Left Coast Sports Babe

Patriots fans feeling a bit deflated this morning.

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Tom Brady called out Patriots last night over “our attitude & our competitiveness. ” So now the big question WWGS – Who will Gisele blame?

What’s bigger shock tonight for #SFGiants fans -that Pablo Sandoval broke 0-39 streak w/ home run, or that Matt Moore pitched well for a win.

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Words I never expected to write: Buster Posey steals home.

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Meanwhile the Dodgers had a 4 run first inning against Colorado to break their losing streak at 7 games….. Oops, never mind.  (5-4 loss)

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Remembering those bumper stickers “God is coming and boy is she pissed.” Not sure about God but Mother Nature sure seems unhappy.

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Worrying where Irma will hit next, is it too late to rename storm ‘Hurricane 2017 SFGiants?” Because we all know they rarely hit anything.  #bustohell

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Eric Bolling is out at #FoxNews, allegedly for sexting photos to colleagues.   Guys, here’s a quick safety tip – NO women want to see pictures of your junk.

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Amazing how many people who don’t believe scientists on climate change now do believe in the National Weather Service.

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Hey @realDonaldTrump, until we survive #Irma maybe time to put tweets on tax reform & attacking Congress on hold for a while? #priorities

From T.C.   “Interesting to note that Tampa, Miami and the NE defense in the 4th Q all just used their Bye Weeks in week 1.”

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When I moved from Florida to California, friends asked how I could deal with the idea that we could have a major earthquake any minute. Now, admittedly there are moments when you worry, especially after a small quake, or when you think you hear or feel something.
But I thought then, and now, in some ways much easier to have no idea what might be coming, than to know a hurricane is coming, and not be able to do anything but hunker down or evacuate.
Wishing the best for everyone in Florida tonight, seriously.

Apparently the Chiefs watched the 4th quarter of last year’s Super Bowl.

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2017 is a weird @MLB year. #SFGiants somehow turned into the #Phillies, and now the #Dodgers are trying to turn into the #SFGiants.

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Grant Bisbee of McCovey Chronicles notes “The Giants have outscored the Dodgers in the second half of the season.”
Clearly a sign of the apocalypse.

Urban Meyer says it drives him “insane” when 1st-year coaches complain, saying once you start “they’re YOUR players.” Well, except after Meyer left Florida when some of them also belonged to parole officers.

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Clippers are offering new courtside seats with all-inclusive club access, waiter service and valet parking. ESPN reports a source says the price is $175,000 a seat. Well, it’s not as if buyers will have to save money for several rounds of playoff tickets.

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So the world’s chances of avoiding a nuclear holocaust may come down to Dennis Rodman?

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Zander Venezia, 16 yr-old pro surfer died while surfing in Barbados during Hurricane Irma. A fellow surfer said his last words before heading out again were “I just got the best wave of my life!”
Venezia hoped to go to the Olympics, but at least he might be this year’s front-runner for the top Hurricane Darwin Award.

New US govt report found women between ages of 40-59 aren’t getting enough sleep. Waiting for the next study that will find water is wet.

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I sure do miss days when the biggest controversy of the day was whether the new cast of #DWTS Dancing with the Stars really were stars.

Facebook reportedly is telling advertiser it can reach 25 million more people in the US than census data shows exist. Well, hey, guess Russian bots need friends too?

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Rush Limbaugh on Irma “These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they’re reported.” Maybe he should go report on this travesty in person?

FEMA is already running out of money after Harvey and before Irma. But hey, the priority for Americans’ safety is a wall? @realDonaldTrump

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If misery loves company then for the last couple weeks @Dodgers & @SFGiants should be best of friends.

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Although for now SF Giants in 2017 are great MLB team to watch for those who hate idea of fatalities but love watching major trainwrecks.

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Ezekiel Elliott’s  6 game suspension upheld for now, but latest delay means he will play in NBC’s nationally televised Sunday Night game.   Sure it’s just a coincidence

So bad enough @realDonaldTrump wouldn’t announce his #DACA ban in person. But did he have to traumatize children by sending a Keebler elf?

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As awful as the  SF Giants have played in 2017, the Dodgers might be playing worse this week. #Miserylovesevenbriefcompany

And Giants pitchers haven’t given up four home runs in one game to J.D. Martinez. Yet.

