Left Coast Sports Babe

Robert Kraft’s attorneys say videos of him paying for sex acts were shot illegally and an invasion of privacy. And 29 teams in NFL not named the Patriots are thinking “pass the popcorn.”

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Apparently former Cavs coach Tyronn Lue is a “strong frontrunner” for the Lakers coaching job. Because Lebron getting him fired from one team wasn’t enough?

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And look, I want this assistant coach to take over from Popovich. But Lakers could do worse for a new head coach than Becky Hammon.

(heck, hasn’t been a man who could coach Lebron, why not a woman?)

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Wonder as at time of  write we head to 13th inning, how many parents decided they didn’t care if SF Giants won or lost, they just wanted to take their kids to fireworks night.

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Delta Airlines says they are going to limit seat recline for all seats on many shorter flights. They say this is not a precursor to putting more rows of seats on those planes. Two words. Yeah. Right.

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A Florida man is pleading guilty in college admissions bribery scandal after he was “paid $10,000 to secretly take entrance exams.” Jeez, if he’s that smart shouldn’t he be able to find a better paying real job?

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A British comedian died on stage during his stand-up show. Talk about a joke that killed.

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Sometimes people wonder how we as a country possibly could have elected Trump.
There was one team in Las Vegas that had more money bet on them this year to win the NBA finals than the Warriors.
That team was the Lakers.
Does this even need a punchline?

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Is this the most white privilege story of the year? Lori Loughlin, now facing prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to get her daughters into USC, ‘thinks any mom would have done the same.”

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Got a proposed trade offer for Donald Trump – Sanctuary cities will take asylum-seeking immigants – So where can we dump Trump supporters?

She might not win. But this is what a President sounds like. I MISS having a President.
Amy Klobluchar on Twitter “Someone has already been charged with a serious threat on Congresswoman Omar’s life. The video the President chose to send out today will only incite more hate. You can disagree with her words—as I have done before—but this video is wrong. Enough.”

LA Dodgers scored 7 runs today and still lost 11-7. Their team ERA is nearly 5.
At this point Dodgers pitching vs. Giants hitting would be the “something’s got to give series.”

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And as he hit a home run that turned out to be the game winner in a 1-0 game, who had this sentence on April 11, 2019  “Where would the SF Giants be without Kevin Pillar.”

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Angel Hernandez suing MLB alleging he’s been blocked from promotions and officiating World Series due to Cuban heritage. Uh, not saying there’s no racism in baseball, but IMHO Hernandez is simply a really bad empire.

Jaguars RB Leonard Fournette was arrested today in Jacksonville and charged with “knowingly driving with a suspended or revoked license.”
Gosh, if only NFL paid players enough for Lyft or Uber.

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As we approach the postseason, realize there are people old enough to drink in US who have never lived through the NBA playoffs without the Spurs in them.

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I do trust that all these anti-vaxxers who are triggering measles outbreaks across US aren’t wasting doctor and hospital time when their kids do get sick.

Is this the most white privilege story of the year? Lori Loughlin, now facing prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to get her daughters into USC, ‘thinks any mom would have done the same.”

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So if Trump  has very “clean” finances, why doesn’t he just issue an executive order for IRS to hurry up and finish his audit so he can release his taxes?

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Does anyone think if Mueller Report really exonerated Donald Trump that he would have any scruples about releasing it completely; embarrassment to those cited be damned?

US trying to extradite Julian Assange. Does Donald Trump want to charge him or thank him?

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Trump saying today “I know nothing about Wikileaks,” after saying repeatedly in October 2016 things like “I LOVE Wikileaks.”

To be fair, that’s that same pattern he’s used over the years with his wives.”

So with NBA regular season finally over, we are now only 2 1/2 MONTHS away from the end of the NBA playoffs. And some say the baseball season is long.

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Always been fond of Tony Parker. But as Charlotte was eliminated tonight wonder how he feels now about bailing on San Antonio.

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Bryce Harper 8 RBIs

Kevin Pillar 9 RBIs 

Just saying.

(and SF Giants at 4-9 still have one more win than the World Champion Red Sox.)

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I’m so old I remember when Clippers were Los Angeles’s dysfunctional NBA franchise.

An American Airlines flight returned safely to JFK after during takeoff it hit a sign that “directs pilots as they’re going down the runway.” Well, I guess the sign wasn’t doing its job anyway.

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One dead, and six critically injured in a Durham, NC coffee shop today when a contractor drilling on sidewalk hit a two-inch gas line. But hey, who needs job-killing regulations?

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Fox News attacking Elizabeth Warren for tax returns “showing eye-popping income.”  Warren and her husband, also a Harvard law professor, made a combined $900,000 last  year.

