Left Coast Sports Babe

Fastest woman in world? ‪#‎Olympics‬ Congrats ‪#‎ElaineThompson‬ But can she compete with ‪#‎USA‬ women rushing to be 1st at ‪#‎BlackFriday‬ sale?

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Michael Phelps, 31, won gold tonight in what was billed as his final Olympic race. And somewhere Dara Torres is thinking “Quitting so young?

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USA isn’t that strong in diving these days. Correlation to fact that motel etc. swimming pools don’t have diving boards any more for “safety?” ‪#‎Rio2016‬

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SF Giants got 6 runs for Madison Bumgarner.  Starting with 2 runs with a 2 out single. Please do not adjust your set. This is not tape-delayed from before All Star Break.

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How many young people watching Olympic volleyball & thinking “so did they start playing indoors because it’s raining on the beach? ‪#‎Rio2016‬

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Most ‪#‎Stanford‬ freshmen feel overwhelmed & awed by classmates at first. But imagine poor young woman who will be ‪#‎KatieLedecky‬‘s roommate

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A-Rod, on life post-Yankees “I’m going to take some time for myself.” Begging the question, has he ever taken time that wasn’t for himself?

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A bill to eliminate Daylight Savings time in California may appear on the November ballot in 2018. Just what Californians will want right about the time it starts to get really dark early in the evening.

SF Giants unveiled Gaylord Perry statue and gave away a commemorative figurine – The giveway was not sponsored by Vaseline. What an outrage.

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Kenny Baker, 82, who played R2-D2 in six Star Wars movies, has died. And millions of Americans are going “You mean there was a human in there?”

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I miss the days when a city trending might be because of a sporting event or something positive, instead of a shooting. ‪#‎Milwaukee‬.

Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson is blaming Obama for taking the US into Afghanistan.

So does ‪#‎KatrinaPierson‬ think President Obama took us into Afghanistan because he didn’t learn his lesson from taking us into Vietnam?

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Now @realDonaldTrump says if he doesn’t win he’s going on “nice long vacation.” Because US will not be safe with violence he’s stirring up

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Trump said at a rally that in Pennsylvania that the only way he could lose is if “cheating goes on.” And added his campaign will be keeping a close eye on the state to ensure “other people don’t come in and vote five times.”
Hmm, so is that how the Donald won the GOP primary in the first place?

Now @RealDonaldTrump is threatening to pull press credentials from @NYTimes. Does ‪#‎Trump‬ think he actually has supporters who read it?

For those who chose to watch tape delayed Olympic coverage instead of the last three hours of the 5 hour and 34 minutes SF Giants game,  they played without their manager Bruce Bochy, who felt ill and has been hospitalized in Miami. ‪

Hmm, the SF Giants’ recent play was just supposed to make FANS sick.

The best of times, the worst of times, the best of times, the worst of times. Please tell @SFGiants it’s a baseball season not a Dickens novel.

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Brandon Crawford got the game winning hit for the Giants, his 7th of the evening.  Until today, seven hits might be the number of hits the Giants have had with runners in scoring position since the All-Star break.

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So somewhere at a Miami hospital a nurse is saying “Okay, time to turn out the lights Mr. Bochy.” ‪#‎SFGiants‬

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If ‪#‎BruceBochy‬ weren’t already in the hospital this ‪#‎SFGiants‬ game might have put him there.

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SF Giants & new reliever Will Smith together may be pursuing something, but so far it is not happyness.

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Has someone told  Tuesday SF Giants’ starter  ‪#‎MattMoore‬ he’s going 9 innings yet? ‪

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#‎ESPN‬ says hiring ‪#‎JordanRodgers‬ as ‪#‎SEC‬ analyst had nothing to do w/ his being on “The Bachelorette”. And they said it with straight face.

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So Meg Whitman last week, and now former Republican Michigan Gov. William Millken has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. Come on, Mitt, you can do it. Thinking your father would have.

