Left Coast Sports Babe

Uh oh, ESPN doesn’t have the Yankees anymore. Prepare for seven day a week football stories …

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Yankees are out, Mets collapsed over a month ago, Giants and Jets look to be fighting over NFL draft position, while Nets have no idea if Kyrie Irving’s vaccine issues will keep him from playing home and some away games. So how bout those Knicks?

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So the NY Giants now will at least equal the NY Yankees’ total for wins in October 2021.

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So is Urban Meyer still the Jacksonville Jaguars coach because their owner feels like the season is lost anyway, and doesn’t know if he can get out of paying Meyer $12 million a year?

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Re Urban Meyer, I’m not being morals police & his nights out are ultimately between him and his wife. But how stupid do you have to be to go out in a city where you are famous, misbehave, and expect no one with a smart phone will notice?

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Of all the things that make me livid at Facebook today one of the biggest has to be that I am actually (briefly) agreeing with Ted Cruz..

(And yes, Marsha Blackburn.)

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Anyone who thinks we cannot possibly have bipartisan agreement on anything in this country really needs to watch some of this Senate hearing with Frances Haugen about how Facebook is targeting children and teenagers.

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Another reason you know today’s Senate whistleblower hearing went well for Americans and poorly for Facebook and their misinformation… Fox News website doesn’t have a single headline on it.

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Anderson Cooper says he’s a regular Instagram user. “But I gotta say, it depresses me, I leave feeling worse than when I got on, not just for having wasted time, but I feel worse about my own life.” If Anderson Cooper feels worse about HIS life, what chance do teen girls have?

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WSJ “Nikki Haley calls Donald Trump a friend.” Ok, if nothing else Haley is too stupid ever to run for President. The Former Guy HAS no friends.

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For many of us 1st time we knew eating disorders could be fatal was when Karen Carpenter died. As Carpenters fan, was sad & horrified. Now, knowing Facebook is encouraging that kind of self-destructive behavior w/ young girls, for profit, is even more horrifying. And enraging.853160

California reporting lowest COVID-19 case rate in US and became 1st state to report ‘moderate’ instead of “high” virus transmission in weeks. Vaccines work. Vaccine mandates work. And yes, until we do better on the first two, mask mandates work too.

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Open note to all these who worked for Velveeta Voldemort now publicly apologizing: Leaving aside the fact that 700,000 people are permanently unable to hear your apology, the “mea culpas” would ring a bit truer if they also weren’t part of a book tour.

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Sen. Mike Lee complaining “Americans forced to go against recommendation of their doctors” w/ vaccines. 2 questions for Lee. 1. What if you’re not talking to your doctor but reading random stuff on Facebook? 2.If doctors are so important what if your doctor recommends abortion?

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Another point from today’s Senate hearing. Anyone who ever has been in junior high & high school knows about bullying… But as Frances Haugen pointed out – bullied kids (mostly) used to be able to go home and get away from it. Now with social media it’s 24-7.

Am really glad SF Giants weren’t playing game 163 today and am thrilled for them winning the division. But October 4 with no games at all, is a slightly poignant foreshadowing of a winter without baseball. “It breaks your heart, it is designed to break your heart…”

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It was pouring rain today in Los Angeles.

Would be churlish to suggest they could be Dodgers tears that a raggedy band of rejects and old guys somehow beat them for the NL West title.

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So what if we don’t institute a national vaccine mandate but require proof of vaccination to get Viagra?

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Just found out Urban Meyer’s slogan for the 0-4 NFL Jaguars is “Own it.” Since when has Coach Meyer ever owned anything he himself has done?

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Andrew Yang today writing about why he left the Democratic Party.

Yang used to call himself Donald Trump’s worst nightmare? How about many women’s worst nightmare? A man who shows up late to a complicated situation and insists he alone can fix it.31125.

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Facebook whistleblower Haugen written testimony to Senate “When we realized tobacco companies were hiding harms it caused, govt took action. When we figured out cars were safer w/ seatbelts, govt took action.” Of course today’s GOP would be against tobacco warnings & seatbelts.

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Plenty of conspiracy theorists out in force today to say Facebook crashed their own site to scrub damaging information. While I’m not a conspiracy theorist myself would be a good day for Facebook to give investigators access to last night’s backups?

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Amy Klobuchar on with Anderson Cooper – “Number one mortality rate with mental illlness is eating disorders.” And Instagram was inundating girls with eating disorders with pages glorifying eating disorders. There’s a word for that – Evil.

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Mainstream media still obsessed with covering the Former Guy’s false claims along with “Dems in disarray” narrative. So today’s reporting on Facebook “spreading hate and misinformation for profit” is a pretty spectacular self-own.

Hillary Clinton was only 69 during the 2016 election. Most regular media stories about her in the year or so after election were “Won’t she just go away?” How much better would our country be if media had responded the same way to Velveeta Voldemort?

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to… (From Miracle on 34th Street.)

Optimistic thought for the night. If the SF Giants, projected to win 75 games in 2021, can somehow win 107 games, then we should be able somehow to get #FreedomToVoteAct passed. It’s not over til it’s over.

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NBA refused Andrew Wiggins religious exemption request for COVID-19 vaccine so Wiggins got vaccinated & can now play in SF. Guessing Wiggins decided he wasn’t quite relying on Philippians 4:19 “My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”

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Apparently Urban Meyer, 57 and married, had some embarrassing pictures in a bar with young women in Ohio.

Uh, Meyer ignored allegations about his players at OSU after ignoring allegation about his players at Florida whch may have resulted in Aaron Hernandez getting away with murder and then killing again. Karma always defers the coin toss

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People who are surprised that Mark Zuckerberg is such an a**hole clearly either didn’t watch or have forgotten “The Social Network.”

