Left Coast Sports Babe

People are complicated. RIP Pete Rose. He was the best and worst of baseball.

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-Tom Tolbert on KNBR with the line of the night on Pete Rose.

“He probably had himself in a death pool. The ultimate push.”

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Though seriously, RIP Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who passed away of brain cancer at only age 58. He was one of the best in the NBA on and off the court., a global ambassador for the sport.

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It’s a bummer to root for a team eliminated from the postseason. OTOH, it’s was a lot less stressful today than being a Mets, Braves or Diamondbacks fan.

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Now, if the SF Giants, after a mostly lost season, hadn’t managed to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2 out of 3 the last week of the season, either the Mets or Braves would have been eliminated.

New York and Atlanta fans, you’re welcome

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Dear Buster Posey. Congratulatons on your new role as President of Baseball Operations for the SF Giants.

Now can you find a role for Pablo Sandoval in the SF Giants organization?… Vice-President of energy and FUN works for me.

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Imagine being in Valdosta, Georgia with your home or business destroyed or without power, and first responders tell you, sorry we can’t help today, we have to go protect Donald Trump for his photo op.

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Rachel Maddow has clip of J.D Vance talking on going after Harvard’s endowment & making universities pay taxes because of their politics & involvement in cultural issues. If involvement in politics & cultural issues means paying taxes, can we start taxing churches? Yesterday?

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Polls don’t matter .Votes do. But polls do show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights

JD Vance says he doesn’t think most suburban woman care about abortion rights ,and instead care about “normal things” Got news for him, reproductive rights are normal things.

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Hurricane Ian – September 28, 2022

Hurricane Sandy – October 22, 2012

Hurricane Maria, September 16, 2017 Donald Trump

“Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for hurricanes.”

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Donald Trump knows darn well it’s pronounced COMMA-La. His pronounciation is deliberately wrong & insulting. Media ignores it. Imagine if Joe Biden Kamala Harris started calling him DonOLD every time… Thinking media would be all over them for not being Presidential.

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From my high school yearbook. Back in the days when friends could disagree on politics. It’s midnight in Georgia. Jimmy Carter is 100. Proud to have supported him in 1976 and 1980. We are so lucky to live in a world with him in it.

Trump inconvenienced 100,000 fans who had to enter stadium over 90 min early & cost taxpayers big $$ in Secret Service/police costs. Just so he could see Georgia Alabama game?!

BUT NY Times reports at the bottom of their story,, he left just after halftime, right after being shown on TV.

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Seriously, fans had to be in the stadium by 5p, missing out on serious tailgate time, for a 630p start. And Trump only stayed at the game for about 90 minutes..

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Apparently many MAGA Trump fans are furious that ABC “only” showed Donald for a few seconds on TV last night at the Georgia-Alabama game. Despite the fact that most viewers tuned in to watch…the game?!!

It’s. A. Cult.

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Meanwhile the New Orleans Saints snatched defeat from the jaws of victory after… (when they had initially fallen behind after a muffed punt at the 5 yard line, Paulson Adebo committed a completely unnecessary pass interference penalty with 20 seconds left and the Falcons out of time outs, setting up a 58 yard game winning field goal.

So are the Atlanta Falcons going to give the game ball to Shaheed or Adebo?

And on top of it all just found out that Paulson Adebo is an anti-vaxxer

Proving once again, being a former Stanford football player is no guarantee of not being stupid.

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SF Giants made a late push after being eliminated, at one point winning 7 of 8 against postseason bound teams but fall JUST short of .500 by losing 2 of 3 to the Cardinals.

Kind of sums up the 2024 season.

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Hey Gen Z – it’s not just the Trump Tequila Tax. Donald’s tariffs will raise prices on much more. For starters, coffee & tea – especially boba tea. “Most of tapioca consumed in U.S. is imported. The critical ingredient, tapioca starch, is mostly grown in Asia.”

Pass it on.

