Sticking it out.

Posted August 16, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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MLB is looking at rule changes down the road to require starting pitchers to throw at least six innings, with exceptions for injuries, throwing 100 pitches, or giving up 4 or more earned runs.

So the Colorado Rockies would be off the hook.

Thought seriously, I’ve long complained about a “quality start” being considered six innings, three or fewer earned runs. (4.50 ERA) But seriously, how many pitchers get six innings how with ANY amount of earned runs.

Is corporate billionaire owned media finally getting it? Or getting that their orange goose who laid the ratings egg might finally be cooked? This is CNN’s top website headline. “Trump’s fury at Harris is increasingly driving his campaign.”

Why is Trump so furious at Kamala Harris? Because she’s kicking his (ample) derriere.

Not the Onion. Trump actually said “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks on Kamala Harris.” I’m sure this will go over real well with women voters.

President Biden, talking about lowering Presciption drug prices today. “I served in the Senate for 270 years…” “For a long time I was too damn young, now I’m too damn old…”

And – “Let me tell you what our Project 2025 is… Beat the hell out of them.” Dark Brandon is really on a roll…

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NY Times at it again. Headline “Tim Walz’s Bumpy Road to Gun Control.” If you actually read article it points out that Walz still supports 2nd amendment but after an increasing number of mass shootings. “Like America, I’ve seen enough of this. I’ve seen enough of this carnage.”

Personally, think one great quality in a leader is the ability to learn and evolve positions as the situation and facts change. And Walz has that quality.

Trump rails against immigrants. While some of his biggest, and richest supporters are Elon Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel all from South Africa, and Chamath Palihapitiya, born in Sri Lanka. Not to mention Rupert Murdoch. Every accusation is a confession

Going lower

Posted August 15, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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The 28-93 Chicago White Sox are planning to drop ticket prices in 2025.

So how much are they going to pay fans to get them to show up?

Yes, admittedly I cut Gabe Kapler a lot of slack because he’s one of the few outspoken Democrats in baseball.

And yes, also he made some analytics decisions that didn’t pass the eye test.

But could the team have been much less interesting with Gabe managing? At least the post game press conferences would have been more fun.

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Trump didn’t give an economic speech Wednesday, he gave another rambling rant of attacks and grievances. Though maybe the rant was really about how he’s getting boring and losing ratings.

In his rant accusing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz of being “beyond socialist,” Trump just attacked Tim Walz because Walz’ only adult jobs before he ran for Congress were being in the National Guard and being a teacher.

I call both those professions heroic.

Royce White is now GOP nominee for US Senate vs Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota. He’s a misogynist conspiracy theorist, who’s allegedly misused campaign funds, is friends w/ Steve Bannon & calls women “mouthy.”

Can’t imagine how GOP thinks anyone would vote for someone like that….other than for President.

WTF? Asked about Hannibal Lector, campaign spokesman Steven Cheung “Pres Trump is inspiring & gifted storyteller. Referencing pop culture is a reason he can successfully connect w/ voters. Whereas VP Harris’s as relatable as a worn-out couch.” Yes, Trump campaign brought up a VP & couches.

Why does Trump keep talking about how we were doing four years ago? Four years ago we were all stuck at home, canceling everything from travel to weddings to funerals. And over a million Americans are permanently unavailable for comment.

Anyone in the media who has participated in one of the press events where Donald Trump ignored questions and rambled on with unchecked lies, should just STFU about Kamala Harris having a press conference.

Under water

Posted August 13, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Now that the Olympics is over, we can all go back to admitting we have no clue about the fine points ofs gymnastics and platform diving. (okay, except for the fact that “no splash” is good.

Meanwhile, in baseball,, is this the way the playoff world ends for the SF Giants? Not with a bang but 1 for 17 over two days with Ruinners in Scoring Position.

(and 2 losses by one run in the 10th inning.)

In all seriousness, now that the Olympics are over, can anyone point to a Republican leader who has been joyfully celebrating USA successes? Certainly their Presidential nominee has spent the last couple weeks in a hate-filled orange fog.

Although has Donald Trump said yet if he had competed how many Olympic medals he would have won?

Royce White just won GOP primary to run against Amy Klobuchar for U.S. Senate. He’s backed by Steve Bannon, Alex Jones & the My Pillow Guy.. Royce warns of “vast conspiracy to turn Americans into serfs or slaves as part of global economy.” Need any more proof GOP is a cult?

News outlets were sent leaked Trump campaign files. They chose not to publish them.

They didn’t exercise the same restraint when Hillary’s emails were hacked.

Wonder what they’d do if someone sent them leaked Kamala Harris campaign files?

(Two of these things are not like the other..)


