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Ups and downs.

September 13, 2024

All you need to know about the SF Giants season

Three games against the Milwaukee Brewers.

13-2 win in the middle game.

And game one, two runs on hits. Game three, 0 runs on five hives.

Not enough castles, too many outhouses.

“Siri, what is a mediocre team?”

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Meanwhile. apparently there might be issues with the Oakland A’s move to Sacramento.

 John Fisher might be the worst owner in the history of professional sports….. well maybe except for Charles Comiskey – google him, kids

(Even Marge Schott had her moments.)

But want another reason I root for the New Orleans Saints over the SF 49ers…. Actually the SANTA CLARA 49ers…

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/49ers-pour-900-000-year-s-santa-clara-city-19761165.php

So who did he think he was, Crash Davis? Per ESPN “Minnesota Twins released minor league catcher Derek Bender on Thursday after he told opposing hitters the type of pitch that was coming to the plate during at-bats of the game last week.”

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Trump knows… Every minute we spend refuting his lies on cats and abortion is a minute we don’t spend talking about the truth of his planned Project 2025.

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Now he’s just throwing out “concepts.” Trump said today he’ll eliminate tax on overtime. Leaving aside that companies will pressure people to work off the clock or for salaries without OT, wonder how long it would take for executives to declare their compensation overtime?

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People are saying that the only reason Donald Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate is that he wanted someone so incompetent and awful that GOP wouldn’t force him to step aside as his age and increasing cognitive decline became worse.

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Giving undecided voters all the media attention is like teachers and professors giving extra credit to the students who didn’t start working on their papers until the night before they were due.

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Cloing the night with this. 1. No one is aborting babies after birth 2. Haitian immigrants are not eating pets. 3. Trump Project 2025 is REAL 4. Every minute the media spends on 1 and 2 distracts from 3

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Rays of hope

July 25, 2024

Robbie Ray, over a year removed from pitching after Tommy John surgery, made his first start for SF Giants today and gave up a run in the first inning to the Los Angeles Dodgers – walking two and hitting two.

Okay, who had Ray going on to throw five no hit innings and the Giants winning 8-3?

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Not me.

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And who had one of the first Paris Olympics cheating scandals being the Canadian women’s soccer team spying on their opponent with a drone?

Also not me.

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Tne New York Yankees have fallen a game and a half behind the Baltimore Orioles for the AL East, but still hold the top wild card spot in the AL. The LA Dodgers with a 7.5 game lead in the NL West are looking for pitching help.

Both teams are expected to spend big at the trade deadline:

MLB payroll leaders for 2024.

  1. Mets − $305,624,274
  2. Yankees − $303,322,047
  3. Dodgers − $249,823,654

-So shall we have “Take me out to the ball game played on teeny tiny violins?

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Not saying Biden Harris administration has been perfect with Gaza, and don’t know the solution. But anyone who is thinking of not voting for Kamala Harris in November out of sympathy for Palestinians should listen to GOP attacking Democrats today for not being pro-Israel enough.

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Understand that the situation in the Mideast is complicated and Hamas is evil. But when Netanyahu talks about “sanctifying life…” Uh, how does he keep a straight face.

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Netanyahu went on and on, speaking for over an hour today to Congress. Who does he think he is, Donald Trump?

Trump tonight at lie-filled rally

“They said something happened to me when I got shot, I became nice. But when you’re dealing with these very dangerous people you can’t be too nice.” Am fine with many potential VPs. But I’d so love Gabby Giffords to be our Second Lady.

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Listening to the GOP being apoplectic about Kamala Harris over … plastic straws?? Does this mean if someone can come up with a biodegradable plastic straw that Harris & Democrats can brand it to win in a landslide?

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How can GOP talk about DEI hires when every single person they have put on a Presidential ticket, along with their House and Senate leaders, are white men? Clearly Republicans are the ones who hire unqualified people because of quotas.

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Joe Biden always feels like he’s the luckiest guy in the world.” We are lucky as Americans to have had him as President.

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Just thinking, you know who was a childless leader? Jesus.

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Predicting picks etc

June 26, 2024

Ever feel bad because you think you should be better at your job. Save some of tonight’s NBA pundits predictions on which teams won the draft and look at them in a few years.