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As the death toll keeps rising from Hurricane Helene, have to wonder… how many victims died because they’ve learned, increasingly from Trump to ignore warnings from experts about anything related to science?

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President Biden says he hopes to visit Helene-impacted areas this week “if it doesn’t impact emergency response. Trump announced he’d visit Valdosta, GA Monday, state needs be damned. Donald claims he’ll help distribute relief supplies. So how many paper towels will he throw?

VERY important reason to post positive things about your favorite politician(s)

. Part of GOP strategy is to convince us all politicians are crooks & liars & your vote doesn’t matter. We have many good leaders in USA. But the more good people stay home the more bad people win.

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Sorry, but the phrase “Big Ten Conference opening win for Oregon over UCLA” is just WRONG.

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IYCMI, while Asheville and Western North Carolina suffered historic flooding and many people have died, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was at a CAMPAIGN EVENT in the state where he ended up treated for second-degree burns after touching a truck exhaust pipe.

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MSM sanewashes Trump by not headlining his rambling. Fox News website doesn’t even mention his most demented lies- today on his “beach body”, migrants in your kitchen, Kamala & Joe being “mentally disabled…”

But remember headlines for days when Biden forgot a name or word?

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Some MAGA trolls chortling that MINNESOTA governor Tim Walz heard some boos when he attended Minnesota-Michigan game. Uh, imagine if J.D Vance had cojones to show up today with Ohio State jersey in East Lansing for OSU-Michigan State game. Boos would register on Richter scale.

In an unearthed video, JD Vance attacked women “who can’t have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and strugg

Did J.D. Vance make his wife Usha undergo exams to prove she was fertile before he married her? What an infernal jerk.

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Over on what I still call Twitter, when I get a tweet even semi-viral praising President Biden, always get bots and trolls claiming he is incompetent and/or doddering.

Same bots and trolls who also claim Joe controls the DOJ, FBI indeed all aspects of government against their cult leader Trump. Make it make sense.

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“Refugees seeking haven in America are poor and disease-ridden. They threaten to take jobs away from Americans & strain welfare budgets. They’re bringing with them crime. They’re accused of being rapists.”

Of course we’re talking about hate directed at Irish in 19th Century.

https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis

The Chicago White Sox today, with a loss to the Detroit Tigers are now 39-121. A record number of losses.

If anyone has seen the White Sox play this year, the hardest thing to understand, how did they win 39 games

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Congratulations to Matt Chapman, winner of the SF Giants Willie Mac award. Well since Chapman signed a long term deal, one nice change this year is that the winner should be around for a while

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Don’t look now but Indiana, Illinois and Rutgers, all at 4-0, are on top of the Big 10 College Football Standings.

Getting to CFB playoffs means money for whole conference. No dog in this fight but my sense is ACC officials made call to get Miami – an ACC team – big payoff by maybe being in playoffs. Virginia Tech took one for the team, or rather the conference on overturned Hail Mary TD.

(and yes, ACC gets one team -their champion – in, but they have a chance for more, and seeding matters

My feeling on replay review. If it takes more than 2 minutes, the call stands. Period.

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Dear Republicans. When you have a “once in a lifetime storm” on a regular basis across the United States pretty safe to say, yes, climate change is real.

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Read a sad story about a guy in Cedar Key, Florida whose popular little bar was destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
“He said he has previously turned down offers of government aid, but this time is ready to accept whatever help he can get.”

Socialism is too often defined as aid given to anyone else.

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Rick Scott, on CNN talking about hurricane flooding. (Yes, he said it)

“In Florida, most of what you die from is water not wind. …Who knows what the reason is, but something is changing, massive storms, massive storm surge, we’ve got to figure this out.” Something? 2 words: CLIMATE CHANGE

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Have to wonder, how many people who ignored orders to evacuate during Hurricane Helene and still survived (often only with help from first responders) will decide they were right? Much like those who took invermectin and still survived COVID.

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Melania Trump said of the “mainstream media” “They only fueling a toxic atmosphere…This needs to stop. This needs to stop. The country needs to unite.”