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Beaches in Huntington Beach, California are closed after a massive oil spill… Uh, this is the same Huntington Beach where they regularly mock mask mandates… so why don’t they just tell themselves the oil is harmless too?

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Sorry. But SNL opening night skit featuring Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin with brief mention of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, but nothing on Rules Commitee Chair Amy Klobuchar, or moderates like Mark Warner or Jon Tester, isn’t helping Americans’ image of the Senate.

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So why does Velveeta Voldemort want a court to make Twitter give him his account back. I thought he had created at least two better social media options.

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If you drop out of college because you won’t get a vaccine then you probably weren’t very educable in the first place.

Again, why are we seeing stories about random healthcare professionals who get fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine? Instead of the majority who do the right thing. I guess it’s a story when someone refuses to follow speed limits and causes a massive car crash too.

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Beaches in Huntington Beach, California are closed after a massive oil spill… Uh, this is the same Huntington Beach where they regularly mock mask mandates… so why don’t they just tell themselves the oil is harmless too?

So the world isn’t perfect. But on a positive note, at least we had a weekend with a President who wasn’t rage-tweeting from his golf course!

And once again, all the headlines seem to be about two senators. Maybe one reason Americans have a negative view of government is that controversy gets you media coverage & getting things done doesn’t. Media – PLEASE pay more attention to the work horses not the show horses.

The perfect game ending Thursday night.. SFGiants win, and Madison Bumgarner doesn’t take the loss. Okay really perfect would have been Madbum hitting a home run and the Giants still winning…

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As an SF Giants fan I can only hope the SD Padres bullpen were as lousy this weekend at Oracle Park as they are this week at Dodger Stadium.

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Despite a great effort and some impressive play from new Senator Jon Ossoff, GOP Congressional Baseball Team beat Democrats Wednesday night 13-12. Did it really matter? If Democrats ended up with more runs GOP would have declared an audit showed they won anyway.

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So how long until Urban Meyer retires from as Jaguars coach for health reasons?

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Senate confirmed Tracy Stone-Manning as director Bureau of Land Management 50-45. She was granted immunity for warning authorities, but GOP was upset about Tracy’s role in 1989 tree-spiking incident.

1989?!

So long ago Chuck Grassley was not quite filing for Social Security.

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Government now funded through Dec 3. Just in time for GOP to play Grinch by threatening a shutdown before Christmas.

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GOP yesterday literally trying to hold up government funding by trying to make sure no federal funds are used for mask mandates. Yes same GOP who insists no federal funds be used for abortion. Once again – pro life my a**.

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So how long until COVID tests positive for Ted Cruz?

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Just wondering. Has anyone told UTAH Senator Mike Lee, who is railing against mask mandates, that Mormon leadership requires masks at temples & the church has said they will not issue religious exemptions for those who don’t want to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

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Seriously? CNN has a story today “‘It breaks my heart’: Unvaccinated teacher may leave job over mandate.” Uh, and how many COVID cases transmitted by unvaccinated people literally STOP other people’s hearts? Permanently.

Hey media, stop obsessing about Manchin and Sinema. Start asking GOP Senators, on camera, what parts of Build Back Better they don’t think Americans want or deserve. Thank you. A country that is tired of this sh*t.

Merck says its new pill may cut the risk of reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half with people recently infected with COVID-19 Good news, if even if the pill is approved what’s to stop GOP and right-wing media lying and call it dangerous? #DyingToOwnTheLibs

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19. Always heard, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all….. So no comment.

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Amy Klobuchar on the View, saying again we need to codify Roe V. Wade – “that’s a fancy way of saying we need to put abortion rights into law.” She’s right. We do. Because GOP trying to make our country into sad combination of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Dog the Bounty Hunter.”

Despite a great effort and some impressive play from new Senator Jon Ossoff, the GOP Congressional Baseball Team beat the Democrats 13-12.

Did it really matter. If Democrats ended up with more runs GOP would have declared an audit showed they won anyway..

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Brewers star set-up reliever Devin Williams is out for the season after breaking a bone in his pitching hand punching a wall after Milwaukee celebrated clinching the division Sunday night “Siri, What does the expression mean – “Million dollar arm ten-cent head?”

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Okay then, apparently some Dodgers fans are claiming on social media that SF Giants must be cheating because Giants including older players are performing so much better than expected in 2021? Suppose LA fans figure with a payroll over $300,000,000 that they bought the division fair and square?

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The US government cannot force you to get a driver’s license or buy insurance. But if you don’t do both, then you are choosing not to drive a car. So don’t want to get vaccinated? Fine, you’re choosing not to go out to mingle with other people in public.

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Uh, Senator Mike Lee says “sincerely-held personal beliefs” are enough for an American to refuse a vaccine. What if it’s your “sincerely-held personal belief” you can drive safely at 100 mph? Or that you can drive drunk?

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Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins still refusing COVID vaccine: “Just going to keep fighting for what I believe is right. What’s right to one person isn’t right to the other.” Has anyone told Wiggins, the Harlem Globetrotters started because NBA didn’t think it was right for black players to join league?

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As Ted Cruz stands up AGAIN to claim he won’t vote for Biden’s nominations because the President is too soft on Russia, today’s question, is it possible to literally self-combust from hypocrisy?.

Per Chuck Schumer Senate has deal on short-term government funding resolution to prevent a shutdown through December. Good news… but December? So GOP can play this stupid chicken game right before Christmas….

If you don’t believe the medical profession about getting a COVID-19 vaccine, then please be consistent and stay home when you get sick. The hospital would just treat you with the medical science you’re ignoring.

