Left Coast Sports Babe

How can I be a Spurs fan in Northern California?   Here’s one big reason.

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2017/01/21/popovich-has-more-to-say-about-president-trump/

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But the Spurs did play a pretty good “pre-season” game against the Cavs tonight.

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Lebron James has indicated that Gregg Popovich coaching the 2020 Olympic team might get him to join. So guess Lebron wants to try the actual experience of being coached?

Curt Schilling on Twitter  “I want to hear one, just one woman from that march give one legitimate “right” she’s afraid of ‘losing”. So insanely stupid.”

Six words – put a bloody sock in it.

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Headline “Trump begins Day 2 of Presidency with Prayers.” In this he is probably joined by many millions of Americans. #Godhelpus

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Trump said yesterday’s inaugural crowd “looked like a million people.” Well, guessing he’s pretty used to overestimating size.

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Trump  at the CIA “When I was young, we were always winning things in this country. We’d win with trade. We’d win with wars.”

Somehow missed hearing him add “We’d have won Vietnam, if I hadn’t had to get those deferments.”

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Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said “we’re going to hold the press accountable,” and insisted “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, and the photos were “intentionally framed” to downplay the crowd.
#heseemsnice

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#SpicerFacts So many people tried to get in to see the inaugural we had to build a wall around Washington DC. And Mexico paid for it.

another Spicer Fact?   People allegedly in #WomensMarch pictures were actually at inauguration instead. Media just photoshopped them in & added pink hats.

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A Kremlin spokesman said that Vladimir Putin will call Donald Trump “soon” to congratulate him. Well, it will be nice for them to open lines of communication.

Meanwhile in Austin, an estimated 50,000 women marched.  Which reportedly was the largest gathering  ever in the state.  (Well,  not involving football.)

Somewhere Molly Ivins is smiling.

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As impressive as #WomensMarch is, let’s hope we remember when we stop being focused on fighting Trump not to start fighting each other.

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In the spirit of the Women’s March and an antidote to Inaugural Week, I highly recommend Hidden Figures. Seriously.

So at this point it’s a tight battle for least-wanted gig in USA: performer at Trump inaugural or coach for 49ers.

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The Warriors destroyed Cavs tonight in their latest NBA preseason game.

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Apparently Las Vegas sports books really took a bath on this weekend’s NFL playoff games. And most Americans feel about as sorry for them as they do for the Cowboys.

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When Cubs showed up at White House, Obama tells them “it took you long enough, I’ve only got 4 days left.” #IamgoingtomissthisPresident

ESPN reports that in November, two bettors placed a $300 bet on Green Bay and planned to roll their bet over as long as the team kept winning… through the Super Bowl. Their ticket is now worth over $28,000 and will be worth over $76,000 if the Packers beat the Falcons. They then would bet the money on Green Bay against the AFC champion. Guess they figure the $76k wouldn’t be quite enough for them to afford Super Bowl tickets.

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Now scalpers are apparently losing money on Inaugural tickets that they can’t sell. So will Trump spin this as making it more affordable?

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Had Martin Luther King Jr. survived he’d be only 88 years old. Would Trump have attacked him on Twitter as “talk talk talk no action”? #MLKDAY

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Just deleted lots of emails about #MLKDAY sales Thinking when #MLK said “I have a dream” he maybe wasn’t thinking about shoes half off?

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With plagiarism charges mounting Monica Crowley steps down from Trump adminstration post Maybe still room on Melania’s speechwriting team?

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It’s #TheBachelor time again. Ah, those innocent days when watching Americans make bad choices just involved a soon-to-be broken engagement.

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Now scalpers are apparently losing money on Inaugural tickets that they can’t sell. So will Trump spin this as making it more affordable?

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For all those who have been complaining that Donald Trump is spending the last few days that he could be preparing to be Commander in Chief doing stupid stuff like attacking SNL, the President-Elect is moving on…. Now he’s found another network to attack:

“@CNN, of all places, is doing a Special Report on my daughter, Ivanka. Considering it is CNN, can’t imagine it will be great!”

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And another serious thought:  Yes, MLK and Selma and the “I have a dream” speech were half a century ago. But when an African-American man gets beaten in Evanson, IL for breaking into his OWN car, and when the Voting Rights Act is being gutted across the country, and when 13% of the American population is African-American, but they make up 35-37% of inmates, well it’s kind of a stretch to say we are in a post-racial society.

Chicago Cubs going to White House Monday instead of usual WS champion mid-season visit. So, White Sox Obama fan vs Trump?. No contest.

