Left Coast Sports Babe

With a little over a week left in the season, both the Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers are 49.5 games out of first place.

And if that holds, it’s still over 10 games better than the 1962 Mets.  60 1/2 games behind the SF Giants.

Patriots cut Antonio Brown. Because of the sexual assault allegations? Or because he was taking two much attention away from Tom Brady?

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But seriously,  the woman who accused Antonio Brown of sexual assault said she now just got intimidating texts from him and has screen shots. Forgot football, this Brown might be crazy and cocky enough to run for office.

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A grocery store near Athens has removed all Irish Spring soap ahead of the Georgia vs Notre Dame game.  Soap is easy.  Let’s see all the bars get rid of Irish Whiskey.

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Commissioner Rob Manfred says MLB has not knowingly altered the ball, but said he thinks the manufacturers are doing a better job at “centering the pill.” I like “pushed into a lifeboat” better.”

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Kansas expected to receive a notice of allegations from the NCAA regarding alleged men’s basketball recruiting violations.    So this time NCAA might really slap the Jayhawks’ hands hard?

Car drives into Woodfield Mall, unclear number of possible casualties, but driver taken into custody. Alive. So we know one thing, the driver is white.

Bill de Blasio is dropping out of the 2020 Presidential race. Thereby really disappointing both his supporters.

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That moment when conservatives decry Justin Trudeau’s admittedly stupid costumes as racist and use Candace Owens as a voice to say there’s no problem with white supremacy…

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How far are we from a serious “Yes I ordered the Code Red” moment for Trump?

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Since just 4 days ago Trump tweeted we don’t need Mideast gas or oil, WTF are we doing defending Saudi Arabia?

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So how long until Susan Collins says she is “deeply troubled” by Trump’s phone call…?

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Imagine you’re a US solider being deployed to Saudi Arabia tonight, WTF do you tell your family you’re putting your life on the life for?

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After coming back from 21 points down in the 2nd quarter, Tulane was tied with Houston with 21 seconds to go in 4th quarter, at the Green Wave’s own 29 yard line. They lined up in the kneel down formation, then ran off a trick play for 18 yards.  And with 12 seconds to go QB Justin McMillan threw a pass to Jalen McCleskey, a graduate transfer who’d come back to play one year with his dad, a Tulane assistant coach, for a game-winning TD.

It’s been a rough week for New Orleans Saints, but guessing tonight that riverboat gambler coach Sean Payton is smiling.

Tom Brady tweeted “I’m turning off this game I can’t watch these ridiculous penalties anymore #TENvsJAC”

So the only ridiculous penalties Brady wants called are if somebody breathes on him?

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Josh Rosen has been named Dolphins starting QB for Saturday. An honor equal to being named first mate on the Titanic.

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The Pirates’ Felipe Vasquez was arrested and charged with statutory sexual assault. Now it’s Yankees Domingo German who’s been placed on leave under baseball’s domestic violence policy. Sometimes it seems like MLB is trying a little too hard to compete with the NFL.

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Was Justin Trudeau stupid to wear black/brown face? Absolutely. Is Justin Trudeau a racist? Absolutely not.

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Your reminder, that on September 10, 2001, Rudy Giuliani was something of a bad joke with a public and messy extra-martial affair along with very low approval ratings.

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40 plus inches of rain in parts of Texas. So when is Trump heading to Texas to throw them paper towels?

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Wonder how people in Texas feel about Trump’s taking FEMA money for his border wall now?

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If Obama said foreign leaders liked him better and he had the best intimate calls with them, maybe Trump would admit to the inappropriate conversation just to one-up him?

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The man who said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and get away with it wonders “is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially “heavily populated” call…

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In this case for Trump IF he’s telling truth about that golf course phone call to a foreign leader the solution is easy – Own the libs, release the transcript!

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Amazed Trump didn’t say he never paid Stormy Daniels for a whistle blower.