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But now SF Giants high-priced closer Mark Melancon will need surgery. Well, at least this won’t be a problem in the playoffs. #2017

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Because nothing says NCAA is really about amateur student athletes like Monday Night COLLEGE football…. #TENNvsGT

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Another reason to be an Anglophile: Britain gets Prince William & Kate announcing they’re having a 3rd child, while the US gets Kim and Kanye are breeding a third child via a surrogate.

Great moments in travel. When you have a tight international connection, have to go through Passport control, and the woman in front of you absolutely cannot find her boarding pass in her purse.  Then she starts digging in her rolling bag, and after a few minutes she triumphantly produces it. And security guy sighs. “That is your arrival boarding pass.”. Search begins again. And second security person waves those behind her into another line.

A Carlow University junior apparently died earlySunday morning while “train hopping.” The University issued a statement expressing sympathy for the “tragic accident.”
Now, we were all young once, and I do feel really sad for her friends and family. But isn’t “train-hopping” less a “tragic accident” and more a Darwin?

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First Harvey, now LA Fire, and Irma approaching. Call it climate change, global warming, whatever you want; but Mother Nature seems pissed.

CNN reports that Mexico plans to send 25 trailers full of supplies including rice, beans, coffee and chocolate for Texas flood victims. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t order them stopped at the border.

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Trump to get rid of DACA, but giving Congress 6 months to replace What if they just take Obama’s name off & call it Trump Dreamer act?

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So who had South Korea in Trump insult bingo?

With National Prayer Day this weekend “by Presidential Proclamation,” can someone remind @realDonaldTrump that Jesus said “suffer little children to come unto me” not make children suffer for coming here.

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When it gets right down to it Trump just can’t stand that not only was Obama more popular than him, 44 gets more popular every day

So how many SEC teams have taken Howards off their potential future cupcake list? #UNLV

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Houston was a 45 point underdog, making the game, as far as the Vegas spread, the biggest upset in college football history.

The previous record holder was Stanford, who upset USC 10 years ago as a 39 point underdog.  No real point to bring that up, except that I just like writing it.  #Nerdnation

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Meanwhile, the Dodgers have lost 7 of 8. Maybe that series with SF Giants in mid September will be a competitive one after all?

-Todd Marinovich, 48, went 19 for 28 for 262 yards and 7 TDs in his debut with the SoCal Coyotes, a developmental pro team.   Alas, another QB who is likely to get a job offer before Colin Kaepernick

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It’s been a really tough week for Houston. But at least #Astros not only are able to play at home, they get to play #Mets. #Smallmercies

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Meanwhile, Texas lost their football opener to…. Maryland.    Would that this were a normal time where that would be the worst story for many state residents in a week.

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North Korea just conducted a nuclear test. And this is the country where Trump thinks he’s had his biggest foreign policy success.

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Trump on Harvey in Houston ” As tough as this was, it’s been a wonderful thing, I think, even for the country to watch and the world to watch. It’s been beautiful.” WTF?

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Trump called for a National Day of Prayer. Guess no one told him “You cannot serve both God and mammon.”

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And of course in Houston Trump has to put on gloves and claim “My hands are too big. #Priorities #Harvey

If we’re going to have a nuclear apocalypse this weekend guess it’s okay to have that second or third glass of wine?

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Black smoke seen coming from soon-to-be closed Russian Consulate in SF, they say “just cleaning.” Burning Donny & Vlad’s love letters?

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#WhyTrumpBlockedMe Hasn’t happened yet. But important to have goals.

Brock Osweiler will go down in history as the only undefeated Cleveland Browns quarterback.

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LSU football coach Ed Orgeron,  says for “competitive advantage” over his opponents, that the team will keep 2017 suspensions/discipline private. Translation, stars will get their wrists slapped really HARD.

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Wonder how many @MLB pitchers have had their best outing of the year against #SFGiants?

MLB admitted that the replay umpires in San Francisco made a mistake last night and took a two-run home run away from Brandon Crawford. Well, heck, that could be the difference this year between the Giants losing 99 and 100 games.

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But forget the Cowboys. Real “America’s team” is now the Houston Astros.

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Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl. The child has just been installed as an odds-on 2037 Wimbledon favorite.