Can’t wait to see what Fox says about former NCAA football coach & GOP Alabama senate candidate Tommy Tuberville, who made over $2 million a year regularly.

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The National Enquirer is for sale. Gosh, if only there were a REALLY rich man in America who they’ve attacked  who could buy the paper and unleash their reporters in a different direction.

Trump today in Texas, marveling at the state’s size –  “I come from New York, you have Fifth Avenue and that connects to Park Avenue and its not too far away, but this is, you know, hundreds of miles between places.

Forget everything else he’s done, this is the Trump line that could really make New Yorkers know it’s time for the 25th Amendment.

(open note to anyone who hasn’t been to NYC – Fifth and Park are parallel.)

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Trump on Steven Miller He’s “an excellent guy. He’s a wonderful person.”
Okay, now we KNOW Donald Trump has dementia. Not even Miller’s family thinks he’s a “wonderful person.”

Remember those days when Lakers fans thought the Shaq-Kobe feud was the height of dysfunction?

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So this time did Lebron James get rid of a team’s Coach AND President?

(As a Spurs fan I think I take back the wish that King James had decided to try being coached by Pop.)

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Hey Blue Jays, SF Giants say “Thank you, eh” for Kevin Pillar.

Pillar has 8 RBI’s since he arrived last week. Do the rest of the SF Giants together have that many?

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The Orioles’ Chris Davis is now on a 0-49 hitless streak. Which means he now broke former SF Giant Eugenio Velez’s record for the longest major league hitless streak by a position player.
Let’s hope no current Giant manages to challenge him in 2019.

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I guess this isn’t funny if you live in Colorado, but from United Airlines TODAY. – “United Travel Waiver for Colorado Winter Weather”
Uh, winter? It’s April 9.

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Who knew admitting to being a millionaire could be so complicated? #BernieSanders #TaxReturns

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For 2019 W-4s alone, Americans now must list “non-wage income, such as interest & dividends
Itemized & other deductions
Income tax credits expected.
For employees w/ multiple jobs, total annual taxable wages for all lower paying jobs”
What happened to Trump promising you could file taxes on a postcard?

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Mother Pence is not happy about Pete Buttigieg’s comments about her husband, saying people “shouldn’t be attacked for what your religious beliefs are.”
Right, as long as your religious beliefs are “Christian?” #WTF?

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Trump today tweeted “On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation…”
(so where’s the asterisk? “except John McCain.”)

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Thinking if Secret Service hadn’t embarrassed Trump by admitting that Mar-A-Lago employees have real power in deciding who to let on the premises, Alles would still have a job.

Trump posted two-minute campaign video today set to score of “The Dark Knight Rises. Warner Bros trying to get it taken down for copyright infringement. Waiting for Donald to say copyrights don’t apply to Presidents.

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You know, I really really like Pete Buttigieg. . But sometimes media coverage about him feels like those situations where some great women who have worked in an office for a while suddenly ALL take a back seat to the cool new young guy.

So a call that Stevie Wonder could have seen doesn’t get reversed and decides who goes to Super Bowl.
And a call that isn’t even crystal clear on replay plays a major part in deciding who cuts down nets in Minneapolis.
What’s coming in NBA Playoffs?

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Don’t follow the Utah Jazz. But I just became a Kyle Korver fan.  Worth a few minutes to read. Seriously.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba?fbclid=IwAR0qmyytaRyeh9ss7Y3HDTg7xXLPb2dQzhpJIVGZclAJqTWKM73XL1LMGJY

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In 23 ABs, Connor Joe and Michael Reed had 1 hit between them for SF Giants.  So will the team still try to sell their “game-used” jerseys?

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As measles cases in US continue to rise, this would be a good time for a Democratic Presidential candidate to come out strongly pro-vaccine. Because we could be heading for a REAL national emergency.

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Trump just fired Secret Service chief Randolph “Tex” Alles. So what did Tex see that he shouldn’t have seen?

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So how many asylum-seekers including children would have had to die under Kirstjen Nielsen’s watch for Trump to be happy with her job performance?

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Kind of ironic that man who is seldom seen with his own family considers family separation the worst thing he can do to potential immigrants.

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Seriously if Kirstjen Nielsen she wasn’t evil enough at what point does Trump run out of people willing to work for him? #HowLowCanYouGo

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Years ago, in Las Vegas, a friend and I wanted to be silly for a couple hours in afternoon and play nickel slots. Since another friend preferred sun time, we managed, with some effort, to sneak her into the Paris Las Vegas pool
Apparently the Chinese spy got access to Mar-A-Lago by saying she was there to use THEIR pool.
You would think Trump staff at “Winter White House” would have better security than a mid-priced Vegas resort.