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Mean bitch karma will be cackling if this call to Ukraine takes down Trump’s Presidency, and Biden doesn’t even get the nomination

Jets safety Jamal Adams was fined $21,506 for a roughing the passer penalty against Baker Mayfield.  He posted a video clip saying “This league is a damn joke!”

So how much will Adams be fined for that comment?

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Congratulations to Bruce Bochy on his 2,000th  win, the SF Giants’ 74th of the season.  Worth noting Vegas oddsmakers thought Giants would fall just short with 73 wins in the entire 2019 season.

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At this point SF Giants hitters are going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming on the plane out of Boston..

And despite some great moments, not the best season for SF Giants fans.  On the other hand at least the team didn’t shell out big $$$ a couple years ago to sign Kenley Jansen….

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Terry Bradshaw said if he were Eli Manning after being benched that he would “pack my bags and I’d go home”
Uh, Eli has about 20 million reasons to smile on the bench.

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Pittsburgh sports fans thought the week couldn’t get much worse with Ben Roethlisberger being out for the season. Pirates All-Star pitcher Felipe Vázquez “You don’t need ID to hold my beer.”

On a lighter note, so great to hear Downton Abbey theme song on TV again with Downton Abbey Film trailer commercials.

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Hilaria Baldwin is pregnant again. So with husband Alec Baldwin this would be her fifth future ‘thoughtless little pig?”

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Bill de Blasio says he’s not dropping out the Presidential race, although a recent Siena College poll had him at zero percent.. In New York City.
And some thought his eating pizza with a fork was embarrassing…

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The massage therapist who accused Kevin Spacey of sexual assault has died. So are we living in a real-life House of Cards episode?

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Japanese Defense Minister Taro said he has not seen any intelligence indicating Iran was behind the attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
Time to move Japan up in Trump insult bingo.

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Trump yesterday ranting in California on homelessness… “I’m speaking to tenants — in some cases foreign people, foreign tenants. In many cases, they came from other countries and they moved to Los Angeles or they moved to San Francisco because of the prestige of the city, and all of a sudden they have tents.”
Gosh, wonder why he hasn’t used that rant with his “America First” rallies…

Wonder how many Trump construction projects get finished early…(Another reason for him to hate California.) .”Update -The runway construction at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) will be complete one week early and all runways are scheduled to reopen on September 19 at 9:00 p.m. local time.”

Since Christian Yelich fractured his knee cap, Milwaukee Brewers are 7-1. As we all expected.

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New England put starting left tackle Isaiah Wynn on IR with a toe injury. Now the question – which LT on a bad or mediocre team will misbehave to get himself released so he can sign with the Patriots?

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Adam Vinatieri says he’s not thinking of retiring, but “I’m going to work a lot this week to get those demons so I can go clear headed ,step on the field and just do my job.”
So will he play a motivation while stepping on a cassette player?

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Now it’s Cam Newton who might be out in week 3 with a foot injury. And backup Jets QB Trevor Siemian is probably out for the year wih a nasty ankle injury .  “I can be available” says Brett Favre.

Hurricane Humberto expected to hit Bermuda by Thursday. This will be a conundrum for Trump on how to react. It’s a foreign country, but with white people.

Trump in his New Mexico rally “I know a guy who hates his children…” So this is breaking news because Donald doesn’t hate the one kid he wants to date?

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Turns out Trump fundraiser in Bay Area was at former Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy’s home. Well, guess McNealy figures he doesn’t run a company any more that people can boycott.

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Barack Obama on Cokie Roberts – “She was a trailblazing figure; a role model to young women at a time when the profession was still dominated by men; a constant over forty years of a shifting media landscape and changing world, informing voters about the issues of our time and mentoring young journalists every step of the way. “She will be missed – and we send our condolences to her family.”

Donald Trump – ““I never met her. She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well…She was a real professional. Never treated me well, but I certainly respect her as a professional.”

I miss having a President.

Trump today in his medal ceremony for Mariano Rivera “After five years playing in the minors, in 1955, Mariano made it to the big leagues….”