MSM is fueling a toxic atmosphere?! If you didn’t already know Melania doesn’t attend nor listen to Donald’s speeches and rallies.

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If you’re struggling to control your appetite for food and don’t want to resort to drugs, may I suggest reading stories of how RFK Jr and Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ Facetime sex with each other?

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RIP Maggie Smith, 89 Loved her in so many things, but especially as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey “A woman of my age can face reality better than most men.” True at any age, really

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are out of the WNBA playoffs. But so many great players are still in. A’Ja Wilson, Napheesa Collier, Breanna Stewart. For starters. Keep watching!

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Don’t look now but the 38-120 Chicago White Sox are on a two game winning streak.

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As Trump keeps saying that everyone who won’t vote for him, Catholics, Jews, Seniors, etc, .. (so far) should have their head examined, your reminder that psychiatrists are almost universally agreed that Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. .

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Mayor Eric Adams indicted on Federal charges in New York. He’s a Democrat. If he’s convicted he should go to jail. See how easy that is?

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The US Senate just passed legislation to continue to fund the government until Dec 20. 78-18 18 Republicans actually voted to shut everything down on Monday.

Why do so many in the GOP hate America?

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Last week Trump said that he’d “probably” meet President Zelensky. Now Donald said he wil not meet Zelensky Is there ANYTHING Trump says the truth about? Other than being a dictator on day one and punishing his enemies?

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Learned from Colin Allred today Texas has been red partly because it’s one of LOWEST turnout states in the country Only 60% of eligible voters turned out in 2020.

By comparison California had 68%, Minnesota had 80%.

If voters turn out this year, Democrats can defeat Ted Cruz.

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WTAF?

Mike Lee had unmitigated gall to oppose President Biden’s nominee to run Office of Government Ethics

because “we are too close to Presidential election & the term is 5 years.”

But Lee had no problem with ramming though lifetime SCOTUS nominee few weeks before 2020 election

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As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warns people about Hurricane Helene, can someone ask him why he believes weather science about storms but not medical science about vaccines?

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Was at SF Giants game when they scored 13 runs on Wednesday night. Joked to a friend I hoped they hadn’t used up all their runs for the week. They haven’t scored another run since.

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Florida State, who had a legitimate claim to being BCS playoff eligible last year, is now 0-3 after falling to Memphis?! Well at least Seminoles fans should be glad to have Stanford and Cal in the ACC.

Looks like Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, and San Diego State will join Oregon State and Washington State in the Pac 12 for the 2026-27 year.

They could just call it the “State 12?”

Although, really, aren’t we just moving towards referring to all college football as the NFL minor leagues?

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Trump says he will not sell DJT shares, and the stock surged. So when Donald does unload his shares will he say he had the concept of not selling?

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Fox News headline: Melania Trump releases new video with ‘warning to all Americans’ ahead of $100 million lawsuit. (Donald wants DOJ to pay him $100 for damages during FBI raid.)

Yes, raid should be a warning. If you steal classified documents the FBI can raid ANYONE’s house.

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As much as we may snicker about Trump having a “concept of a plan,” he DOES have a plan. It’s Project 2025.

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Martha Stewart didn’t endorse in 2020. Now she is endorsing VP Harris. Because Kamala “doesn’t hate New York,” and she “doesn’t hate democracy.”

Weird note. For all that MLB keeps adding Wild Cards in hopes of getting more fan interest into baseball, it now 3 weeks until the end of the MLB season, 28 games to go… And in the American League after the division leaders and three wild card leaders, no other team has more than a SIX percent chance to make the postseason

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But I guess there is the drama of playoff positioning. And if the Chicago WHite Sox will equal the 1962 Mets for futility.

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Question of the day for Who Dat fans.

Are the New Orleans Sainst this good. Or are the Carolina Panther that bad?