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New study found nearly 4 in 10 people who became infected with covid-19 still had at least one symptom three to six months later. That we KNOW of. Remember, after 9-11 it took years until we realized how many first responders would end up dying of cancer.

5 games to go & NL playoff teams are set. If Cardinals, winners of 17 straight, win out they’ll still be 10 games behind either Giants or Dodgers. And St. Louis has week to rest/prepare for Wild Card game while SF & LA will need to play hard to the wire.. Seems fair.

(Of course MLB might change the wild card rules after 2021. If the Yankees get knocked out in one game.)

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MLB and ESPN finally paying a bit of attention to the SF Giants LA Dodgers pennant race. Guess that Padres Dodgers thing as the “best rivalry in baseball” didn’t quite work out.

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Angels’ manager Joe Maddon: Shohei Ohtani saying he wants to win doesn’t mean he wants to leave LA. Of course not. Ohtani probably meant he wanted to be traded to the Dodgers and be part of baseball’s first half billion dollar payroll.

Fox News headline “Kristi Noem says media trying to destroy my children as report on daughter emerges.”

The referenced “report,” from the AP was how the South Dakota’s Governor’s daughter, 26, denied for her real estate appraiser certification until her mom met w/h SD Labor Secretary & head of agency.

She was 26. A mere child. #sarcasm

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United Airlines now will have 64,500 out of their 66,500 work force vaccinated, but about 2,000 have applied for religious exemption to vaccine mandate.

So can United add a box to their website flight search? – “I only want to be on a plane w/ vaccinated flight attendants!

Democrats in Senate leadership are over 70. It’s almost completely on Seniority. So Senators in their 60s are too young to have official titles or chair top committees.

If House used same criteria, Nancy Pelosi, at a young 66 in 2007, would’ve been too young to become Speaker.

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If GOP causes another government shutdown and Americans have social security checks etc, delayed, this is a reminder for people in Texas – You could have had Beto O’Rourke instead of Ted Cruz.

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Sometimes when I get really frustrated as a travel agent dealing with difficult clients I remind myself at least I don’t have Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley as clients. To any travel agent or assistant who does deal with any those three, my profound sympathies.

Senate is overall a pretty wealthy group. Most GOP Senators are millionaires at least. So when Republicans voted to have Government shut down on Thursday night, guessing most of them won’t even notice if they get their paychecks.

What gets me, how many millions of Americans have family doctors they have trusted – until a failed real-estate developer started off telling them to drink bleach.

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So now former WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has a tell-all book? Uh, not buying ANY book where someone had the chance to speak up in hopes of saving our country, but waited until they could profit off the knowledge. Period.

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Why are we so shocked that many public servants and healthcare workers are getting vaccinated at the last minute to save their jobs? Anyone remember what stores used to look like the weekend before Christmas? Procrastination is a national sport.

Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins said decision not to get COVID-19 vaccine is a “private” matter. No, Your personal life is a private matter, your family is a private matter – being unvaccinated in a contact sport is no more a private matter than choosing to drive a car without brakes.

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Sept 10: Padres’ Jake Cronenworth sustains broken finger being hit by pitch. Sept 18: Padres’ Jake Cronenworth starting at first base.

We can dream, Captain Brandon Belt fans! #SFGiants

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Tom Brady says of returning to New England next Sunday night “I’m not going to necessarily reminisce.” Well at his age is Brady telling us he doesn’t remember?

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Who says there’s no good news? SNL announced today that most cast members, including Kate McKinnon (!) are coming back for the 2021-2022 season.

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In California now every single active registered voter will be mailed a ballot.

California has the concept that all our citizens be allowed to vote. No matter how they vote.

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With limited booster COVID vaccines approved, we know KOW many rich privileged people will try to cheat to get booster shots before they are eligible. Media needs to seriously cover this to make enough unvaccinated people angry enough to get THEIR shots. If they get vaccinated to own the libs, I could cope.

Can anyone imagine if Democrats had voted against raising the debt ceiling and in favor of shutting down the government over Velveeta Voldemort’s millionaire & billionaire tax cuts?

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Why are we surprised same Republican leaders that would cause hundreds of thousands of Americans to die rather than make President Biden look good with vaccines, would also cheerfully throw US into default to keep him from looking good with the economy?

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Mitch McConnell just got his COVID vaccine booster shot & claims to be pro-vaccine. If Senate minority leader feels that way why doesn’t he use his much vaunted power over Republicans in Senate to get them to do joint PSA telling all eligible Americans to get vaccinated!

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Can we STOP having the headlines all about those who are quitting in the police, healthcare industry etc over vaccine mandates? And let’s start with headlines “Overwhelming number of Americans do the right thing, get vaccinated, and keep their jobs.

49ers left Aaron Rodgers 37 seconds with no time-outs? Heck Saints left Vikings’ Case Keenum (!) 25 seconds left with one time out. But no I’m not still bitter about that Minnesota Miracle.

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Meanwhile Detroit Lions had Baltimore Ravens 4th and 19t with 26 seconds left, and the Ravens got a 66 yard field goal as time expired??!! Well, when you’re the Detroit Lions you need to keep coming up with new and creative ways to lose

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Love this story from SF Giants pre-game show just now: “Madison Bumgardner sent Brandon Crawford’s sons’ Diamondbacks tickets to root against the Dodgers!”

#ForeverGiant

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The New York Jets and New York Giants are a combined 0-6 to open the season. Fortunately I am sure the New York media will be gentle and understanding about this.

