Left Coast Sports Babe

Weird note. For all that MLB keeps adding Wild Cards in hopes of getting more fan interest into baseball, it now 3 weeks until the end of the MLB season, 28 games to go… And in the American League after the division leaders and three wild card leaders, no other team has more than a SIX percent chance to make the postseason

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But I guess there is the drama of playoff positioning. And if the Chicago WHite Sox will equal the 1962 Mets for futility.

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Question of the day for Who Dat fans.

Are the New Orleans Sainst this good. Or are the Carolina Panther that bad?

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SF Chronicles’s Joe Garofoli today “State legislatures collectively passed 19,000 laws in the last election cycle, many of which affect the day-to-day issues that families face far more than those passed by Congress.” Take nothing for granted. Even in purple-blue states. Vote.

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From Marc Ragovin –

English soccer player Victor Adebojejo recently missed a game when a vigorous sneeze ended up hurting his back.  Medical experts say this is the world’s worst instance of a soft tissue injury

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Cal and ASU both made SEC teams (Auburn and Mississippi State) look bad Saturday. After USC beat LSU Thursday. Somewhere the ghost of the Pac 12 is laughing

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-If Barbara Bush were still alive she’d have told her son to get off his ass and endorse Kamala Harris.

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Among other things, Chuck Schumer said he’s urging House GOP to take up & pass Senate-approved bills to protect kids online- the Kids Online Safety Act & Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act. “Urging?” How about tellling them, “quit the nonstop theatre & govern?”

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Media did cover some of Trump’s insanely violent rhetoric tonight. But only in Heather Cox Richardson’s s substack did I read DonOld also slurred words, referred to Elon Musk as “Leon,” & forgot name of ND Gov, Doug Burgum, who was on his VP short list.

Evil & dementia are a bad cocktail.

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Not that Kamala Harris should lower herself to respond to DonOld Trump’s “no boxes during the debate” rant.

But how much would we love to see Kamala tell him “Fine, no girdles either.”

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Back in 1500s England, Henry VIII clearly was becoming an increasingly deluded tyrant. But many in search of power enabled him. A number of those acolytes ended up in pieces. – Literally.

There’s a reason GOP doesn’t want us to learn about history.

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If you don’t already love Tim Walz. At an LGBTQ+ advocacy dinner in DC Saturday Night

“It’s a fact of life some people are gay. But you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children need to be shot dead in schools.”

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CNN headline “Harris preps for showdown. Trump takes informal approach. Fixed it for them. “Harris preps for showdown. Trump does nothing but rant, try to sell merchandise, and play golf.”

On Apple TV just heard the SF Giants are hitting .195 with RISP since the All-Star Break.

Worst in baseball.

Yes, including the Chicago White Sox.

Does this team need a hitting coach or a psychologist?

(a friend suggests, an exorcist?)

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Look, I don’t claim to be an expert on this sort of thing, but saw several stories and social media posts about the field in Brazil for the Eagles-Packers game being slippery and not up to NFL standards.

And then Jordan Love late in the game as he is tackled gets what looks to be a serioust leg injury?

Not like the NFL would put $$$ for a foreign game over player safety… #sarcasm

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An English professional soccer player injured himself with a “pretty hefty sneeze.”

Funny, but these things are real. I remember being pregnant over 35 years ago with a bad cold and my ob-gyn told me to stay home from work and rest. She said it was possible to cough yourself into a miscarriage.

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Sunday night football on Friday? But actually are there any days in the week now that do not have football? Especially if you throw in the college game.

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Trump’s hush money sentencing has been delayed until after Nov 5election.

Much as I want to see Donald in jail, my sense is this isn’t a bad thing.

If he were sentenced to jail, he’d not only appeal, DonOld would campaign on it & sell merchandise like he sold mug shot pictures.

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As insane as what Trump was saying this morning about women and his conviction for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, is it just possible he’s trying to distract us from talking about Project 2025?

Everyone knows DonOld is a pig. Some don’t know he wants to destroy democracy.

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box. Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?

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Don’t think these eight words from Donald Trump attacking a woman who accused him of sexual assault are getting enough attention.

“She would not have been the chosen one.”

That’s not just weird, it’s depraved.