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Chuck Grassley, the most senior Senate Republican, now “warning” Trump about firing more DHS officials. And Chuck says he’s “concerned.” Who does Grassley think he is, Susan Collins?

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There’s actually a scary but simple possible reason for Trump to decimate Homeland Security. If DHS fails to stop a major terrorist attack then Donald might plan to declare martial law afterwards – suspending all rights and laws and elections he wants.

(oops, this is old draft that didn’t post somehow from Thursday, but I am getting it posted now.)

SF Giants fans worried for a while their home opener would be rained out.  Then alas they discovered after a four-run first by the Rays that it wouldn’t be.

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So SF Giants year has not started out perfectly. But at least they didn’t give $161 million to Chris Davis. Who started out year 0-17 with 11ks.

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Vikings CB Holton Hill suspended four games of the season for violating NFL policy on performance-enhancing drugs.  Hill reportedly claimed issues with marijuana.  Uh, shouldn’t a cornerback on pot enhance the performance of the receiver?

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Vanderbilt, which was winless in SEC this year in men’s basketball, just hired Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse with a six-year contract.
Well, with such low expectations guessing he Stackhouse might survive as coach at least three years.

Robert Kraft apparently trying very hard to keep jurors from seeing him paying for sex, claiming it was an illegal videotape. Who knew mean bitch Karma might be able to beat the Patriots?

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Now apparently some House Democrats are concerned Mueller report may be destroyed.
Uh, just guessing you don’t get to be head of the FBI by being incautious with evidence. Think Robert might have kept one or two copies?

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As Trump ranted today, it’s not CNN or MSNBC or NY Times or Washington Post, it’s “the “press… They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

If you’re not afraid you’re not paying attention.

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Buried in a hit piece on Biden. The Daily Mail quotes Jill Biden’s autobiography, where she says the family’s closeness made her uncomfortable at first -“Joe and his two young sons ‘never wanted to miss a chance to wrap their arms around each other or give a kiss’ after the death of their mother.”

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Trump says he is skipping the White House Correspondents Dinner this year because he “likes positive things.”
Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

First it was the game to get to the Super Bowl, now it was the game to get to March Madness finals. Just what sports wants, everyone talking next morning about the refs.

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That moment as an advertiser when you’ve paid the really big bucks for spots on NCAA men’s basketball final and it’s Texas Tech vs Virginia.

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Over-under for tomorrow’s Texas Tech-Virginia NCAA men’s final currently at 118. So if you liked this year’s high-scoring Super Bowl….

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Another in the “you cannot make this “stuff” up” category.  A police officer in Detroit blew a 0.8 BAC at a class recently.  The class teaching cops to administer Breathalyzer tests.

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As so many are hyperventilating over Democrats picking a candidate NOW your reminder that Bill Clinton announced his candidacy in October 1991.

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A Coast Guard Cutter unloaded 14,300 pounds of cocaine yesterday in San Diego. The drugs were seized in six different drug busts since February off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America. Build that sea wall?

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I’m admittedly not a Bernie Sanders fan, but this was well-played the other day in Iowa “Do I want to come to a state where 35% of your electricity comes from wind turbines? Where all over the state you got wind turbines? My staff and I, people are going to come down with cancer after a few days in Iowa. But we are brave souls.”

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Last night SNL really went after Joe Biden. And this morning Biden didn’t explode or threaten on Twitter. Would Trump now attack Joe for not being Presidential?

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Trump is rejecting idea of summit with Guatemela, El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras. Right, summits are saved for real American friends like North Korea and Russia.

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So Kirstjen Nielsen made the cages too comfortable?

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Give Trump credit. He has created more repeat job openings in his administration than any President.

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Today’s Trump fundraising email attacks “liberal Senators, including radical Dianne Feinstein.”
This might be first time in history anyone has used the phrase “radical Dianne Feinstein”

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Trump tweet rant yesterday against “fraudulent Russian Witch Hunt… How and why did this terrible event begin? Never Forget!”
Donald is an actual New Yorker and he casually tosses out the phrase “Never Forget?”
One again the question “Evil or dementia?”

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This tweet did not age well from Donald Trump on May 11, 2016: “In interview I told @AP that my taxes are under routine audit and I would release my tax returns when audit is complete, not after election!”

Trevor Bauer said it was the right call after manager Terry Francona pulled him with a no-hitter after seven innings and 117 pitches.  (The Indians won 4-1 but the Blue Jays broke up the no-hitter in the 9th.)

Now Bauer’s health for the rest of the season and he was probably right. But I miss baseball before there were pitch counts.