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Donald Trump is unveiling a new economic plan that will basically cut taxes at all income levels, and for businesses, and eliminate the estate tax. Sounds like the same sound principles of money management that have led to all those bankruptcies.

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When Mexico gets done paying for the wall are they going to pay for Trump’s tax cuts?

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So the Pro Football Hall of Fame game was canceled yesterday because the paint on the field was too hard? Seriously. ‪#‎Youhadonejob‬

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Monday was supposedly ‪#‎InternationalCatDay‬ Cats are just sniffing, EVERY day is #InternationalCatDay

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Weekend poll showed ‪#‎Clinton‬ beating ‪#‎Trump‬ in Georgia. Today ‪#‎Delta‬ Airlines, based in ATL, had a complete computer failure. ‪#‎IblameHillary‬

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Maine Senator Susan Collins says in an op-ed “I will not be voting for Donald Trump.” Fine, but it would be a little gutsier to say who she was actually voting for.

And “No one” is the same as abstaining on a bill.   #Profilesnotincourage

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Picture forwarded from New Orleans friends, real sign in an upscale neighborhood.

The IOC is bringing baseball back for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. Just as well they didn’t have the sport in Rio, but meanwhile fans who want to see professional players in decrepit substandard stadiums still have the Oakland Coliseum.

(my friend Rich, who has been to  As games, disagrees, as Rio may have better sanitation.)

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Johnny Manziel, who vowed he would get sober starting July 1, was reportedly seen drinking at a Southern California bar last weekend. Well, Manziel did say when he would start getting sober, he didn’t say when he would finish.

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Two games after trade deadline, two crippling errors at 3rd base. The curse of ‪#‎Skeeter‬ ‪#‎MattDuffy‬ ‪#‎SFGiants‬

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Bachelorette “winner” and former QB Jordan Rodgers has been cut by four pro-teams. But good news on the job front, Rodgers now says he will be an analyst this fall on the SEC Network. Well, this should stop any rumors he was on the show for the “wrong reasons.” ‪#‎sarcasm‬

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For anyone who thought airline euphemisms were confined to U.S. carriers, I give you Emirates today: Flight EK521 “has been involved in an operational incident upon landing at Dubai International Airport”
“Operational incident? Guess it sounds better than caught fire and basically exploded upon landing.
(amazingly, no fatalities on board, but one firefighter died)

Sarah Palin’s son-in-law, Dakota Meyer, himself a Medal of Honor recipient tweeted “‘If @realDonaldTrump wants to be the Commander in Chief, he needs to act like one And that cant start until he apologizes to the Khans.”
When you get called out by a member of the Palin family, you just might have a problem

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Some nutritionists with Olympic teams are worried about the potential unhealthy effects of the McDonald’s restaurant in the Olympic Village, which offers all its items free to athletes.
Well, this year the McDonald’s food is probably healthier than drinking the water..

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#‎nottheOnion‬ Donald Trump, exhibiting his exquisite sensitivity again, this time about sexual harassment at work. ““I think it’s got to be up to the individual It also depends on what’s available. There may be a better alternative; then there may not. If there’s not a better alternative, then you stay.”

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Joe Scarborough is reporting Donald Trump a few months ago asked a foreign policy expert “three times, in an hour briefing, why can’t we use nuclear weapons.”
The Trump campaign denies the report. Inclined to believe them. Why should we think the Donald would ask anybody anything?

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New ‪#‎FoxNews‬ poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 49% to 39% lead over Donald Trump. Waiting for Trump to say arithmetic is a rigged concept

Apparently at a private GOP fundraiser George W. Bush was more critical of Trump’s policies that he has been about Obama. ‪#‎upsidedownworld‬

A study published in The Journals of Gerontology found that with married couples who were 50 and older, couples who drank had “decreased negative marital quality over time.” In short, they were less irritated with each other. Well, that calls for another glass of wine.

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So SF Giants have decided they needed another starter more than they needed Matt Duffy.  But where is the cat to be named later?