Just wondering: Since today’s GOP is all about the rights of fetuses over women and guns over children. What happens when one of these school shooters murders a pregnant teacher?

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Liz Cheney is the principled conservative Nikki Haley’s supporters thought she was.

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Former VP Dick Cheney confirms he will be voting for Kamala Harris.

Maybe to prove it’s nothing personal Dick can offer to take J.D. Vance hunting?

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box during the debate.

Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?

Matt Chapman, 31, just signed a six year $151 millon contract with the SF Giants. Based on the last six years, let’s hope it doesn’t mean he always gets Octobers off.

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SF Giants won today on a walk-off ground rule double. Which made them 2 for 14 with RISP.

Again, maybe we need to be realistic and call them Runners in Stranding Position.

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Many women have the experience of trying to fit into shoes that are too small for them. After tonight, Isaiah Likely might try to join them

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Dear NY Times and Washington Post.

You’re busy, but seem to be spending a lot of time rewriting the word salads in many Trump events.

Just print them verbatim.

We’ll take it from there.

Sincerely, Americans who can read

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Apparently Apalachee high school teachers had new security system- an ID badge w/ panic button to alert police to an active threat.

The new system almost certainly saved lives.

But how much money did it cost that could have been spent on say… equipment & books?

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We will never know how many lives were saved because parents bought their children what GOP considers “dangerous” books instead of guns for Christmas.

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Want to know just how bad J.D. Vance’s idea that people should rely on grandparents for childcare is…? Go to the Fox News website. You can’t find the quote anywhere. Nor DonOld’s world salad childcare answer.

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Only in America: The phrase “latest school shooting.”

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If anyone is still undecided on this Presidential election:

For her running mate Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz.

For his running mate Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance

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Trump actuallly just said “African-American & Hispanic-American jobs are under massive threat from “massive invasion at our border.” Leaving aside fact Trump ordered GOP to tank border bill. “African and Hispanic American” jobs? Would he like to spell out what those are?

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J.D. Vance actually said that parents who can’t afford childcare should have their grandparents watch the children? And while they’re together have Grandma and Grandpa and the kids eat cake?

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Hey media.

Since he thinks grandparents exist to provide childcare can someone ask J.D. Vance why HIS wife’s parents still live and work in San Diego, CA, while he and Usha are in Ohio?.

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.

Forget being able to tell the players without a scorecard. These days can anyone tell what CONFERENCES college football teams are in without a scorecard?

The SF Giants seem hellbent on being the answer to a question “Siri, what is a .500 team?”

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Darren Baker, son of Dusty Baker, was just called up by the Washington Nationals… Congratulations to him.. But for some of us SF Giantshe’ll always be three years old.

Serious question. Why does anyone care what Tulsi Gabbard thinks?

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As a woman who grew up when most of us didn’t think anything of politically incorrect jokes, understand now how such humor could be hurtful. And I’m sympathetic when people make mistakes. Most of us have said stupid things. But J.D. Vance just doubles down on his misogyny.

You’d think w/ Trump’s warp speed weather vane spin on abortion in last 24 hours even Fox News would take note. Nope. Top headline “”Experts warn VP Harris is ‘gaslighting’ Americans.” (on the border) Guessing many Fox News don’t even know about Trump’s original lie/reserval.

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JD Vance’s attitude to women who by choice or chance do not have children reminds me of Henry VIII. Suppose he thinks Henry was right to divorce or behead wives who couldn’t give him a son?

From NY Times – “Trump has been twisting himself in knots to navigate the politics of in vitro fertilization and abortion rights.” Fixed it for them. “Trump, who apparently doesn’t believe in anything, is trying to decide which lies about reproductive rights will help him win.

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But seriouslyl, why it news that Trump has re-endorsed the six-week abortion ban? Since he ran for President, Donald has always been about taking all reproductive rights away. He’s proud of it. All he is trying to do now is confuse voters and take as much air time as possible.

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Israel and Hamas, who agree on almost nothing, are actually pausing fighting so children in Gaza can be vaccinated against polio.

Yet Trump’s new surrogate RFK Jr. is staunchly anti-vaccine. Can someone who claims to be a journalist please ask Donald how he feels about that?

