Left Coast Sports Babe

Uh, oh, of the four NL West teams now jockeying for the last wild card spot, ESPN shows the SF Giants, at 39.7% chance, as the most likely of the Giants, Marlins, Cubs and Diamondbacks to make it.

Let’s hope this isn’t the kiss of death to San Francisco’s playoff hopes.

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Aaron Rodgers, 38, says after his season-ending injury “I shall rise again.”

Does he mean he’ll return to the NFL, or become a spokesperson for Viagra?

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For all the misogyny / ageism Nancy Pelosi gets about her decision to seek re-election she’s sharp as a tack & remains a Democratic fundraising queen. Also, sure seemed like Nancy, 83, got more out of her razor-thin majority in House than Chuck Schumer, 72, is getting in Senate.

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Tim Scott says Republican donors who want him to explain why he’s unmarried are only insinuating he’s gay because they “can’t say I’m Black. It sounds like we’re living in 1963 and not 2023.”

Uh, Senator Scott, with today’s GOP, try more like 1863.

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1. We’ve all attended plays with obnoxious people around. But how obnoxious do you have to be actually to be kicked out of a theater?

2. Maybe “Do you know who I am?” is not a great question to ask in Colorado when most reasonable people who know who you are, are also embarrassed you represent their state in DC?

#Boebert

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He was mediocre student, an acknowledged heavy drinker, known as a party animal & probable drug user. But his dad was VP & then President & he seriously benefited from connection & perceived influence/access. Hunter Biden? Not this time. Remember the young George W. Bush?

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Yeah, he has a nice office now in the US Capitol, but history is not going to be kind to Kevin McCarthy.

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Mitt Romney in his new book apparently talks about how GOP Senators laughed after Trump would leave a room.

Doesn’t matter if they laughed out loud at him behind his back, they kowtowed to him in public and not enough of them voted to impeach him. If they had after January 6 we wouldn’t be dealing with the nightmare of him running again. Sorry, but NOT giving these cowards credit.

SF Giants have now won 4 in a row, after losing 8 in a row. Has there ever been a team in MLB with fewer one or two game stretches of wins and losses in a season?

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Hard to believe just a couple days ago NY sports fans were thinking “Thank God baseball is almost over so we can move on from the Yankees and Mets to the Giants and Jets.”

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But hey, NY Jets may turn out to be undefeated in the Aaron Rodgers era.

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Am no Aaron Rodgers fan but you would think a multi-billion dollar league like NFL could spend their way out of their artifical turf problem.

The media loved the clickbait circus with Trump in the White House. They hate Biden’s calm competence. To put it simply, media would rather have democracy fail than have their ratings fall.

NY Times Frank Bruni though has a good question on age issues for 2024 candidates: “How would we even notice Donald Trump’s lapse into incoherence, when derangement is essentially his brand?”

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GOP claims to be pro-military. Yet Mitch McConnell cannot rein in a football coach freshman Senator who is inflicting serious harm on our Department of Defense. Who’s running the Republican party anyway?

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Donald Trump is actually fundraising by selling pictures of his mugshot with a fake signature in gold. A minimum $35 donation. Imagine what he will do with posters of himself in an orange jumpsuit

CNN headline “McCarthy faces a potential rebellion from his caucus.” Uh, Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have a GOP caucus. He has a circus in search of a tent.

Fox News reports Kevin McCarthy, will tell House Republicans that launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is “the logical next step.”

This might be first time in 2023 “logical” and “House Republicans” have been used in the same sentence.

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Finally, a rare moment of no snark. This is the 9-11 memorial in London. In Grosvenor Square. A small garden. Happened to be passing by on 9-11. Many tributes, and 67 white roses. The number of Britons killed that day.

Team USA failed to medal at the FIBA basketball World Cup as Team Canada won their first major international medal in men’s basketball in 87 years.

Not like media in the US cares that much… unless Fox and friends can blame it on Biden.

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Just doesn’t seem right as a Saints fan who doesn’t particularly like the 49ers, to see Sean Payton lose to a Jimmy Garopollo coached team …and have it be the Broncos vs the Raiders?

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Traveling overseas and seeing ESPN divided by sports and carelessly clicking on “football” is a good way to be reminded, the USA is not necessarily the center of the sports universe.

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Today is Chuck Todd’s last day at Meet the Press. Who says there is no good news these days?

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Trump was a disaster for America but great for cable TV ratings. So of course CNN wants him back in the White House.

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Sometime I think cable news reporters would cheerfully report on their own upcoming executions at the hands of an authoritarian leader than the to their minds boring competence of a democrat.

Because they’d go out with RATINGS!

Fox News headline “Why Florida’s surgeon general is advising people not to get new vaccine.” Uh, not only is Joseph Ladapo known as DeSantis lackey who spreads COVID misinformation, but also has anyone asked him why Deathsantis gave priority in 2021 for vaccines for his friends?

NOT satire. #NotTheOnion A Trump fundraising email “Now that his mugshot has taken over the Internet, he may just be the most famous man in the world.”

Uh oh, don’t tell Musk. Elon might block Donald again.

So if a grand jury recommends charges is there a statute of limitations? Asking for a country about a certain South Carolina Senator.

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Meanwhile, sure does seem like most people who want Nancy Pelosi to retire have something in common. As in a Y chromosome.

Nancy at 83 remains bad-ass.

The Kansas City Chiefs were the pre-season pick to win the Super Bowl this year.