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SF Chronicles’s Joe Garofoli today “State legislatures collectively passed 19,000 laws in the last election cycle, many of which affect the day-to-day issues that families face far more than those passed by Congress.” Take nothing for granted. Even in purple-blue states. Vote.

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From Marc Ragovin –

English soccer player Victor Adebojejo recently missed a game when a vigorous sneeze ended up hurting his back.  Medical experts say this is the world’s worst instance of a soft tissue injury

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Cal and ASU both made SEC teams (Auburn and Mississippi State) look bad Saturday. After USC beat LSU Thursday. Somewhere the ghost of the Pac 12 is laughing

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-If Barbara Bush were still alive she’d have told her son to get off his ass and endorse Kamala Harris.

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Among other things, Chuck Schumer said he’s urging House GOP to take up & pass Senate-approved bills to protect kids online- the Kids Online Safety Act & Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act. “Urging?” How about tellling them, “quit the nonstop theatre & govern?”

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Media did cover some of Trump’s insanely violent rhetoric tonight. But only in Heather Cox Richardson’s s substack did I read DonOld also slurred words, referred to Elon Musk as “Leon,” & forgot name of ND Gov, Doug Burgum, who was on his VP short list.

Evil & dementia are a bad cocktail.

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Not that Kamala Harris should lower herself to respond to DonOld Trump’s “no boxes during the debate” rant.

But how much would we love to see Kamala tell him “Fine, no girdles either.”

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Back in 1500s England, Henry VIII clearly was becoming an increasingly deluded tyrant. But many in search of power enabled him. A number of those acolytes ended up in pieces. – Literally.

There’s a reason GOP doesn’t want us to learn about history.

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If you don’t already love Tim Walz. At an LGBTQ+ advocacy dinner in DC Saturday Night

“It’s a fact of life some people are gay. But you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children need to be shot dead in schools.”

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CNN headline “Harris preps for showdown. Trump takes informal approach. Fixed it for them. “Harris preps for showdown. Trump does nothing but rant, try to sell merchandise, and play golf.”

On Apple TV just heard the SF Giants are hitting .195 with RISP since the All-Star Break.

Worst in baseball.

Yes, including the Chicago White Sox.

Does this team need a hitting coach or a psychologist?

(a friend suggests, an exorcist?)

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Look, I don’t claim to be an expert on this sort of thing, but saw several stories and social media posts about the field in Brazil for the Eagles-Packers game being slippery and not up to NFL standards.

And then Jordan Love late in the game as he is tackled gets what looks to be a serioust leg injury?

Not like the NFL would put $$$ for a foreign game over player safety… #sarcasm

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An English professional soccer player injured himself with a “pretty hefty sneeze.”

Funny, but these things are real. I remember being pregnant over 35 years ago with a bad cold and my ob-gyn told me to stay home from work and rest. She said it was possible to cough yourself into a miscarriage.

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Sunday night football on Friday? But actually are there any days in the week now that do not have football? Especially if you throw in the college game.

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Trump’s hush money sentencing has been delayed until after Nov 5election.

Much as I want to see Donald in jail, my sense is this isn’t a bad thing.

If he were sentenced to jail, he’d not only appeal, DonOld would campaign on it & sell merchandise like he sold mug shot pictures.

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As insane as what Trump was saying this morning about women and his conviction for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, is it just possible he’s trying to distract us from talking about Project 2025?

Everyone knows DonOld is a pig. Some don’t know he wants to destroy democracy.

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box. Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?

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Don’t think these eight words from Donald Trump attacking a woman who accused him of sexual assault are getting enough attention.

“She would not have been the chosen one.”

That’s not just weird, it’s depraved.

Just wondering: Since today’s GOP is all about the rights of fetuses over women and guns over children. What happens when one of these school shooters murders a pregnant teacher?

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Liz Cheney is the principled conservative Nikki Haley’s supporters thought she was.

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Former VP Dick Cheney confirms he will be voting for Kamala Harris.

Maybe to prove it’s nothing personal Dick can offer to take J.D. Vance hunting?

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box during the debate.

Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?