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So how many Ron Kulpa jerseys has MLB sold?

(if this is too inside baseball google Kulpa for plenty of storys. But suffice it to say  Ron is a major league, “all-about-me”  a**hole

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North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell , now on paid leave, allegedly made racially offensive remarks — including telling her players if they didn’t get better they would get “hanged from trees with nooses” if they didn’t improve.
Wonder how many Trump supporters are thinking “So what’s the problem?”

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Homeland Security Staffers Were Warned Not To Leak Information Or Face Legal Consequences.

And someone leaked the memo. Not all heroes wear capes.

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“Gosh, this crowded 2020 Presidential field really needed Tim Ryan” said no one ever.

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Since according to Trump the Mueller report completely exonerated him at least it will be simple to prove that by releasing it….

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GOP said today that efforts by Dems to obtain Trump’s tax returns set a “dangerous standard” Uh, let’s make this simple – all Presidential candidates release their tax returns. Problem solved.

Ecuador about to expel Julian Assange. How long until Trump demands Assange get a US security clearance?

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At this point Donald Trump is doing so much delusional attacking of windmills maybe he should change his last name to Quixote.

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Trump now says he will delay closing Mexico border for a year. I guess someone told him about avocados and tequila.

Trump now reportedly naming Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board. Nein, nein nein!

Today is the anniversary of assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.  . Can only imagine if Trump were President and the horror that would then have surrounded MLK’s funeral.

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Inspired by a “Comedywire challenge – “if AG Barr summarized a movie”

My best thought  – “Newly arrived immigrant girl fatally crushes defenseless woman then leads refugee gang to murder that woman’s sister in her own home”. #WizardOfOz

Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s lawyers are defending him by saying officers videotaped him at Orchids of Asia spa illegally.  #WhyThereIsNoSatire

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Gregg Popovich was ejected 63 seconds into Spurs game in Denver tonight, which Nuggets won 113-85. Sounds like Pop knew when to get out while the getting was good.

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Phrase I would be happy NEVER to hear again. “The strike zone is getting smaller in the later innings.”

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SF Giants have not exactly stormed out of the gate in 2019.
But six games in they do have one more win than World Champion Boston Red Sox.

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Lakers owner Jeanie Buss didn’t answer a question this week about Luke Walton’s future with the team. So has Lebron taken down yet ANOTHER coach?

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If wind causes cancer then gun violence in Chicago isn’t close to their biggest health crisis.

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Lots of cheering fans for Lori Loughlin when she arrived for her first court appearance over allegedly bribing and cheating to get her daughters into college.
Just guessing none of those folks cheering her have kids who got turned down from USC recently.

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Doris Day just turned 97. Millions of Americans going “Wow. Doris Day is still alive?!”

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Have to wonder if Donald Trump is now seriously hurting Biden and Sanders’ chances by causing Americans to think seriously about old men and dementia.

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Paul Ryan claims he offered Alexandria Osacio-Cortez advice and she “didn’t listen to a thing” he said. My estimation of AOC’s intelligence just went up.

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While Pete Buttigieg is young, some part of me is wondering if maybe these days we need a 37-yr old candidate because they’ll have less past for everyone to rake them over the coals about….

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So with revelations that Jared Kushner was “Official #1” who originally had his security clearance denied, along with story some of Mueller’s team are publicly questioning Barr’s summary of the Special Counsel report,  Fox News breaking headline “Biden accuser D.J. Hill describes encounter with former VP on Fox News tonight.”

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Trump today “I was never planning a vote prior to the 2020 Election on the wonderful HealthCare package that some very talented people are now developing for me & the Republican Party. It will be on full display during the Election as a much better & less expensive alternative to ObamaCare…”
Uh, if you have such very talented people, why didn’t they come up with it when GOP controlled Senate AND House?

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If Bumgarner does resign with SF Giants guessing he’ll have a partial no-trade clause. As in no trades to the American League. #WeDontNeedNoStinkingDH

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SF Giants, down 6-2 going to 9th, staged comeback that left them just one run short in 6-5 loss to Dodgers. But Giants  still have one more win than World Champion Red Sox. And Boston is still paying Pablo Sandoval’s salary. Just saying.

Welcome Kevin Pillar, 30 to SF.  Until this am  Pillar was the longest active tenured Blue Jay. Wonder how he feels about sea gulls?

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NBA Wizards just fired team president Ernie Grunfeld. So it IS possible to fire a President in Washington.

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So how long until Trump declares National Emergency to build a wall to keep wind out?

US Secret Service arrested and charged a Chinese  woman citizen with making false statements to law enforcement and entering Mar-A-Lago with a thumb drive containing malicious software.