So is it too soon for the 1972 Miami Dolphins to pop champagne?

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On Nancy Pelosi’s seeking re-election. Yes, I can understand giving someone younger a chance. OTOH, if Nancy were President no one would be talking about her not going for a second term. Even Republicans know she’s still at the top of her game.

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Again and not for the last time: DeSantis condemns drag queens. DeSantis does not condemn Nazis. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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So with Hurricane Lee now projected to be one of the biggest ever just how many record breaking storms do we need to have for some in GOP to realize climate change is real?

I’m so old that I can remember that Nazi was the second worst N word you could call someone. Now with some in the GOP, what’s next, someone claiming “Heil” is just another word for Hello?

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Fox News headline ” California city votes to ban universal COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates Huntington Beach was largely defiant of statewide mask mandates throughout pandemic.” Fine. Will Huntington Beach, the FL of CA, also demand residents avoid doctors if they get sick?

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Remembering a Winston Churchill quote that might be the perfect response for any day you feel temporarily overwhelmed by trolls on Twitter. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

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Two women win Mexican primaries; one is likely to be first female president

Now Mexico will jump ahead of us! A favorite Amy Klobuchar debate moment. “Women are held to higher standard. Otherwise we could play game called ‘Name Your Favorite Woman President.”

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Fox News wants viewers to be apoplectic over President Biden leaving Medal of Honor ceremony early yesterday over COVID cautions. But Fox just shrugged when President Trump canceled attending 2018 commemoration in France for U.S. soldiers killed during WWI over not getting wet.

Donald Trump was a gift from the gods for CNN because they could count on “Breaking News” insanity on a daily basis.

The last thing CNN wants is four more years of Joe Biden.

Competence isn’t clickbait.

Traveling for the last week and time zones have made it near impossible to keep up in real time with SF Giants scores.

This week, unlike normally, has not been a bad thing..

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Okay, who would have thought this in spring training, as the Mets play the Nationals, the two teams in September 2023 would have almost identical records? Going into tonight – NY 63-74, Washington 62-76.

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Duke upset Clemson Monday night and it wasn’t close – 28-7. Probably a good thing for Stanford that this happened after the ACC formally invited them… Clemson might have vetoed “Nerd Nation” joining if they thought the Cardinal might actually ever beat them.

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US intelligence indicates that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un expects to engage with Putin in Russia to actively advance arms. So will Donald Trump write Kim Jong Un another love letter?

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Enrique Tarrios claiming remorse at sentencing: “I am not political zealot. Inflicting harm or changing results of election was not my goal. Please show me mercy. I ask you not take my 40s from me.” Uh, you know who had his 40s taken from him? And 50s & 60s etc? Brian Sicknick.

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While right-wing media went nuts in claiming that the US women’s team being overly diverse and/or woke caused their early World Cup exit, crickets on maybe the biggest post championship hangover in history. Spain’s Jenni Hermoso has now accused Luis Rubiales of sexual assault for kissing her on the lips without her consent after the final.

Thinking many in GOP and right-wing media know darn well Tommy Tuberville’s stunt in holding up military confirmations is risking lives. They don’t care. If/when Americans die, they will just blame Biden.

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Logic has a liberal bias. – examples 1 and 2 for the night.

Republicans try to tell us that 2nd Amendment is critically important and so felons should not necessarily lose their rights to bear arms. Also Republicans, because Hunter Biden was using cocaine and bought a gun, he should be locked up and his father impeached.

Trump attacking DeSantis “He shut down Florida. Tight as a drum. He had vax lines, was vaxxing everything… Also Don “BTW, 3rd-most deaths from COVID? Unfortunately, Florida. Horrible statistic…Ron was 3rd-worst in actual deaths from COVID.”

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You can tell how desperate the GOP is getting by the level of the lies. How long until they somehow come up with a story to link Barack Obama to Hunter Biden?

Although who the heck cares who anyone else has a sexual encounter with, as long as they are consenting adults? But if we’re going to start rumors. Uh, beauty-pageant level makeup on daily basis, dyed blonde hair that clearly takes hours to style… are we sure Donald Trump isn’t gay?

#5 LSU lost 45-24 to Florida State, their largest defeat as a ranked team in a season opener in the AP poll era (since 1936). No punchline – just thinking anyone who is not a fan of SEC hubris (and/or not a fan of Brian Kelly) will like reading this.

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Sometimes it sure does seem as if all the teams in the NL playoff races are simply jockeying for position as to when in the post season they’re going to lose to the Atlanta Braves.

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Supported Alex Cobb getting chance to complete no-hitter game last Tues. But in what universe did it make sense w/ team that loves bullpen games not to give Cobb extra day of rest after 131 pitches? No it’s not 2nd guessing to say this BEFORE today’s SF-SD game started. #SFGiants

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All you need to know about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is that he attacks drag queens in his state and seems to be completely fine with Nazis.

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Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott even showed up with President Biden as Joe toured some of the devastated areas of Florida after Idalia. Give DeSantis credit, didn’t think any Republican could make Rick Scott look good by comparison.

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If/when Truth Social folds and declares bankruptcy, who will Trump blame for losing all those millions as he returns to Twitter?

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Hoping everyone gets home safe but guess I’m an early adopter. Had absolutely no interest in Burning Man before yet another extreme climate event turned this year into a muddy land version of Gilligan’s Island.

