Left Coast Sports Babe

Japanese star slugger Munetaka Murakami has signed with the Chicago White Sox. Well, at least with the switch to MLB from the Nippon Professional League he won’t have to deal with immediate playoff pressure.

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I’m just trying to imagine if President Obama had decided he wanted his name on some Washington DC building. Or to rename it Obama-Reagan National Airport…

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Fox News headline “Trump endorses ‘very popular’ New York Republican for governor race, vows safer state.” Not the more accurate “After throwing sycophant Elise Stefanik under the bus, Trump endorses white man for NY Governor.”

And when Blakeman loses, who will Donald blame?

Fox News website has time to headline this “Stafford family battles lice outbreak after Rams’ crushing overtime loss.” But they still aren’t trying to spin Trump renaming the Kennedy Center. Nor his bragging about knowing a giraffe on a cognitive test.

Even @FoxNews knows.

RFK Jr to Tucker Carlson: “We need to stop trusting the experts… Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”

It’s really hard to know which of Trump’s terrible appointments will end up doing the most long-term damage to our country and the world. But RFK Jr. is a front runner.

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The Daily Mail just ran a spread on Texas AG Ken Paxton photographed in Aspen with his latest mistress

Don’t care what goes on in other people’s marriages. But when you’re running for US Senate as a family values Christian conservative..

Velveeta Voldemort would start World War III in an instant if it would distract from his part in the Epstein Files.

But seriously, how long until Donald decides to risk American lives in Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files?

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All you need to know about how unpopular Trump’s narcissistic decision to add his name (first) to the Kennedy Center is…. Go to Fox News website. They aren’t even covering it.

Fox News for some reason also isn’t covering Trump’s bragging about passing another cognitive test and knowing what a giraffe is

OTOH This is an actual Fox News website headline… “Trump administration faces bipartisan fury over Epstein files release missteps.” Are people beginning to question the Emperor’s attire? We can dream.

Not with a bang but a whimper

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Sort of describes how the SF Giants season is ending.

(Let’s hope the same isn’t true for our democracy.)

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Although, Clayton Kershaw gets a generous called strike three for his last pitch to SF Giants Rafael Devers, maybe his last start as a Los Angeles Dodger. Well, to be fair, if anyone’s earned it.

Still wish we could have seen Madbum take him deep one more time…

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Just saying, these WNBA playoff early round games are a lot more interesting than most NBA playoff games.

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So now the President who keeps demanding a Nobel Peace prize has a draft bill to start a drug trafficking war… which would authorize him to kill anyone he thinks MIGHT be involved with drug smuggling.

Okay then…

A third boat obliterated and alleged drug trafficker killed So is Trump just going to start blowing up random boats now to distract from the Epstein files?

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Btw, Florida Judge Steven D. Merryday, who threw out Trump’s lawsuit against the NY Times, is a Republican appointed by George H.W. Bush, who supported Ron DeSantis in cases against COVID rules. NOT a liberal.

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RFK Jr’s new vaccine advisers declined to recommend COVID vaccines “leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.” What’s next – seatbelts becoming optional again?

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So how can anyone question if “The View” is really a news program, without doing the same for “The Five?” Asking for a country, and a GOP-led Congress, that knows better.

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Sept 12, this quote talking about Charlie Kirk’s “senseless murder.”

“I’ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses. Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.” The speaker?

Jimmy Kimmel during his monologue.

Seems like media ought to cover that too.

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Amy Klobuchar has been making this point over and over.

Four Republicans would have kept RFK Jr from dismantling our HHS.

Four Republicans would have kept Kash Patel from dismantling the FBI.

Four Republicans would have kept Pete Hegseth out of DOD, or rather what he calls DOW.

She’s not saying it but I will. Many of the 53 Senators know better. What’s their excuse?

Biil Belichick’s UNC Tar Heels were beaten by TCU 48-14

“We’re better than what we were tonight… ” Belichick said. So he thinks his team should have only lost by two touchdowns?

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Meanwhile, on Sunday, Justin Verlander threw 121 pitches, including 10 strikeouts, leaving with a 7-0 lead, after h five innings, which got him career win 265. As I’ve said before, at 42 , Justin remains one of the most competitive people alive.

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Wonder if he’d considering trying becoming a closer at 43?

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Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, is countering arguments on Twitter against giving the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth. While I appreciate effort he is making, he has the Twitter reach (fewer than 100,000 followers) of tens of thousands of educated people. And uneducated people. But he had an actual VOTE on RFK Jr.

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WTF? NY Times reports than Jan. 6 rioters now want COMPENSATION for their prosecutions. With a panel perhaps overseen by Jeanine Pirro!. So uh, how many of the over 140 officers injured on that date will be allowed to testify? Brian Sicknick would if he could.

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Perhaps yet ANOTHER distraction from Epstein files But Donald, or a staffer writing for him, has announced that Rudy Giuliani, “will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor.” Your reminder that Giuliani has been permanently disbarred.

Anyone need more reason to despise RFK Jr? His 1st wife committed suicide, after finding journal of his adulteries. Her family wanted Mary buried near their home, RFK Jr won court case against them to bury her in Kennedy compound. Then had her MOVED further away from the main family.

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NY Times headline: “Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science” What was their first clue?

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I’m so old I remember when Republicans wanted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to step down just because he wasn’t forthcoming about being in the hospital for treatment.

On a lighter note, not too many lighter notes lately, the SF Giants have now won 5 in a row and have a 1.2% chance of making the post season… so you’re saying there’s a chance.

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With two home runs yesterday shouldn’t Willy Adames throw post-game Gatorade on himself?

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Former MLB player Mark Teixeira is running for Congress and pledges “to work with Trump to “end radical work indoctrination” and secure the border. Teixeira’s grandfather emigrated from Guyana. Donald probably wouldn’t have let him in.

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As RFK Jr continues his efforts to destroy the US healthcare system and Republicans stand idly by… I know most of them are old white men, but you’d think their kids and grandkids might matter to them.

Too soon to know for sure but seems like this latest mass shooter may have been posting his plans online- and the FBI was too busy going after Trump enemies to pay attention.

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And whatever the Minneapolis shooter’s motive turns out to be, we know he was a deeply disturbed individual. And he had no problem getting at least three guns. Only in America.

Not much discussed w/ so much other insanity is Trump apparently has at least 1 cult member going through mortgage applications (& presumably other financial records) or people he doesn’t like in hope of finding something he can call a crime. Don’t think it can’t happen to you?

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All you need to know about today’s GOP: they still haven’t hung the commemorative plaque to honor police who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, a plaque mandated by Congress on a bipartisan basis in 2022. But they are fine with full military honors for Ashli Babbitt.

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I’m sure Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy MD has done a lot of good in his medical career. But alas the single biggest thing Cassidy has done to affect our health in the USA is to cast the deciding vote for RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. And many people will die because of that.

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Same MAGA screaming about “mental health” not guns being the problem had no problem with major Trump cuts to mental health programs. Including a $1 BILLION cut in funding for school mental health

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Bad enough Trump fires everyone Biden or another Democrat appointed for not being crazy enough. And Donald’s is going after appointees from 1st term for not being crazy enough. But now his administration is firing their own RECENT appointees for not being crazy enough?