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As Kamala Harris begins to lay out her plans as President we need to be 100% clear:

For a President to get things done – and judges confirmed – she needs the Senate. If GOP controls Senate everything gets blocked.

U.S. Senate (and House) races are critical. Vote blue.

Thinking the Jeff Walz story just makes Tim Walz more relatable to millions of Americans. Families are complicated.

Stephen Curry just signed a one year $62..6 million extension with the Golden State Warriors

That’s about 4 times all the WNBA team payrolls, combined.

And slightly more than the entire Oakland As payroll.

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Although while we’re on numbers, just checked the Chicago White Sox payroll. The Sox are on pace to catch the 1962 Mets with their 40-120 record. Their payroll at $133,000,000 million is more than.

The Kansas City Royals, the Minnesota Twins, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles. All teams that will make the playoffs.

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Guessing most pundits couldn’t even explain fracking. But they obsess over Kamala Harris’s positions on the subject & how they have changed over time. Meanwhile, Donald Trump changes positions every other week, sometimes in the same day, and it’s largely media crickets.

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CNN: We need Kamala Harris to sit for an interview so we can ask her questions about policy.

Also CNN: We got Kamala Harris & Tim Walz both to sit down & we spent most of time asking them questions about GOP talking points. Anyone think any other cable news would do better?

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Can we stop with “Harris answers questions for first time as nominee?” Or describing it as “job interview” Kamala has been answering questions since she became nominee. This was 1st “scheduled” interview. And some of Dana Bash’s questions would be laughable at a job interview.

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Something Kamala Harris brought up & media has problems remembering. We HAD bipartisan border bill members of Congress spent months on, led by conservative GOP Senator James Lankford. It was going to pass. Until Trump decided anything good for USA was bad for his campaign.

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So here’s something we’ve learned. If you’re a GOP candidate you can try to swiftboat a Democrat with any dishonest accusations you want… the national media, instead of focusing on policy, will turn them into serious questions.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – “I would never demean another member’s service. I never have and I never will.” Won’t it be wonderful to have this good man as our Vice President?

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Manu Raju on CNN just now about Donald’s Arlington photo up ‘The Army basically is saying Trump campaign isn’t telling the truth.” Let’s save words. “The Army is saying Trump is lying.”

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Donald Trump now claiming that that the Arlington photo op fiasco was the Gold Star families’ idea while he was at the cemetery “would you take pictures over the grave of my son, my sister, brother, would you take pictures with us, sir? Two words. Yeah. right.

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Media keeps talking about “misleading” or “exaggerated” claims that Trump is making on abortion. Let’s make it easy for them: “Democrats do not support aborting babies after birth. Trump is lying.” You’re welcome.

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In April 2024, Trump said he’d announce his policy on abortion pill mifepristone “over next 2 weeks.” We’re waiting.

Today he wants us to believe he thinks 6 week abortion ban is too soon. Donald, what about just giving women as much time for decisions as you allow yourself?

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One thing that isn’t talked about enough. Media likes to jump all over when Kamala Harris or Tim Walz have changed their positions on anything from years ago. But seriously, who wants a leader who is incapable of evolving on issues as he/she learns more and as times change?

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Can we just stop parsing people’s fertility journeys? Have friends who’ve been through all kinds of hell, some successfully some not. Artificial insemination, fertility drugs, IVF, IUI, surrogates.

We need to stay the hell out of people’s efforts & choices for having a family.

Rich Hill, 44, is back in the majors with the Boston Red Sox. Well come on, why isn’t someone signing Jamie Moyer? He’s only 61. Am sure his fastball can still rattle glass.

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SF Giants’ Kyle Harrison fell apart with two outs in the 5th inning on a hot humid night.

But there were two batters in that inning Harrison should have struck out except for missed calls.

I repeat, I’m voting for Harris-Walz anyway but how many occasional voters could they get if Kamala promised to issue an executive order for robot umps for balls and strikes in MLB?

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Even if Tim Walz doesn’t remind Americans personally of their coach, their teacher or their dad, he makes millions of Americans think of the coach, the teacher or the dad they wish they had.

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So if age matters, then yes, I admit the combined age of the Trump-Vance ticket is 118 years, while the combined age of the Harris-Walz ticket is 119.

Of course Kamala and Tim are 59 and 60. Whereas Donald and JD are 78 and 40.