Fox News has a top headline saying President Biden exaggerated when he claimed today he’d travelled 17,000 miles with China’s President. Gosh, for some reason there’s no headline about DonOld Trump’s claims last night with Elon Musk.

I love Tim Walz “Can you imagine Donald Trump working at McDonald’s trying to make a McFlurry or something?” If DonOld were forced to do it, he’d probably give up in 30 seconds, possibly break the machine, and blame someone in the deep state for sabotaging him.

And note, Tim Walz is such a decent man he’s not attacking his opponent for only serving four years and not seeing combat either. He said simply to Vance “Thank you for your service and sacrifice.” We are going to have such a good man as our Vice President.

Anyone else notice that GOP loves to attack Democrats when they evolve on issues, but Republicans shrug off when their own leaders are on record with very different positions in the past – especially when it comes to former attacks on DonOld Trump?

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Now CNN was actually speculating as to if Donald Trump might drop JD Vance.

Thinking DonOld won’t do it. Because Vance has been so bad and so unpresidential JD might be insurance against the GOP actually deciding to drop HIM.

So didn’t and won’t listen to the delayed Musk-Twitter interview. But I do know that Twitter crashed. And that Musk alleges the crash was the result of a ‘DDOS attack on X’

Uh, my money’s on “firing all your best engineers and not replacing them.”

Hey media:

You can’t both attack Kamala Harris, who is campaigning nonstop, for not doing traditional press conferences while you praise Donald Trump AT THE SAME TIME for using unorthodox new ways to reach voters (like his train wreck of a Twitter conversation last night.)

Since Donald Trump can’t tel the difference between Kamala and Camilla, let me as an Anglophile make it clear: Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen of England, would also kick Trump’s derriere in a debate.

Au revoir Olympics

Posted August 11, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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As the games move in 2028 to Los Angeles, a question. What excuse will NBC use for showing all the games on a tape-delay basis in the US?

And Team USA hung on for a 67-66 victory today in the Gold medal game against France when France’s Gabby Williams hit a buzzer-beater at the end of the game, with her foot ON the three-point line, making it a two point shot.

Besides being happy forTteam USA winning the Gold, many of us can also be happy we don’t have to hear four years of “if they had only put Caitlin Clark on the team..”

(And I love Caitlin Clark. But yeah, enough.)

So has Donald Trump said yet if he had competed how many Olympic medals he would have won?

Meanwhie, while SF Giants have been winning dramatic late inning games lately, since the All-Star break they’ve been hitting .192 with RISP, (runners in scoring position) ahead of only the Chicago White Sox at .179.

.192? Though perhaps I speak for other SF Giants fans when I say “Really, that high?”

(they were 3-for-14 with runners in scoring position Sunday)

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Trump now claiming in his fundraising email: 24 HOURS UNTIL THE INTERVIEW OF THE CENTURY (with Elon Musk) Not only will this not be the interview of the century, with Rachel Maddow on Monday it won’t even be the interview of the night.

Trump is more done than an overcooked steak he puts ketchup on at Mar-A-Lago #TrumpIsDone

Death of irony alert for day: J.D. Vance attacks Kamala Harris & Tim Walz “they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better.” Could SOME so-called journalist ask JD how he feels about Trump’s nicknames for rivals?

Death of irony alert for day:

J.D. Vance attacks Kamala Harris & Tim Walz “they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better.”

Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

Since Fox News is asking ‘Who is Tim Walz?” why don’t we let Minnesotans answer question? Which they did in 2022. Walz won re-election by 7.7 %, larger margin than Joe Biden won state by in 2020. They know him, they trust him, they know Walz gets stuff done – with a smile.

GOP loves to claim they support our troops.

But if you DO join the military. They’ll hold up your promotions to make political points. They’ll fight against your veterans’ benefits. And if you go into politics as a Dem, they’ll find a way to attack you over your service.

Dancing in the dark

Posted August 10, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Does it make me an old fogey if I don’t understand why Breaking should be an Olympic sport?

Per USA Today’s Christine Brennan, American women.”are winning medals at such a terrific rate that if they jettisoned the guys, they would be third in the overall medal standings, behind only the full U.S. team and China. “


How cool would it be to see all these women at the first woman US President’s inaugural in January

Saturday’s USA win in the women’s 4 by 400 relay – by FOUR seconds, reminds me of being a kid watching Secretariat in the Belmont.

To put it in baseball terms, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is looking like the relatively unknown trade deadline pickup who catches fire and makes an already good team look like a World Series favorite

While some are arguing whether Trump’s emails were hacked by Iran or leaked by a disgruntled staffer, can we also discuss whether using Celine Dion’s “My Heart will go On” without attribution at Donald’ss Montana rally was just illegally using music or an equally disgruntled staffer putting an exclamation point on Trump’s campaign having become the modern-day voyage of the Titanic?


