Posted tagged ‘baseball’

« Left Coast Sports Babe home page
Newer Entries »

Star power

February 21, 2024

As the NBA All-Star game continues to be panned after the fact, am not the only one who thought Steph Curry vs Sabrina Ionescu three-point shooting match was the best part of the weekend.

So if Caitlin Clark goes pro, why not some more of those WNBA-NBA star shooting matchups?

NBA All-Star game is non-contact anyway, basically. More pre-game skills competition would be fun. And #RATINGS

–

Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers, asked about the team’s lack of offseason spending told reporters Tuesday he thought ownership needed to make an adjustment “to help us players to be in a better position to win.”

Sounds like Devers is disappointed about the season already. Does this make him an honorary member of the Mets?

–

Biden defenders interviewed lately:

Mitch Landrieu: “saying Joe’s not up to job is bucket of B.S. so deep your boots will get stuck under”

Amy Klobuchar: “chaos vs someone that actually has proof points.”

Kathy Hochul: “No one agrees with everyone on everything, Been married 40 years and don’t agree my husband 100%

All good sound bites. But the media loves chaos.

–

Got mail today from Speaker Mike Johnson “Can I ask for your help today?  Your file indicates you’re longtime supporter of Pres. Trump & our movement, which makes you PERFECT candidate to fill out Trump Agenda Audit.”

Sounds like Mike runs his email lists as well as he runs GOP House

–

Nikki Haley gets a lot of attention for her speech today because many people thought she was going to drop out of the race. It’s all about drama. Maybe President Biden should promise to mix up one name at every speech or rally so media will pay attention in anticipation.

–

Republicans have been touting Alexander Smirnov as a reliable witness against the Bidens. And now Smirnov, the ex-FBI informant, told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials. So how are GOP gonna spin this one?

–

Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children . So one way to defray IVF costs: Couples should create a number frozen embryos, and take the IRS child deduction for ALL of them on their tax returns.

Let us not forget. Trump said “Russia, do whatever the hell you want.” And that same week Putin murdered Navalny.

Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: , ,

Comments: 2 Comments

The sweetest day.

February 14, 2024

Not for some of us “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

–

But “PItchers and Catchers Report.”
–

Hate to see that it’s only televised on Peacock.

Because the more people who sign up, the more streaming will look like a good future alternative.

But Michigan at Iowa. Women’s basketball Thursday night: T

Wow. Tickets as low as $285 (!) #CaitlinClark

Hoping fans show up to watch Caitlin as a WNBA rookie too.

—

Jenny Cavnarhas just named play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics -the first woman to hold such a role for a Major League Baseball team.

This is good news, especially for the Athletics, who are not often referred to as a Major League Baseball team.

—

Get more random online ads than most, especially as I read about sports and google for random information. But you know MLB has a marketing problem when you regularly get offers for bobblehead giveway games and you go “who?”

–

Some GOP Senators did all night marathon delaying Foreign Aid bill & complaining about border.

Bill finally was passed about 6a Tuesday. If only they’d made effort when REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford along w/ Sinema & Murphy & staffs invited comments while working night & weekends and holidays to write actual border-foreign aid bill.

–

A message from congressman-elect Tom Suozzi to Congress: “Stop running around for Donald Trump and start running the country.”

–

This was supposed to be close. Even Starry the cat can see #NY03 isn’t. Hey national media – Democrats, especially women, are fired up. And we’re voting.

But in Tennessee, Dem. Gloria Johnson, who GOP tried to expel from state House, is seeking another term while also running for U.S. Senate.

GOP is trying to force her to only run for one.

Meanwhile in Florida, GOP changed rules to allow DeSantis to run both for re-election & for President. #hypocrites

–

CNN talks about how GOP especially thinks we should prioritize deporting undocumented immigrants.

Wonder if those pollsters mentioned how many service workers- in hospitality, agriculture, construction, landscaping, child-care, housekeeping, restaurants, ARE currently undocumented workers…

=

Conservative Congressman Ken Buck – who voted “no” on impeaching Mayorkas. “You don’t have all that many serious people in this place who really want to work on policy and get serious problems solved.” Understatement of the year.

–

MAGA Republicans are attacking their own GOP Senators today for standing against Vladimir Putin. What’s next, a posthumous effort to impeach Ronald Reagan because he didn’t tell Gorbachev to build up that wall?

(and maybe put snipers on it?)

Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: , , ,

Comments: Be the first to comment

No sour grapes

December 10, 2023

Hoping Shohei Ohtani and his new backup band of All-Stars bring as many World Championships to the Dodgers as he and Mike Trout brought to the Angels.

–

So now that Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Shohei Ohtani for $700 million will they offer fans an installment plan to purchase beer and Dodger Dogs?

–

While this NFL season has a lot of mediocre football teams, the NFC South is in a class of their own – a three team tie for first place. At 6-7. Someone has to win, right?

–
As a Saints fan I have gotten used to some pretty ugly games this year, but the Vikings and Raiders may just have clinched “Ugliest game of the year” award, a 3-0 win by Minnesota on a late 4th quarter field goal.

If after regulation the teams were still tied 0-0 would it have gone to penalty kicks?

Today Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots were officially eliminated from this season’s NFL playoffs.

No punchline, I just like writing that.

–

Fox News headline “Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee suffers landslide defeat after a profanity-laced tirade on staff.” Then “Texas lawmaker John Whitmire tops Sheila Jackson Lee in runoff election for Houston’s next mayor” What the headline doesn’t say. Whitmire is ALSO a Democrat.

–

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Moscow) said today United States needs to accept Ukraine will likely need to “cede some territory” to Russia to end war. And that it’s “prepostrous that Putin would attack a NATO country.” What’s next, Vance will proclaim “Peace in our time?”

–

Even the GOP is up in arms after Casey DeSantis asked out-of-state residents to come vote (illegally) for Ron DeSantis in Iowa caucuses. Silly Casey. If you’re a Republican who doesn’t live in a state, you can’t vote there, you can only run in that state for US Senate.

–

Didn’t it occur to Casey DeSantis that if it were possible for out of state residents to vote illegally in Iowa caucuses Trump’s team would have already thought of it?

Former President Donald Trump just said that he will no longer testify on Monday in his civil trial as previously planned. Did someone just tell him that if he testifies he can be cross-examined?


Again, most people don’t agree with friends, family members or spouses on everything, nor do we expect perfection from people we are close to. So what’s with some of this “Biden isn’t solving ‘fill-in-the-blank” single issue I have with him, so I’ll stay home or vote 3rd party?”-

A brave young woman in Kentucky who was raped by her stepfather appeared in an ad for Andy Beshear this November. Kate Cox, the poor mother who has a non-viable pregnancy with a wanted child in Texas has been through enough already, but can’t help hoping she now wants to do an ad for Democrats in 2024.

–

Something GOP doesn’t want you to know. If Texas mother Kate Cox is forced to go through with her non-viable pregnancy & the fetus survives for a few days, or in best case a few months, Republicans also want to cut Medicaid & other assistance to mothers and children.

Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: , , , ,

Comments: Be the first to comment

Newer Entries »