Left Coast Sports Babe

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?

If it were only baseball he’s tanking.

Washington Nationals 8

Los Angeles Dodgers 2

Almost as if everything Trump touches dies. #Ettd

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In a parliamentary system when things go really badly they can call for a “vote of no confidence” to trigger a snap election. If the USA survives this Trump presidency is it possible we could switch to having a parliament?

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Do we know that Kamala would have been a great President? No, we don’t. Do we know she would have been MUCH better than Velveeta Voldemort. Yes, we absolutely do.

To keep his job, Mike Johnson agreed to abdicate House’s power on tariffs to Donald Trump. So a man who began as the least consequential Speaker of the House in history may go down in history as the man who let a madman destroy our country to keep his title & fancy office.

Marco Rubio is son of Cubans who moved to the US during the 1950s. He was born when they were not citizens.

His grandfather came with no visa and had worked for Castro. He was allowed to stay. And now he’s trying to deport people like his parents & grandfather

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Meanwhile heard at a travel industry event last night from a Hawaii hotel Air Canada had a planned event flying many of top Canadian travel agents to Maui. They just canceled it. Inbound tourism brought USA over $250 billion in 2024. 2025 dropoff needs to be bigger story.

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So is Trump’s new plan to tariff pharmacteuticals tied to his plan to gut social security? Figuring that millions of Americans will just die before they try to collect benefits?

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As Press Secretary Barbie explains the Musk-Navarro conflict as boys being boys… While their conflict/game affects and is destroying real lives Shakespeare’s line comes to mind. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”

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Pretty bipartisan group: Klobuchar (D-MN), Cantwell (D-WA) Grassley (R-IA) Moran (R-KS), Murkowski (R-AK), Warner (D-VA) McConnell (R-KY), Bennet (D-CO), Tillis (R-NC) & Welch (D-VT) introduce Trade Review Act of 2025, to restore congressional oversight over Trump’s tariff taxes.

How bad does it have to get for other Republicans to join them?

Meanwhile, while the bond market colllapses, Fox News headline: “Trump says he would be ‘gracious’ if Xi Jinping attempts to negotiate a deal” Yeah, like King Charles I was going to be gracious with Oliver Cromwell.

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Sometimes you read something and you’re SURE it’s satire.

Nope, JD Vance actually said “We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.” Meanwhile over in Greenland they’re saying “We hated him first!”

Would like to propose we refer to today – April 9 – as Orange Wednesday.

Cory Booker will be 56 years old this month. So other Generation X, along with Millennials, and Gen Z, don’t EVER want to hear from you that you are too tired to vote.

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I feel for whoever is on ketchup cleanup duty tonight at the White House.

Is Trump going to try to put tariffs on Wisconsin cheese now?

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Brad Schimel conceded, urging his supporters to accept the results.

Attacks by Trump and Musk on right wing Republican Schimel as a RINO in 3.2.1..

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It’s going to get worse before it gets better. But today definitely feels like a turning point. Wouldn’t it be perfect if the high-water mark of the Trump Presidency was the morning of April Fool’s Day?

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Cory Booker closing: “Power of people is greater than the people in power.

John Lewis wouldn’t know how to solve it, but he’d go out & “cause good trouble, necessary trouble.

And “let’s redeem the soul of America.”

This is a moral moment. Let’s get in good trouble. I yield the floor”

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Senate Democrats – joyfully supporting Cory Booker standing up for average Americans as he broke Strom Thummond’s filibuster record.

House GOP sent home by Mike Johnson after rejecting his refusal to let new parents vote by proxy.

Small victories.

Stanford football coach Troy Taylor has been fired.

Yes, I predicted before Friday of this week.

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Does anyone know where Aaron Rodgers will sign?

More to the point, does anybody care?

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Now the FBI has launched a Tesla vandalism task force

If only Republicans cared as much about protecting children, seniors and veterans as much as they care about protecting Teslas.

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Number one question for SIRI today from Washington Republicans?

“How do you immediately delete Signal records?”

Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson says no one should be fired over an “errant number” on a text thread. Uh, how about someone being fired for having that conversation on Signal in the first place?

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Something else not getting enough attention. NOTHING on group chat like “Hey, how does this work? or “Thanks for suggesting this.”

Short version: Waltz, Hegseth, Gabbad, Vance had used Signal often before. Seems although illegal it was their preferred method of communication

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CNN headline “Top intel officials shift responsibility on to Hegseth for sending potentially classified info to Yemen strike group chat.” Maybe even most of the MAGA Trump cabinet can’t stand him either?

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Why is J.D. Vance really going to Greenland? My money’s on “avoiding US media after his involvement in the Signal fiasco.”

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Trump yesterday called George Clooney a ‘second-rate movie star’ Uh, Donold… George has two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Somebody is a widdle bit jealous.

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Wonder how many new subscriptions the Atlantic is getting due to Velveeta Voldemort’s insults?