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There are no style points in field goal kicks. #Packers #MasonCrosby

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Joe Buck  at one point today in today’s Green Bay Dallas game “and #Rodgers throws it away…. complete to Cobb.” Good to know Buck is as competent on football as he is on baseball.

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All these imperfect AFC playoff teams & games really painful to watch for @Raiders fans who must wonder w/ Derek Carr what might have been.

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Meanwhile #SF49ers interviewing Tom Cable. Those @49ers fans who’ve been saying “Cheer up, it could be worse” might be about to be proved right.

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SF 49ers are considering Tom Cable as head coach. Yep, the same Tom Cable who was fired by Al Davis over domestic violence allegations, after Cable had broken his assistant coach’s jaw with a punch. Five words “Winning with class my ass.”

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If #DallasCowboys really are America’s team this is not a good omen for #Inauguration week.

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ESPN reported Ezekiel Elliott has received follow-up questions about his domestic violence case from July, and he is “still in the process of responding.” So there will be no resolution before the Super Bowl. I am shocked, said nobody paying attention to the NFL.

(actually wonder now with the Green Bay win if the process will suddenly miraculously speed up so any possible suspension would be over sooner in 2017.)

A Vermont University study of 16,000 people over 23 years found that regularly eating hotl peppers found to reduce the chance of dying by 13%

I’m gonna live forever!

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The latest celebrity to back out of  Trump Inaugural is Andrea Bocelli. Guess he could finally see that performing was a bad idea?   #bustohell

Trump says his Obamacare replacement plan is “all but finished.” He’ll unveil it just as soon as he defeats ISIS & releases his tax returns.

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Donald Trump  canceled MLK holiday visit to African American History museum. Maybe he just realized the museum honored than just MLK?

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Reince Priebus today stated of Walter Shaub, who has been criticizing Trump, that “the head of the government ethics ought to be careful, because that person is becoming extremely political.”

But maybe Shaub has ambitions of becoming director of the FBI?

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From T.C.  “The field at Arrowhead Stadium looked good. Those rented Zambonis did a great job.”

Six of the first eight NFL playoff games in the books.  .Only Green Bay-Dallas, and Pittsburgh-Kansas City left.

And here’s the real burning question –  will either game be the first this postseason to be decided by less than two touchdowns?

So after that performance will Jed York and 49ers try to make a trade for Brock Osweiler? #HOUvsNE

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Love rooting for old men in professional sports. Don’t love that 34 years old is considered old. #DevinHester #SEAvsATL

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San Antonio Spurs played in Mexico City tonight. With all the foreign players on the team and what Popovich has said about Trump, good thing we don’t have the wall yet. The President- Elect might not let them back in.

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#RinglingBros circus to close after 146 years. Because they couldn’t possibly compete with the daily circus in Washington?

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Thinking right about now USA really really misses Walter Cronkite.

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American Apparel is closing all its stores. “Sad, but what’s American Apparel?” said everyone over 30.

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R.I.P. Dick Gautier, 85 ,Hymie the Robot, in “Get Smart.” Right about now we could use someone like him against KAOS. “People hate, robots love.”

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Trump’s latest Twitter barrage was to attack Rep. John Lewis, who said he wasn’t an legitimate president. He said Lewis was “all talk talk talk, no action.”
Have news for the soon to be Tweeter-in-chief. “Bloody Sunday” doesn’t refer to something involving Megyn Kelly.

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Jennifer Holliday , who won a Tony for Dreamgirls, has backed out performing at the inaugural, and apologized to the LGBT community, saying she does not support the President-Elect. Standby for Trump tweeting that the Tony’s are overrated.

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New reports are that Donald Trump allegedly invited Miss Hungary to his hotel room after attending the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. Of course maybe this is shameless fake news attempt by Trump to curry favor with Bill Clinton.

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Sen. James Inhofe defended Donald Trump’s comparison of leaking intelligence agencies to Nazi Germany. “Sure, those are his words. He has a sense of humor. Isn’t that strange?”

I think i liked “Springtime for Hitler.” better.

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Donald Trump told the WSJ that he may lift Obama’s sanctions against Russia. And that he was open to meeting President Putin after he is inaugurated. Well, finally, some things where folks on both sides of the aisle believe him.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says he wants to reduce length of games. “People, particularly millennials, have increasingly short attention spans. So it’s something, as a business, we need to pay attention to.”
The average NBA game is under 2 1/2 hours. MLB, NFL and college football fans are just giggling.

Adam Silver says @NBA wants to shorten length of games to keep fan interest. Wouldn’t it make more sense to shorten length of season?

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Anyone but me thinking that Friday the 13th was a lot less scary this January than Friday the 20th?