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Miss the days when stories like this were the craziest headlines: Dallas Cowboys RT La’el Collins suspended 5 games for missing drug tests. ESPN reports NFLPA had apparently bargained it down to 2, until NFL found out Collins tried to bribe league’s drug-test collector. Oops

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Fox News is upset that in NYC “Instructors to rat on students for breaking COVID rules and it gets worse.” So it’s wrong to “rat” (their word) about COVID but fine to turn in women and their friends for bounties over abortions. Got it.

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My strategy for dealing with Chuck Todd – I don’t watch him. And now I hear he had Meghan McCain on Meet the Press?!!

Strategy validated.

Have no inside information on what might be going on with Merrick Garland. I do however, know one things about indictments: Less important to get them done fast as opposed to getting them done right

So when these “I do my own research” COVIDiots have their car break down do they buy a book on automobile repair and try to fix it themselves?

More on those “my body my choice” COVIDiots who claim it doesn’t hurt anyone but themselves not to get vaccinated. Do they drive with failing brakes on the freeway under the rationale “my car, my choice?”

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Don’t watch Meet the Press but apparently “Meghan McCain claimed that while President Joe Biden ran on being a moderate, he is governing as a progressive.” Uh, can Meghan tell actual progressives that

Sad that it’s come to this, saw an SF Bay Area restaurant requiring proof of COVID vaccine, but also photo ID. To prove that it’s YOUR vaccine card. So clearly some anti-vaxxers are trying to use fakes or someone else’s card?

WTF is wrong with people?

After the 104 loss Arizona Diamondbacks knocked off the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-2, their official twitter feed understood the situation –

You're welcome, @SFGiants. pic.twitter.com/LqCIHfq3aI

— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) September 26, 2021

And yes, six IS the magic number –

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So has USC ever fired a coach and an interim coach in the same season?

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Was was the 2020 MLB season – 60 games – the shortest SF Giants rebuild in history?

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Yes, UCLA won today 35-24 over Stanford. But at one point their QB got flagged for scrambling and attempting a forward pass 7 yards PAST the line of scrimmage. Not sure what he’s majoring in but pretty sure it isn’t math.

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2020 season is a LONG way from over. But not too soon to say the SF Giants need to re-sign their free-agent-to-be Captain Brandon Belt.

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If Stacey Abrams uns again for Governor of Georgia in 2022, the Former Guy just gave her her first ad tonight at his rally – “Of course, having [Abrams] I think might be better than having your existing governor… Stacey, would you like to take his place?” It’s OK w/ me.”

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SF Chronicle front-page article on most pro-recall county in Calif. One woman, furious at pandemic regulations says she would like to move to another state ‘but breast cancer treatment at Stanford Hospital” is keeping her here. Uh, if she doesn’t believe in medical science…

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President Biden is a decent, competent and thus somewhat boring leader. But the media is addicted to chaos. Dear Joe, get that White House cat. Maybe a hyperactive kitten. It would be front page news for weeks. Problem solved.

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Wrap your head around this one: While we’ve all known police officer and firefighter are dangerous jobs, the GOP has created a country where you can be attacked just for being a healthcare or election worker.

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So should we start a Fox News watch to see how long it will take them to acknowledge the result of the cyber ninja audit in Arizona? My guess is we will be waiting a LONG time.

100 wins for SF Giants on September 24. Just like we all predicted.

SF Giants were (briefly) in 2nd place by 1/2 game, with record of 84-49. Most pundits figured it was finally over & more talented Dodgers would pull away

Now Sept. 24 SF Giants are in 1st place. 100-54. 16-5 since then. (Oh, LA’s payroll is $100 million more than SF.)

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump has lost so many times in Arizona this year he should be named an honorary Arizona Diamondback.

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Maybe some state should make Velveeta Voldemort a deal – we audit our election returns when you release all your “audited” tax returns.

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Gosh, I regularly check Fox News website to see what the other side is reading. For some reason, w/ all the headlines today, espec. on the border & Gabby Petito, even 1 on holiday travel, there’s not a SINGLE headline on Arizona audit results. I’m sure it’s just an oversight.

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What’s the difference between Lauren Boebert’s IMEACH BIDEN sign and Russia’s tapes of the Former Guy? The tapes have Pee in them.

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Viruses mutate. And having people refuse to be vaccinated changes the equation. So why is it so hard for some to understand how CDC guidance might have changed as well, and why it keeps changing?

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CNN is doing a special report “Toxic, Britney Spears Battle for Freedom” on Sunday. With everything going on right now, good to know the network is focused on the really pressing issues of our time.

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18 states still haven’t fully vaccinated at least half of all residents – AL, AS, AR, GA, ID, IN, LA, MS, MT, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, TN, WV, WY, Some “what do they have in common questions” are just TOO easy.

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Jesus Wept.

Marge Three Names actually shouted “Try being a Christian and supporting life!” today to Rep. Debbie Dingell on the Capitol Steps. “Supporting life? – Like supporting life-saving vaccine and mask mandates.

Just thinking, if you’re an anti-vaxxer and convinced most Americans are on your side, then when you quit you should have no problem finding another job, right? So happy trails.

Like many Americans I’m watching Bob Woodward, a young man during Watergate, on TV almost every day and thinking “man, he looks old.”

Chuck Grassley, 88, running for re-election in 2022 is 10 years older than Bob Woodward.

If you’re tired of fighting as a citizen to save democracy, imagine how tired you’ll be trying to be a resister in an autocracy.

ESPN headline “Mountcastle, Hays HR help Orioles beat skidding Rangers 3-0.”

Uh, Texas Rangers are 55-98. “Skidding?” More like a continuance of their race to catch the 49-104 Orioles on the way to the bottom.