So now reports that Trump is calling Kamala Harris a *bitch.” 1. You don’t think as a strong woman Harris has been called worse by insecure men? 2. Tina and Amy were right on SNL Weekend Update

Da pain, da plane

Posted August 10, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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When you go from trying to jinx a no-hitter into the 7th to cheering a walk-off win in the 9th… you must be a 2024 SF Giants fan.

Just told a friend I have known since our sons played little league together that our Little League coach would have benched Camilo Doval and told him to get his head in the game.

Looks like SF Giants agreed with me.

(SF Giants sent their closer, an All-Star in 2023, who has DEFINITELY not had his head in the game, to AAA to work on stuff.)

Look, I try to avoid gender stereotypes but when you hear that two heavily favored USA relay teams competed for Olympic gold today in Paris, one won and the other got DQ’ed because they couldn’t work together simply to pass a baton… Why do I think that most people would correctly guess the DQ’ed team was the men?

Will someone explain to me how the sex-obsessed GOP can decide high school boys can’t handle being in a bathroom with tampons, but they can handle those same bathrooms having urinals where they all can check out & compare each other’s junk?

Some are freaked out about idea of boys seeing tampons in their high school bathroom. Though surely boys aren’t as clueless as my high school days? Classmate told me about her date from hell with guy, no joke, who thought Carrie had cut herself in that movie shower scene.

WTAF? Now Donald is threatening to sue the NY Times because he says he has flight logs for his fantasy helicopter trip with Willie Brown. I am sure Trump will release those flight logs when he releases his big beautiful health care plan.

Trump’s plane today did have to make a landing for mechanical reasons in Billings, Mountain, about 150 miles from Bozeman. And if that isn’t some sorrt of metaphor for his entire campaign I don’t know what is…

Trump is now fundraising off of pins with his mugshot on them. Maybe Donald’s doing a clearance sale because he realizes the next picture might be him actually behind bars?

DonOld’s act is getting tired, and the crowds are falling off. Is this finally going to be the final season of Presidential Apprentice?

Washington Post thought they needed a whole article on pronouncing Kamala Harris’s name?!! It’s Comma-la. You’re welcome.

NY Times is so all in for Trump.

Headline “Fact-Checking Claims About Tim Walz’s Record. Only if you click do you see 2nd line “Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz’s response to protests in summer of 2020, his positions on immigration “, etc…..

Don’t listen to people who don’t know Tim Walz. Listen to Minnesotans who know him. And as Amy Klobuchar who campaigned with him wrote in “The Joy of Politics” about 2022 – “Our Governor Tim Walz & the rest of our statewide ticket won. We flipped state Senate & won the House.”

NY Times so all in for Trump.

Headline “Fact-Checking Claims About Tim Walz’s Record. Only if you click do you see 2nd line “Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz’s response to protests in summer of 2020, his positions on immigration “, etc…..

Almost bronze?

Posted August 9, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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No, not a comment on Trump’s skin color.

But Team USA almost ended up playing for bronze this weekend, finally kicking it into gear against Serbia to win their semi-final game, with a huge late game from Steph Curry. They won by four after being down by as much as 17.

What did they think this was, a regular season NBA game?

Non political rant.

SF Giants closer Camilo Doval had a horribleibottom of the 9th nning, again & coughed up a 3 run lead against Washington Nationals with 2 walks then a 2 strike home run.

Giants won after a 4 run top of the 10th, so Doval got the win.

Can we change that baseball rule?

On a brighter note for SF Giants, at least they didn’t give Camilo Doval the big longterm contract he wanted last offseason.

-Noah Lyles, two days after testing positive for Covid, won a bronze medal in the men’s 200. Gutsy performance and good for him…. but uh, wonder how some of the Olympic staffers and volunteers he came in contact with over the past two days felt? Especially those with any health issues or family members with health issues.

If you were playing a drinking game taking a shot every time Trump said “crowd size” in today’s “press conference,” hope you drank a lot of water and took a couple aspirin before going to bed tonight.

When you go to your high school reunion, Tim Walz is the teacher you’re thrilled to see show up. And J.D. Vance is the guy who approaches you and you excuse yourself to head to the restroom.

J.D. Vance is actually fundraising with a picture of Kamala Harris wearing an expensive gold necklace – and attacking her as “elite.”

Assume necklace was a gift from her husband Doug, who’s a successful lawyer. But has anyone pointed out to J.D. how much Melania’s clothes cost?

Imagine if Joe Biden were still running for re-election, holed up in White House for week, then announced he would do one event, in “swing” state of Massachusetts. I’m sure media would be as tolerant & lowkey as they are now about DonOld Trump doing 1 rally this week in Montana.

And then a so called press conference today from his resort ballroom.