A passenger onboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to New York was so disruptive that the plane had to turn around and return to Hawaii. This week he was ordered to pay the airline almost $100,000
Airlines are thinking, hmm, hiring lawyers to deal with jerks might be more profitable than flying planes.

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Too soon to tell, and with luck Hurricane  Irma will fall apart before becoming   a serious threat to the US or Caribbean. But a worst case scenario has it hitting the Southeast Coast of US hard.    Which could include Mar-a-Lago;  so if we are ever going to see some actual Trump empathy….

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Can we start a pool on what fired-resigned Trump official most likely to end up on Dancing With The Stars?

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The Kenyan Supreme Court has ordered a redo of their controversial Presidential election. You can do that? Asking for a country.

I guess I missed the Trump tweet taking credit for the August jobs report.

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White House says #DACA decision will be announced Tuesday. #WTF? DId they also announce who will be the decision’s commercial sponsor?

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A terror alert over someone “acting weird” caused tourists to be locked inside Eiffel Tower tonight. Fear itself is winning. #Paris

On a brighter note for SF Giants fans, this isn’t a season like 2002 or 2016 where you think all winter about ONE game that got away.

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Los Angeles Lakers fined $500,000 for violating NBA’s anti-tampering rule after, as ESPN reports, “GM Rob Pelinka was found to have had contact with Paul George’s agent after the team had already been warned.”
$500,000? Isn’t that about has much as the team wasted for a couple games on Kobe Bryant in the last year of his contract?

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Tiger Woods has been given clearance by his doctore to start “pitching golf balls.”  At this point this seems to be as likely to result in success as Tim Tebow’s hitting baseballs.

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So with #DavidClarke resigning as Sheriff, who’s got him in the pool being hired by @realDonaldTrump before #JoeArpaio?

Well, of course we know President Obama wasn’t golfing during Katrina. He was too busy altering his Kenyan birth certificate. #sarcasm

Trump reportedly to rescind #DACA. Because nothing says humanitarianism after US natural disaster in US like kicking immigrant children out.In polite response to a friend who says Trump still “better than Hillary,” we don’t know what she would be. We know what he is. #deplorable

Florida has now suspended starting RB Jordan Scarlett & WR Rick Wells for the Michigan game, bringing the total of suspended players for the game to 10. Or as many SEC players consider that, higher math.

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With all the bad press NFL players get, often deservedly so, may I just say that JJ Watt seems to be a seriously fine human being.

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Astros returning to Houston on Saturday for a double header against NY. Which Astros president Reid Ryan says is a “welcome distraction for our city that is going through a very difficult time. We hope that we can put smiles on some faces.”
Well, it helps that the team gets to face the Mets.

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SF Giants’ Matt Moore, 4-13, has 5.49 ERA, highest of any qualified NL starting pitcher. The curse of Skeeter? #MattDuffy

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So if USA has money to build a wall, should be easy to divert $$$$ for now to Harvey relief and infrastructure?

-Trump on FEMA director Long “a man who’s really become very famous on television over last couple of days.” Working w/ Frederick Douglas?

A Houston mattress and furniture store opened itself to Hurricane Harvey victims as a shelter,  Paging Joel Osteen, this is what a House of God really is….

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“What a crowd, what a turnout,” Trump in Texas. Even average narcissistic sociopaths have to be appalled.

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Facebook will start censoring pages that publish #FakeNews So much for those who go to FB to get updates from #FoxNews

Heard the news of an accident in Paris while listening to an SF Giants game, then drove to San Francisco for a 15th anniversary dinner at Fleur de Lys, where everyone, instead of going into dinner, was gathered around a small TV in the bar, as networks had just announced her death. Hard to believe it’s been 20 years. RIP Diana, Princess of Wales.

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and a short detour on the bus to hell courtesy of Roberta K.  “Re: Melania’s shoes — an online friend of mine commented, “Melania heard they needed pumps in Houston.”

Texas Rangers refused to swap locations for series with the Houston Astros after Hurricane Harvey.   And Dallas Cowboys are going, wow, we may not even be the most hated team in Texas anymore.

Trump in Texas on #Harvey “There’s probably never been something so expensive in our country’s history.” Now, about that wall….

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Melania Trump caused a stir by showing up in Texas with her husband to make an appearanc after Harvey in  $600 Manolo Blahnik stilettos.  To be fair, they were BLACK $600 Manolo Blahnik stilettos.  Not like Melania would be disrespectful in bright colors.