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Yes, Velveeta Voldemort really is fundraising off a “Mugshot Mug.” It’s as if Nixon would have tried to fundraise selling Watergate Hotel key chains.

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Hawaii Rep Ed Case has COVID and missed a Congressional bipartisan tour of Lahaina.

When the House returns after Labor Day maybe Ed should fly to DC anyway to meet with all those COVID denying Republicans and help them prove their case.

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If you’re reading this on Labor Day with a day off, thank unions.

Cincinnati Reds have 4 pitchers plus staff on COVID-19 injury list & reportedly “are feeling bad.” As Braves, if healthy, look to be runaway favorites in NL, would GA GOP rep Marjorie 3 Names care to repeat in Atlanta she will shut down govt if US doesn’t stop COVID vaccines?

As Shohei Ohtani has another MVP season even with his recent injury, and Aaron Judge becomes the youngest player to hit 250 home runs, your reminder, both teams these superstars play for will not make the playoffs.

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In 2022, the Colorado Buffaloes football team beat ONE team – Cal

After opening weekend 2023, the Colorado Buffaloes have beaten one team – TCU

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Sad to hear of the passing of both Jimmy Buffett, 76, and Bill Richardson, 75,. Also admittedly sad, how young 75 and 76 feel these days.

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Good for Kentucky’s Democrat Governor Andy Beshear. He refuses to commit to appointing GOP replacement to Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat if Mitch needs to step down for health issues. Until 2021 a Governor of Kentucky could fill a Senate seat with a person of either party of their choice but GOP legilslature passed law saying he must pick a GOP Senator from one a list of three they give him. But that new law MAY not be constitutional.

Makes sense. It would actually almost be a tribute to Mitch McConnell,who has bent or broken every rule he could in the pursuit of power – if Governor Beshear disregards the power grab rule Kentucky GOP has tried to implement.

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Underappreciated Jimmy Buffett lyric from 1977 and even more appropriate now “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane”

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Right wing Daily Mail headline: “Not even hurricane can bring them together! Joe Biden & Ron DeSantis tour Idalia’s aftermath 50 MILES apart as they turn FL’s deadly disaster into bitter political battleground.” Not exactly. Pres. Biden reached out, DeSantis refused to meet him.

Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott even showed up with President Biden as Joe toured some of the devastated areas of Florida after Idalia. Give DeSantis credit, didn’t think any Republican could make Rick Scott look good by comparison.

So Stanford, along with Cal and SMU, is going to join the ACC

Maybe a good thing no one reminded the ACC about the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. This could be fun.

(Reports were ACC presidents and chancellors had phone call Friday morning to discuss expansion – with Cal, Stanford and SMU as potentials. This is all getting so confusing. Are roses and fantasy suites involved?)

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92,003 fans showed up this week at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln to watch women’s Nebraska volleyball team beat Omaha 3-0. Sounds like a good decision for Nebraska fans. Much better than traveling to Minnesota or turning on to see Cornhuskers football team lose to the Minnesota Gophers.

(And Nebraska was shut out in the first half.)

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Is there a more bipolar team in 2023 in MLB than the San Francisco Giants?

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NFL won’t take action against Miami star WR Tyreek Hill for “alleged assault incident” in June.

Per WPLG-TV he allegedly hit marina employee during “disagreement.” Hill has 2015 domestic violence arrest & 2019 child abuse investigation. “If you’re a star they let you do it.”

President Biden will travel to Florida this weekend to visit storm damaged areas. Too soon to start a pool as to what excuse Governor Ron DeSantis will give for not showing up to join him?

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Marsha Blackburn claims letting Medicare negotiate drug prices is “socialist” & “will stunt development of lifesaving treatments & cures while granting govt more unnecessary control over Americans’ lives.” Would Marsha like to defend her anti-seniors view to reporters on camera?

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Fox News again attacks President Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal, including criticizing the President for not supporting our allies there.

Buried in story “Biden urged Congress to pass Afghan Adjustment Act, which would establish smoother path to permanent US residence in U.S. for Afghan allies.”

Why doesn’t Fox urge GOP Senators to vote for it?

CNN’s Manu Raju reports GOP Senators Thune & Cornyn’s offices, when asked about Mitch McConnell’s freezing again yesterday, responded “Senator McConnell sounded “fine, like his usual self.”

If they believe this, maybe it’s not just McConnell’s health we should be worried about.

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Don’t forget. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed voter suppression bill to make it harder for Georgians to vote & made it a crime to give water or snacks to voters waiting in line. But he has said he doesn’t support removing Fani Willis. So there IS a bottom.

Happy 84th birthday to the great Lily Tomlin. Many of this generation won’t get her Ernestine the Phone Operator character from Laugh-In but she was awesome: “We are the phone company, we are omnipotent!”

Logan Webb ranks dead last with 3.14 runs on average per start, the 2023 fewest runs per start average in Major League Baseball. In women’s terms, he gets less support than we do with that 20 year old bra in the back of our drawer.

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Random factoid as of tonight

NY Mets are 61-73

NY Yankees are 65-68

And ESPN gives both of them the same change to make the playoffs on August 31. 0.2%

(And yes, the Yankees have a better record, but they ARE in a league with both the As and the Royals. Two teams who could reach the 100 loss marker by the 2nd weekend in September.

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Sports provides good life lessons.