Scary, but I’m more scared about  Mar-A-Lago visitors the Secret Service DIDN’T catch.

Anyone but me sometimes wonder if Donald Trump is really just tired of being President and is trying to provoke a face-saving way out?

Four games into the regular season and no team has a zero in the win column. How many months does that sometimes take in NFL?

Do not adjust your set. SF Giants have four runs. Tonight. In one game. #BeatLA

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So are they still playing the Final Four next week now that Duke’s been eliminated?

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ESPN reporting Kentucky has offered basketball coach John Calipari a lifetime contract. Does the contract get vacated the next time one of his team’s seasons gets vacated?

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Nonpolitical controversial thought of the day. I like replay in sports, seems no reason not to get the call right when we can all see it at home.
But, if I were in charge, you get 60 seconds. If it isn’t obvious in 60 seconds, the call stands. It was close enough.
(And yes, the Rams-Saints call would have taken 10 seconds. #StillNotOverIt  🙂 )

Kamala Harris has raised $12 million,  Pete Buttigieg has raised $7 million.  And media is of course most excited about Pete.  But there’s no gender bias in politics.

$7 million isn’t bad. But why are any women shocked men are acting like Buttigieg’s $7 million is more than it is.
Millions, inches…. what’s the difference?

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Meanwhile Florida Senaor Rick Scott looks to be Trump’s point man in the Senate on Healthcare reform.  Right, the same Rick Scott who made his money to enter politics as head of Columbia-HCA.   The company that paid $1.7 BILLION in fines for felony Medicare fraud during his tenure. No joke. It would be funny if peoples’ lives weren’t at stake.

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Fox News is taking time from their usual State-TV pro-Trump message for banner headlines like “Another Biden accuser comes forward.”
#WhyThereIsNoSatire

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Imagine if the same woman ever accused both a Democrat and Donald Trump of sexual harassment. Fox News heads would explode trying to spin it.

Senate couldn’t get bill passed for disaster relief because GOP wouldn’t include $600 million for Puerto Rico. Well, come on, that’s probably a year’s worth of Trump golf outings.

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If Mueller REALLY exonerated Trump, Donald would have been tweeting the report out line by line since it was filed.

While all #1 seeds made it to Sweet Sixteen, the only #1 seed left in NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament is Virginia, the #1 seed who was the first two be bounced by a #16 seed last year. Just like we all predicted.

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Chicago Cubs bullpen has an ERA over 10.00 in first three games. SF Giants have scored five runs in four games. Almost a shame Cubs don’t play Giants soon… in the “something”s gotta give” category.

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At least we DO know SF Giants are not going to go 0-162.

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Andrew Luck married his longtime girlfriend this weekend in Prague. Congratulations to both of them. But as a mom can I hope he trimmed his beard for the ceremony and pictures?

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Not that I can program it but thinking a million-dollar app might be one that on the last calendar day of ANY quarter automatically blocks all political fundraising emails.

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Rolling Stones have postponed US tour due to health problems involving Mick Jagger. What, doctors are afraid his fans might break something jumping up and down at this point?

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As a travel agent can’t wait for Monday now when clients ask me which is my favorite Mexican country?

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Trump says closing the border is “going to be a profit-making operation.”. Right. Like Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

But who was going to pay?  North Mexico? South Mexico? East Mexico or West Mexico?   This is SO confusing.

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Kellyanne Conway on Fox News this am, trashing Joe Biden, “I think (he) has a big problem here because he calls it affection and handshakes, his party calls it completely inappropriate…”
Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

Is Joe Biden my 1st choice for 2020? No. Am I against sexual harassment?. Yes. Do I believe Biden has cheated on either his of his wives or ever deliberately sexually harassed anyone. Also no.

The Giants Score A Run! The Giants Score A Run!

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And SF Giants after 2 games do have 1/3 as many home runs at Paul Goldschmidt did in one night.

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I love Renel Brooks-Moon, but she is NOT as NBC Sports Bay Area tonight said “the first woman baseball PA announcer.” Sherry Davis was that. #SFGiants

Anyone else beginning to think God has Duke in His or Her March Madness brackets?

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That moment when you say “Who’d have imagined that Auburn could beat UNC. And then you remember filling out that cat bracket.

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Warriors forward Jordan Bell got suspended one game for “charging a candle to assistant coach Mike Brown’s hotel bill.” He has apologized and said it was intended to be “funny.”
Two thoughts – 1. To earn a suspension, it must have been a heck of a fancy candle 2. Good thing Bell is better at basketball than he is at comedy.

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Greg Schiano just resigned from Patriots, saying he wants to spend more time on his “faith and family.” So let’s see a revelation from Penn State or Ohio State days? Or who has “something new and different” in the pool?

