Left Coast Sports Babe

One day into the NBA season, let the overreacting begin!

No baseball today and nothing until Friday. A sad precursor to the offseason.

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Jmmy Fallon with a great point about Katie Zacharia…

“It’s not great when the edible arrangement you get on your first day, is still edible on your last day.”

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Fox News had chance to distance themselves from Vivek Ramaswamy’s despicable ad w/ Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who stayed married to stepfather who sexually abused Amy at 12.

Instead, Fox posts this headline.

“Dem candidate’s mother urges voters to reject her: ‘Don’t let her become your governor”

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Just made a small donation to Amy Acton.

No child should suffer abuse by a step-parent and betrayal by her mother.

And no candidate should suffer an despicable ad like Vivek started running today

“Thank you for your one-time contribution to Amy Acton!

Together we’re changing our country.”

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But WTF NY Times? 

WTF NY Times?

Headline “Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges.”

What NY Times doesn’t say, he was arrested and charged with raping Amy Acton herself. When she was a 9-12 year old child and his stepdaughter.

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John Sununu, running for Senate in New Hampshire, is declaring his independence, and says “he’s never even met Trump”

Doesn’t matter if he’s met him or not.

If Sununu gets elected, he’ll do what every other Republican does…. vote with Donald and the GOP when it matters.

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Three children and a teacher were murdered last week in a school in Bend, Oregon….

The President of the United States, who spouts gender change lies about schools on a daily basis, hasn’t said a word about the victims.

How many casual baseball fans know that the two teams going to the World Series were actually the best teams in their respective leagues during the regular season?

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And this year, one MLB team AND one WNBA team will win their first title.

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NFC South is not great, and was expected to be the worst division in the NFL

But the four teams in NFC East haven’t won a single game in two weeks, yes including last week when the Commanders and Giants tied each other.

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Thinking there are more WNBA fans than many think that love to watch both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark play.

(I’m one, even though I am a Las Vegas Aces fan)

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As Trump seems to be hellbent on destroying East Potomac Park, the current municipal golf course, picnic areas, and the hiking/cycling trails, including cherry blossoms, while ignoring a judge’s orders, what if the judge just orders workers on the project to be arrested?

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What about just arresting workers who violate her court order?

Trump on Canada: “I promised them if they become the 51st state, I said, ‘I will let you keep ice hockey and I will let you keep your O Canada national anthem.'”

Canada. “No thanks. We would rather keep our smart and decent Prime Minister Mark Carney and our healthcare.”

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Trump is increasingly obsessed with Abdul El-Sayed, saying he’s not a real doctor. (El-Sayed , did not do a residency, but has a M.D degree from Columbia and then an Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in public health from the University of Oxford)

Donald, you just hired and had to fire a fake lawyer. …

New Orleans Saints, who have have some near miss comebacks along with a 4th quarter collapse against the Raiders, somehow hung on despite almost blowing a 34-10 third quarter lead. The Saints hung on to beat the NY Giants 34-27

If the Saints could ever play 4th quarters of good football they’ be serious postseason contendere.

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Los Angeles sports fans had a disappointing week with the Dodgers being swept out of the NLCS.

Rams today at home at SoFi against the lowly Cardinals – hold our overpriced beer.

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As WNBA finals start, you won’t see anything about actual game or who won on Fox News website
( Valkyries beat Dream 68-64)
Front page is just aout complaints from anti-trans fans and questioning if teams deliberately were off court for national anthem)
Fox News doesn’t give a D*MN about womens sports.

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So what is wrong with Tom Fazio that he is willing to risk his legacy of designing mostly high-end golf courses to be known as the man who helped Trump destroy a popular Washington DC parks?

Including some beloved cherry trees.

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It’s not that America just became an ally of Russia

It’s that Donald is apparently no longer afraid to say it out loud

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And as we approach two weeks before the midterms

Does ANYTHING think Trump will acknowledge if GOP (meaning him) loses?

Monday night Brewers’ first baseman Jake Bauers spent seven minutes, 15 seconds in the batter’s box against Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It was a 12 pitch AB that resulted in a walk.

Impressive

Though Brandon Belt’s longest at-bat lasted 12 minutes & 45 seconds. 21 pitches. (Although to be fair Belt finally lined out.)

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So now even Trump admits the Russian oil won’t make much of a difference to US prices.

He sold us and Ukraine out for nothing

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As Trump spouts increasingly insane things and does increasingly insane things, forget whether or not he’s on the ballot in November.

Imagine he were your elderly parent. You’d be calling around BEGGING assisted living homes to give him the first available opening.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle had dyed her hair blonde and had her plastic surgery make her took more like Ivanka than a twisted bee-stung Elvira would she still have a job?

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To save everyone time with fact-checking new Press Secretary Katie Zacharia.