For those who can’t understand how a favorite politician can sponsor a bill with someone with VERY different views, I give you being SF Giants fan now. And painfully but certainly have been rooting for LA Dodgers against AZ Dbacks because of wild card.

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And there are many reasons I am an Amy Klobuchar fan, but as a sportswriter’s daughter and hardcore sports fan herself, I know Amy has made this sort of devil’s bargain many times herself for the Twins, Vikings and Minnesota Gophers.

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WTAF CNN? They interviewed young woman who ignored evacuation order in Florida. She stayed, posted video on Tik Tok, is smiling & talking about all her views & messages. So they’re rewarding stupidity where she risked not only her own life but probably lives of 1st responders.

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President Biden saying he’s spoken to all Governors affected by Hurricane Idalia – DeSantis, Kemp, McMaster, and Cooper. Joe says he offered DeSantis all possible help AHEAD of the storm. Also says he is laser-focused on Maui recovery. It’s so nice having a President.

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And now Desantis is making headlines because he found time to crack, “If you loot we shoot.” He STILL hasn’t thanked President Biden.

Fox News headline “Biden cracks snarky joke when asked about Trump’s historic mugshot” “Handsome guy, wonderful guy.” Wait, so Fox News thinks it has to be a snarky joke to refer to the Former Guy has “handsome?” Don’t tell Donald Trump.

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Anyone else catch that in talking about deaths from Idalia, DeSantis immediately pivoted to say some deaths this week might not be DIRECTLY because of storm & so would not be counted? Same plan to lie as with COVID, undercounting so it doesn’t reflect badly on him.

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His staffers didn’t seem that panicked today. Have to ask, how many times has Mitch McConnell frozen recently when the cameras WEREN’T on him?

Yep, Feinstein is frail, but by comparison… And your reminder, Dianne Feinstein cannot retire because Mitch McConnell (or his handlers) said he would not allow Democrats to replace her on the Senate Judiciary Committee..

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Mitch McConnell, besides being Minority Leader is also on Senate Agriculture, Appropriations & Rules Committees. Imagine GOP outrage IF he retires and Dems won’t allow them to replace him on committees – as GOP says they won’t do with Feinstein on Judiciary.

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No pettiness too small. Fox News “Biden to observe upcoming 9/11 anniversary in Alaska in departure from tradition.” Fox thinks Joe should be in DC or NY. But no mention of Trump’s lie ON 9/11 “40 Wall Street was 2nd tallest building in downtown Manhattan & now it’s tallest!”

So if all these MAGA sheep are going to follow their leader in WE WILL NOT COMPLY with COVID restrictions, I trust they will also not comply with any doctor who suggests they go to the hospital when they do inevitably get sick.

This wasn’t the play that ended Alex Cobb’s no-hitter. Slater actually somehow caught the ball.

But the only hit, a double went just over Mato’s outstretched arm. Have seen some say he should have been playing deeper. Was actually at Oracle Park when Petit threw 8 2/3 of a perfect game.. In that case had Pence been playing shallow he would have probably caught Chavez’s hit.

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At least Idalia is hitting Florida during the off-week between the NFL preseason and regular season. So the league doesn’t have to pretend they care about people and potential canceled games in Florida.

Now, we’ll see about the NCAA game Sunday between LSU and Florida State.

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Now reports from Florida Hurricane Idalia could be once-in-a-lifetime event for Tampa & Gulf Coast Following Ian last year being once-in-a-lifetime event for Ft. Myers area. How many once-in-lifetime events do we need to have before some people figure out climate change is real?

Meanwhile, President Biden announced – August 28 – that FEMA federal disaster assistance was available to the state of Florida for Idalia and that the federal government would do everything it could for the state..

Three press conferences, at least, on Tuesday – think Ron DeSantis said ONE word of thanks to Joe Biden?

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Dear GOP: Telling your flock this summer is normal weather with heat & hurricanes may not be the best way to save lives. Pretty darn clear that US weather now w/ climate change is anything BUT what we’ve known as “normal.”

Sincerely, Democrats who care about people’s lives, and science.

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Seriously Ron DeSantis? Even when the Florida Governor tries to be a leader he tells people if they don’t evacuate responders won’t be able to get you until “after the storm has passed.” Uh, how about the truth, if you don’t evacuate, they’re likely to be recovering your body.

And ICYMI.

Ron DeSantis was a newly elected Congressman in 2013 when Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey. DeathSantis voted against both $9.7 billion and $50 billion in Sandy relief in January 2013.

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Has it occurred to any of these GOP politicians who have been trashing government and science nonstop to advance their own ends that their rhetoric has many of their flock also distrusting things like hurricane warning?

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Even if no lives are lost, Hurricane Idalia, will likely probably cause a serious spike in US gas prices. Waiting to see how GOP is going to blame this on President Biden.-

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Fox News headline “Conservatives blast Eminem for cease & desist letter to Ramaswamy campaign: ‘What a gigantic baby.”

So OK for bakers & website designers to object to being involved w/ gay weddings but not OK for musical artists to object to their work being used by right-wing campaigns.

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Tim Scott after Jacksonville hate murders “Have we done enough to talk about racism & discrimination & use of violence? I think that’s responsibility of every American — GOP, Dems, no party affiliation.”

Uh, Senator, books talking about racism & discrimination are what GOP wants to ban.

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Steve Scalise announced he has blood cancer Imbruvica, used for blood cancer, on list of drugs for Medicare to be able to negotiate prices. Will Scalise thank Dems like Amy Klobuchar who sponsored bill & Pres. Biden for helping others afford lifesaving drugs HE has access to?