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Yet another tourist fell while trying to take a picture and getting too close to the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Maybe they should change the warning signs to something saying “Darwin Awards available here.”

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Crowds at Trump’s Michigan rally last night joined in a chant of “AOC sucks.”  Melania’s “Be Best” campaign is working SO well.

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Trump says he’s going to close Southern border next week unless Mexico stops ALL illegal immigration. So how’s that “Space Wall” going to work with airplanes?

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It’s such an “national emergency” that Trump says “it’s likely he’ll be closing the Southern border next week.  But first he needed to start his golf weekend early this afternoon.

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So what happens when someone explains to Trump what “does not exonerate him” means?

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Donald Trump in Michigan tonight, on wind power “If it doesn’t blow, you can forget about television for that night. I know a lot about wind.” Wind? No. Hot air. Definitely.

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From my funny friend Alex Kaseberg, on actor Jussie Smollett’s big week: “He had his 16 charges of staging a hate crime dropped. And today he was accepted to UCLA on a women’s soccer scholarship.”

Three of the nicest words in the English language “Baseball is back!” Happy Opening Day.

So SF Giants did get shut out on Opening Day in San Diego. On a brighter note, they didn’t get no-hit. #smallmercies

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Meanwhile Bryce Harper went 0-3 in his Phillies debut. So maybe Giants fans can console themselves – signing him wouldn’t have helped?

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Meanwhile Dodgers hit eight home runs in their opening day game.  Begging the question, by the time Los Angeles comes to AT&T Park on April 29, will SF have hit 8 home runs by then?

Texas Tech 24. Michigan 16 at halftime. Did NCAA not tell us preseason was starting early for football?

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Seriously though, four teams tonight scored under 60 points and one of those teams actually won. Thinking not only are these one-and-dones not going to class, they’re not learning to shoot a basketball either.

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Trump says no man has been better for Puerto Rico than he has. He could be right. Having no US president during hurricane couldn’t have been worse.

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Winning $768 million Powerball ticket sold in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Wonder what winner will do with money, after moving out of New Berlin, Wisconsin?

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On a brighter note Donald Trump did say now Special Olympics WILL be funded by his administration. How long until he blames Democrats and takes credit for saving it.

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Trump is as ready with a replacement for Obamacare as he is ready to release his tax returns.

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Jared Kushner today talking to Senate Intelligence Committee. This might be the first time “Jared Kushner” and “Intelligence” have been used in the same sentence.

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Too early to predict if Cory Booker will be Democratic nominee in 2020 – but how nice to hear positive adult town hall last night with policy ideas instead of another bullying Trump  ranting rally.

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Mueller’s report is more than 300 pages. Which means judging it on Barr’s four-page letter is like judging Harry Potter by the jacket blurb…written by Voldemort.

All the craziness in the US won’t go away this morning. On the other hand, it will be Opening Day. So all will be righter with the world.

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We all know real reason that Trump won’t throw out first pitch for Nationals Thursday. Game will be televised & we’d all see he wouldn’t be able to get baseball to home plate.

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AAF is threatening to fold.
And millions of Americans are going “The what?”

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Betsy DeVos is slamming media claiming they “spun up falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts” about her cuts, but then said she DOES favor eliminating Special Olympics funding because it enjoys “robust support from private donations.”
Some wondered why Trump appointed Betsy, now thinking if she were younger and prettier he would have married her.

And who’d a thunk we’d miss “thousand points of light?”

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Cory Booker –  “I would rather hang out with a nice atheist than a mean Christian any day of the week.”

My sense is Jesus would agree.

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A President who can’t resist retweeting even the least respected sources when they praise him would have already released entire Mueller report if it exonerated him. Period.

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Wait a minute, Mike Pence talking today how “the first woman and the next man on the moon will be American.” Uh, wait, and how would they be able to go into the Lunar module and for a moon walk together without chaperones. Does Mother know?

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How will we really know when Trump figures out how badly he miscalculated on getting rid of the ACA? There’ll be another caravan.

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Verified account @PeteButtigieg

For at least the 2019 season, pass interference — both offensive and defensive — will be reviewable.

And as a friend says, wanna bet the first call goes against New Orleans?

Though, seriously, as much as sports is serious, this from ESPN “NFL’s internal analysis also examined the impact of pass interference fouls that were later graded to be incorrect by the league’s officiating department. Between 2016 and 2018, 10.5 percent of incorrect calls were for defensive pass interference. But 24 of those plays ranked among the top 50 in impact on win probability. In other words, 10.5 percent of all incorrect calls represented nearly 50 percent of the incorrect calls that most hindered (or helped) a team’s chances to win.”