Today’s Trump event, It wasn’t a Press Conference, it was an SNL Cold Open.

The only “news” at this #TrumpPressConference was that Donald’s dementia is progressing rapidly.

“I don’t think the abortion issue is a big factor anymore.” Uh, Roevember is coming Donald, Roevember is coming…

Anyone else notice Donald at one point talking about “Kamala and her new friend….” Trump forgot Tim Walz’s name.

Media is missing something about today’s #TrumpMeltdown

Donald is usually in Bedminster in August. Mar-A-Lago is closed to members in summer, so it’s a lonely place. Too hot to golf.

Why is he down there? Is DonOld, is he hiding from the public? Is he hiding more documents?

The sound of one hand slapping

Posted August 8, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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The NCAA announced a four year “show cause” order for former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh over recruiting violations, which will effectively ban Harbaugh from coaching until August 2028.

Jim Harbaugh has a FIVE year, $80 million contract with the NFL Los Angeles Chargers.

Yeah, that’ll teach him.

“I really needed to see Steve Kornacki predicting medals on NBC Prime Time coverage instead of actual coverage of Olympic events” said absolutely no one.

Can’t stand Donald Trump but admit as a former reality star that he knows sometimes how to play appearances for entertainment value. But J.D. Vance makes Mike Pence look charismatic. Even thinking flies are too bored to go near him.

About a month ago there were nonstop national media stories about Biden not being visible enough, all focused on his age and if he was fit for office. Now Trump is basically AWOL and media just shrugs.

Imagine if Joe Biden were still running for re-election, holed up in White House for week, then announced he would do one event, in “swing” state of Massachusetts. I’m sure media would be as tolerant & lowkey as they are now about DonOld Trump doing 1 rally this week in Montana.

I’m okay with differing political voices on television. But the problem with interviewing people like Stephen Miller, as MSNBC’s Ari Melber did today, is that they are so incapable of telling the truth on ANYTHING that fact checking them is like trying to put out a three-alarm fire with a water pistol.

Every time GOP lies & says Democrats are responsible for problems at the border, reporters should remind them, Dem worked with conservative GOP Senator James Lankford on a border-immigration bill. That would have passed if Donald Trump hadn’t ordered GOP Senators to scuttle it.

JD Vance attacking 24-yr National Guard vet Tim Walz for not going to Iraq. In Hillbilly Elegy, JD on HIS time in Iraq as “public affairs marine.” “Sometimes I’d escort civilian press, but generally I’d take photos or write short stories about individual marines or their work”

JD Vance in Wisconsin asked the “why would someone want to have a beer with you” question. “They’d want to have a beer with me because I actually do like to drink beer.” He is SO bad at this…. #cringe

Another great thing about Tim Walz….. For millions of Americans, he just assured that Democrats win the “who would you like to have a beer with” question.


Remember when Donald Trump complained that having to sit in a courtroom was keeping him from campaigning. Now he’s got all the time in the world, and DonOld is sitting at his resort, or maybe golfing, and campaigning maybe once a week.

GOP is trying to paint Tim Walz as a left-wing radical. Since when did it become radical to think all kids should be able to eat a school lunch. Maybe Republicans are taking Jesus saying “suffer the little children” a bit too literally?

Good and bad jokes

Posted August 6, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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San Francisco Giants today were 1-13 with RISP. And 4-25 with RISP so far on the road tri where they are 3-2.

Well, silver lining as a political SF Giants baseball fan, not looking like I’ll have a lot of distraction from the election this October.

Meanwhile we’re down to the last four days of the France Olymipcs. Four days until Parisians get their city back. And until Americans no longer need to pretend to care about sports they only watch for a couple weeks – often only in highlights – every four years.

Not only did Tim Walz make an A+ Dad joke about J.D. Vance and couches. But he added to his cool Dad cred with the underreported follow-up aside “See what I did there?

And how many Americans today googled “JD Vance” and “couch?”

Minnesota has an embarrassment of riches in the comedy dept

Amy Klobuchar is smart and funny Tina Smith is smart and funny. And there was that Senator named Al Franken.

“Mind your own damn business” is gonna be a best seller on t-shirts.

GOP will throw everything they can at Tim Walz. But when you have Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin united in support of someone, that’s, to use Dark Brandon’s words, a BFD.

Tim Walz is what J.D. Vance pretends to be.

Trump does not seem happy. His fundraising email today. “TIM WALZ WILL BE THE WORST VICE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!” – He got part of it right “Tim Walz will be Vice President.”

Fox News actually trying to make big deal out of Tim Walz’s arrest for DUI 29 years ago. (He has since quit drinking alcohol.) Understand Fox & GOP now, because of his daughter Liz, is disowning Dick Cheney, who had two DUI’s. But have they forgotten George W. Bush had one too?