Some debuts at a major league team home ballpark are over-hyped.

Kyle Harrison’s first start Monday August 28 at Oracle Park, announced just the day before, for the SF Giants, 0 runs, 11 Ks in 6 innings, was not one of them.

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From 2019 “The Athletic” story when Gabe Kapler was just hired to manage #SFGiants “That photo of MLK Kapler plans hanging on the wall? It’s from King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” in 1963, when Kapler’s parents were among the crowd.” Don’t always agree with Gabe, but I respect him.

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Per ESPN, mother of Spanish soccer Pres. Luis Rubiales locked herself in church saying she’s on a hunger strike until “inhuman bloodthirsty witch hunt which my son is being subjected to comes to an end.” Gosh, can’t imagine how this man grew up thinking world revolved around him.

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Headline that few of us had on our 2023 Batsh*t Bingo Card: “ACC moves toward vote to bring in Pac-12 refugees Cal, Stanford.”

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Ticket on the bus to hell for the day.

Fortunately two women shot & injured at last Friday night’s White Sox-Athletics game at Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field will recover.

Now police say bullets came from inside ballpark.

No suspects, but at least we know it wasn’t an Oakland A’s player.

They couldn’t hit anything.

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One of the victims in Jacksonwille was 19 years old. College age. Ron DeSantis doesn’t believe it’s appropriate for Florida universities to teach classes focused on race, but Anolt AJ Laguerre Jr. was MURDERED in Florida because of his race.

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Uh, how can Donald Trump both claim he “only needs one more indictment to win the election” but also that trials will interfere with him trying to win the election?

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Understand the Trump campaign doesn’t want trials in the middle of primary season. But if Donald didn’t think he even needed to debate, how can he claim he even needs to campaign?

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As Idalia is forecast to become a major hurricane hitting Florida on Tuesday your reminder that “once in a lifetime” Hurricane Ian decimated parts of Florida in less than a year ago. (Sept 2022.) But sure, climate change is a hoax. #sarcasm

NL Division Leaders, Dodgers, Braves, Brewers – yeah, not too different than anyone expected.

(With the surprise that the Padres, Mets, and Cardinals have all been out of it for a long time.)

AL Division Leaders:

Twins, Mariners and Orioles?!

So what’s in the water over there?

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But also in AL this little note “e” — Oakland Athletics – 38 – 93 Yes. “e.”

Wow. It takes some work with three wild card teams to be mathematically eliminated from the places with several days left in August.

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Citing violations under former coach Herm Edwards, Arizona State has self-imposed a bowl ban for the 2023 season. That’s like the Oakland As self-imposing a playoff ban.

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Meanwhile, ESPN just called Sundays’s SF Giants bottom of the 6th inning out of the “Cold case files.”

A sacrifice bunt, an intentional walk, a squeeze bunt for a hit (and RBI).

Yeah, how often do you see all of those three in a single game let alone a half inning?

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Simone Biles, 26, just won her record EIGHTH U.S. gymnastic championship, The oldest woman (!?) ever to win the champiionship.

Congratulations to her on the incredible achievement. And for reminding us that taking care of your personal mental health can also pay dividends in your professional life.

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Since he wants us to believe he is 215 pounds, and that he shot a 67 to win a Senior Club Championship, how long until Donald Trump complains that his need to campaign for President made him turn down an invitation to compete in the 2024 Masters?

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Harrison Floyd, head of “Black Voices for Trump,” remains in jail without bail after the judge decided “you are at risk to commit additional felonies.” Uh, if that’s the criteria, why was Donald Trump himself given bail?

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Donald Trump was fundraising again Sunday with the headline that “Biden is fundraising off my arrest.” Funeral services for satire are pending.

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Ahead of a potential hurricane, Ron DeSantis canceled campaigning in S. Carolina & returned home to today to say there is no tolerance for racist violence in Florida. He should have added “but when if it happens, we’ll make sure no one can read about it in future history books.”

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Chris Christie “Look, Hunter Biden’s not on the ballot. “Some of those voters who say the Hunter Biden thing matters but Donald Trump’s doesn’t, that’s just wishful thinking.” I hate it when Christie, a bully with an incredibly craven past, is the voice of reason.

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Dana Bash asked VIvek Ramaswamy for clarification on his climate crisis position. His response — “Look at the quality of our buildings. Look at the quality of temperature controls. This is actually what has allowed human beings to die less of climate related disasters today than before.”

Is Vivek that stupid, or does he think we are?

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Finally, no snark on this one. It’s so nice having a President!

“White supremacy has no place in America. We must refuse to live in country where Black families going to store or Black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of color of their skin. Hate must have no safe harbor. Silence is complicity.” President Joe Biden.

SF Giants have had some awful losses lately. But Houston might have topped, or rather bottomed them tonight Astros led Tigers 1-0 into ninth. Closer struck out first 2 batters. But then gave up 3 straight singles & finally HR to rookie in his 4th game.

Final – 4-1 Detroit win.

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On a bright note for SF Giants fans, the Seattle Mariners are now tied for first place in the AL West. Which if nothing else might increase the chances Shohei Ohtani signs with the Mariners instead of the Dodgers.