Say it ain’t so. So long ‪#‎Duffy‬. But what will we do without ‪#‎Skeeter‬? ‪#‎Duffcat‬ ‪#‎SFGiants‬

So when he shows up, Yasiel Puig has been assigned to the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers. Really, haven’t OKC sports fans suffered enough with losing Kevin Durant?

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So the Blue Jays traded today for Francisco Liriano, the Cubs have Joe Nathan, and the SF Giants got another reminder that their 2003 A. J. Pierzynski trade is the gift that keeps on giving.

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In a West Virginia Walmart parking lot, a woman left her dogs in the car. They managed to get it out of park and the car ended up crashing into the store. For all that the dogs still probably drove better than some Florida snowbirds.

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Apparently @realDonaldTrump is trying to reschedule Presidential ‪#‎debates‬. Presumably until about November 15?

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One of Jeb Bush’s top advisors says she has left the GOP and will vote for Hillary Clinton if Florida is close. Uh, how will she tell if Florida is close? Using the same polling numbers that made Jeb think he had a chance?

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Nice thing about ‪#‎BacheloretteFinale‬ tonight, when ‪#‎JoJo‬ makes a mistake between 2 imperfect choices, it doesn’t really affect USA future.

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There are moments when I remember why I used to quite like Senator John McCain:

“I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates I’d like to say to Mr. and Mrs. Khan: thank you for immigrating to America. We’re a better country because of you. And you are certainly right; your son was the best of America, and the memory of his sacrifice will make us a better nation — and he will never be forgotten.”

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Question for ‪#‎JohnMcCain‬, so what exactly WOULD it take for you to say you are voting for ‪#‎HillaryClinton‬ ‪#‎HowlowcanTrumpgo‬?

Lindsey Graham, on Trump’s remarks about the Khan family “This is going to a place where we’ve never gone before, to push back against the families of the fallen,”
And somewhere Ted Cruz is going “Don’t seem so bad by comparison now do I?”

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Donald Trump has now been attacking fire marshals for turning away potential attendees to his events because they said the spaces he rented weren’t big enough. He is claiming it’s “why this country doesn’t work,” “a disgrace”, and “politics at its lowest.”
Well this should end well. ‪#‎passtheburntpopcorn‬

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Once again the question gets answered. “Have you no sense of decency, sir? Trump, doubling down on criticism of the Khan family “Border security’s very big (for me.) You have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else.

Donald Trump posted a selfie on his private plane with bucket of KFC chicken. KFC? Surprised he didn’t say Trump Tower had better chicken.

Donald Trump has signed a pledge saying he will fight internet porn if elected. Well, that’s one way to get rid of some of those pictures floating around of Melania.

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Awful story from Austin, where a Redwood City, CA woman was fatally shot, and three others injured last night at closing time in the entertainment district. The alleged killer has a record for burglary and was arrested last month for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. But hey, it’s Texas, he was released without bail. ‪#‎ifonlyallthetouristswerearmed‬

Bus to hell moment: The (alleged) South Carolina church mass murderer’s attorneys filed a legal challenge to the U.S. death penalty tonight. Well, there is always convicting him, putting him in general population, and letting the problem work itself.

Donald Trump is already complaining about the Presidential Debate Schedule being rigged.  (It was set in fall of 2015.) The Donald says two debates Tcompete with “major NFL games”. Uh, the first debate is Monday, Sept 26. Competes with MNF Falcons and Saints. OK, I’m an actual New Orleans fan who adores  Drew Brees, but have to think “major NFL game?”

(just guessing New Orleans Atlanta might be the lowest rated NFL game of the season outside Louisiana and Georgia.)

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So Trump claimed the NFL had sent him a letter complaining about the Debate schedule. The league issued a statement “while we obviously wish the Debate Commission could find another night, we did not send a letter to Mr Trump.”
Has the Donald figured, whatever else you do in the world, do not mess with the NFL? ‪#‎dumbDonald‬

Would ‪#‎TomBrady‬ like to advise @realDonaldTrump on how well it works when you lie and involve the @NFL?