GOP pretends Tim Walz is “controversial” as a Governor. Uh, Walz won re-election by 52.27% to 44.61% So maybe not quite Amy Klobuchar numbers in Minnesota but these days 7.5% in anything but the bluest or reddest states is a landslide.

Sportswomanship

Posted August 6, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Heavily favored Simone Biles won her 11th Olympic medal , silver in the floor exercise. Then in a lovely moment of sportsmanship, Simone bowed on the podium with bronze medalist Jordan Chiles to gold medalist Rebeca Andrade. Gracious losing is underrated. Especially now in USA.

Returned to US Sunday from being in England for a week and took only about 30 minutes of TV to start REALLY missing BBC Olympic coverage.

Although in England, awful story last week of three young girls stabbed to death by 17-yr old born in Wales.

Far-right has been using social media to spread disinformation, including lies that he was a Muslim immigrant, to incite violence in the country. Sounds too sadly familiar.

Has Donald Trump attacked all Team USA Olympic silver and bronze winners as “suckers and losers” yet?

From NY Times “Why Josh Shapiro Would Make Such a Difference for Kamala Harris” Mark Penn

Yes, the same Mark Penn who completely FUBARed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign and didn’t even know California primary did proportional delegates and not winner take all.

Rachel Maddow and Marc Elias reminded us Monday,. Donald Trump doesn’t seem that concerned about actually winning the election in November. DonOld is trying to make sure he has election officials in place to steal the election for him.

Not getting why RJK Jr. coming forward now with the bear cub story. Is he planning to run again in 2028 with Kristi Noem?

Sherrod Brown is taking heat from some Democrats because he is skipping the Democratic Naitonal Convention.

Sherrod is a very good Democratic Senator, none of Joe Manchin’s games. . But Ohio is now red state. and friends there say he’s only Dem who can win statewide. Heard a Trump supporter at RNC say she’d vote for him.

Have no problem with Brown’s decision. Or if he doesn’t campaign with Harris. What matters is winning in November and keeping the seat blue.

A tale of two seasons..

Posted August 3, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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The Blake Snell SF Giants last minute experiment might have had the most bizarre results of any single season yet.

And maybe it just means Snell gets the really big bucks from the Dodgers next year, who can defer a contract and ignore a bad start.

Or is it too soon to talk about Snelll resigning with SF Giants in part due to his bromance with Patrick Bailey?

Snell threw his no-hitter a day after Logan Webb won with a 1-0 shutout.. So SF Giants fans might be forgiven for asking “did he win?”

(and yes, Giants did win, 1-0.)

Been in England for the first week of Olympics. Will be good to be home but damn will I miss BBC coverage. Actual sporting event focus instead of on interview and holding the best events until so late at night that most people either already know who won or went to bed or both


Just in case anyone was thinking they had an excuse for not voting this year….

Former President Jimmy Carter has told his family he’s trying to stay alive long enough so that he can vote for Kamala Harris.

George Santos was trending on Twitter.. Does he think he’s going to replace J.D. Vance?

Listening now to Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz and Andy Beshear on top of Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Gretchen Whitmer, reminded again that Democrats have a VERY deep bench.

Hey GOP. If you really believe Americans don’t agree with Democratic policies and goals, stop fighting and cheating so hard and let Dems win the White House, Senate and House. Then after 4 years you can see what the country thinks of the results.

You’re welcome.

Meanwhile, Has Trump decided who he is blaming for JD Vance yet?

Some people think Kamala Harris’s husband’s alleged affair during his first marriage is a BFD? While they are voting for a man who cheated on all three of his wives. Make it make sense.

Striking gold

Posted August 1, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Been watching BBC feed on Olympics. Even the British announcers are in awe of Simone Biles.

Sometime we see new sports on the Olympics and think “That looks like fun.”

Watching canoe slalom in Kayaks is not one of those times.

McCovey Chronicles line sort of sums up the SF Giants offense for most of this year. “Forever Giants Brandon Belt & Darin Ruf were at Oracle Park Wed night & Belt even sat in on hitters meeting. Fired up, offense delivered four hits, and & walk. But their timing was excellent.”

(SF Giants won 1-0 behind Logan Webb shutout.)


Another Dark Brandon win and great news ! Russia agrees to free Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in multi-country prisoner swap.

Has even Putin decided Trump is too unstable?

Donald Trump Jr. says people in New York City are giving him secret thumbs up signs for his father so others can’t see.

Uh, Jr, I don’t think the thumb is the finger that New Yorkers are showing you to indicate how they feel about your dad.

What’s next on the stupid/dementia meter? Is Trump going to try to accuse Kamala Harris of deciding to become a woman?