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SF 49ers traded 2 first round draft picks to Miami plus lower picks to get the chance to pick Trey Lance, who they just sent to Dallas. Not that it helped Miami much. They sent the 2023 pick to Denver who sent it to New Orleans. And in 2022 they sent the 49ers first round pick to KC for Tyreek Hill. Now under investigation, AGAIN for domestic violence.

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So have Fox News or any GOP politicians who claim to be defenders of women’s sports said a word on the World Cup champion Spanish women refusing to play for the national team until federation chief Luis Rubiales is removed over his inappropriate kissing of a player? I’ll wait.

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“MAGA Patriot” has become an oxymoron.

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President Biden would never fundraise off a mugshot. For starters, because President Biden won’t have a mugshot.

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Some GOP and right-wing media would prefer we be more outraged that our President this week took taking a few working vacation days than that the Former Guy this week was actually being arrested.

GOP Freedom Caucus Rep. Ken Buck said today that the Former Guy “absolutely needs to tell all Americans to stand down and allow the judicial system to take its course.” How long until Trump attacks Buck as a RINO?

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Woke up Friday to see pretend moderate John Kasich was talking about America needing a “spiritual movement.” Thinking the proper response involves something from a bowel movement.

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If you really need a mugshot t-shirt. . Green Day Is Selling ‘Nimrod’ Shirts With Donald Trump’s Mugshot.

Proceeds will benefit those affected by the Maui wildfires.

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And while Democrats sometimes struggle to get attention even for positive message, this tweet from Amy Klobuchar – as I write close to midnight – now has over 7 million views.

Clearly Democrats need more photo ops with union workers. Or maybe a fundraising calendar?

Yep , it was embarassing, even if overhyped and meaninless tonight in Atlanta.

The Falcons lost 24-0 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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At this point the New York Yankees have as much of a chance of making the playoffs as the Oakland As.

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A silver lining of NY Yankees losing 2 of 3 to lowly Washington Nationals and now being in last place in AL East by 5.5 games behind 4th place Boston: At least we won’t have nonstop Sunday night & MLB “Games of the Week” featuring the Yankees and/or Red Sox.

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So since media seems obsessed , and had nonstop coverage with reporters outside the Fulton county jail and courthouse, would they cover it if some Democrats come down and defend President Biden on the courthouse steps?

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Donald Trump’s fundraising email tonight started “FLYING BACK HOME.” Uh, “Home?” Donald is now at his Bedminster Resort in New Jersey. He claims Mar-A-Lago is his home as a voting Florida resident. Time to add voter fraud to the list of Trump indictments?

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Since Trump world is now fans of Tucker Carlson, maybe time to re-up this. And share w/ MAGA friends and relatives. Carlson’s text message Jan. 4, 2021: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,. I hate him passionately.”

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t’s not just that most of GOP field said they would support Donald Trump even if he is convicted in a court of law. It’s that they said they would support a LOSER! Hillary was told to go home and knit. And former President Carter was ignored for years.

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Watching these guys in private planes show up in Atlanta all week to be arraigned. Is it just possible Vladimir Putin might have been sending a more global message with Prigozhin that even if you are rich and powerful, if you betray Vlad…?

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Speaking of elections. In 2020, Fani Willis was legally ELECTED DA in Fulton County. She won the primary with 71% of the votes and ran unopposed in the general election.

Wilmer Flores homered again for SF Giants, his team-high 18th Since June 1. Flores’ 1.044 OPS is 4th in MLB behind Ohtani, Seager & Betts.

Flores signed 2 yr deal in 2022 at $6.5 mill a year w/ club option for 2025. Think it’s time for Giants to offer him an extension & raise.

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All SF Giants fans who had cardiac stress tests scheduled for the next week have just canceled them as unnecessary.

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Paul DeJong clearly did not get the memo about the SF Giants’ nonstop futility with bases loaded and no outs. #ForeverGiant

In interview tonight Tucker Carlson to Trump. “Are you worried they’re going to try & kill you? Why wouldn’t they try & kill you? Honestly.” Donald: “They’re savage animals, people that are sick.” At same time Trump threatens everyone. Projection would be funny if not so scary.

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Apparently Kari Lake said Trump is the “Babe Ruth of politics – so why should he waste his time at a debate?”

Uh, Kari, that’s like saying “Babe Ruth was such a great player, he didn’t need to waste his time to bat in the game.” #CantFixStupid

A friend wonders – Did Prigozhin fall out of a window seat?

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In all seriousness has it occurred to those in politics and the media genuflecting before Donald Trump – who so clearly wants to be Putin in the US – what Putin does when people are perceived threats or no longer useful to them? #Prigozhin

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We’ve been seeing all these headlines “Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump.” And today he surrenders for his mug shot in Atlanta after flying in… on a private plane. So if he weren’t broke Rudy would have used a bigger private plane?

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President Biden Dark Brandon summing up his thoughts on the Prigozhin plane crash. “I’m not surprised” and “There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind.”

NOT NOT NOT a Nikki Haley fan. But unlike most of the men on stage, she did decent job of acting like she lives on Planet Earth in this GOP debate.

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Almost billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy claims he worriesthe American dream won’t be available for his children. Oh, give me a bleeping break. Vivek has already probably set up trusts for his children & will take advantage of enough tax breaks etc so kids will be set for life.

Not that Disney employees would vote for DeSantis for President anyway, but audio-animatronic engineers who work on Disney’s Hall of Presidents especially have to have thrown up their hands at the prospect: “How could we possibly make a robot of a robot?”