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Underreported from the travesty at Arlington. The smiling thumbs up picture in Arlington National Cemetery included the grave of Andrew Marckesano, who served six tours in Afghanistan. mostly under Trump.

(Not posting the picture, it’s easy to find but don’t want to give him Donald any more photo op tractins.)

Marckesano suffered from PTSD & he died by suicide in July 2020. “

“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”

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Meanwhile CNN contributor Scott Jennings has vaulted towards the top of my “change the channel” list.

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And right wing media seems to have decided it’s “Kamala’s border crisis.” Hoping at the debate and as often as possible before then Harris and Democrats point out that th bipartisan but GOP Senator Lankford led bill to try to fix things with immigration and the board WOULD HAVE PASSED. If not for Trump ordering it to be scuttled because Donald thought it would help Joe Biden.

Trump said yesterday that “he would win California with an honest vote count.” Yeah, my mother completely lost track with reality as her dementia progressed too.

Had some great high school teachers, two in particular who changed my life. Neither had biological children.

Thank you Amy Klobuchar for reminding us of teachers, and people, like that.

(If you can’t get the link, Amy talks about a teacher, Ms. Kalionen, who changed her life, and had no biological children of her own.

A little joy with @JoyAnnReid and a response to JD Vance: pic.twitter.com/keJXUtIQTq

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 29, 2024

Two-time defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces tonight lost 93-90 to the lowly Dallas Wings, despite 42 points from their superstar A’ja WIlson.

Bad news for the Aces, but good news for WNBA fans…. as the story is the lead on ESPN website tonight.

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“We didn’t defend, we fouled and we didn’t rebound. And we shot the 3 terrible again,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “So it’s a bad combination.”

(If you didn’t already know Becky trained under Gregg Popovich.)

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If the season ended today, while the NY Yankees and Baltimore Orioles would make the playoffs, the other two wild card spots in the AL, along with the division win, would go to to some combination of the Kansas City Royals, the Cleveland Indians and the Minnesota Twins.

All three of them with a combined payroll less than about $20 million more than the Yankees.

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If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want a bipartisan issue that would pick up some occasional voters, maybe they should consider an executive order to require MLB to use robot umps- or at least challenges- for balls and strikes.

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Larry Hogan says he won’t vote for Trump but won’t vote for Harris either. Also for non-political junkies, Senate committees & floor time controlled by majority leader; why GOP voted no on Trump impeachment after Jan. 6.

Hogan will fall in line. Don’t fall for his lines.

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Would Trump dump J.D. Vance for RFK Jr? Thinking Donald would never want to admit he made a mistake. But if I am Vance maybe I stay away from windows.

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Lies lies and more lies Trump claims in a fundraising email that Kamala Harris has “backed out of the Fox News debate.” There never

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Kash Patel says “we’re going to come after” the media, if Trump is re-elected.

Some in media seem re-assured by the fact that many positions need to be confirmed by the Senate. Have they forgotten that SCOTUS just said the President can do whatever he wants?

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Hey media. 1. Can you ask Trump if he agrees with RFK Jr. on vaccines? 2. Can you ask RFK Jr, who’s always said he’s an environmentalist, what he thinks about Trump saying climate change is a hoax?

Thank you. America

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As the Taliban has basically put women into a beyond Handmaid’s Tale dystopia, why isn’t the national media making a bigger story of the fact that Trump praised them and their leader – less than two weeks ago?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-brags-compliment-taliban-your-excellency-1940179

The SEC will start out the 2024 season with 16 teams.

The BIg Ten will start out the 2024 season with 18 teams

Which conference will be the first to 20?

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And 12 teams in 2024 will make the playoffs.

Over under on if more than half of them will be from either the SEC or Big Ten?

Dallas Cowboys haven’t been to NFC Championship game since 1995. But Jerry Jones remains confident that there’s no one better suited for getting this done than himself.

“The reason I don’t let somebody else be the GM is because I don’t have anybody that I will let do it to actually do it right. 

Sound familiar? And yes, Jones is a Trump supporter.

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A the Kroger-Albertson merger trial begins, Kroger says if deal is allowed to go through they will cut prices? Kroger gross profit for 12 months ending April 30, 2024 was $33.424B, a 3.75% increase year-over-year.