SNL is on hiatus until September, but some of this summer’s insanity from the mouths of people like Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Laura Loomer would be rejected in the writer’s room as too much of a stretch.

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If we’re discussing Presidential candidates’ origins, should we perhaps be questioning whether Donald Trump was born or hatched?

For those of my friends/readers on Twitter,

If you just started following Tim Walz, Make sure you also follow 4 strong smart women from Minnesota.

@AmyKlobuchar

@TinaSmithMN

@LtGovFlanagan

@Morrison4MN

Amy and Tina are pretty well known, and both have underrated senses of humor.

But Lt. Governor, Peggy Flanagan MIGHT be moving up in the world & Kelly Morrison should win DropoutDean Phillips’ seat

The Rings are the thing.

Posted July 31, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Traveling so getting to see BBC Olympic coverage. Absolutely glorious to see coverage focused on EVENTS. Instead of nonstop interviews and commentary and little US-centric clips of performances.

And besides cheering for UK, they cheer for top performances from athletes of all nations, not just their own.

Has Trump said which Olympic event he would have won yet?

Not sure all the nuances of the trade deadline but gather the Dodgers picked up a handful of players whose salaries total roughly the total payroll.of the Oakland As, and deferred all their salaries unti 2050?

NC Governor Roy Cooper declined to be vetted for VP. Had he run, per the state constituton, Mark Robinson, NC Lt. Gov, would have performed governor’s duties if Cooper were out of state campaigning. Robinson almost makes J.D Vance look reasonable.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune on CNN defended Vance’s “childless cat lady” comments “most people understand what he was trying to say.” Oh, I think most people, especially women, understand EXACTLY what he was trying to say.


Donald Trump is trying so hard to divorce himself from Project 2025 you’d think he used to be married to it.


Agenda 47 is Trump MAGA red lipstick on the Project 2025 pig.

As much as big media has been in the bag for Trump, do NOT trust polls now/ Especiially positive polls.

Biden bashing no longer works. But emember, Republicans always vote. So getting Democrats and Independents complacent enough to stay home helps Donald.

Investigation is ongoing & Secret Secret director was forced to resign, but Josh Hawley is demanding more firings NOW over shooting at Trump’s rally – “a good man is dead.” Wonder why Josh wasn’t upset over attempted killing of a VP & death of good man Brian Sicknick on Jan 6?

Old men and younger women

Posted July 29, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Aaron Rodgers, who will turn 41 on Dec 2, was apparently “visibly” upset for what he decided was a “sloppy” New York Jets practice.

Did he tell them to “get off his lawn?”

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-Congratulations to Great Britain for their gold medal in equestrian eventing competition – Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Rosalind Canter.

Yes, that’s two WOMEN on the team. Equestrian events at the Olympics have long been gender neutral. Have Trump or MAGA attacked them yet?

Tulsi Gabbard fundraising now w/h GOP Rep. Steve Scaliise says “I left the Democrat (sic)t Party; because I could no longer associate myself with the elitist cabal…”

Democrats are an “Elitist cabal?” Uh, Dear Leader has his own planes & resorts, while Donald’s VP choice is a hedge fundmillionaire.

Trump is going to do a “victim” interview with the FBI. Wait, aren’t ALL his interviews “victim interviews”

Leave it to a Minnesota nice politician to come up with an adjective that really got under Trump’s skin.

If Tim Walz ends up as Kamala Harris’s VP and Amy Klobuchar ends up succeeding Schumer as Majority Leader, could be a very good thing for our country.

Per complaints from some in Trump world that it’s too feminine to describe Donald etc as weird,

so here’s a way to describe Trump and his cult members with a distinctly male British noun:

We can call them Weird Wankers.

Opening weekend

Posted July 28, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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So have we all becoe experts in judging diving yet?

Synchronized diving is a two-fer though.

First, most of us realize we will never have the bravery to attempt a dive off the platform. Let alone one with twists and flips.

Second, could most of us do even a synchroniied cannonball drive?

Has anyone told Camilo Doval that it IS possible to throw a 1.2.3 inning?

Asking for a lot of exhausted SF Giants friends…

Donald boasts about firing people firom his administration but what we really need to remind everyone, as illustrated now by his running mate JD Vance, Trump is REALLY bad at hiring people in the first place.

Maybe part of the outrage against a beheaded Marie Antoinette from today’s GOP is that the French are again attacking their heroine. Republican attitude to Americans with food insecurity is very much “let them eat cake.”

You know things are going well for Democrats in the United States when the biggest GOP outrage seems now directed at… the Paris Olympics opening ceremony?!

Sme MAGA Americans who are clutching their pearls over a beheaded Marie Antoinette in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony had no problem with a noose fot VP Pence on January 6

So how long is it until at one of his rallies Trump confuses Elvis with Hannibal Lecter?