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Again, going to keep saying. Trump got nonstop attention when he was President, as much as anyone in 2019-20 Presidential Debates.. But while GOP debates make headlines, why can’t media give more attention to Joe’s surrogates who can articulate the good President Biden has done?

For example, with all the Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg debate jokes tonight ,how about some network brings both Amy and Pete on together to talk about what President Biden has accomplished. Especially if they play some 2020 Dem Debate clips up front, should be great ratings.

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Friend told me that Laura Ingraham said in pre-debate coverage that Democrats’ platform is “pot, porn and Planned Parenthood.”

Sounds like a Gen-Z bumper sticker to me!

There are SF Giants fans, myself hypothetically included, who believed signing Aaron Judge might make the Giants a serious contender in 2023.

Would like to thank the NY Yankees, losers of 9 straight, for disabusing me of that fantasy.

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Just heard tonight, the NY Yankees haven’t had a LEAD in 61 innings…

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As A’ja Wilson scores 53 points to tie a WNBA record, and the Las Vegas Aces improve to 29-4, periodic reminder that Gregg Popovich protege and former star point guard herself Becky Hammon was deemed not to be head coaching material by several NBA teams.

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Vivik Ramaswamy, enjoying a brief bounce in the polls , was born in Cincinnati to Indian immigrant parents.

Does anyone think for a minute that not only will GOP not vote for him but if he actually had a chance Trump would start a birther campaign against him?

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So all these Republicans convinced Trump is the only one who can beat Biden? Uh have they forgotten? PRESIDENT Biden has already proven he can beat Trump.

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Probably too soon to know if Debbie Mucarsel-Powell , who just announced her candidacy, has a real chance now in the US Senate race in Florida.

But she’d be very good.

And can any one even who voted for Rick Scott say anything good he has actually done for Florida?

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Ron DeSantis is now campaigning and saying “we can get people who’ve never voted Republican to vote for us…” What??!! Maybe Ron thinks he’s going to get people who think the GOP is too reasonable?

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Remember…. Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson airing at same time as GOP Presidential debate has already been pre-taped.

Donald was so nervous he needed to be able to edit the interview. And while he was afraid to be in debate, he wanted to make sure he could watch it.

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Did very small donation this week after email from Cory Booker asking him to split a donation between him & Jon Tester. Have seen & responded to that kind of fundraiser many times. But has anyone ever seen a Republican asking for a donation to split between them AND a colleague?

Michigan has suspended Jim Harbaugh for three games at the beginning of the 2023 college football season- games against East Carolina, UNLV and Bowling Green.

During his suspension have to assume Harbaugh will be eating a lot of cupcakes?

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SF Giants have been in the wild card hunt since June. Only good thing about tonight’s train wreck of a multi-error game in Philadelphia. (Three official errors but at LEAST two more than that.): Figure they either get it together as the team did in June… Or even if they snuck into the postseason, no Giants fan would want to see them get embarrassed in a wild card game.

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GOP and conservatives loved to attack the US Women’s National Soccer Team over diversity and LGTBQ issues, claiming it was all about protecting women in sports.

But crickets over the Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales, who gave Spain star Jennifer Hermoso an unwanted kiss on the lips along with her gold medal…

Heck, has anyone seen conservative media or a GOP leader even congratulate Spain?

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The fact that this headline even has to be written… “Thinking about playing in Hilary floodwater? ‘Stay out,’ experts say.”

Beam me up Scottie…

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As long as I can remember, Joe Biden has loved to tell stories and maybe exaggerate a bit. Not unusual for a politician. Now that he’s President it’s headline news, especially with Fox and conservative media.

Because the Former Guy never exaggerated or flat out lied about anything. Why, I am sure any suggestion to the contrary would have big strong men who called Donald “Sir” with tears in their eyes.

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Even to many of his colleagues, George Santos certainly gives the appearance of being a crook. But his bond for wire fraud and money laundering was $500,000. Trump’s bond is less than half that. Yeah two systems of justice in the US alright, even for Republicans.

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Reminder, Donald Trump wants Americans to elect him again to “stand up to all enemies foreign and domestic.” He can’t even stand up to the motley crew of other GOP 2024 Presidential candidates. #CowardDonald

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GOP says Francis Suarez, Will Hurd, Perry Johnson & Larry Elder have not qualified for the first Presidential primary debate. All together now – Who?

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Hey NY Times.

Headlines tonight: 1st: “Bail for Trump Set at $200,000 in GA Election Interference Case

Donald told not to intimidate or threaten any witnesses in case.

Lower on page: “More than 800 still listed as missing from Maui wildfires Pres. Biden tours devastation on Maui

The first MLB wild card was instituted in 1994. And in 1993 the SF Giants won 103 games and it wasn’t enough to make the playoffs.

Now there are three wild cards in each league.

And while there won’t be any 103 game winners who won’t make it, there WILL probably be a team 15 or more games over .500 who won’t make it in the AL. While the Twins, just over .500, will probably make it easily.

Yeah, baseball was never meant to be fair.

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MLB makes a LOT of dumb decisions.

Moving Sunday games in Southern California to Saturday doubleheaders was not one of them.

Fox New headline “166-yr-old luxury retailer warns it may relocate iconic store thanks to Democrats.”

What Fox isn’t saying: Gumps was sold in 1975, declared bankruptcy in 2018 & just reopened in June 2019 after being bought by investment banker & failed GOP US Senate candidate in Nevada John Chachas.

