Left Coast Sports Babe

So Sovereignty did beat Journalism.

Let’s hope the metaphor is mirrored in reverse.

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Has Donald Trump said he could have won the Kentucky Derby yet?

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Was getting late on East Coast… So even though it was game 7 playoff hockey, wonder how many hockey fans turned off Avalanche Stars game 7 with Colorado up 2-0 on Dallas in the third period?

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Whatever happens with the Golden State Warriors Sunday tomorrow at least they will have outlasted both Los Angeles teams. #BeatLA

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JD Vance defended Donald’s AI pope photo saying “I’m fine with people telling jokes.” Not surprising from a man who said with his wife Usha standing next to him: “Here’s the thing. Cameras are all on; anything I say, no matter how crazy, she has to smile, laugh & celebrate it.

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All the trolls on Twitter are defending Velveeta Voldemort’s picture of himself as Pope as just a joke. Trump. Does. Not. Joke.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if the conclave elected Pope Joe Biden?

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DOT Secretary Sean Duffy blasted the DOD and by implication Pete Hegseth for a VIP Helicopter trip in DC hat resulted in two commercial planes at National Airport needing to change their approach to avoid a collision. “Take a taxi or Uber’”

Ooh, the sister wives of the Trump cabinet are not happy with each other…

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Wonder if we will ever find out who the VIP was in the helicopter?

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Tonight’s NBC SNL on Donold’s consequential first 100 days. “In 100 days FDR created vital government departments, forged new alliances & established our nation’s social safety net. And President Trump did the same thing, only in reverse.”

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Two favorites in Kentucky Derby: Journalism vs Sovereignty. Seems a little too on brand for our country right now.

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So game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals will happen before game 7 of the NBA Western Conference First round. Don’t ever tell me that baseball is weird.

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Baylor University covered up sexual assaults on campus for years. Jerry Falwell Jr. ran Liberty Unversity like a GOP PAC.

Presidents Obama and Biden didn’t try to take away their tax-exempt status.

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Here’s a memory of Gregg Popovich in 2020.

A fundraiser for Joe Biden including Cory Booker had Gregg Popovich headlining. (Remember days of all those Zoom windows?)

Wasn’t just that athletes were involved, but discovered several big name stars paid their way in just because of Pop.

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Rumors are that Harvard turned down Barron for admission. But thinking more than that.

Either. 1. They turned down DONALD for admission 2. A Harvard/Radcliffe woman turned Donald down for a “date”

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No lie too small: The Take it Down Act”- anti-deep fake porn – which finally passed, was introduced by Ted Cruz & Amy Klobuchar & later gained support of Melania Trump. Rare bipartisanism for a good cause. On Twitter got bots/trolls saying it was all Cruz or all FLOTUS.

Since their White House visit, the mighty LA Dodgers are a .500 team.

So guess not even Donald could kill them but #ETTS ?

Everything Trump Touches Slumps?

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Have to wonder, how many GOP football fans who claim Donald Trump is a genius on everything would let him make their first round NFL draft pick.

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As a friend says “At least the Dodgers didn’t let JD Vance handle their trophy.”

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·Coach Senator Tommy Tuberviille says he is running for Governor of Alabama in 2016.

Meanwhile out of 99 other U.S. Senators at least 95 have to be cheering on a bipartisan ba

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Rachel Maddow was cheerfully reading polls tonight. Velveeta Voldemort does watch MSNBC. I feel for whoever is on White House ketchup duty.

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From a friend, wish I’d thought of it. Can we start referring to Pete Hegseth as “Whisky Leaks?”

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Trump blaming past Presidents for trade deals. Let’s see –United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced NATFA. USMCA entered into force on July 1, 2020. Who was President then? Dementia is a cruel disease.

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Watching China and much of the rest of the world laugh at Donald.

Sems like on tariffs, Trump was pretending to be the cool guy who could get the most popular girl in school to beg to go to the prom with him. And meanwhile, she and her friends have moved on.