Que Les Jeux Commencent

Posted July 27, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Let the games begin, in French.

If you have BBC feed in the US… they SO beat US networks with Olympic coverage And no commercials on the opening ceremony.

It was a month ago tomorrow that President Biden debated Donald Trump. Sometimes life comes at you fast.

The WNBA All-Star Game in Phoenix drew a record number of viewers on Saturday, crushing the old mark set 21 years ago.

In all, 3.44 million people watched the game on ABC, topping the previous record of 1.44 million viewers in 2003, which featured Dawn Staley, Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie and Sue Bird.

You go girls.

Michelle and Barack Obama endorsed Kamala Harris for President. So another day where the headlines aren’t about the old guy.

Early days. But 2024 could go down in history as the year we both saved democracy and proved how useless media pundits are.

The British have a way with words… And there’s a British phrase that comes to mind that sums up J.D. Vance perfectly: Insufferable prat


SF Chronicle Sportswriter, Ann Killion

“GOP: women must bear children to have positions of power. Also GOP: women who bear children must stay home with them. See how that works?”

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As J.D. Vance doubles down on attacking women without children. your reminder GOP is also anti-welfare, anti-free healthcare and wants to cut food stamp benefits. Not to mention school lunches. (And many of them are anti-childcare too.)


Trump yesterday at this rally “You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.”

Tou aren’t sure about voting in 2024. Russia has basically eliminated voting. Trump wants to do the same in the USA. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…”

For San Antonio Spurs fans especially. Look who was one of the last to carry the Olympic torch towards the cauldron.

Plausibly live

Posted July 25, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, which happens tomorrow night, will be during the day in the US.

Making it part of about 10-20% of the games that will happen while many Americans, especially on the West Coast, are awake.

(and NBC will hold the marquis events for the end of primetime anyway.)

What a difference a division makes.

Mariners are getting Randy Arozarena from the Tampa Bay Rays.

In the AL West, Seattle 53-51, is one game behind the Astros. The Rays, at 52-51 are 4th in the AL East.

GOP may be about to find out. The only thing worse than pissing off women is pissing off women who love cats

On top of everything else, how furious is Donald Trump that Kamala Harris is getting what he feels are HIS headlines.

The media may be all in for Donald but what they mostly want is entertainment they can package for clicks and ratings. And Velveeta Voldemort has become BORING.

Secessionist Daniel Miller, who leads Texas Nationalist Movement, says Kamala Harris victory would ‘fuel’ his group’s goal— withdrawal of Texas from US or ‘Texit.’ If you needed another reason to vote blue. (Don’t worry, US would give amnesty to Austin, Houston & San Antonio.)

Maybe Republicans should have repealed the 14th and 19th amendment before they launched a war on people of color and women?

Wait, in 2020 he PROMISED.

Now Donald is returning to Minnesota for second time in 2024 Why? I’d say he wants some of that yummy State Fair fried food but the fair doesn’t start until late August.

In 2020 campaign. “I lose Minnesota, I’m never coming back”

Usha Vance, before her husband was picked as Turmp’s running mate: “Im not raring to change anything about our lives right now, but I believe in J.D., & I really love him, & so we’ll just sort of see what happens with our life.” Sounds like Usha is smarter than her husband

So for any MAGA or media amplifying GOP lies about President Biden violating the Hatch Act with his Oval Office speech…. Where were you at RNC convention in 2020 when Trump used White House lawn for his speech?

Remember this tweet?

@amyklobuchar

Get off our lawn.

Rays of hope

Posted July 25, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Robbie Ray, over a year removed from pitching after Tommy John surgery, made his first start for SF Giants today and gave up a run in the first inning to the Los Angeles Dodgers – walking two and hitting two.

Okay, who had Ray going on to throw five no hit innings and the Giants winning 8-3?

Not me.

And who had one of the first Paris Olympics cheating scandals being the Canadian women’s soccer team spying on their opponent with a drone?

Also not me.

Tne New York Yankees have fallen a game and a half behind the Baltimore Orioles for the AL East, but still hold the top wild card spot in the AL. The LA Dodgers with a 7.5 game lead in the NL West are looking for pitching help.

Both teams are expected to spend big at the trade deadline:

MLB payroll leaders for 2024.

  1. Mets − $305,624,274
  2. Yankees − $303,322,047
  3. Dodgers − $249,823,654

-So shall we have “Take me out to the ball game played on teeny tiny violins?

Not saying Biden Harris administration has been perfect with Gaza, and don’t know the solution. But anyone who is thinking of not voting for Kamala Harris in November out of sympathy for Palestinians should listen to GOP attacking Democrats today for not being pro-Israel enough.