(And look, June 2019, when Chachas re-opened Gumps turned out to be maybe the worst time in history (except maybe 1906) to open an SF store selling expensive jewelry, trinkets and dust collecting things. But that would be true anywhere in the US.)

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Russia says it’s robotic Luna-25 spacecraft “ceased its existence as a result of a collision with the lunar surface.” So next time one of Putin’s enemies falls out of a window will Russia say he/she “ceased their existence as a result of a collision with the ground?”

My grandparents lived in Kevin McCarthy’s district in So. Cal desert – area under threat from Hurricane Hilary. Out of curiosity went to Speaker McCarthy’s feed Saturday, wondering what advice/warnings he’s giving his constituents. Nothing, just attacks on Biden.

Again pro-life my a**.

(McCarthy FINALLY got around to reposting something Sunday at about 11a, after rain was already falling.)

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Fox News actually claims Chuck Todd is a liberal. Because Todd “came to NBC through Tim Russert (note, Russert hired Todd in 2007) & “Todd worked for Dem. Sen. Tom Harkin’s 1992 presidential campaign in his college years.” Would be funny if so many Fox News didn’t believe it.

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Ohio Senator JD Vance wrote an op-ed for USA today slamming President Biden for not doing enough for East Palestine..

Does Vance hope we’ll forget that when he was a Senate candidate, he slammed his own Republican party Senators for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill?

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Just thinking, as GOP & conservative media try to convince us Joe’s relationship with his only surviving son is most important issue for 2024: Imagine if Joe had cut ties with Hunter. Then it would be nonstop criticism that the President abandoned his son for political reasons…

Just want to say again as President Jimmy Carter is entering his “final chapter” how proud I was to have volunteered for him in high school and to have voted for him as President. A great man and underrated President.

As Fox News and other conservative media in the US have gone silent on the World Cup, you might wonder, was their attacking the USNWT more to use misogyny, racism and homophobia to play to their base than for any interest in women’s soccer?

Well, if that WERE the case then Fox etc would spend more time attacking trans women and girls playing sports than they ever did covering women’s sports… Uh, okay, never mind.

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MLB has rescheduled 3 Southern California games for Sunday to Saturday double header swith Hurricane Hilary approaching (AZ-SD, TB-LAA, MIA-LAD) The NFL, however, at time of writing, has no plans yet to change their Saints-Chargers game in Inglewood. Why am I not surprised?

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Anti-American Tommy Tuberville: “I don’t care if they promote anybody to be honest. “We’ve got 44 4-star generals right now. We only had 7 during World War II. Think we were little overloaded to begin with.” Give me ableeping break.

As (twice fired) football coach Tommy couldn’t function without a dozen or more assistant football coaches.

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President Biden is reporting a “great great meeting” after his Camp David summit with Japan and South Korea. So of course Fox News headline is about about Hunter Biden…

Donald Trump did leave the Iowa State Fair after only an hour, and now he won’t appear at the GOP debate. Donald will be 78 next year.

People are saying maybe he just doesn’t have the stamina anymore to be President…

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Has Velveeta Voldemort said yet that if he were still President he’d have nuked Hurricane Hilary by now

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As Democratic leaders continue to share fundraising links for Maui and President Biden keeps sending additional aid has a single Republican done anything other than complain about what Joe hasn’t done? I’ll wait.

At this point the SF Giants offense has looked so anemic lately sometime it seems like the only thing that could save them is for ESPN to completely write the team off for 2023.

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Now at the beginning of the season being in company with the Yankees and Mets and Angels for hitting might not have seemed so bad. Sigh #SFGiants

The New York Yankees could finish below .500 for the first time in 30 years. Figuring wins per dollar, their motto has to be “Thank God for the Mets.”

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So wait, some Republicans now saying about ever increasing Trump indictment list: “Let the voters decide.” Yeah, this the same GOP that is thinking about impeaching Biden for a reason they can’t decide on because they DON’T want to “let the voters decide.” Make it make sense.

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Laura Ingraham on Fox News “These people are sick. How is a mug shot of the former president in any way necessary or in any way good for America?

Give me a bleeping break. Obama admitted to doing some drugs as a young man. If Barack had ever been arrested and Fox News got hold of that mug shot it would be shown at least once an hour for months.

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Apparently Velveeta Voldemort has canceled plans to release his “election fraud report” at a news conference 1100am Monday Guess the report is somewhere with Trump’s “big beautiful healthcare plan.”

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A thought about these Republicans losing their minds over charges against Donald Trump. IF the charges are indeed spurious, then televised trials would make it obvious and exonerate the former President. IF… They can’t handle the truth.

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Taylor Swift’s Eras tour now may top $2 billion in N. American ticket sales. Swift is a huge Get out the Vote person. Now, most of tickets are already sold, but if she adds any more shows in 2024, suggest allowing people to get a pre-sale code if they register to vote.

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Has a single “law and order” Republican condemned Fulton County grand juror names and other personal information including home addresses reportedly posted online? I’ll wait.

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Have never been a Ro Khanna fan: But today, CNN’s Erin Burnett pushedhim to say Biden shouldn’t run:

Ro’s response, acknowledging he chaired Sanders’ campaign and Joe had beaten Bernie:

“People completely underestimate this President.

He defeated Trump, had midterm better than expected, passed signature legislation, economy is better.

He has earned right to have rematch w/ Trump.”

Well played.