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NFL coaches voted 32-0 to expand replay coverage to allow some non-calls to be reviewed.
Heck, even Sean McVay figures next time it might happen to his Rams.

And in the owners vote, only Cincinnati voted against it. Because the Bengals can’t imagine getting close enough to another Super Bowl for it to matter?

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Four tweets from Trump this morning about Washington Capitals and captain Alex Ovechkin’s Stanley Cup Championship visit to White House. Well to be fair, this is only the second time a team in the Oval Office has been led by a Russian.

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Pablo Sandoval’s last AB for SF Giants better not be that silly strikeout in pouring rain. Just saying.

SF Giants are not sold out for Opening Day next Friday. Who’d a thunk fans wouldn’t pay sky-high “dynamic pricing” for tickets to watch that traditional rivalry between the Giants and… Tampa Bay Rays?

Robert Kraft is pleading not guilty for soliciting prostitution, and wants a jury trial. He does realize that, even without upcoming NFL rule change, that DOES mean video review?

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Betsy DeVos, defending her proposed $18 million cuts to Special Olympics “We had to make some difficult decisions.”
Well, yeah, $18 million per, Government Accountability Office, WILL pay for about five Trump Mar-A-Lago golf weekends.

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Mike Pence has announced goal of putting a man on the moon by 2024. Building that bridge to the 20th century?

“Be calm. Take a deep breath. Don’t become like them. (The GOP.) We have to handle this handle this professionally, officially, patriotically, strategically.
Let’s just get the goods.”
Nancy Pelosi to Democratic caucus this am.   You Go Girl..

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Meanwhile seems pretty clear, Trump will publicly claim he wants things released, but privately tell Barr & GOP “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome report?”#ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport

NFL will forgo usual opening-night matchup in which Super Bowl winner hosts Thursday Night Football, and instead open with Packers-Bears.
Is this league’s way of admitting Saints were robbed?

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Gronkowski’s agent said today Rob “is still a very young man. It wouldn’t shock me if he has a change of heart” on retirement.
“The first time is the hardest” responded Brett Favre.

Rainy sixth inning of a 1-0 Spring Training. Monday night game between SF Giants and Oakland As….. And everyone left in the stands should get a free baseball or something. All ten of them.

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NY Mets, after finishing Florida Spring Training, chose to have final preseason workouts in Syracuse, where they have new Triple-A affiliate. Noah Syndergaard & others were not amused; thinking it would be much easier on team to return to New York City before Thurs. opener in DC against Nationals.
It’s below freezing in Syracuse, team plane is delayed several hours, and won’t arrive until midnight.
This could be most Mets way to start a season ever.

Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have both donated about 100,000 cans of drinking water to flooded communities in Iowa and Nebraska. Good for them. But Must. Not. Make. Bud. Light. And. Coors. Light. Jokes.

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Yale has rescinded admission of a student whose family paid $1.2 million to get her in. Wonder if they get their money back.

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Gosh, Fox News website even finds room for poisonous baby toads story in Florida but isn’t covering Trump administration now trying to strike down ALL the Affordable Care Act. Guess it’s not like Republicans have pre-existing conditions?

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Let’s be VERY clear here. GOP and Trump administration are trying to outlaw abortion as early as 6 weeks, before a woman might know she is pregnant, as well as in cases where the fetus has no chance to survive more than a few days.
But as to pre-natal care, or ICU costs for a severely-disabled dying baby, well, then we’re on our own.
Once again, pro-life my ass.

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Your reminder, nobody claimed Richard Nixon burglarized Watergate himself; the House voted to impeach for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.

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So a President, a lawyer and a porn star walk into a bar. And the porn star is the only one who isn’t a punch line.

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Talking about the Mueller Report when we’ve only seen the Barr Letter is like reviewing a movie when you’ve only seen the trailer!

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MLK -“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” I believe that, but can it shorten up a little now?

Never been so bummed NOT to have my bracket busted  – with Duke UCF game.

Those last shots UCF came so close to going in, have to wonder if God had Duke in his/her bracket.

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LeBron James had his 8th triple-double of the season tonight, and said, “I know we’re out the playoff race, but if I’m on the court I’m going to play how I play, and I play to win. So, I will never cheat the game. There’s such a thing called ‘game gods.’ And they’re watching no matter what you’re doing, and it’s our obligation to go out and be a professional, and that’s what I’m about.”

If the “game gods” are “watching no matter what you’re doing” presume they were also watching when James tried to dump most of his team and get Anthony Davis?

Noah Syndergaard is criticizing NY’s contract talks with Jacob deGrom and complaining that team will stop in Syracuse after Spring Training, instead of New York City, to workout before Opening Day.
So season hasn’t started yet and already Mets are in midseason form.