So the question, why don’t they cut prices now?

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As Alaska gets closer to approval of their merger with Hawaiian Airlines, the airline quietly stopped giving free preferred seats to clients of their best travel agency partners. Mergers may help bottom lines, they almost never help consumers

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Heather Cox Richardson sums it up “The momentum of the Harris-Walz campaign undermines the Big Lie that Trump is the popular choice, but the voter suppression the Big Lie justified remain.” If your vote didn’t matter, GOP wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you voting.

Ever wonder why Fox News viewers act brainwashed? This is today’s headline. “Trump team suggests debate could be canceled as Harris seeks last-minute ‘changes’”

Kamala has NEVER threatened to back out of the debate. Her campaign has said they would like a change to mic rules. Donald is the one wants out., 

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Trump today”“Who would call (dead troops) suckers and losers?” “Who would say it? A stupid person or a person that’s mentally ill.”

When he’s right, he’s right.

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A reporter asked Trump if he’d consider RFK Jr for HHS Secretary. Donald said they hadn’t talked about it but that he “knows a lot about the subject.’ Uh, why didn’t the reporter simply ask if Trump agrees with RFK Jr. on vaccines?

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Republicans are pretending to be more upset by the fact that Tim Walz plays with dogs who are not his own, than they are by allegations that RFK Jr ate dog. (And who knows what RFK Jr did with the bear cub?)

If you’re only seeing the Twitter comments, Cory Booker absolutely did play football. Even if he wasn’t a professional player. He was recruited by Michigan, UCLA, Georgia Tech…

Yes, he played college football at Stanford. #BeatCal PS F*ck Jake Tapper

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Meanwhile, another weekend closer to NFL opener on September 5.. Now, while I love sports in general and guess I understand why fans watch Preseason football, have yet to have someone really explain to me why anyone BETS on preseason football.

SF Giants let an imminently winnable game in Seattle get away, this time 4-3, but with only five hits and 0-3 with RISP (Runners in Scoring/Stranded Position?)

But at least there remains the hope of postseason joy with the Dodgers losing in the first or second round of the playoffs.

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RFK Jr. says Donald Trump will announce Democrats joining campaign soon

Yep, Trump will announce Democrats joining his campaign at the same time he announces the details of his “big beautiful healthcare plan.”

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Let’s make it simple. Can some journalist please just ask Donald Trump if he agrees with RFK Jr. on vaccines?

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And as JD Vance increasingly looks like a major mistake as Trump’s running mate why isn’t media making a bigger deal of the fact that Donald is 78 and showing signs of age, If Trump is elected Vance would be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

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Kamala Harris has popular plans for 2025, but media attacks her continually over those plans not having enough details. Donald Trump has very unpopular plans with Project 2025, but media ignores that he pretends not to know any of the details.

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CNN headline “Trump team prepares for sprint to November with ‘all hands on deck’ approach.” Would it be wrong to add the adjective “teeny tiny” to all those hands on decK?

By the time you read this the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, played in Dublin, Ireland, between Florida State and Georgia Tech will probably be over. Along with yet another of the pretences that college football is about anything but money.

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Whatever you think about the DNC lovefest last week, where former colleagues, rivals, students, family member, etc, all showed up to show their love for Kamala Harris and TIm Walz, can anyone remember anyone showing – other than maybe one granddaughter, professing actual love for Donald Trump?

And anyone but J.D. Vance’s wife showing love for him?

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Texas, along with other red sttates, is suing over a Biden program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status. Guess they figure you should only get that privilege if you marry an old white man powerful enough to get you a “genius” visa.

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RFK Jr. and Donald Trump deserve each other. Our country deserves better than them. #HarrisWalz

If they could put a wind turbine above RFK’s grave at Arlington cemetery the spinning his son is causing him could power half of Washington DC.

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Last week. Trump bragged Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar called him “Your Excellency.” Donald also called Taliban leader a “strong and smart” man.”

Taliban just banned women in Afghanistan from speaking in public & from showing their bare faces.

Anyone asked Trump for comment?

Kamala Harris sounds like she’s ready to be Commander in Chief. Donald Trump sounds like he’s ready to enter assisted living.

