, wants to be second in charge.

Under another potential Donald Trump presidency, could we say he aspires to be Clown Prince?.

Jameis Winston is apparently to going replace Injured Deshaun Watson as the Cleveland Browns starting QB…

And New Orleans Saints fans will mostly be rooting for him. If for no other reason than to be furious at the Saints for letting Jameis, with all his faults, go.

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RIP Fernando Valenzuela.

Was a Tigers fan growing up. Fernando’s rookie year in 1981 was before I became an SF GIants fan so I hadn’t yet learned to hate the Dodgers.

It was also poignant as my grandfather in Ridgecrest, Southern California had terminal cancer.

Remember visiting with him and watching “Fernandomania” on TV, and realizing that he would never know what kind of a career this young star would have….

And Fernando was still young. only 63. Carpe Diem..

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Awlays love listening to Barack Obama.

And learned something new today: WI Sen. Tammy Baldwin, running for re-election vs Laguna, CA businessman Eric Hovde, actually wrote the part of Obamacare lettng kids stay on parents insurance until they are 26.

Maybe the most popular part of bill!

At this point pretty darn obvious that if you want your 15 minutes of fame all you have to do is claim to be an undecided voter or a young person/voter of color who is voting for Trump.

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, who ordered the paper not to endorse in the Presidential election is South Africa. As are Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. South Africa is definitely not sending us their best.

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Rudy Giuliani could have had a wealthy and comfortable old age basking forever in his actions after 9-11.

Now today with a $148 million judgment against him for attacking two GA election works, a court ruled he must put most of his possessions, cash, and his NYC apartment in receivership for them.

#ETTD

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But seriously, how do Donald’s acolytes watch what happens to all his formerly useful “friends” and decide that THEY will be special and not be hurt. Like all the men who enabled Henry VIII. Though in those days most of them ended up in pieces. Two pieces anyway.

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Wonder why Fox News viewers support Trump. Today their website has headline about “Longtime Harris ally” with ties to China executive.”

It’s a very tenuous story about 2 people, neither big names, neither iin Kamala’s immediate orbit, who became friends working on AIDS prevention in 2008.

Meanwhile on Fox, crickets STILL on Trump’s personal phone calls to Putin.

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Barack Obama in Wisconsin today. “Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?” Hmm, you mean other than his own?

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“You can vote your conscience and never ever say a word.” Liz Cheney

(it’s a secret ballot for a reason.)

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Only good thing about the Yankees and the Dodgers in the World Series. Since they are both from deep blue states there’s no chance Donald Trump will disrupt a game by attending – he knows he’d be certain to be booed.

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Meanwhile for fans of MLB teams without $300 million payrolls. When does spring training start?

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So is Elon Musk sending a list of his $1 million voting lottery winners to the IRS?

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Just imagine GOP and media reaction if some liberal multimillionaire or billionaire started giving out $100 with a chance to win a million dollars to anyone in a swing state who signed a petition to codify Roe V. Wade.

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Maria Shriver asked Kamala Harris if she ever thought in her wildest dreams about campaigning alongside Liz Cheney. Four words of her answer that sum it up. “We love our country.”

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NY Times headline -“Jill Stein Won’t Stop. No Matter Who Asks. People in Ms. Stein’s life have implored her to abandon her bid for president, lest she throw the election to Donald Trump.” Uh, Jill Stein WANTS to throw the election to Trump.

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Mike Pence was a complete lapdog for 4 years. One day he put the constitution before his boss and Donald was good with having his VP hanged.

(And how many Trump sycophants still believe they will be the one he won’t turn on.)

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It takes a special kind of evil to lie to people that FEMA was only in North Carolina to hurt them and then claim FEMA didn’t shown up to help them.

How did this Mets team beat the Phillies?

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Ouch, Cleveland Guardians star closer Emmanuel Clase gave up five earned runs all season. Now he’s given up six earned runs in the postseason.

Baseball is a funny game. Funnier if it’s not your team’s star melting down.

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Although can anyone remember a team as good as the NY Yankees being as horrible at baserunning?

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And second year in MLB utility player David Fry, the player to be named later in a 2022, won the game for Cleveland in the 10th with a two run home run.

So time for the question, when he’s eligible for free agency, will Fry end up with the Yankees or the Dodgers?

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On Thursday Night Football Richard Sherman said of the New Orleans. “It seems like they want to get their coach (Dennis Allen) fired.” IMHO not a bad idea.

But ,New Orleans Saints tonight were without starting QB, their “swiss army knife” Taysom Hill, two best WRs, center, starting CBs, etc etc. If it were a team meeting on the field not sure they had enough starters for a quorum.

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SO tired of op-eds like today’s from David Brooks in NY Times saying things like “Why isn’t she running away with this?” And “Why is this election close?”

Maybe if MSM weren’t trying so hard to both-sides this election?

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Kamala Harris on Hamas leader’s death. “Justice has been served.” She is right. And how big mad is Trump that it happened now in a Biden-Harris administration and he can’t take credit for it.

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Don’t need Mitch McConnell to tell me how “despicable” Donald Trump is. But McConnell feeling the way he does and still doing Donald’s bidding for years – just for power – tells me how despicable Mitch is.

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I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Donald Trump, a convicted rapist himself, a man who glorifies violence, and a man who would condemn women in red states to carry their rapist’s baby to term, refers to January 6 as a “day of love.”

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Wonder if Trump made big mistake by calling Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” etc.

Fox News viewers may not have agreed w/ Harris on everything, but she was clearly poised & articulate.

Remember George W vs. Gore? Some said Bush won debate just by not being the expected idiot

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Why isn’t the media pointing out that Trump claims his tariffs will force more production in the US while he plans to deport much of our agricultural/ food processing workers. Even 20% of manufacturing workers.

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Even we political types in California seldom see our US Senators. (Feinstein finally showed up at the state convention in 2018 when she was being primaried. Padilla doesn’t attend since he was appointed..) Guessing that’s true in most states Especially outside of major urban areas . Which makes this effort by Amy Klobuchar all the more impressive.

Every county, every year.

Meanwhile on GOP side, some US Senate candidates don’t even LIVE in the state where they’re running… Mike Rogers, running in Michigan allegedly lives in Florida, Eric Hovde is running in Wisconsin while living in Laguna Beach.