1955?!  WTF? Even casual fans know the only pitcher in recent memory who played in 1955 was Jamie Moyer

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Okay, sucky news for Saints fans that Drew Brees will miss six weeks with a torn thumb ligament.
But not I guess going to get much sympathy from Steelers fans.

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Two-time Pro Bowl Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey wants to be traded. So what kind of a tantrum will he have to throw to be released so he can sign with the Patriots?

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Washington manager Dave Martinez will remain in hospital for tests after a cardiac catheterization following chest pains yesterday at the ballpark. Hope he’s okay, the 2019 Nationals bullpen has been a regular cardiac stress test

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ICE’s last raid in Northern California was apparently at the Oakland Coliseum last Monday night, at Raiders tailgates, when they “confiscated nearly $11,000 worth of counterfeit merchandise. Do we feel safer yet?

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People attending Trump fundraiser in Northern California, with tickets ranging from $1,000 up to $100,000 – apparently need to show up at a Palo Alto drop-off point Tuesday morning and will be taken to a secret fundraiser location.
Wait, Donald doesn’t want to show off his rich donor crowd like he shows off his rallies?

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Shane Gillis, one of SNL’s newest cast members, was fired for racist comments. Tonight in New Mexico, Trump pointed to Steve Cortes, on his Hispanic Advisory Council and said “He happens to be Hispanic, but I’ve never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do.”
That moment that a late-night comedy show has higher standards than POTUS.

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Saudi Arabia said Monday, that despite Yemen’s Houthi rebels claiming responsibility, the weapons used to attack their oil installations were Iranian.
And why after they were so honest about Khashoggi’s murder should we doubt anything the Saudis say?

Wouldn’t be a Saints game without an egregious bad call against New Orleans. #WhoDat

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Six Pac 12 teams are now ranked. So why isn’t UCF ranked higher, only moving up from #17 to #15 after destroying Stanford?

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Seriously, the UCF Knights football program has had a tough time getting major universities to play them, which they would need to build up their strength of schedule.  And based on what they did to Stanford it won’t get any easier.

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Not much to cheer about this September for SF Giants. But there is this – Boston Red Sox, who will also almost certainly miss the playoffs, will pay a $13.05 million luxury tax.
And that’s not as much as they paid Pablo Sandoval to play in 2019 for the Giants.

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Nothing against University of Oregon, but their uniforms give me 1970s Spencer’s Gifts black light room flashbacks.

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Yeah, as a Stanford fan I should root for the Pac 12 in all games. But….IMHO okay, it’s never a bad thing to watch USC lose.

Like many of my generation, I can remember some drunken college parties I’m glad happened before the advent of social media.
But I cannot ever remember a party where a guy waved his penis around at women and everyone thought that was okay. Period.

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If Kavanaugh sues for libel then all of these details, and more, will come out in open court. Bring. It. On.

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Kellyanne Conway says it’s important to have a President who doesn’t say “let’s study it” with decisions.
Right, because studying never helped anyone in life….

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Trump on “Meet the Press” 3 months ago said he would be willing to meet with Iran with no preconditions. Last week, Mike Pompeo said. “He is prepared to meet with no preconditions,”
Today Donald tweets “The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, “No Conditions.” That is an incorrect statement (as usual!).”

And here the media obsesses about every time Joe Biden, as he has done for decades, puts his foot in the vicinity of his mouth.

Antonio Brown saga keeps getting worse. “I feel so sorry for the Patriots” said no one outside New England.

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And now it’s alleged rape and sexual assault.    Maybe AB was more compatible with Big Ben than he thought.

Browns WR Odell Beckham Jr. wore a $190,000 luxury watch during the season opener and says he plans to keep wearing it.
Generation Z and some millennials are thinking either – a – “What’s a watch?, or b – “how do you get those solid gold Apple watches?”