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Giants won today with a come from behind win against Nationals.  Fans knew it had to get better. At least we knew the @SFGiants can’t hit into a quadruple play today.

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#‎SFGiants‬ had best record in ‪#‎MLB‬ before All-Star break, worst record since break. Forget players, how do ‪#‎Giants‬ trade for more smoke & mirrors

So apparently ‪#‎PokemonGO‬ isn’t available in Rio. Forget Zika, crime, pollution, sewage & substandard facilities, this is serious. ‪#‎Olympics‬

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Is ‪#‎Trump‬‘s attack on the family of a fallen Muslim soldier enough that even John McCain says “f*ck it, I’m voting for @HillaryClinton?

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#‎Netflix‬ was down in the US and around the world Saturday night. Hope their customer service people didn’t just tell angry callers to chill.

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Netflix was down in 13 countries tonight, including the U.S. The horror. On a Saturday night, billions of people were forced to talk to each other.

How tempting for ‪#‎HillaryClinton‬ to come on stage tonight & simply say “I am not bat-shit crazy, good night.” ‪#‎MicDrop‬ ‪#‎DemConvention‬

Watching @HillaryClinton speak tonight and wondering what color an orange man gets when when he’s red in the face. @realDonaldTrump

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#‎HillaryClinton‬ “I believe in science.” Waiting for the ‪#‎GOP‬ rebuttal.

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So where’s the bumper sticker? ‪#‎Voteforthegrownups‬ ‪#‎ClintonKaine2016

So Hillary says @realDonaldTrump can be baited by a tweet. Let’s see if he can be baited by a speech. ‪#‎DemConvention‬

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Does ‪#‎BernieSanders‬ lose a bet if he smiles? ‪#‎DemsInPhilly‬

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Whatever you say about ‪#‎HillaryClinton‬, at least when daughter introduces her no need to think “so who was her other parent? ‪#‎DemsInPhilly‬

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Donald Trump yesterday slammed Tim Kaine, he “did a terrible job in New Jersey — first act he did in New Jersey was ask for a $4 billion tax increase and he was not very popular in New Jersey and he still isn’t.”
Well, it’s not like the Donald wants a job where it really matters if you know who’s in charge of what…..

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But okay, let’s get serious. So Hillary Clinton laid out a vision for fixing many of the world’s problems. What is she going to do about the post All-Star break SF Giants?

Went into this week thinking ‪#‎TimKaine‬‘s speech might be boring. Didn’t expect how good he’d be compared to the ‪#‎SFGiants‬ offense.

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If returning to Vermont as an independent Senator doesn’t work out ‪#‎BernieSanders‬ has a real possibility of replacing ‪#‎GrumpyCat‬

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Oops, the North Carolina GOP tweeted yesterday about a blue pin Tim Kaine was wearing, saying it was “shameful” for him to wear a foreign flag. When it was a Blue Star Service pin honoring his son in the Marines.
The tweet has been deleted. So will the group next blame their teachers, or their eye doctors under Obamacare?

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So today Donald Trump said he was just “being sarcastic” when he asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails. And so if he decides to experiment with those nuclear codes will his comment the next day be, “oops, I was just kidding?”

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The Patriots’ Julian Edelman is facing a paternity suit from a Swedish model who says she is 5 1/2 months pregnant with his baby. Once again a lesson for athletes, always wear ALL your equipment.

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SF Giants were running out of pinch hitters in bottom 9th.  But How can announcers ever say there is no one left on the ‪#‎SFGiants‬ bench when ‪#‎Madbum‬ was available?

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From Bill Littlejohn “Olympic swimmers have been told to keep their mouths closed when swimming in Rio’s polluted waters.Meanwhile, there’s talk of the U.S. team training for this in the sewage waters of the Oakland Coliseum”