Left Coast Sports Babe

Blink if you missed it.

MLB opening day was actually two days ago, instead of next week, as the games that the Dodgers and Cubs played in Tokyo actually counted it.

But no one except REALLY rich people could afford to go, and most of the USA had no way to watch.

Maybe metaphor for the country as a whole?

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RIP George Foreman, only 76. Not a boxing fan but he was one of the greatest. Wonder how many millennials think of him as as the grill man?

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So Trump plan is to stop social security checks and then go after those who complain as fraudsters? This is like in Salem when they would throw a woman into the river and if she survived she was a witch and if she drowned she was innocent.

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Hey Wisconsin, if Elon Musk is willing to talk time out from his busy schedule of dismantling our federal democracy to spend milliions in a state Supreme Court race, Then you know he wants to dismantle democracy at a state level too.

But seriously, if you to have a foreign billionaire who couldn’t find your state on a map have to pay people $100 to vote for your candidate in a state Supreme Court election then you don’t have a very good candidate.

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Rachel Maddow brings up possibility Trump may have told truth that he did not set up a meeting at the Pentagon to talk about war plans with China. & that “his biggest campaign donor” may have done that on his own… & that NY Times story ended that little freelance plan Hmm…

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When Velveeta Voldemort said he was getting rid of DEI

Who knew he meant Democracy

Education

Intelligence?

More political stuff tomorrow.

It takes some work to make sure that you aren’t forgetting any mascots for your cat brackets.

How bad are most of the teams in the NBA Eastern Conference.

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Fewer than 20 games left in the season. Not only could there be four teams under .500 in the regular season.

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But the 27-38 Chicago Bulls are looking pretty solid for a play-in game playoff spot. But the 13-51 Washington Wizards haven’t quite been eliminated yet.

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Wonder why Fox News viewers seem brainwashed?

Nonstop articles on Fox website recently blame Biden for stranding astronauts in space. Tonight’s “NASA astronauts stranded in space since June suffer another setback.” Not a word that it is Elon’s SpaceX that scrubbed launch.

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Headline today “FDA upgrades risk of recalled tuna that could PARALYZE you.”

Well, it’s just science. Eat recalled tuna, own the libs!

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“There’s no inconsistency it’s called flexibility!

Says the orange man whose tariff policy seems to depend on his mood every morning. Maybe correlated with how many times he got up to pee in the middle of the night with all those diet cokes & a nearly 80 year old prostrae?

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MANY undocumented immigrants fly into the US and just overstay their visas.

Has Velveeta Voldemort’s ICE arrested and deported a single Irish, English, Russian or other white person?

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Rachel Maddow tonight discussed Washington Post reporting this afternoon about DOGE cuts requiring Social Security to cut phone service, requiring seniors & disabled to go online or show up in person for help.

Which resulted in outrage & Musk caved.

As she said, Every single time you don’t try you lose.

The real reason Trump hates Canada.

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If you retire at 65 in 2025, your MAXIMUM Social Security benefit would be $4,018. $48,216 a year. Average is about half that.

For 4 of 10 seniors in US, SS is more than half their income. The Tesla Velveeta Voldemort pretended to buy at the White House today cost over $80,000.

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DonOld Trump says he isn’t allowed to drive. Truth, as a 78 year old man he would need to take a test in most states even if he wasn’t President. And he would probably fail the test

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Aww, Press Secretary Barbie aka Caroline Leavitt doesn’t like hard questions.

AP reporter asked aboutn tax hikes in form of tariffs.

She responds w/ lie “tariffs are a tax cut and it’s innsulting you’re questioning my knowledge of economics. I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.”

Translation 1. Good question. 2. Yes a tariff IS a tax -but we don’t want to talk about it.

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As Amy Klobuchar keeps saying. “Chaos is up Corruption is up. Costs are up.”

What’s not up? The stock market.