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Apparently some unhappy Browns fans sprayed beer on Titans CB Logan Ryan at Cleveland’s First Energy Stadium last. Sunday.
Well, at least that won’t happen in 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium this year. Beer is FAR too expensive to waste.

(Though if OBJ is going to keep wearing that expensive watch, he had better hope the home fans don’t turn on him.)

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Kevin Durant gave an interview where he talked about never going back to the Bay Area, and complained about “the circus of the NBA,”

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Really crappy news about Christian Yelich.   Have to seriously wonder though, did the extra juice in 2019 baseballs contribute to that foul ball fracturing his kneecap?

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Trump says he fired Bolton, Bolton is tweeting reporters in real-time, including on Fox and Friends, saying he quit….
And here most of us thought to see pathetically embarrassing breakups on reality TV we had to watch stuff like “The Bachelorette.”

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Give Donald Trump credit. Many said it couldn’t be done to give John Bolton the moral high road.

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This Bolton-Trump breakup is so crazy and messy how long until someone starts talking about sex in a windmill?

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So how long until Trump calls for firing the idiot who hired Bolton?

SF Giants were themselves shut out today in Los Angeles. But  didn’t we all have the Dodgers shut out Saturday for the first time since May 19 – in a game started by SF Giants ace Tyler Beede?

Wow. Some say SF Giants and fans are overly greedy for being unhappy after 3 titles in 5 years. Red Sox fire President Dave Dombrowski one year after a World Series for being 76-67. (Which might get them a Wild Card spot in NL.)

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New Orleans Saints didn’t even play NFL opening Sunday and they are guaranteed  to be no worst than tied for first after their Monday Night Football opener.

(all three other NFC South teams lost.)

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Kansas City’s star WR Tyreek Hill, who was not suspended by NFL over allegations he abused his 3-yr-old son, was injured in the Chiefs opener. So will mean bitch karma aim for Antonio Brown next?

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And yeah, Tom Brady hasn’t raped or assaulted anyone. But he and Patriots are about only team who can get me semi-rooting for Big Ben and the Steelers by comparison.

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Only week 1 and the Jets are in midseason form.

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Yeah, I’m #VoteBlueNoMatterWho. But have we really learned nothing about even considering turning reins of the country over to a rich white man with no elected political experience who says “I alone can fix it?” #TomSteyer

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There’s a crowd-surfing video of Andrew Yang going viral. Maybe someone can get Trump jealous enough to try it at one of his rallies?

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Trump actually retweeted a picture of him with Alabama, including not only his famous Sharpie editing,  but also a cat with a laser pointer meme.  Okay, that’s something we KNOW is fake. Can anyone imagine a cat getting within 10 feet of trump?

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So we’re gone from “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” to POTUS so afraid of being caught in a lie he needs to put pressure on NOAA and US Weather Service.

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Maybe the real reason Trump canceled his meeting with Taliban. They refused to stay at Doonbeg?

I miss the days when “The Grifters” was just a movie and not a documentary on the Trump White House.

Well, at least Oakland Raiders were undefeated in the Antonio Brown era.

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But okay, after all his antics, first Antonio Brown gets Jon Gruden to say he would play in the Raiders season opener. Then Brown gets his contract voided to he can immediately sign with the Super Bowl champion Patriots.  So let this be a lesson to all kids, no matter how much talent you have sportsmanship and attitude are what really matter. Oh, wait…

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This whole Antonio Brown situation was so egregious, have to wonder how soon Roger Goodell will take action and punish the Saints?

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Been a tough year for SF Giants fans. On the other hand, have to enjoy seeing Kershaw and the Dodgers Friday night in playoff form.

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As the Tide rolled over New Mexico State, good to see that Alabama players weren’t too badly affected by the devastating hurricane in their state.

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Took Michigan two overtimes to beat Army today.  If Army had won would Trump some how have taken credit?

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Howard Schultz says he is ending his Presidential campaign. Well, it always seemed like a tall order, and rather grande-iose.