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Megachurch preacher Joel Osteen might turn out to be a rich asshole who doesn’t really care about people. I’m shocked.

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Really hoping that a lot of people who might have donated to Joel Osteen’s church decide instead to give money to Hurricane Harvey relief.

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Re #NashvilleStatement – Wise words “We shall be free. When we’re free to love anyone we choose.” From that commie-pinko Garth Brooks.

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The CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Art Briles will not join their staff. Translation, the news about Baylor just reached Canada?

These days it’s almost a relief to wake up and see #BachelorinParadisetrending on Twitter.

SF Giants sending email ads already for “Giants autumn attire.” Guess there’s no need to wait for anything with potential postseason logos.

“All options are on the table.” Wait, wasn’t North Korea Trump’s foreign policy great victory? Who knew diplomacy could be so complicated?

Boston’s Logan Airport is considering charging fees to drivers who drop off or pick up passengers. Airlines are incensed. Mostly that they didn’t think of it first.

J.J Watt says if @NFL actually plays 8/31 Texans Cowboys game they should fundraise for Houston. A possible actual meaningful preseason game?

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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football league have hired former Baylor football coach Art Briles as an assistant coach. As if an 0-8 season wasn’t embarrassment enough.

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Okay, for something we can have bipartisan agreement on just being WRONG, FedEx just sent out their 2017 Holiday (as in Christmas) schedule.

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Amazon cut some Whole Foods prices up to 43%. As if regulars don’t feel somewhat ripped off for having shopped at Whole Foods already.

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A new study says four cups of coffee per day can lower risk of death. Is this of the drinker, or the people around him or her if someone with that much of a habit doesn’t get their morning caffeine?

Don’t even watch #GameofThrones but pretty sure season finale involved a lot of people dying?

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Mexico is offering aid to USA. Should anyone who wants to build that wall turn it down? @realDonaldTrump

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Scientists say climate change causes more extreme weather patterns. But I’m sure Trump and friends will say Harvey is just a coincidence.

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If both alt-right & Antifa have so much energy for protests/counter-protests maybe they can call temporary truce & help in Texas? #Harvey

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20,000 cruise passengers stuck aboard ships who can’t disembark in Galveston. Presume lots of karaoke versions of Gilligan’s Island?

Jennifer Detlefsen, daughter of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, on Trump’s transgender ban. “This man is a disgrace. I’ve tried to keep politics out of my social media feed as much as possible, but this is inexcusable. This veteran says sit down and shut the fuck up, you know-nothing, never-served piece of shit. #itmfa #wtf
Another fun Thanksgiving dinner ahead….

Okay, who needed #Finland for the win in Trump Insult Bingo?

Because finally, poetry, why not?   From British poet Jon Stallworthy, a poem I remember liking in college a long time ago. For Finland. About a time when they were getting along so well with Russia in 1939.

Snow inexhaustibly
falling on snow! Those whom
we fight are so many,
Finland so small,
where shall we ever find room
to bury them all?

With the #bustohell caveat, #HurricaneHarvey could be the worst weekend for Houston since the Oilers-Bills playoff game in 1993.

Some people thought a 30.5 point spread for Stanford vs Rice was crazy. They were right.

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But have to  wonder after seeing Stanford, ranked #14 pre-season, despite a potentially suspect offense, beat Rice 62-7,  how many SEC teams are scrambling to get the Owls on their schedule?

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Browns named DeShone Kizer regular season starting QB against Steelers. So modern day equivalent of naming deck chair manager on Titanic?

Mayweather apparently denied betting $400,000 on himself Saturday for McGregor fight. What a shame, guy only ended up pocketing $100 mill.

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So now some of us can go back to not caring about boxing without having to ignore all the headlines.

– Meg Whitman has stepped down as chairman of HP’s board on Wednesday,  fueling rumors that despite her denials of going to Uber, that the ride-share company will soon name her as CEO.  So, if so, how did Uber change Meg’s mind – a offer with surge pricing ?

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No jokes, doctors are reporting seeing patients who put sunscreen on their eyes to watch the eclipse.  On the bright side for some conservatives, this does tend to shoot down Darwin’s theory of evolution.

On same subject,  now at least five dead in Texas. Which is sad. Though have to wonder how many of them were “refused to evacuate” Darwin award winners?