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Fox News headline “Trump blasts Harris as part of Truth Social flurry on what she ‘didn’t mention’ in DNC speech.” What Kamala didn’t mention…. Bird cemeteries? Sharks? Electrocution? The “late great Hannibal Lecter”? For starters..

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“Democracy knows no party.” Can’t wait until we get back to a time when I can go back to disagreeing with Adam Kinzinger again.

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Adam Kinzinger “I never thought I’d be here. You never thought you’d see me here.. “But to my fellow GOP, Dems are just as patriotic as us. & they love our country just as much as us.” “Trump is a small man pretending to be big.” Shouldn’t love size jokes as much as I do.

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Apparently “Rocking in the Free World” is one of Tim Walz’s favorite songs.

Hey, youngsters, if you only knew Pearl Jam version it’s great time to get acquainted with great music of Neil Young.

May I suggest “Ohio,” “Needle & the Damage Done,” “Old Man,” & “Like a Hurricane?”

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On top of everything else…. for those who still want to base their vote in November on whether they “like” a candidate, or want to have a beer with them… think about the people Kamala Harris would appoint as judges, Cabinet members, etc. And then think about those Trump would appoint.

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As Trump continues his new lying rant about Kamala Harris having destroyed San Francisco and California, the silver lining for California residents could be fewer MAGA tourists.

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So many moments of so much love at the Democratic National Convention. Can anyone remember one moment of love at the RNC? Except Donald talking about himself.

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Now that the Democrat convention is over, if you’re looking for something to binge watch this weekend, may I suggest “Friday Night Lights?” On of my all time favorite shows. And then try to tell me Tim and Gwen Walz don’t give you Eric and Tami Taylor vibes…

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Two things that seem wrong in August. Football and pumpkin spice lattes.

Confess I liked that Gabe Kapler was up front about being a Democrat, but admit his teams, other than in 2021, had pretty mediocre records.

Someone pointed out Bob Melvin’s record after playing 129 games is currently 65-64, while Kapler’s record last year after playing 129 games was 66-63.

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Mike Krukow said “the strikeout bug is affecting the SF Giants right now.” Uh, the strikeout bug in 2024 for the SF Giants isn’t a bug, it’s the baseball equivalent of long COVID..

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Cory Booker, former varsity football player at Stanford talks about their being “coaches we’d run through a wall for.” Tim Walz was clearly one of those coaches..

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Tim Walz on Project 2025. Trump & Vance “spent a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this. But I coached high school football for a long time. Trust me on this, when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re going to use it.”

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From Amy Klobuchar to his former students to his family, we learned tonight that people who really know Tim Walz really love Tim Walz. Is there a better thing you can find out about a human being?

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Stephen Colbert sums it up for the football fans in the room – “Maybe we needed a coach to show us “This is what locker room talk is supposed to sound like.”

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Still adore listening to Bill Clinton….

But if the DNC wanted to have Tim Walz speak at 11p, on a night with Bill scheduled to speak… they should have started earlier.

Bill Clinton says he’s triple checked it . “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, American has created about 51 million new jobs. What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.”

(and USA Today fact checker agrees)

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Dana Nessel, attorney general of Michigan, talking about freedom, includng freedom to love who we choose. “I have a message for Republicans & justices of SCOTUS You can pry this wedding band from my cold dead gay hand…” Joyful with no f*cks to give is a good look for Dems.

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Former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan nails it in speaking to his fellow Republicans tonight.

“You vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot.”

Yes, there have been some arrests near DNC in Chicago. But overall the convention has been joyful inside and relatively calm outside. National media, not just Fox News, is acting disappointed.

GOP Swiftboated Purple Heart winner John Kerry over his service

Trump derided John McCain over his service.

Now GOP is attacking 24 year National Guard veteran over his service.

Why do Republicans hate our military?

For those who remember Eric and Tami Taylor.

And for those who have never heard of them.

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Get ready for Tim and Gwen Walz…

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Aside from all the other joy in the United Center tonight during the Democratic Roll Call..

How cool was it to learn about what mattered to each state.. and how what music they chose?

Michelle Obama has made it 100% clear that she is not interested in running for office

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But with speeches like tonight, you understand why people wish she thought otherwise.