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Jim Jordan speaking for GOP this morning because, hey, if you’ll turn a blind eye to sexual abuse of young men, you’ll have no problem ignoring obstruction of justice.

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Dr.Dre brags “My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time! And I’m sure the $70 MILLION donation Dre made six years ago had nothing to do with it.

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And why would anyone doubt Mueller Report interpretation of the AG that Trump installed because Jeff Sessions wasn’t enough of a toady.

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Trump fundraising email already. “the Mueller Report proves what I have been saying since Day One: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION — COMPLETE EXONERATION.”
Fine, go ahead, release the report.

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Trump is apparently thrilled with Barr’s statement on Mueller report. Quick, can someone ask Donald publicly while he’s in a good mood about releasing ENTIRE report to make him look even better?

While we wait for the release of actual Mueller report instead of the Barr letter, why aren’t people focusing on fact that even Barr doesn’t deny that the report confirms that Russia was actively interfering in our election on Trump’s behalf?

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Mueller did not leak. Mueller report WILL leak. Period.

Sweet Sixteen almost halfway set, and no team higher than a 5 seed is in. So has Cinderella chosen spring break over March Madness?

LSU’s Tremont Waters won game for the Tigers against Maryland with a great shot with 1.6 seconds left. Although replays showed he clearly traveled. Maybe it was just Waters’ way of proving he is NBA ready.

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Last night  San Antonio Spurs  had come back from 19 points down on the road to take a 6 point lead with 4 minutes remaining against Rockets,  and James Harden went on a tear to end up with 61 points in a Houston win.

Tonight Steph Curry took the night off and the Warriors lost by 35, at home to Dallas?   Maybe this is Steve Kerr’s way of suggesting Curry is the league’s real MVP?

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Robert Kraft has released a statement saying he is “truly sorry,” but still won’t accept a plea for the standard wrist slap given to men arrested for soliciting prostitution.
And NFL complains sometimes that players need to take responsibility.

Robert Kraft apparently feels he is not guilty because he thinks he didn’t commit a crime in paying for sex. And in truth, prostitution is legal in many places. So why isn’t Kraft also leading the fight on behalf of NFL players suspended for smoking marijuana?

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Over 2 million survivors of California wildfires and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria had personal information accidentally released by FEMA, including names, addresses, birthdays, bank names, transfer and transit numbers.
Waiting for Trump to say that recently resigned FEMA administrator Brock Long did a “heckuva job.”

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So the “witch” in this witch hunt has been silent all day on Twitter. Maybe Mueller Report really poured water on him?

Thoughts for the night.
1. Everyone thinks they know what’s in Mueller Report
2. Unless you’ve actually worked on the report with Mueller you have no clue.
Everybody exhale.

When former Duke star & eventual asst coach Johnny Dawkins became Stanford head coach, his son Aubrey soon started at Palo Alto High School. Tonight Johnny, now head coach at UCF, with Aubrey on team, won 1st round March Madness for the Knights against VCU.   Good for them both.  

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And wait. I thought West Coast college basketball, except for Gonzaga was supposed to be awful this year. #Oregon #UCIrvine #Washington.

In particular, guessing UC Irvine stores are about to sell out of anteater merchandise.

So did both  Duke and UNC watch the Virginia vs  GardnerWebb game and decide that as a one seed in 1st round you only need to show up in 2nd half?

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Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby not going to White House for Stanley Cup championship visit. “I have to stay true to my values. I’m going to respectfully decline the offer.” Waiting for Trump to say “Who needs a goalie anyway?”

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Robert Kraft was caught on video tape, TWICE, paying a woman for sex acts. But doesn’t want to accept lenient plea deal that involves admitting guilt. I liked ‘I had no idea those footballs were deflated” better.

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Trump has a problem. Now General Motors says they are going to hire 400 workers at a plant north of Detroit. But to build more ELECTRIC cars. Does he applaud? Or condemn them for harming his beloved oil industry?

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Steve King, bragging about Iowans being resilient and helping each other after recent floods, which killed three people in Nebraska and Iowa  –  “We go to a place like New Orleans, and everybody’s looking around saying, ‘Who’s going to help me? ”

Uh, 1833 people weren’t looking around saying “Who’s going to help me,” because they were, you know, dead.  #Katrina

Anyone on social media please take a chill pill on Mueller report until we find out what’s in it. At this only definite thing is that we WILL find out what’s in it. Mueller’s investigation was only thing in DC that didn’t leak.

Some Trump fans saying Mueller Report would vindicate him. Okay, fine, then release the report. ALL of it.