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Honda confirms digital clocks on older models Pilot SUVs and Odyssey minivans have reset themselves to 00:00. Meanwhile USA GOP trying to reset our country to 1950s.

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With a barrage of Twitter attacks Sunday on Mexico has it occurred to Trump that the might need their Southern neighbor’s help after Hurricane Harvey?

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As govt tries to help Texas, be nice if Senator Cruz or Cornyn actually apologized for voting against Federal funding for Hurricane Sandy.

So someone did tell Trump that people in Texas can’t read his  self congratulatory tweets if  their phones are underwater?

Actually sorry for Julian Edelman, out for the year with torn ACL. But just guessing that outside about a 100 mile radius from Boston, no one’s shedding too many tears for #Patriots.

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Oregon State is not helping #Pac12 starting off the year in fighting East Coast bias.

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Uncertainly over Isaiah Thomas’s hip could lead to #Cavs voiding trade w/ #Celtics. Oops, Boston fans asking “how do you unburn a jersey?

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As NFL injuries pile up, guessing seriously  most season ticket holders would be happier w/ higher regular season  ticket prices & fewer pre-season games.

Well, #Stanford and #Rice‘s decision to play today in Sydney instead of Houston is looking pretty prescient.

Three Carnival Cruise Line ships will extend cruises a day to delay return to Galveston over Hurricane Harvey.  The important question  for passengers – do they get free drinks?

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Terror suspect arrested in London with a sword at Buckingham Palace, causes minor injuries to 3 policemen.
Meanwhile, on the M1 Highway about 90 minutes from London, 8 die in a massive traffic accident where 2 men arrested for dangerous driving.
Proving, once again, we have a lot more to fear from stupidity (especially when combined with testosterone) than terrorism.

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Am I the only one who doesn’t care that spoilers were released for the #GameOfThrones season finale?

At least Texans who don’t believe in climate change & science, like the National Weather Service, had a few days of blissful ignorance before weekend. #HurricaneHarvey

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Trump has pardoned Arpaio. There may be good people “on many sides.” Sheriff Arpaio isn’t one of them.

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Trump doesn’t brag about firing neo-Nazi #Gorka, but brags about pardoning racist monster #Arpaio   Sad

Homeland Security Adviser Bossert – Trump’s Camp David weekend “isn’t a trip. I wouldn’t characterize it as a trip.” Translation, no golf.

Scariest thing on #TrumpPardon: If he pardoned Arpaio, who wouldn’t he pardon?

(Tony Bruno suggests “The interuption?”)

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Joe Arpaio today ” I told my wife I don’t want nothing to do with politics, but now I’ve got to rethink that. I think I’ve got a big political message to get out.”
So does Trump think he’s going to appoint Arpaio to replace Sessions as Attorney General?

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If you aren’t convinced yet on Arpaio, remember Maricopa County voters, who knew him best, voted him out of office last year. #TrumpPardon

So why didn’t @realDonaldTrump just build a wall to keep #HurricaneHarvey out?

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Posted before the fight – From TC  “Mayweather 49-0   57-0 if u include women.”

Two Chicago bars are boycotting NFL games on TV until Colin Kaepernick is signed. Wonder how they’d feel if Kap were a bear who played like Cutler.

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Shame that #Yankees #Tigers are done playing for the season. At this point, fans might pay more for a rematch than Mayweather McGregor.

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Kevin Durant on Kyrie Irving saying he wanted a trade “he showed a lot of courage, man, because it’s hard to take that type of criticism.” Hey, it’s a free country. But courage, yeah, okay, so what kind of medal shall we give him?

For all worries about terrorists with cars, think most Americans are at more serious risk from 80-90 somethings who still insist on driving.

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Now it’s #Corker. Has there ever been anyone who criticizes @realDonaldTrump who he doesn’t lash out at like an petulant angry child?

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Good luck to everybody. They’re going to be safe.” Is that Trumpian for “The coastal towns tend Democrat so f*ck them?” #HurricaneHarvey

Hurricane Harvey really upended Trump’s weekend plans. Forced him to go to Camp David instead of Bedminster & maybe forego golf. #TheHorror

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As we watch approach of #HurricaneHarvey think George W. Bush might be forgiven for thinking “They complained about me with Katrina?”