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“Chaos up.” Boomeranging on tariffs -check

“Corruption up” Turning the White House into a car lot – check

“Costs up” Egg prices still high, savings in stock market retirement accounts down – check.

The 3 “Cs” of the Trumpcession.

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President Musk seems rather upset people are not buying his Swasticars. Thoughts and prayers.

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Commercials on the Superbowl that last only 30 seconds cost about $8 million.

Today’s half hour Tesla commercial on the White House lawn cost Musk about $300 million.

Considering he bought the US Presidency included in the package, Elon must think he got a pretty good deal.

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Who’d a thunk we’d miss Nixon?

Random fun. The SF Giants at 11-3 are leading all of MLB in spring training.

Yes, that is about as meaningless these days as most of the NBA regular season.

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Apparently Aaron Rodgers may be signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Just when many of us who like Pittsburgh as a city were considering forgiving the Steelers for credibly accused rapist Ben Roethisberger.

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-Add to my batsh*t bingo card for 2025.

I am quoting conservative and occasionaly crazy Ontario Premier Doug Ford

“I love Americans. Canadians love Americans There’s one person who’s caused this problem and it’s Donald Trump.

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One of the few things that isn’t taking a great fall in Trumpty Dumpty’s economy is egg prices.

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Anyone remember when Donald Trump talked on the 2024 campaign trail about a “period of transition” and a possible recession? Me neither.

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New MAGA troll farm talking point as egg prices go through the coop roof

“Biden murdered chickens.” Fine, if they want to prove this point it should be simple.

Cook and eat chickens infected with bird flu Own the libs!

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Twitter was down off and on today. Musk blamed it on attacks, maybe from a country.

Wonder if this is a way to cover up the site teetering on the edge of crashing? At some point cuts have consequences.

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Tesla stock has fallen by about half since the end of 2024.

Sort of mirrors America’s standing in the world.

Shocking SEC upset as Ole Miss upset #4 Tennessee

(Yes, in basketball.)

“Senior Jaemyn Brakefield ended the first half scoreless. But as the final seconds ticked off, Brakefield found himself at the center of a sea of red and navy blue — with fans storming the court to celebrate his heroic team-high of 19 points in 20 minutes.”

Especially shocking .. a major college basketball program now has a star who has actually spent four years at the school?

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Wondering idly if we would get better participation in politics if we could somehow make elections more like the NCAA Tournament. Favorites, underdogs, betting…

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There are legitimate arguments to have about transgender girls and women in women’s sports.

But: 1. Over 500,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championship sports. About a dozen are transgender. 2. Is this really what GOP Senate thinks is most important issue?

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Pete Buttigieg last night on “The smallest popular vote margin since Nixon. I wonder how he feels about something important being that small.” (mushroom emoji)

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This is something I didn’t know 33% of federal workers in 2024 said they would vote GOP. (16% independent.) We are gonna need a face-eating leopard emoji.

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Donold ranted last night about spending millions on “transgender mice”

The mice he referred to are “trangenic”

“Transgenic refers to “an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.” (it’s a way to study human diseases by using lab animals.)

Reminds me of all the Republicans who were against Arabic numbers.

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Egg prices going up just in time for Easter. And now Trump tariffs will jack up the prices of tequila and avocadoes before Cinco de Mayo.

What’s next, fireworks on the Fourth of July? (Actually, fireworks are mostly made in China…. hmm)

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Wired reporting DOGE paying hackers tearing apart government up to $194,000 a year- highest government salary level there is for employees. And paying them out of budgets of depts they’re gutting. Musk pretended the work was “tedious” & compensation is zero. Liars gonna lie.

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Again for those in the back. Government workers paid by strict scale. GS-1 up to GS-15.

Doesn’t matter if you have decades of experience or several degrees, scale tops out at GS-15. And young DOGE employees are being paid GS-15 salaries.

Why isn’t there bipartisan outrage?