“Yes, you can pass the bar in China, but only if you are a Chinese citizen (including permanent residents of Hong Kong, Macao, and residents of Taiwan). Foreign residents cannot take the exam.”

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Per Fox News ” White House press secretary Katie Zacharia says her family will be moving to D.C. -she’d stayed home with children from 2014 to 2020 & is “looking to balance her White House role w/ her family life.”
How long until Katie leaves to “spend more time with her family?”

Fox announcers talking about Los Angeles being down 2-0 to Milwaukee

“This is not going to bother the Dodgers, after all they’ve been through.”

“All they’ve been through?” Like picking up $40 million in pitching at trade deadline? (including last year’s Cy Young winner because the Tigers couldn’t afford to keep him.)

Get out the tiny gold plated violins.

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If only the SF Giants had an offensive weapon like Patrick Bailey…

A video of Ken Paxton partying with one of his mistresses at a 2025 New Year’s Eve party in Dubai, along with two rich men wanted in the US for healthcare fraud, was released today by the WSJ.

How bad do you have to be as a conservative Republican to be outed by the Wall Street Journal?

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ESPN reports Infantino received $1.72 million from “FWC2026, the official U.S.- based entity set up by FIFA to manage & operate 2026 World Cup.”
On top of his regular $4.86 million compensation..
Was that $1.72 million enough to cover costs of giving Trump the FIFA Peace Price?

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Last weekend, Trump defied judge’s order & had crews illegally cut down over 400 trees on East Potomac golf course. Judge is justifiably furious.
But on Fox News website headline is
“Judge ‘screams’ at Trump lawyers in latest courtroom uproar against administration.”

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So three weeks before an election DHS raids Ilhan Omar’s home over immigration paperwork from 1995?

If we’re going back that far, how about investigating immigration paperwork for Elon Musk (who also arrived here in 1995) and Melania Trump (1996)?

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Trump couldn’t fill up a small venue today in Youngstown Ohio. And that’s a place where paying for players is relatively cheap.

Heck, when SF 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in nearby East Palestine, he had planned to pay a prostitute just $160

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As many on the internet have noticed, this is the first time in NFL history that all four feline teams are playing each others.

Jaguars-Bengals / Lions-Panthers.

Hey GOP Senators, a cheat sheet for you.

Bengals are not same as Tigers Lots of college Tigers..

The Panthers are Carolina, not the Pitt Panthers,

Only Southern University in Baton Rouge is the Jaguars, so you’re probably safe there.

Lions are Detroit, not Columbia or the Penn State Nittany Lions…

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Even though I live in California, am a Saints fan, not a 49ers fan.

But NFL suspended SF CEO six games for being arrested in a prostitution sting?!

They never suspended Robert Kraft, who apparently was paying regularly for sex.

(Different rules for Brady AND Patriots owner?)

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So as Jon Gruden made an appearance tonight to support Trump, a reminder for sports fans.

In 2021 Las Vegas owner of two pro teams Mark Davis made two coaching decisions.

1. He fired Gruden as the head coach of the Raiders.
2. He hired Becky Hammon to coach the Aces.

Both very smart moves.

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As Trump endorses Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of Ohio, deportations of Asian immigrants, particularly Indian nationals, even some with green cards, have risen sharply. And who knows how many Indian-American citizens have been detained.
Can someone ask Donald or Vivek about that?

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As bad as the September jobs report is, remember, this is Trump’s Labor department doing the numbers…

Samuel Alito actually said that “very harsh” criticism of SCOTUS by political leaders can be “quite damaging” to the Supreme Court

Not a fraction as damaging as very political behavior can be to the Supreme Court.

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Thinking at this point even Richard Nixon doesn’t want his legacy to be linked with Donald Trump’s..

Watching Aces play basketball & reminded of years Becky Hammon was Spurs assistant w/ Gregg Popovich.
Becky said when she was hired she talked to A’ja Wilson about treating her like Pop coached Tim Duncan.
“You’re the star. If I coach you hard & you accept it, the team will accept it.”

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At least Mike Yastrzemski is still playing in the MLB postseason

#ForeverGiant

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GOP stopped subsides for Americans to afford Obamacare. Now Trump’s sending out a million $500 check. Top states for refunds are Texas, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina & Michigan.

This isn’t Donald caring about Americans, this is him sending bribes in states with close elections.

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Grampa’s latest crazy rant about James Talarico… “He’s a vaygan, and you know what a vaygan is? You know what he does after he eats? He throws up. He gets rid of the meat.”

Donald’s not talking about being vegan, he’s talking about bulimia. Just what IS he learning from Natalie?

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So do we think that Natalie was the one who first told Donald that dumb has a “b” in it?

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Reminder, since no one know what events and crises will happen in the future, a necessary quality for any Governor is the ability to think and react in real time.

And Amy Klobuchar just proved, to Eric Schmitt along with everyone watching, that she has that ability.