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Wishing the best for Texans during #HurricaneHarvey. But hoping they all remember that Ted Cruz voted against federal relief after Sand

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A reminder to share with anyone in Harvey’s path. This old joke  was popular after Katrina:
Police in New Orleans knock on a woman’s door and tell her to evacuate. She responds “No, God will save me.”
Then floodwaters come into her street. People come by in a boat and tell her to get in. She responds “No, God will save me.”
Then the water level reaches into her house so she has to climb on the roof. And a rescue helicopter comes by with people yelling her to grab a rope ladder. She responds “No, God will save me.”
Then the water washes over the roof and she drowns.
At the pearly gates she asks “God, why didn’t you save me?”
And God says, “I sent police, a boat and a helicopter. What did you want?”

Not a UFC fan but  Jon Jones stripped of title again for drugs? Third time he has lost it. Maybe they should find a way to instant-test the guy BEFORE he gets in ring?

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Although really,  a DUI hit-and-run, two PED suspensions, maybe Jones really missed his calling with the NFL.

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ESPN says the happiness football fans in the country are at Ohio State. Hmm, did they mean happy or smug?

Unhappiest college football fans per ESPN are at Kansas. And many Kansas students are going “We have a football team?”

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Several members of Cleveland Browns knelt during anthem. @NFL isn’t too worried, not like the Browns are a team who’ll be on national TV or in playoffs.

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Although regarding the Cleveland Browns kneeling during National Anthem. Wonder how many fans who profess to be upset use anthem themselves as a chance for a bathroom break.

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Patriots gave the President a Super Bowl Ring during their White House Visit. Perhaps so Trump can match his BFF Putin?

In 2018 MLB apparently plans to implement a universal code of conduct for fans at games. So they didn’t already have one?

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BWI Airport was evacuated after a man indicated to authorities that there was a bomb in his luggage. No explosives were found. Are they sure he just didn’t mean he had a DVD copy of the newest Pirates of the Caribbean movie?

US State Dept Travel advisory now includes Quintana Roo – the Cancun/Cozumel/Plaza del Carmen area, saying that while crime is generally gang related, the area can be dangerous for “innocent bystanders.”   Waiting for other countries to warn  their travelers the same about USA.

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So who’s going to play #LouiseLinton on Saturday Night Live this fall?

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Cops called when Gosselins fought over kids at dentist. Hard to believe not that long ago Jon & Kate were 2 of most embarassing folks in US.

Afghanistan is ‘easy to march into, hard to march out of.'” Alexander the Great, 330 BC #definitionofinsanity @realDonaldTrump

Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using “You can’t always get what you want,” he ignores them again. Where’s good lawyer when you need one?

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Trump accuses media of “trying to take away our history and our heritage.” Uh, who’s “our”, orange man?

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For all those who wondered how long the lastest “new” Trump would last after Monday night’s speech, the answer – until they took away his teleprompter.

For all those who missed the total solar eclipse, I hear it may get really dark again as early as tonight. #SolarEclipse2017

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More people viewed Solar Eclipse than voted for @realDonaldTrump. Will Trump claim millions watched illegally?

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I think I got it, Obama took the sun away, Trump brought it back. The best, bigliest sun ever.

Meanwhile, with all the other strangeness in the world tonight, the 2017 #SFGiants did an impersonation of a very good baseball team.

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“Breaking News” that Alabama is pre-season #1 in AP poll. Uh, wouldn’t it be bigger news if they weren’t? @espn

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Tiger Woods is suing a porn site for allegedly publishing “nude selfies of him and ex Lindsey Vonn hacked from her phone”
Okay, I get it, everyone is entitled to a private life. But considering how sexts blew up his marriage, wouldn’t you think a Stanford grad like Tiger would be smart enough to learn about, say, the new Polaroid cameras.

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Trump looked at #SolarEclipse without glasses, but does it matter?#alreadyblind “There are none so blind, as those who will not see.”

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The man who allegedly ambushed shot a judge before being fatally shot himself today in Ohio was father of one of the Steubenville High School football players convicted of rape in 2013. Sounds like the snake didn’t slither far from the tree.

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Minnesota is having their worst measles outbreak and decades. And anti-vaccine forces are responding with… heightened efforts to fight immunizations?
It’s a particularly awful category of potential Darwin award when you breed and then risk your children. (and other people’s children.)