Doncic was drafted 3rd.

Curry was drafted 7th,

Jokic was 2nd round

Meanwhile the San Antonio Spurs picked Stephon Castle at #4 – potential star power but who knows – and sent tneir #8 first round pick, Rob Dillingham, to the Timberwiloves for two first round picks in 2030 and 2031.

Gregg Popovich is NEVER gonna retire.

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Georgia upset Portugal 2-0 in Eurocup Action

Would it be wrong to wonder how many MAGA supporters saw this and reacted “USA USA USA!”?

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Florida Governorr Ron DeSantis signed a bill making it illegal to release balloons into the air because it they are bad for the environment and animals.

Not that I don’t laud any small good things Deathsantis does, but let me get this straight. Balloons are a threat to the environment, but climate change isn’t? Make it make sense.

(Guess the balloon lobby didn’t donate to him?)

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Smoked salmon sold at Kroger & Pay Less Market recalled for listeria risk Salmon was sold in AL, AK, IL, IN, KY, LA, MI, MS, MO, OH, SC,TN, TX & WV. Mostly red states. It’s only science.

What now? Eat salmon, ro own the libs?

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Haven’t been to law school but even I know what “standing” is. (Standing is the right of a party to challenge the conduct of another party in court. Not about the issue itself.)

Some Republicans and right wing media now mad that apparently a majority of SCOTUS justices know it too.

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As House Republicans try to save Steve Bannon from prison and try to come up with new ways to go after Merrick Garland, your reminder … Nancy Pelosi had a razor slim majority, AND had to deal with the far–left Squad. She managed to herd cats and be one of the most effecting governing Speakers in House history..

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Wonder how many of the MAGAs cheering Trump’s off the cuff comments about not taxing tips actually tip their hotel housekeepers, Uber/Lyft drivers etc?

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Never ceases to amaze me how President Biden will make substantive speeches on policy, or even have his administration make changes that help average Americans, and the media shrugs. But Trump can have an idea pop into his head for five minutes and the headlines go on for days.

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Go midwest young man?

May 20, 2024

So the NBA conference finals are set.

No team West of the central time zoon

Dallas-Minnesota – Indiana-Boston

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Who is more disappointed? Knicks fans? Or ESPN, ABC, TNT, and advertisers without a New York team in the Eastern Conference finals?

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So many trolls so little time.

Amy Klobuchar, as did many Timberwolves fans, posted some happy tweets tonight after the Timberwolves came back to win game seven.

Now, I get sports rivalries, I get sour grapes.

But the trolls who say she’s never watched or can’t name a player on the team.. ? Give me a bleeping break, Amy Klobuchar, daughter of sportswriter Jim Klobuchar, loves and knows more about sports than most people. Including most men.

“Bring Ya Ass” – Anthony Edwards response to Charles Barkley talking about not having been in Minnesota, would probably sell a lot more vanity license plates than 10,000 lakes. Just saying.

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So who’s happier with the Mavericks knocking the Thunder out of the playoffs? Dallas. Or Seattle?

(for non-sports fans, Oklahoma City is considered by many to have stolen the former Seattle Super Sonics from Seattle.)

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So have the SF Giants come alive with a sweep this weekend over Colorado?

Or is landing with three games with the Rockies the sports equivalent of a dead cat bounce?

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NY Times headline: “Donald Trump accepted an N.R.A. endorsement in Dallas as President Biden made a pitch to Black voters in Atlanta.” Fixed it for them. “Trump dishes out word salad before NRA in Dallas while Biden talks about his accomplishments to Black voters in Atlanta.”

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Give me a break. Fox News actually making a story out of there not being big crowds lining streets to see President Biden’s motorcade in Atlanta. Not that you can see anything with dark car windows. Has it occurred to them, you can support a President without being in a cult?

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Senator Marco Rubio says he won’t accept 2024 results if ‘it’s an unfair election’ So we’ve now reached the point that if you hope to be elected VP for GOP you have to say that elections are unfair if you lose. It’s. A. Cult.