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Trump got NOAA to release a statement backing his Alabama gaffe. Sigh. NOAA is more reality-based when they aid NORAD in tracking Santa Claus.

Amy Kobluchar  “As President, I pledge that my Vice President will never stay at my resort. Oh that’s right, I don’t own a resort.”

I miss having a President with a sense of humor.

So Trump admits he was going to host the Taliban for the 18th anniversary of September 11?
Anyone but me occasionally think he REALLY is tired of being President and wants to keep acting out until even Republicans say enough?

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Maybe the real reason Trump canceled his meeting with Taliban. They refused to stay at Doonbeg?

Since college football is “amateur athletics,” as a fan, you can’t even buy a player a sandwich if you see him around town, but Notre Dame and Louisville can play on a bleeping Monday night during the school week because ESPN pays big $$$ to both schools….
Enough to make you long for the purity of pro wrestling.

Btw, how bad was the hit on Stanford QB K.J. Costello?    Even ESPN, which barely acknowledges college teams in California, wrote this   – “Costello took a shot to the head while sliding — the hit somehow didn’t draw a targeting penalty — and didn’t return.”

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Brett Favre will apparently appear in a marketing promo this week for the NFL’s SNF opener featuring the Packers and Bears. Maybe he hopes the exposure will help increase his chances for another comeback?

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Another reason I really like Velander (and have only rooted again him once, October 2012),Justin said he’d be lying if he weren’t thinking about joining the company of pitchers who have thrown at least 3 no-hitters.
How many players these days could name more than one of them?

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Remember when Tony Romo was dating Jessica Simpson and Cowboys fans thought it adversely affected his play?
Guess Kate Upton isn’t hurting Justin Verlander any.

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Meanwhile, as much as Pac 12 fans hate the really late night games, USC fans have to be thrilled most of the country was asleep Saturday night when they almost blew a game to Fresno State.

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Early news reports out of Odessa Saturday had two shooters. So just imagine if a bunch of armed civilians had decided to get in their cars and chase after the killer. Wonder how many of them would be dead now too?

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So a neighbor of the latest mass shooter in Odessa says she called police last month after he threatened her with a rifle. And that he would frequently shoot animals in his yard. But the police didn’t respond. Right, just another white guy exercising his “god-given” rights.”

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Since Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to praise himself why isn’t he talking about his great golf games this weekend while helping US prepare for Hurricane Dorian?

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From a new memoir, Call Sign Chaos, written by former Trump Defense Secretary James Mattis with former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West.
“lf you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.”

As we approach NFL preseason week 4, would anyone like to explain why there IS an NFL preseason week 4?

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Justin Verlander, talking about his ejection yesterday while Astros were leading 9-0, after a close 2-2 pitch was called a ball. Got to love the understatement of the last sentence. “I thought it was a strike. He told me he thought it was a ball. Went back and forth a little bit. Turned my back and expressed one more time I didn’t think it was outside. Probably could have used better language when I said that.”

Two airlines in Australian airlines are prohibiting all 15-inch Apple Macbook Pros from being transported in the jets’ cargo holds. Okay, with all due respect, who is stupid enough to put a laptop in checked baggage?

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Give Kirsten Gillibrand credit – she may never have broken 1% in the polls, but she has a much better grasp of reality than fellow New Yorker Bill De Blasio.

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Alan Dershowitz has now declared himself a ‘victim of the MeToo movement.” Guessing someone hasn’t gotten any invites to Martha’s Vineyard.

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Sasha Obama is going to be a freshman this year at Michigan.
How long until Donald Trump declares he’s always been a fan of “THE” Ohio State University?

More Trump “We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. ”
And now it looks like Dorian will have maximum strength when it hits FLORIDA. Add to the list of women p*ssed at Trump – Mother Nature?

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This one sadly, may not be that hard to figure out.
Trump now says children born overseas to US Military serving outside US won’t get automatic citizenship.
Senator John McCain was born while his parents were stationed in Panama.

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