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Dodgers down a run with two out nobody on in 9th, then down to last strike before hitting three straight singles, one that should have been caught, to tie the game. LA then won in 10th. But once again SF Giants fans reminded of a simple truth – never count on the Colorado Rockies — for ANYTHING.

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Dave Flemming talking about SF Giants and San Diego Padres going to extra innings “What else would you want in late September?” Oh, I don’t know, this SF Giants fan would have been happy with a Giants rout of the Padres today

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Rachel Maddow talking about how Apple & Google removed their Russian voting app used by opposition leader Navalny’s allies after Russia pressured them. Uh, so why should we now think Big Tech wouldn’t cave to big business here if they didn’t like Democratic voting apps?

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GOP – we don’t need to waste taxpayer money to have polling places open on nights and weekends. Also GOP, we will waste any amount of taxpayer money we can to count and recount ballots nights and weekends until the next election.

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Regular reminder. Hunter Biden was not elected to anything. And Hunter Biden is not a “special assistant to the President” whose father overrode the rules to give him a security clearance. You’re welcome.

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Seriously, if Florida wants to get rid of all vaccine mandates, let’s just let them secede and set themselves up as an independent entity. Then make their citizens subject to the same rules as other foreign countries if they want to enter the US. Problem solved. You’re welcome.

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Is it just possible Lauren Boebert is so dumb she didn’t know you couldn’t pay rent and utilities with campaign funds?

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So are Republicans going to recount the Arizona vote more times than the number of votes – about 10,500 – than President Biden won the state by?

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WTAF? Conservative Daily Mail headline “Meghan’s former actress, Harry’s not even working royal but that didn’t stop them discussing ‘COVID, racial justice & mental health’ in private meeting w/ UN Ambassador.”

I missed their outrage about the failed fashion designer at G-20.

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JD Vance- “even though circumstances are somehow inconvenient” women victims of rape or incest should be forced to carry pregnancy to term. “Inconvenient” to bear your rapist’s baby? And we thought GOP was insensitive to inconvenience of making “some people” stand in line for hours to vote.

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Watching Rachel Maddow on guy named Steven Hatfill advising September 2020 that firing Dr. Fauci & using hydroxychloroquine & zinc would end pandemic. Hatfill now working on GOP AZ “audit.” Wondering – was there ANYTHING about Former Guy’s administration that wasn’t despicable?

Dec 1994. Stanford University News Service press release. (verbatim. no joke.) “Rachel Maddow, a 1994 Stanford graduate and radical lesbian AIDS activist from Castro Valley, Calif. has been named a Rhodes Scholar for 1995.”. “Radical lesbian AIDS activist.” Ok then.

10 games to go, an eternity in baseball. But September 22. “Single digit magic number.” Nine. Just like we all expected in 2021 for SF Giants.

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You know you’re a SF Giants fan at least back to 1993 when you see Colorado Rockies take a 10-5 lead on the LA Dodgers and your first thought is “How are the Rockies going to scr*w this up?” #BeatLA

(in 1993, the Rockies lost all 13 games they played against the Atlanta Braves. Who beat the SF Giants by…one game.)

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Buccaneers WR Antonio Brown, reportedly vaccinated, has tested positive for COVID-19. Of course, he may have been observing protocols, but this is the same AB who frostburned “his feet by entering a cryotherapy machine without the proper footwear…”

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As Rachel Maddow keeps talking about Republican controlled legislatures trying to give themselves power to overturn elections, wonder what would happen if Democrats in California decided to override any close races won by Republicans?

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Maddow also talking about Alaska hospitals now joining Montana and some in Idaho, Kentucky, etc in rationing & triaging care because of an overload of COVID patients. Wonder what all these states have in common? #DyingToOwnTheLibs? More like “Killing Grandma To Own The Libs.”

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Maine Senator Susan Collins is endorsing former Maine Governor Paul LePage’s efforts in his efforts to regain his old job. Yes, the same Paul LePage who said “I was Donald Tr*mp before Donald Tr*mp became popular.”

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Texas Senator John Cornyn “The truth is there is no voter suppression epidemic.” This is presumably why red states like Texas have decided that the rules need to be changed going forward.

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Wrap your head around this one. Florida’s new surgeon general, appointed by Gov. Ron Deathsantis, issued new rule that allows unvaccinated students exposed to someone w/ COVID-19 to attend school without restrictions or masks until & unless they get symptoms. People. Will. Die.

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Mitch McConnell says Democrats should not play Russian roulette with our economy. Apparently that’s Republicans’ job.

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California has the lowest coronavirus transmission rate of any state right now – 94 cases per 100,000. Gosh, almost as if if mask and vaccine mandates work.

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In all seriousness, looking at some of these dragged out Senate confirmation votes, are some of these GOP Senators voting against some of President Biden’s nominations for any reason OTHER than their being President Biden’s nominations?

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Amy Klobuchar on with Chris Hayes pointing out “There is a BAN on Medicare negotiating cheaper prices on behalf of seniors. This is not really a liberal-moderate divide…”

Sigh. This is a big pharma vs everyone else divide.

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Iowa Senator Joni Ernst whining about the “rush” to get infrastructure bill passed allegedly because Congress isn’t doing its work on time… Maybe if GOP weren’t wasting all our time holding up many of President Biden’s non-controversial nominations

2366 reported COVID deaths yesterday in the US. I’m so old I remember when over 2,000 deaths, heck even over 1,000 a day, was considered shocking and terrifying.

Fernando Tatis and Manny Machado had an altercation in the clubhouse last weekend that ended up televised. Today Tatis Jr. said: “It happened, it’s part of baseball, it’s a part this game brings out, especially when good players are trying to win and stuff is not going our way. At the end of the day, I’m glad it happened. I feel like that makes us stronger.”