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Trump won’t testify. But an innocent man in a sham trial would take the stand in a red hot minute. Velveeta Voldemort is guilty as heck and he knows it.

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Fellow sports fans.

We all like to complain if our team loses & even say “we wuz robbed.” (which can be true.)

But imagine if losing teams refused to accept defeat, never shook hands, & claimed championships were fake. Sports would fall apart.

That’s where GOP is w/ elections

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Below the line

May 2, 2024

The Chicago White Sox are 6-25.

Yes, a 194 winning percentage.

Now, it’s early days. But even the 1962 NY Mets (40-120_ finished above the Mendoza line.

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NBA finals last year between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat ended up with disappointing ratings compared to the Golden State Warriors vs Boston Celtics in 2022.

Well, at least NBA won’t have to worry about a direct repeat this year

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So NY Knicks won a close playoff game against the Philadelphia 76ers and NBA later said calls against the 76ers in the last two minutes were wrong.

Then last night the 76ers won a close game against the Knicks and the NBA said calls against the Knicks in the last two minutes were wrong.

Getting awfully tired of the headlines being about the officiating.

If only the league had replay review. Oh, wait, never mind.

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I’m all in favor of protest. Been in a number of them especially in my younger days. But never wore a mask to a protest… maybe because I wasn’t ashamed to show my face?

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A reminder, can we not just talk about how Velveeta Voldemort and GOP want to take away women’s reproductive rights…

But also. how President Biden and Democrats actively want to PROTECT women’s reproductive rights.

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As Trump brags about letting the states decide about reproductive rights… Didn’t the United States fight a rather large war over the issue of people in some states having far fewer rights than in others?

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Somehow GOP bought our office email list so get lots of their fundraising emails. A LOT of attacks on RFK Jr. today. Did they just figure out his anti-Biden, conspiracy theory, anti-vax message might appeal to some Trump voters?

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Wonder how many student protesters these days are immigrants or on student visas? And why isn’t media making a bigger deal of the fact that Trump says if re-elected he will revoke protesters’ visas and deport all of them?

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Is it as simple that Trump is complaining about being freezing in the courtroom because Donald thinks putting on a coat makes him look fatter?

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Merchan fined Trump $9,000 for violating gag order & warned Donald he could face incarceration if he continued to violate the order. Actually thinking Trump would love to be thrown in jail overnight so he can fundraise off the picture.

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I hate both Netanyahu and Hamas. And I think some of these protestors are spoiled brats.

Having said that. as we approach 54th anniversary of Kent State, wonder somewhat tangentially how many people know that many Americans at the time sided with National Guardsmen who gunned down the students?


Can anyone, even one of her supporters, name a single thing Marge Three Names has actually accomplished in Washington DC? Other than getting attention?

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A common demand from pro-Palestinian protesters is that their universities divest from all companies doing business in Israel.

So when are the protesters giving up their iPhones?

(Apple’s Israeli R&D centers in Haifa and Hertliyza Israel currently employ 2,000 people.)

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Is there a draft in here?

April 28, 2024

Good news for Detroit:

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced that the NFL draft in Detroit shattered records with over 775,000 fans downtown.

Bad news for Detroit: That number was almost half of the 1,612,876 fans the Detroit Tigers drew in all over 2023.

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Houston Texans WR Tank Dell, along with 9 others was shot following an altercation in a Sanford, Florida nightclub. Fortuantely, none of the victims apparently sustained life threatening injuries. The shooter is allegedly a teenager.

But since the shooting happened in the suburbs of a red-state, guessing it will disappear from the news cycle in a day. Now if it had happened in a blue state city….

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Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Emblid said it was “disappointing” to hear so many Knicks fans in Philadelphia today at Wells Fargo Center during the 76ers 97-92 loss to New York.

How, many New Yorkers apparently made the trip for cheaper playoff tickets than in Madison Square Garden.

But considering how Philadelphia fans react both to Santa Claus and their home teams when they’re not happy, is Emblid sure the boos he heard came from Knicks fans?

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The 2024 White House Correspondents weekend is over. How many people realize. If Trump is re-elected it’s not just that he won’t attend next year’s dinner, there’s a fair chance he outlaws the whole thing and has some number of journalists arrested?