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If someone had come up with a screenplay based on US politics over last year it would be been rejected as scary but too absurd.

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In December, Paul Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that ““it will clearly take time” to come up with an ACA replacement “It’s not going to be replaced come next football season.”
Next season? Thinking that repealing Obamacare is going to be a lot like the 49ers firing Jim Harbaugh

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Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter will be back with the team, and on the sidelines in Kansas City for the playoff game this weekend. Charges against him, which include assaulting a police officer outside a Pittsburgh bar last Sunday, have been dropped.
Well, good to see some equality before the law, as in the same rights for coaches as players?

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Bill Littlejohn, on the Chargers planning to play their first two seasons at the 27,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson: “Won’t they be embarrassed by all those empty seats.”

(of course 27,000 looks like a big crowd at the end of most of the 2016 season’s 49er games.)

If our Founding Fathers had only thought to say “a well-regulated militia with good healthcare” in the 2nd amendment….

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Now the #WSJ is calling for FBI Direct James Comey to resign. Well, yeah, what do you expect from such a liberal newspaper

Paul Anka has pulled out of performing at Trump’s inaugural. Did he get a better offer from #DWTS?

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A company called “Don’s Johns” provides many porta-potties in DC. During the inaugural Trump administration will have company’s name taped over, which is getting more publicity than maybe just leaving things alone. Well, good thing for them there is no guy named Golden with a portable shower company.

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With Ivanka & Jared Kushner moving to DC so nice to remember that many didn’t vote for Hillary because they didn’t like dynasty politics.

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As we debate Obamacare, do people really not realize that pre-existing conditions didn’t just keep poor people from getting insurance, they kept millions of people who COULD pay from getting insurance. Young, old and middle-aged. But I guess that doesn’t matter, especially to those in Congress who have benefits for life.

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In a BBC interview, Nicole Kidman said about Trump ‘So I just say, he’s now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever is the president because that’s what the country’s based on. Whatever, however, that happened, he’s there, and let’s go. For me, I’m very, very committed to women’s issues.”
She has a point, and I hope Trump is better than many of us fear.
But it’s a lot easier to make that statement when you have dual Australian citizenship.

We’re hunting a witch? Well, don’t you follow the yellow, or should I say golden, brick road?

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To all those folks who complained about having to explain blow jobs to children with Bill Clinton – how do you feel about “golden showers?”

So @realDonaldTrump, after helping lead birther movement, now tweets about a witch hunt. Not happy is he when other side has the pitchforks.

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And after that #ObamaFarewell a whole lot of folks in both parties wonder if it’s too late to repeal the 22nd amendment.

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Russians, hackers, questionable business deals, cronyism… Somewhere Richard Nixon is just shaking his head.

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CNN reporting that “Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers” presented classified documents last month to both both Obama and Trump, including
“allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.”
Standby for a fierce response from the President-Elect. Against U.S. Intelligence.

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#DeshaunWatson has declared for NFL draft. Hope memories of his great night winning National Championship sustain him during time with the Browns.

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While on vacation in the Caribbean, country singer Brett Eldredge posted an online picture of a live snake he found in a toilet. A picture, come on…..as a country singer shouldn’t he write a song about it?

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Manny Ramirez, 44, has agreed to play for the Kochi Fighting Dogs of Japan’s independent Shikoku Island League. Let’s hope Manny being Manny doesn’t affect U.S. – Japan relations.

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#MeghanMcCain tweeted “Meryl Streep’s speech is why Trump won.” If she’s such an expert maybe she should have warned dad about Sarah Palin.

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Tom Cotton attacked Cory Booker for Booker’s plans to testify against Senate colleague Jeff Sessions as Trump’s attorney general pick. calling it a “disgraceful breach of custom.”.
Where was Cotton’s outrage last year on the Senate refusing even to consider Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, or was that somehow a “graceful breach of custom?”

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Inside baseball bus to hell time: So do today’s Trump rumors mean that Moises Alou might be getting a call to serve in this administration? Callous, I know.

Anyone but me thinking – if you don’t have a team or a bet in a particular game @NFL football has become pretty boring.

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Wonder how many football fans started watching #OAKvsHOU wild-card game & switched over to watching replays of #RoseBowl. #notexactlypretty

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Draymond Green after last night’s Warriors’ loss “I’m kind of thrilled that we lost because you usually make corrections when you lose.” If that’s true, the 76ers should be the most correct team in the NBA.

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Happiest people in SF Bay Area after #Warriors late meltdown against #Grizzlies must be advertisers who bought future 4th quarter ads cheap.

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The Limited just closed all their stores. Shocking! The Limited still had stores?