Since Padres are now five games out of second wild card, does this mean “stronger for October golf team games.”

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SF Giants Lamonte Wade Jr. on the Dodgers winning every night “We can’t control what those guys do. We’re just trying to go day in and day out and focus on what we have to do to be successful.” Not a bad sports, or life strategy.

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500 female athletes urging SCOTUS to reject Mississippi law to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. On top of everything else, women who’ve competed or trained seriously in sports know menstrual cycles can become irregular, making it harder to realize they’re pregnant.

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CNN analysis “Average rate of Covid-19 deaths in 10 least vaccinated states was more than four times higher over past week than rate in 10 most vaccinated states.” Once again, math, along with science, has a liberal bias.

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Facebook VP in Senate Judiciary hearing trying to act like data is just about creating better experiences for users, and not about profitability and selling that data. Clearly they’re just in the rainbows and unicorns business.

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Misinformation op-ed alert – “Vaccine mandates are “promoted as essential for stopping spread of Covid-19, though evidence suggests it won’t.” My Pillow guy? No. Joseph Ladapo – who Ron DeSantis just made Surgeon General for Florida.

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New Harris poll – “50% of vaccinated respondents ‘extremely’ or ‘considerably’ hesitant about being around unvaccinated people over holidays. (12% said everyone is vaccinated.) Dear airlines – as travel agent can I suggest if you want to bring back business, add vaccine mandate..

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Tom Cotton attacking President Biden for not calling the Taliban a “terrorist organization.” Funny, I don’t remember Cotton’s outrage when the Former Guy made a deal with the Taliban and invited them to Camp David.

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So neither Liz Cheney nor Adam Kinzinger voted to raise the debt ceiling. I repeat, the worst Democrat is better than the “best” Republican.

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Tonight Stephen Colbert on @colbertlateshow “If you want to see functioning democracy, just look north. because yesterday w/ very little drama, Canadians re-elected PM Justin Trudeau. Trudeau called election in August, which led to a 36 day campaign…” Oh Canada!

Former Guy apparently filed suit against the New York Times & his niece over the 2018 tax records story. In all seriousness, how do you get any kind of decent lawyers when you don’t pay any of your bills, legal and otherwise?

Green Bay Packers looked pretty miserable the first week of season against New Orleans Saints. Fortunately the NFL sometimes has a cure for that. It’s called playing the Detroit Lions.

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Since both Clemson and OSU didn’t look impressive in their victories, Oregon moved up from #4 to #3 in AP college football poll after their 48-7 win last Saturday So it sounds like Ducks made a good decision in emulating SEC teams by scheduling a powerhouse like Stony Brook.

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USA today announcing from early November, passengers travelling from the UK & EU who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to fly into the country. Now if we could only get a accine requirement for people flying from dangerous hotspots like Florida.

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Ugh, feeling sorry for horse people. But learning now that ivermectin is in short supply makes me as a cat owner selfishly glad that COVIDiots didn’t seize on an important feline medicine as a fake cure for the virus.

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If GOP doesn’t want to raise the debt ceiling they can simply introduce a bill to rescind the Former Guy’s tax cuts. Pretty sure Democrats would make it a bipartisan effort. Problem solved. You’re welcome.

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Already getting tired of all the “nuggets” from Bob Woodward’s book “Peril.” So many people knew so much. And they ALL kept their mouths shut. Some to keep their jobs, some to sell books. That strikes me as the real Peril we were in.

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As COVID overtakes the 1918 Spanish Flu as the deadliest disease in USA history, important to realize a major difference. We didn’t have a vaccine against the Spanish Flu. Sadly, we also didn’t have misinformation on social media.

I know the NFL has to hype everything. But when they talked about San Francisco 49ers vs Philadelphia Eagles as ‘a battle of the undefeated..” And both teams were 1-0?

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With two weeks left in the season, the NY Yankees are being giving a 28.7% chance to make the postseason. You know what that means – in two weeks ESPN will be focusing on football.

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Hard to believe that the Mets spent 90 days in first place this season, a streak that only ended August 6.

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On the other hand, Mets fans have now had more time to get used to the idea of October off.

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I know New Orleans Saints including their coaching staff are fully vaccinated, so NFL won’t penalize them for EIGHT coaches being out this week with COVID breakthrough cases. But looking like it might have been better just to take the loss and the week off. #WhoDat

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38,680 people died in US in 2020 from car crashes – how many more would have died if US didn’t have seat belt laws and speed limits. About 375,000 died in US in 2020 from COVID. Now we HAVE vaccines, and almost 300,000 more have died… because US doesn’t have a vaccine mandate.

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Wonder how many people when their toilet breaks and starts flooding the bathroom decide to “do my own research” before calling a plumber

We wonder why GOP voters have low opinion of our President. Fox News headline “Biden vacations at Delaware beach house after week of heavy losses.” 1. They have phones etc in Delaware. 2. I missed Fox – TFG “vacations at his golf resort almost EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND for 4 years.”

All you need to know about Chuck Todd is Fox News is touting him in a headline – “NBC’s Chuck Todd says Biden has ‘a pretty big credibility crisis’ after weekend setbacks.” Why doesn’t Fox just hire Todd and be done with it?

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Peer pressure is tough. Sometimes kids who don’t want to appear uncool in front of friends will make smart decision & blame it on their parents “I’d get grounded,” “My mom will kill me,” etc. Wonder how many will be secretly relieved to get vaccinated but blame it on mandates?