Barack Obama:

“The vast majority of us do not want to live in a country that is bitter and divided. We want something better, we want to be better.”

Sometimes people ask why I’m a Democrat; , one reason is that I’m an optimist. And I want to believe that Obama is right.

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Also Barack Obama – “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We’ve seen that movie before, and we know the sequel is usually worse.” Hope the DNC is using super-strong mics, because they’re getting dropped this week. A lot.

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Jason Carter “My grandfather can’t wait to vote for Kamala Harris.” Jimmy Carter will be 100 in October. To anyone on the fence about voting in 2024 “What’s your excuse?

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One of the most chilling, brave and true lines yet about the need for reproductive rights in this country. Incest-rape survivor Hadley Duvall, pregnant at 12 by her stepfather: “What is so beautiful about a child having to carry her parent’s child?”

Meanwhile, while the Democratic National Convention is a joyful optimistic lovefest, DonOld is talking about possibly appointing RFK Jr. to role in his administration if Jr endorses him. Okay, that’s pathetic and beyond weird..

What’s sadder, that Steve Kerr said as part of his DNC speech ” Young people, google Michael Jordan?”

Or that some young people did have to google Michael Jordan

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Not a Warriors fan and so while I like Kerr I have found Curry’s “night night” gesture annoying. Not, however, admittedly when Kerr used to to illustrate what we could tell Donald Trump in November.

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So much love in that DNC convention tonight. Can anyone remember any moments of love in that other convention in Milwaukee last month? Asking for a country.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, elected to Senate Jan. 5, 2021, spoke tonight.

(f you missed it, find a clip. A couple excerpts…)

“We must choose between the promise of January 5 & the peril of January 6.” Of Trump “He endorsed a Bible as if it needed his endorsement; he should try reading it.”

There’s a reason Rev. Warnock is now the pastor of MLK Jr’s church.

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Absolutely stunning that MSNBC was part of the loud chorus attacking President Biden over his age and telling him to step down…. but while they turn a blind eye to their own Andrea Mitchell.

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Hillary Clinton- “I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to know I was here at this moment… This is our time America, the future is here, the future is within our grasp…. Let’s go win it!”

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Amy Klobuchar with Wolf Blitzer nails it on Kamala Harris’s candidacy .. “In 28 days, come on, she launched Presidential campaign,.raised over $300 million, picked great running mate… She’s filling up arenas with 15,000 people, and pissing Donald Trump off in the process…”

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Jamie Raskin remindeds us tonight about Jan 6, 2021, the injuries, the deaths, & “hang Mike Pence.”

“Someone should have told Donald Trump the president’s job under the constitution is to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the vice-President is executed.”

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Rick Scott actually said “Trump is a business guy who understands how businesses work. Harris has no earthly idea how businesses work.”

Donald ‘s companies declared bankruptcy 6 times. Scott’s company HCA paid $1.7 billion in largest Medicare fraud case in history. Define “work”

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As Stephen Colbert said the DNC first night was an extraordinary night that went extraordinarily long…

“Technically we just rolled over into the beginning of the 2028 campaign.”

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(Joe Biden made it up late… though wonder with his speech ending about 12:30a Easter, how many voters didn’t)

Made it to the last Bay Bridge series game today in Oakland between the As and the SF Giants.

Will say that while I feel for die-hard baseball fans in Oakland, when they started doing “The Wave” in the late innings at the game today, I felt a little less sympathetic.

True story from 1989, when Candlestick Park started shaking before game 3, my initial thought was “bleeping As fans doing their bleeping Wave in our park..”

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The Chicago White Sox have officially been eliminated from playoff competition. August 17. They are 30-95 with 37 games to go.

So yes, the Miracle Mets 40-120 record is reachable.

Meanwhile the Seattle Mariners and NY Mets have been announced as teams for the 2025 Little League Classic, which takes place during the Little League World Series.

Wonder if the White Sox were considered for the LLWS itself.

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We justifiably judge leaders on their hiring choices. Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz. Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance. Enough said.

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CNN reports DonOld posted fake picture of Kamala Harris speaking in front on Communist symbol. Twitter policy is against sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people & lead to harm” Elon hasn’t flagged/removed the post. I am shocked.