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One of President Biden’s most underrated abilities is the ability to laugh at himself.

It all makes sense if you realize they are basically Clickbait News Network.

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Control of the US Senate in November election matters so much more than many Americans think.

Even if/when we re-elect President Biden, if Mitch McConnell’s GOP successor becomes Majority Leader you KNOW he will block ANY SCOTUS nominee Joe chooses.

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Just saw this on Twitter. Powerful and heartbreaking.

But Biden’s talking about his son Beau Biden got almost no national news coverage. Whereas if Joe stumbles over a word or tells one tongue-in-check Irish tall tale…it’s headline news for days.

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Always something to cheer about

April 14, 2024

SF Giants are off to a lousy start in 2024, and have to wonder if they’re cursed for basically firing the wonderful Renel Brooks-Moon. OTOH, at least baseball fans in the SF Bay Area can enjoy the LA Dodgers losing two of three to the San Diego Padres. #smallmercies

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The Los Angeles Clippers give all fans a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich if an opposing player misses two consecutive free throws in the 4th quarter. When Houston Rocket’s Boban Marjanović, with his team well ahead, figured that out he deliberately missed a second free throw.

Massive cheers from the fans and the announcers. Hope he didn’t affect the betting spread.

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Two of NBA’s biggest stars – LeBron James and Steph Curry will be both be playing in the Western Conference NBA play-in round. And if Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans play well they could both be gone before the real playoffs start.

Not that James and Curry aren’t capable of leading their teams to victories. But will be very interesting to see how those games are officiated.

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As GOP tries using the Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent through the mail, trying to imagine if Democrats found a judge willing to put the same restrictions on Viagra.

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Michael Che on SNL Weekend Update “Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Donald Trump. “And boy is his jaw tired…”

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In California, Google has started blocking some local news as a threat to the legislature which is considering a Journalism Preservation Act, similar to a bipartisan national bill from Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican Senator John Kennedy.


As Klobuchar said, “Local newspapers are going out of business while Big Tech makes record profits off news content.” Yep, Google revenue in 2023 was a record over $300 BILLION.

Gordon Gecko would be proud.

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What’s wrong with US media. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, former Planned Parenthood executive, on ABC’s This Week talked about abortion rights, including mifepristone & praised Joe Biden’s efforts for women.

Crickets from most of media. Marge Three Names opens her mouth & it’s a headline.

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Kari Lake, a proponent of a national abortion ban in 2022 when she ran for Governor, has now done a 180 and claims she’s for a more moderate policy.

Of course, if she somehow got elected to the US Senate she’d do another 180 and vote for a ban.

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Chris Sununu makes Susan Collins look good.

(ICYMI, Sununu was for Nikki Haley, almost a “never trumper” but he’s now genuflecting before Orange Jesus.)

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WTAF? Marco Rubio – “I for one am prepared to help Ukraine, but want to see us deal w/ southern border. That was the negotiation, the talk, the agreement. It was going to happen & it didn’t happen.”

It didn’t happen because TRUMP torpedoed GOP Senator Lankford’s bipartisan bill. #NoShame

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NBA All-Star Weekend

February 15, 2009

It’s a great weekend to be in Washington. The stimulus bill is set, which means most congressmen and women have left town. And for the first weekend since the NBA Season started, fans can feel confident the Wizards will not lose a game.

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Switching sports and coasts….

Headline on Golf.com – “Stanford denies Wie first LPGA title.”

What, did they make her go to class or something?

(actually, it was Angela Stanford, who beat her by three strokes.)

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Stanford’s men’s basketball team lost to Cal Saturday after blowing a 22 point lead. Normally when Stanford blows a lead like that, the football team is involved.

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Just a thought after the whole stimulus bill battle about John McCain and his talk about working across the aisle during the election. Guess that meant working with anyone who he could get over to HIS side of the aisle.

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Hugh Jackman says that he will host a more “intimate” Oscar ceremony than usual. By intimate does he mean that so few people have seen most of the best picture nominees, no one will tune in to watch?

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Some pundits are already writing the Obama presidency off. Are these the same guys who every year watch spring training and say it’s the Cubs’ year?

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