On nights like tonight I feel really sorry for East Coast Sports fans: Because they missed tonight’s Fresno State – UCLA football game.

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Didn’t we all early in the year have SF Giants beating Atlanta Braves tonight in a bullpen game with Giants catcher calling a shutout AND getting game winning RBI

And having that catcher be…Curt Casali???

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Coach Nick Saban called out Alabama defense for ‘mental errors’ after their 2 point over Florida. Gosh, maybe the Crimson Tide was exhausted after their big win last week against Mercer.

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New Orleans Saints, whose players and staff are fully vaccinated, will now have eight coaches unavailable this week due to COVID. Maybe mad scientist Sean Payton can come up with a plan to clone himself?

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As today marks the one-year anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, struck by how many are blaming RBG for not retiring under Obama. The blame is ALL on McConnell & even the “moderate” GOP senators who confirmed his picks. Oh, & Merrick Garland says “Hi.”

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Reportedly some MAGA people didn’t show up to the Justice for J6 rally today because they felt it was a liberal “trap.” Hmm, any way we can start convincing these folks that anti-vax propaganda is another liberal trap?5335

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Has Sean Spicer appeared yet to say #JusticeforJ6 was the biggest rally of the year in DC?

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The crowd for today’s hate rally in Washington DC has been estimated in the hundreds. Did they think it was Velveeta Voldemort’s second inaugural?

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Nikki Haley’s sister-in-law died of COVID last December, sadly just before scientists had developed vaccines. Brian Kemp’s sister-in-law died of COVID last week, sadly still before GOP will acknowledge the need for vaccines..

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Bad headline CNN “More than 100 part-timers at Indiana University Health left jobless for refusing Covid-19 vaccine.” Fixed it “Indiana University Health proves concern for staff & patients by upholding their requirement that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.”

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Is CNN changing their name to “Clickbait News Network?”

“Oh man, that was the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my entire career,” pinch hitter Kevin Gausman said. “When it was 3-2 and everybody stood up, it was probably one of the coolest moments of my life. … Just crazy.”

SF Giants 6- Atlanta Braves 5.

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ESPN saying that “Best walkoff of the day” was the Rays’ Brett Phillips home run against the Tigers. Clearly this was before Babe Gausman’s walk off sacrifice fly for SF Giants against the Braves.

SF Giants Donovan Solano hit game-tying home run w/ 2 strikes in bottom of 9th. His 1st AB in over 2 weeks after recovering from COVID & quarantine. Solano was breakthrough case while vaccinated. Time to spread rumor if you get Covid while vaccinated you become more powerful? (It could be true.)

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ESPN headline “One of baseball’s best teams, either the Giants or Dodgers will face a wild-card elimination game? Here’s why that’s a good thing.” Well, if you’re ESPN and not a Giants or Dodgers fan.

Rachel Maddow talking about Canadian election. Of course Bernie Sanders is endorsing the New Democratic Party candidate -Jagmeet Singh. Which presumably means Bernie’s okay with Conservative party winning if Singh takes votes from Trudeau. Where have we seen this script before?

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Multiple terrifying daily revelations from Woodward’s book “Peril.” If only any of these people quoted had had a platform to speak out at the time when our country was seriously in peril…

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Hey GOP. Your politicians and pundits love to complain that Americans don’t want to work these days: Maybe it might help if you condemned people who attack restaurant, retail and travel workers over stuff like vaccine and mask mandates.

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Wonder what anti-vax and anti-mask Texans would do if restaurant workers started arming their hosts and hostesses?

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Fox News historically has been quick to jump on France – remember Freedom Fries – for varying issues with the US, real and imagined. So somehow I must have missed their praise of President Biden’s submarine deal that clearly p*ssed France off.

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So last year at this time we’d wake up in the morning and go “Now what did he tweet?” Now we’re waking up and going “now what right-wing anti-vaxxer has a severe case of COVID-19?””

SF Giants starter, Alex Wood, out nearly 3 weeks with COVID-19 – “politely declined again to disclose his vaccination status.” Translation: He hasn’t been vaccinated. Sigh.

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At least SF Giants can be thankful there wasn’t a second trade deadline in 2021. Otherwise LA Dodgers would have figured out a way to get up to at least $400,000,000 million payroll.

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Controversy tonight as to whether umpires ejected Baltimore Orioles grounds crew, or just them to leave the field.

When you’re on pace to lose about 110 games in a year, you have to get creative to make headlines.

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Tonight on the”The Last Word,” Lawrence O’Donnell reports “Paul Ryan was convinced Trump had Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”

In related news, Paul Ryan is also convinced water is wet.

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Tommy Tuberville on Sep 18 rally – “I hadn’t heard anything about it. I will not be there.” Do I believe he hasn’t heard anything, no. Do I believe he won’t be there, yes. There’s no way Tommy’d think even possible insurrection he supports is as important as college football.

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Rachel Maddow reports that many Republicans are trying to keep Sept 18 DC rally and rally goers at arms length… Why? Aren’t they the same festive tourists who showed up on January 6?

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Why does CNN cover all these statements that Velveeta Voldemort makes? (Just for comparison, I don’t remember it being breaking news when Hillary Clinton said things 10 months after the 2016 election.)

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You just KNOW if these anti-mask anti-vaxx folks were in London during the Blitz instead of following blackout rules they’d be running outside at night to take pictures of those cool German planes.

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So would any Republican Senator like to explain on camera why it was worth raising the debt ceiling to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. But not to help all Americans with the infrastructure bill?

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If states are going to to need ration healthcare can the first question they ask when a patient arrives at a doctor’s office or hospital be “are you vaccinated?” Not to be cruel, but why waste scarce resources on someone who doesn’t believe in medical science?