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Amy Klobuchar on with Jen Psaki this morning, talking about delightful differences between the two tickets. “he’s talking bird cemeteries and they’re in ‘brat’ summer.”

And Amy on the DNC convention Monday night: “There is going to be so much love for Joe Biden…everyone’s going to want to give him a big hug.” She’s right.

How much is this going to drive DonOld crazy? Nobody wants to hug him.

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Random question … Can some reporter find out who’s getting paid to make those 10 commandments signs that now have to be posted inn Louisiana schools?

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Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and that anything Maureen Dowd writes now will be a petty “mean girl” attack on Democrats.

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Kroger says if their merger with Albertson’s is allowed to go through they will lower prices. And at the same time will Krogrer unveil “a big beautiful healthcare plan” for their employees?

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Donald Trump is back in Pennsylvania for the eighth time this year. Partly because he knows the state is important for the election. But also because for Donald as an elderly man it’s an easy trip from his resort home in Bedminster New Jersey.

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But in Pennsylvania Trump, talked about how he believes he twice won Minnesota… Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, if you’re honest, you know if DonOld was your elderly relative, you’d be scoping out assisted living places.

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Do let’s see, GOP under Donald Trump and J.D Vance these days hates cats, dogs, women, children, immigrants, people of color. Everyone who isn’t a rich white man. And they aren’t actually that fond of each other either.

 Can’t the Olympic committee just give bronze medals to both Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosuand American Jordan Chiles?

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Friday the SF Giants didn’t get a hit with RISP.

But at least this time they didn’t disappoint their fans. The team had an off day.

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Good news. The WNBA is back after their Olympic break.

Better news. Millions of sports fans now actually care that the WNBA is back.

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Now there’s reportedly a group called “Swifties for Trump.” Wonder where both of them meet?

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When you listen to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz speak you feel good about the United States of America. When you listen to Donald Trump & J.D. Vance speak you feel like we live in a sh*thole country. If you needed yet another reason to vote blue this November.

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Kroger claims it will lower grocery prices by $1 billion, IF they are allowed to merge with fellow grocery giant Albertsons.

And how LONG will Kroger lower prices? A week, a month? We know darn well once the merger is approved eventually Kroger will raise prices higher than they are now. That’s what monopolies do!

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Why isn’t this a bigger story? Trump attacks immigrants. While he’s bankrolled by German-born Peter Thiel South Africans David Sacks & Elon Musk Sri Lankan Chamath Palihapitiya & Israel’s Miriam Adelson Plus Donald’s major support from Australian Rupert Murdoch’s’ Fox News.

MLB is looking at rule changes down the road to require starting pitchers to throw at least six innings, with exceptions for injuries, throwing 100 pitches, or giving up 4 or more earned runs.

So the Colorado Rockies would be off the hook.

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Thought seriously, I’ve long complained about a “quality start” being considered six innings, three or fewer earned runs. (4.50 ERA) But seriously, how many pitchers get six innings how with ANY amount of earned runs.

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Is corporate billionaire owned media finally getting it? Or getting that their orange goose who laid the ratings egg might finally be cooked? This is CNN’s top website headline. “Trump’s fury at Harris is increasingly driving his campaign.”

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Why is Trump so furious at Kamala Harris? Because she’s kicking his (ample) derriere.

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Not the Onion. Trump actually said “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks on Kamala Harris.” I’m sure this will go over real well with women voters.

President Biden, talking about lowering Presciption drug prices today. “I served in the Senate for 270 years…” “For a long time I was too damn young, now I’m too damn old…”

And – “Let me tell you what our Project 2025 is… Beat the hell out of them.” Dark Brandon is really on a roll…

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NY Times at it again. Headline “Tim Walz’s Bumpy Road to Gun Control.” If you actually read article it points out that Walz still supports 2nd amendment but after an increasing number of mass shootings. “Like America, I’ve seen enough of this. I’ve seen enough of this carnage.”

Personally, think one great quality in a leader is the ability to learn and evolve positions as the situation and facts change. And Walz has that quality.

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Trump rails against immigrants. While some of his biggest, and richest supporters are Elon Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel all from South Africa, and Chamath Palihapitiya, born in Sri Lanka. Not to mention Rupert Murdoch. Every accusation is a confession