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Lowering egg prices, Russia’s war on Ukraine, Israel’s attack on Gaza…. How many things did Donald promise to do on day one? The only promise he kept was to be a dictator.

Wonder how the “arm teachers” MAGA gang feels about this one.

Sure, there’s a lot of NBA first round playoff drama.

But it’s just possible we’re going to have a lot of time spent on a warm up to an Oklahoma City Thunder coronation.

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Meanwhile, when Camilo Doval is the LESS stressful option in the 9th… you know as an SF Giants fan that torture is back.

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Meanwhile, MLB leader in RBIs as of April 23?

Wilmer Flores. Just ahead of Pete Alonso and that Arson Judge guy. Just like we all expected.

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So who is Donald going to try to bring as part of his entourage to the Pope’s funeral?

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The same Velveeta Voldemort who claims he wants to take over elite universities for the excuse of them allowing anti-semitisim, is now going after everyone else for “anti-Christian bias.”

Make it make sense.

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As Trump offers an “intimate dinner” at his golf club to top buyers of his memo crypto coin, your reminder,
Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

From the Oval Office press event today “I asked Governor Trudeau why we are spending $200B to subsidize Canada?”

Does DonOld even remember Trudeau isn’t Prime Minister anymore? My money is on “no”

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As Trump talks about a $5,000 baby bonus, a random google search shows average cost of childcare for an infant in the US is from $1200-3200 A MONTH. Just saying.

Now that the play-in round is over, the NBA playoff season officially started last night – April 18

A possible game seven in the NBA finals would be June 18.

Well, at least they’ll be done before the MLB All-Star break.

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Dodgers now placed Blake Treinen on injured list along with Blake Snell. How long until Los Angeles just buys another team to restock their pitching staff?

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Fellow sports fans, no one likes their team to lose. But when team loses & then wins, think of the San Antonio Spurs in 2013 & 2014, they CELEBRATE!

Trump is still more angry & focused on 2020 election he lost than 2024 election he won. Worst sport ever. #pathetic

One thing that is absolutely clear from this. Not only has he not gotten over his 2020 loss. And he is taking revenge on America

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Trump: “Nobody has done more for Christianity, no one has done more for religion of all types than me.”

To be fair, Donald probably has had more Americans than any President scream “Jesus Christ!”

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Measles was declared eradicated in the US in 2000.

In 2025 there have been over 800 cases in the US, 26 states, now including Virginia.

Forget dinosaurs, Trump & RFK Jr. have turned our country into Jurassic Park for diseases.

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Tiru Chabba and Robert Morales Innocent people murdered at Florida State University by a white Supremacist, pro-Trump, American citizen with a gun. Crickets from GOP. Say THEIR names.

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Winning sign from yesterday’s protests.

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Fox News amplifying another lie: DHS claims stopping illegal immigration is major reason why it’s holding firm to May 7 REAL ID deadline.

Uh, most undocumented immigrants fly in & overstay visas. A passport, from ANY country, will remain acceptable ID for domestic flights in US.

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So in the last month or so Trump administration has…

Accidentally added a reporter to a Signal chat about a miitary attack.

Deported people by mistake.

Sent a threatening letter to Harvard they claimed should not have been sent.

And these people have the nuclear codes…

SF Giants are 13-5 and ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the standings.

Which is more shocking? That sentence? Or the fact they’re still 1.5 games out of the lead in the NL West?

Meanwhile in baseball trivia, 74 pitches combined by 2 starting pitchers for SF Giants and Phillies in Philadelphia in the first inning… Greg Maddux had a complete game once with 78 pitches.

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Your tax dollars at work: US AG Pam Bondi has press conference to talk about suing Maine allegedly to “protect women and girls in sports.” (despite there being only 2 or trans 3 girls competing in the whole state.)

While the trans issue is complicated, what about injuries sustained when larger children compete against smaller ones. Or when parents hold their kids back in school to allow them to compete at an older age against classmates of the same year?