Understand that the situation in the Mideast is complicated and Hamas is evil. But when Netanyahu talks about “sanctifying life…” Uh, how does he keep a straight face.

Netanyahu went on and on, speaking for over an hour today to Congress. Who does he think he is, Donald Trump?

Trump tonight at lie-filled rally

“They said something happened to me when I got shot, I became nice. But when you’re dealing with these very dangerous people you can’t be too nice.” Am fine with many potential VPs. But I’d so love Gabby Giffords to be our Second Lady.

Listening to the GOP being apoplectic about Kamala Harris over … plastic straws?? Does this mean if someone can come up with a biodegradable plastic straw that Harris & Democrats can brand it to win in a landslide?

How can GOP talk about DEI hires when every single person they have put on a Presidential ticket, along with their House and Senate leaders, are white men? Clearly Republicans are the ones who hire unqualified people because of quotas.

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Joe Biden always feels like he’s the luckiest guy in the world.” We are lucky as Americans to have had him as President.

Just thinking, you know who was a childless leader? Jesus.

Dew what?

Posted July 24, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls pumped his fist and shouted “Fight Fight Fight” after hitting a double last weekend, but said today it was not intended as an endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate and added he was unlikely to do it again.

Somebody told Walls that in 2020 even though Florida went red, the Tampa Bay Area voted for Biden by 7 points?

(And as a friend pointed out, Walls is hitting .160.)

Uh, not that it matters when you can’t hit, but WHY did SF Giants have their starter Jordan Hicks pitch to Shohei Ohtani for the third time – with two-outs, runners on base but a base open? More than beginning to see why Bob Melvin washed out with the San Diego Padres…

Am a longtime diet soda gal – I loved Tab back in the day, and have joked I’d drink anything sugar-free..

JD Vance said he’ll be called racist for liking Diet Mountain Dew.

Will say, while I am white, is there anyone of any race who really likes Diet Mountain Dew?

JD Vance is ranting in a Trump fundraising email about “shadow billionaires” raising money for Kamala Harris. Funeral services for irony are pending.

Mitch Landrieu nails it: “Some think VP Harris w/ all her years in many elected offices isn’t as qualified as J.D Vance who’s had ONE office, for less than 600 days… Who is the “We” in “We the people?” Some think if you’re a woman or person of color it’s never enough

Despite a fake Twitter post to the contrary,

Jimmy Carter is still alive. I remain convinced his goal is to live long enough to vote in November. As it turns out, for a candidate who will be our first woman President

Estimates are that between 25-35 percent of American households own at least one cat. Was it really a good idea for JD Vance to refer to “childless cat ladies?”

And not like older women, with or without children, or husbands, vote or anything…

Chuck Schumer, 73, is finally getting around to endorsing Kamala Harris for President.

We have an election to win, and a democracy to save. But once we have our first woman President, maybe our next US barrier to break will be having our first woman Senate Majority Leader.

Countdown

Posted July 23, 2024 by left coast sports babe
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104 days until the eleciton.

But only 4 days until the Paris Olympics start

When once again, Americans become arm-chair experts on sports they see once every four years..

Rich people’s trash is different.

James Paxton, 8-2,, with a 4.43 ERA, one of the Dodgers’ steadiest pitchers, -only he and Gavin Stone haven’t missed a turn, , was DFA’d by Los Angeles,

Dodgers were paying Paxton $7 million. But hey, at the trade deadline they’ll only probably pick up another few $20-30 million guys and defer their contracts a decade or two.

Nonpolitical rant.

Worst travel weekend of year; travel agents worked nonstop to get people to destinations after airline computer meltdown. Many airlines compensating travelers for delays w/ future travel vouchers. WHICH CANNOT BE USED BY TRAVEL AGENTS. Only for direct bookings.

Kamala Harris – “As Attorney General in California, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.

Predators who abused women Fraudsters who ripped off consumers

Cheaters who broke rules for their own gain

Hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.” #MicDrop


All you need to know about how well Kamala Harris’s campaign for President has started out is to go to right-wing media websites and see how apoplectic they are.


Rachel Maddow is reporting that Trump’s camp is second guessing J.D. Vance as V.P pick. Thoughts and prayers.

So if/when Trump loses the election in November will he blame Don Jr. for pushing J.D. Vance as his running mate?

Has Donald Trump said yet that if re-elected he will give “the late great Hannibal Lecter” a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor?

Now I know Sir Anthony Hopkins is British & can’t vote in USA.

But would be really fun for the man who won an Oscar playing Hannibal Lecter to do a commercial for Kamala Harris… “If I could vote in US, I’d vote for the person who knows I played a FICTIONAL character.”

Looks like Kamala Harris feels like she has to pick a white male running. mate.

Will GOP call whoever he is a DEI hire?