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Here’s what I don’t get. GOP professes to be pro-business. Businesses are increasingly deciding that vaccine mandates for employees and customers are a good thing. So shouldn’t Republicans be applauding their freedom of choice?

ESPN headline “Urban Meyer says there’s ‘no chance’ he’d leave Jacksonville Jaguars for USC Trojans job.”Translation – USC hasn’t offered him enough money.

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Maybe we shouldn’t be shocked that the same FBI who clearly didn’t give a damn about credible accusations from respected Professor Christine Blasey Ford about Brett Kavanaugh also ignored credible accusations from members of US Women’s Gymnastic team.

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The New Orleans Saints, who are 100% vaccinated, apparently have had six coaches and one player get breakthrough COVID cases… Have to wonder, with all the potential stadiums available, who sent New Orleans to play in… .Florida?

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76% of Republicans say they had “just a little or no confidence in elections” reflecting the will of the people.

Could someone in media ask them on camera if that means they also think some of those races GOP won in 2020 might have been stolen too?

Rachel Maddow covering fencing being re-erected around the U.S. Capitol. As a mother I’ve always aware been aware my child as an adult could choose to live in a dangerous place. I didn’t expect that place to be Washington D.C.

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Organizer of Sept. 18 rally insists “We’ve got a largely peaceful crowd.” Great, so how many GOP members of Congress will be on hand to mingle and shake hands? Unmasked of course.

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A County Republican party chair says the party is trying to recruit more moderate candidates in California. Might start by having all of them say one sentence “The 2020 election was NOT stolen.” Or is that a bridge too far for today’s GOP?

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GOP California recall gubernatorial challenger Larry Elder last night “let us be gracious in defeat.””Gracious in defeat?”Well that’s it, many in GOP will be calling Elder a RINO by the end of the week.

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Caitlyn Jenner “I can’t believe that this many people voted to keep him in office. It’s a shame, it’s a shame.”

No, Ms. Jenner, it’s democracy.

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Although, not sure how Governor Newsom celebrated last night. Pretty sure it wasn’t at the French Laundry.)-

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California: 39.7 million people. 4.6 million covid cases. 67,312 covid deaths. Florida: 21.48 million people, 3.42M covid cases, 48,772 covid deaths.

And Gavin Newsom not Ron DeSantis is the governor who faced a recall election?

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Last night Stephen Colbert referred to the Former Guy as “The Lardfather” and I am so here for it.

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Watching many in GOP go through motions of voting against a Biden-nominated judge. If Senate doesn’t need 60 votes to confirm a judge they sure shouldn’t need 60 votes to confirm Americans’ right to vote.

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Missed all this GOP outrage about the Taliban when Velveeta Voldemort made a deal with them.

FBI director Wray “I don’t have a good explanation” for why the investigation into Larry Nassar abusing young women gymnasts was botched. Understatement of the year.

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Wonder why we haven’t heard from Gym Jordan today on the testimony from US women’s gymnasts… Maybe he’s busy preparing a statement on behalf of the FBI?

Finally – without snark

Former Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman testifying today: “Over 100 victims could have been spared the abuse. All we needed was one adult to do the right thing.” No words.

(I hope one or more of these brave survivors run for office some day.)

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SF Giants have best record in baseball and are first team in ALL of MLB to clinch a playoff spot. So of course ESPN top headlines almost ignore baseball except for “Kershaw allows 1 run in first start since early July.” #NoRespect

Giants like it this way.

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Great night for SF Giants but….

Saw Buster Posey pitch as Florida State reliever in College World Series against Stanford. Posey talking about his gray hairs tonight is not something I was ready to hear yet.

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Bizarre stat of the night. SF Giants, in clinching tonight got their 93rd win. Giants now, with 18 games to go have more regular-season wins in 2021 than they had in 2010, 2012 or 2014….

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So if Stanford doesn’t end up in a bowl game this year is getting USC’s coach fired a good consolation prized? USC, seeking ‘change in leadership,’ fires Helton.

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GOP election strategy is now saying either we win or it was rigged. I have standards but so does this mean if I WERE a Republican San Francisco Giants fan I could just declare SF Giants 2021 World Series champions? Either they’ll win on field or they’ll have gotten cheated….

Tonight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert talks about recent poll showing 60% of Californians oppose recalling Gavin Newsom. “The other 40% said ‘I am running for Governor.'”

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Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn: “Expecting terrorists to behave like normal people is reckless and stupid.” So since presumably her words don’t exclude domestic terrorists Blackburn’s saying she’s in favor of locking up January 6th insurrectionists for as long as possible?

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How long before some Republican leader claims the man arrested “patrolling” outside of the Democratic National Committee headquarters with a bayonet and a machete was just a peaceful tourist?

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Amy Coney Barrett expressed concerns yesterday that the public may increasingly see the Supreme Court as a partisan institution. In related news, Angel Hernandez expressed concerns that the public increasingly doesn’t respect umpires.

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Why are we shocked that companies are reporting that many employees, faced with imminent termination, are just now deciding to get their COVID vaccines? Christmas is December 25 every year, and most Americans still wait until a week or two before to do their shopping.

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Sorry, if you’re a GOP member of Congress and didn’t have a problem with the Former Guy making a deal with the Taliban and inviting them to Camp David, then when it comes to the withdrawal of Afghanistan, think you should sit this one out.

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A friend who is a teacher in West Virgina lost a former student today. Student had become a pro-Former Guy anti-vaxxer. And they died from COVID. Tragic, and absolutely preventable.

But GOP has decided it’s worth their constituents need literally to be “dying to own the libs.”