(talk to any parent who’s had a child in middle or high school competing against a young man in the same grade couple years older who’s gone through puberty.)

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RFK Jr. on autism “These are kids who will never pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go on a date. Many will never use toilet unassisted. Hes evil. & wrong. We all know folks on spectrum who do those things & are happy productive people Can see why Jr’s family has disowned him.

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So if Trump is going to insist universities must do purely merit-based admissions, how long until some parents sue because their kids lost out on admission with far better grades than say, recruits for the football team?

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So after an investigation involving polygraphs, Pentagon has put three officials on leave over allegedly leaking Elon Musk’s planned secret & possibly illegal meeting on China.

But as to Signalgate which put American troops at risk… move along, nothing to see here.

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Rachel Maddow tonight covering Washington Post’s story that Trump and RFK Jr. want to eliminate CDC work on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and stopping smoking. Not cut but ELIMINATE all of it. Yeah, good thing MAGAs don’t have those woke health issues.

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From local Safeway ad. For those who can’t afford eggs. Why aren’t there headlines on Trump’s war on Easter?

We’re now into that part of the NBA season known as “play-in games” – to play in to see if you get to the “real” postseason.

Uh, with 82 games, and eight playoff positions in each conference, shouldn’t the regular season be enough to decide who gets into the postseaon?

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All this talk about the Los Angeles Dodgers breaking the record for most MLB wins in a season – (Seattle Mariners, 116 in 2001.) Is it too soon to talk about the Colorado Rockies breaking the 1962 Mets and 2024 White Sox loss record of 120?t

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Last week it was Maine governor Janet Mills.

Now it’s Harvard.

Whatever you think the perks of being President of the United States include pretty sure they DON’T include requiring anyone you don’t agree with to apologize to you.

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Hey Senators Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton We don’t agree on much but neither of you are stupid. Why aren’t you condemning Donald’s attacks on Harvard – YOUR alma mater?

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Trump’s attacks on Harvard have nothing to do with anti-semitism. They have to do with attacking everyone he knows is smarter than him. Also what do we want to bet Harvard turned Donald down for admission?

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Jeff Sessions: Conservative ex-Alabama senator 1st US Senator to endorse Trump! Donald named him US attorney general. But Sessions recused himself from Russian collusion case. Trump fired him. Then endorsed Tuberville in Senate race Sooner or later EVERYONE ends up under the bus.

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April 15 was Tax Day.

About 2/3 of Americans get a refund. Many count on that refund for vacations, purchases, even living expenses So what happens when all these DOGE cuts/layoffs/forced retirements result in delayed refunds and no one to answer the phones?

So the two top teams in MLB by record, 10% into the season, are both in the NL West.

And neither of them are the LA Dodgers.

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Three home runs this weekend, and two Sunday in Yankee Stadium. They may have had to drag Jung Hoo Lee kicking and screaming onto the SF Giants team plane leaving New York today…

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Two double bogeys in the final round then a bogey on the 18th before winning a sudden death playoff.

Rory McIlroy’s Masters win today to complete his multiyear grand slam at times felt like a sequel to Tin Cup.

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Took Pam Bondi five hours to say anything about the terrorist who set the Pennsylvania Governor’s residence on fire? Was she waiting to see if any nearby Tesla’s were damaged?

Meanwhile crickets from Velveeta Voldemort on the arson at the Governors Mansion which was an attempted murder of Josh Shapiro. But Donald found time to rant and demand CBS’s license be revoked over 60 Minutes stories he felt were too critical.

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The White House medical report says Donald is 6’3 and 224 pounds. And everyone who’s ever felt guilty for fudging their driver’s license by an inch or a few pounds is just giggling.

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Velveeta Voldemort is now selling “Gulf of America” hats for $47 Because 49.8% of Americans absolutely voted last year that chaos, corruption and higher prices were worth it to rename maps?