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Canada PM Justin Trudeau: “While less than 1% of fentanyl intercepted at U.S. border comes from Canada, we’ve worked relentlessly to address this scourge, adding Canada is spending $1.3 billionn new border security measures. Tariffs aren’t about fentanyl. Maybe it’s about this?

Missed SOTU live. Did he tell America how he had “perfect brackets?

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Since Donold keeps referring to “Governor Trudeau” can we start calling Trump “The Mayor of Mar-A-Lago?

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SF Chronicle, unlike the Washington Post, is not groveling “His 100-minute speech, the longest joint speech to Congress in history, was filled with lies, distortions and flat-out meanness.”

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Trump said tonight at SOTU this was the most successful first month of a Presidency in the history of our nation. Well, yeah, if “our nation” is defined as Russia.

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Jeanne Shaheen points out that with his unreasonable & dishonest tariffs Velveeta Voldemort is breaking the deal he himself signed with Canada and Mexico.

But seriously, why would anyone make a deal with USA right now? You start seeing how his so many of his companies declared bankruptcy.

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A GOP congressman attacked support to Ukraine by saying most Americans don’t know where Ukaine is on a map.

Uh, Most Americans didn’t know where Poland was on a map in 1939 either. Hell, Most Americans couldn’t correctly identify all 50 states on a map. And his point is?

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Had a meeting in SF so had an excuse to miss SOTU live.

But have seen clips, 1 hour and 40 minutes? That speech probably lasted than at least one or two of Donald’s marriage vows?

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Wonder how many MAGAs upset by higher prices now will try to drown their sorrows with a beer. Oh wait, the Modelo they started drinking after they started boycotting Bud Light will be more expensive now too because of tariffs. Never mind.

Reportedly Rob Manfred mulling Pete Rose’s family’s request to remove Pete from MLB’s ineligible list.

So what did DonOld, who says he wants to pardon Rose, threaten Major League Baseball with?

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I miss waking up in the morning and without thinking “WTF did the President do today?”-

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Lindsey Graham turned on his “friend” of many years, President Zelenskyy because DonOld and JD Vance lost their tempers with Ukraine’s President.

Meanwhile, crickets from the South Carolina Senator about DonOld’s ignoring the terrible wildfires in his own state. “Siri, what is a lapdog?

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Today Muskrat publicly predicted a 1000% gain in Tesla’s stock value over next 5 years. This at a time when in most of world the cars are toxic?

What’s his plan, to demand all government vehicles be Teslas?

Or to make it illegal to own anything else?

Dictators gonna dictator.

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GOP/right wing media are such snowflakes.

Daily Mail headline:” Hollywood megastar goes wildly off-script w/ shock political outburst at Oscars.

“Daryl Hannah takes swipe at Donald Trump” What actually happened?

Hannah started with “Slava Ukraini.” She didn’t mention his name.

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Many of us have made jokes for years about France falling so easily to Hitler in 1940.

But now Trump & his acolytes have surrendered to Russia without Putin even sending troops into the USA. Can we referring to today’s GOP as the real surrender monkeys?

NY Times headline: “U.K., France and Ukraine to Develop Cease-Fire Plan to Present to U.S.” The leaders of the free world are leading.

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SNL Cold Open has Elon Musk interrupting Zelenskyy Trump meeting and asking Donald “What are you doing in my office?” And then talking about “Depeartment of Undoing Child Healthcare and Education. DOUCHE.” Truer than most of MSM this week.

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Give me a bleeping break

RFK Jr. in an op-ed on Fox says he is “deeply concerned” about the current measles outbreak

But “the decision to vaccinate is a personal one.”

And adds later in the op-ed. “studies have found that vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality….”

Those Senators who voted to confirm him will have blood on their hands.

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But OTOH…

To liberals/progressives complaining Democrats, who don’t have the White House, nor votes in Congress, aren’t doing enough. Will you stay home in protest or vote 3rd party for state & local elections, and/or the midterms? That’s how we got into this mess in the first place.