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There’s a certain logic to GOP efforts to both repeal the ACA and slash social security. Without coverage fewer people live to collect decades of benefits.

In Benicia, California, police had an easy mid-afternoon arrest when an alleged drunk driver crashed her SUV – into a parked patrol car. Your move, Florida.

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Democrats in the Senate led by Cory Booker are introducing a bill against a Muslim registry.  Doesn’t matter your religion or ethnicity. If they can register Muslims, they can register you.

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Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, is now complaining that the GOP-controlled Senate has scheduled confirmation hearings too quickly for Trump’s cabinet nominees, and so the OGE is unlikely to complete their ethics reviews in time
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Now had Congress only moved to gut the OGE at the same time as the Office of Congressional Ethics, guessing Trump wouldn’t have tweeted to complain

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A CNN review found that Monica Crowley, who will serve as Trump’s senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council,   plagiarized over 50 sections of her 2012 book ?What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” from many sources. #wearegoingtoneedabiggerswamp

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More information regarding the alleged Ft. Lauderdale killer – According to the Anchorage police chief:: He was arrested & charged with criminal mischief after police received a call about a physical disturbance in Jan. 2016. He was arrested again in Feb after he violated an order to stay away from his girlfriend & their apartment. In March, police received another physical disturbance call, but “were not able to establish probable cause for an arrest” There was another DV call on Oct. 15, “but officers were told by a municipal prosecutor not to arrest him”, On Oct. 21, police received ANOTHER call accusing Santiago of strangulation, but could not establish probable cause for an arrest.

Then in November, he told the FBI the CIA was telling him to fight for ISIS.  THEN they took his gun. But they gave it back in December. The same one he allegedly used this week.

Remind me again about that well regulated militia?

Just guessing our founding fathers never imagined a world where it would be legal to check a gun AND ammunition on an airplane.

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Meanwhile in North Carolina, an 11-year-old boy was showing his 6-year-old cousin the shotgun he got for Christmas. Police say the gun accidentally went off and the girl was fatally shot. #ifonlyshewasarmed

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The average NCAA college football game last year was 3 hours and, 24 minutes. While most people, including colleges and conference commissioners think that’s too long, ESPN reports “the biggest challenge, however, is determining how to shorten the games.”
More specifically trying to get the games under 3 hours and still keep 90 minutes of commercials.

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Atlanta Hawks GM Wes Wilcox apologized after joking at a season ticket holder meeting “I know you guys may be angry with me, but I’m used to it because I have a black wife and three mixed kids, so I’m used to people being angry and argumentative.”
Proving once again that money and power are no guarantee against #cantfixstupid

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And with all the problems of the world today, even the Cleveland Cavaliers are not immune. Lebron James this morning “We got to get a point guard.”
#getouttheviolins

Wonder how many #Warriors & #Grizzlies fans turned off Friday night’s game after 3 quarters? To quote Julia Roberts in  Pretty Woman – “Mistake, big mistake.”

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So Wikileaks has tweeted – “We are thinking of making an online database with all “verified” twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.”
What could possibly go wrong?

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So Mexico will pay the U.S. back for the #GreatWall?” Is this the sort of planning that got all of those Trump companies into bankruptcy?

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Trump doesn’t have time for intelligence briefings but he does have time to get involved in a state race for the head of the GOP in Ohio. He made personal phone calls and sent letters for a woman who supported him to unseat the current chair, a Kasich supporter who had been successful for the party but was lukewarm at best for Trump.
So good to see the President-Elect acting Presidential and above petty vindictiveness.

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But yeah, Trump is so  focusing on the important issues facing our country.
Two tweets from this morning: “Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for….being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary”
#WTF?

Cowboys’ DE Randy Gregory has been suspended a year for another violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy, his third suspension of the season. He will be eligible for the 2017 postseason.
It’s all part of the league’s “12 strikes and you’re out” policy..

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Biggest problem w/ Dak Prescott is he makes it hard to hate Dallas Cowboys. Asked if he was staying in town for bye week – “Yes, Good try.”

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In Texas, a newly elected prosecutor wore a Dallas Cowboys jersey during his swearing-in ceremony last Sunday.  Well, let’s hope he’s never on the case when one of the team is a defendant.

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NFL television viewership dropped 8% this season from last, with the biggest drops Sunday and Monday nights. Roger Goodell said last month that the election was “certainly a factor.” Well, yes, that and maybe the fact that the league has a whole lot of really lousy teams?

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Florida AG Pam Bondi, who dropped her nvestigation into Trump U after Donald Trump gave her campaign $25K, is getting White House post. #Refilltheswamp