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Trump in speech tonight “Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another.” Uh, he can’t even be loyal to people he hires. (or marries.)

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Trump “We can’t repeat in Afghanistan the mistake made in Iraq. ” Nah, we’ll make newer and biglier mistakes.

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Paul Ryan on hatred and violence – “it is very important that we don’t make this partisan” Right, except when the President does it.

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Now that we’ve heard President basically talking about Charlottesville on Monday, can’t wait for Tuesday in Arizona & @realDonaldTrump rebuttal.

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Seriously can anyone imagine the outrage if President Obama and his family had hit the Secret Service limit for the year.

If Trump wants to prove science is #FakeNews he could help convince skeptics by just spending a few minutes looking at the eclipse.

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With today’s loss, #SFGiants were officially eliminated in the NL West.

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MLB Umps wore white wristbands as a protest to perceived increased verbal abuse by players. They couldn’t find another color? #Tonedeaf

Anyone else see the #NOvsLAC hashtag and thinking “Wait, preseason Pelicans Clippers already?

All these tweets about #MLBLittleLeagueClassic – wasn’t that the SF Giants Phillies series this weekend?

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Olympian medalist  Aly Raisman blasts USA Gymnastics for ignoring and not stopping a sex abuser doctor.   Who did they think they were, the Catholic Church?

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Powerball jackpot will grow to about $650 million. Alas of the millions who expect to win it and retire, many of them can vote.

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Breitbart political editor Matthew Boyle on Bannon’s return “We’ve been a pirate ship without a captain for a year.”
Americans are going, “Big deal, we’ve had the ship of state without a captain for almost 8 months.”

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Trump response to #USSJohnSMcCain collision & missing soldiers “That’s too bad.” Wonder how he’d response if Mar-A-Lago caught fire.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. defended Trump saying “very fine people on both sides, saying the President had “inside information.” So who called him with the information, David Duke?

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RIP Jerry Lewis. Will they put flags at half-staff in France?

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One of toughest things about living with Trump in White House is difficulty of telling what posts are real & which are the Onion.

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Some Oceanaire restaurants in various locations, owned by Landry’s, have been putting a 3% surcharge on bills to cover increases in mandatory minimum wages.   Wonder how much the surcharges would be if they isolated how much it costs to pay executive salaries?

Remember when some of us thought a Trump vacation might mean he’d just spend all his time on the golf course and give the country a break?

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Everyone worried about Trump’s base not abandoning him: remember as he says, don’t need a popular majority, electoral votes are enough.

SF Giants gave up 7 runs to the Phillies in the 6th, lost 12 to 9, and still weren’t the Bay Area team who had the ugliest night.

(49ers lost 33-14 to Broncos. And it wasn’t that close.   But heck, no player this week ended up on a police blotter..)

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At least  SF Giants didn’t sell part of their collective soul to sign Aroldis Chapman in the offseason. #smallmercies

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Dozens of NYPD cops staged a show of support today for Colin Kaepernick in Brooklyn. Of course, if any of them are Jets fans,  signing even a mediocre QB is looking pretty good right now.

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Just thinking, as much as I love sports, I think I could happily live my whole life without playing fantasy football.

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-TC from BC thinks Kap has ruled out going to the CFL, “because we don’t play the Star Spangled Banner before games.”

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The National Museum of African American History & Culture will be adding a Colin Kaperinick jersey and other items to their collection. Well, for football fans in Washington, DC it will give them an actual place to go to see an NFL jersey during the post season.

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Police say an intoxicated woman started cursing at a man fishing in a lake,  bit into his fishing line and swam off with his lure.  You guessed it, Florida.

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Trump and others seem unclear on the concept: You can be anti-hate, and anti-racism, and still support police. #LoveTrumpsHate

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So as a new week begins, wonder how many people playing the Trump firing game are one square away from “BINGO?”

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Why is Gorka still in White House? Well, Trump has to ration firings/resignations one at a time. Only has so many bright shiny distracting objects.

And so now we’re back to tweeting about Crooked Hillary Clinton. Sorest winner ever? @realDonaldTrump

Breitbart political editor Matthew Boyle on Bannon’s return “We’ve been a pirate ship without a captain for a year.”
Americans are going, “Big deal, we’ve had the ship of state without a captain for almost 8 months.”

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