Left Coast Sports Babe

For those who missed it,  will for once in my life,   hand it to the NY Yankees.  Not sure who made the decision (sent lots of emails, tweets, plus a couple phone calls,last night and Tuesday am. )And also thanks to Derek Primont who started tweeting the Yankees this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFJOafH3wA

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Also thanks to Michael Duca, who decided to contact the commissioner’s office, and got them to send a memo to all teams suggesting  they play Sweet Caroline.   (The Milwaukee Brewers, either because they didn’t have the song or had a better idea, played “Cheers.”)

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Boston #RedSox tweeted thanks to #Yankees for show of support. They’d like one little thing more from NY – a 11 or 12 game losing streak.

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Media rumors about the Boston bombings are as all over the place as March Madness predictions. And often they are proving to be just as accurate.

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As the country wonders about getting back to normal, American Airlines  grounded all flights for several hours today due to a computer problem. Well, with the airlines guess this passes for normal.

(Many in the country were shocked by the news….an airline had a major computer screwup, and it wasn’t United?)

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And as far as back to normal for college football :   The University of Oregon and the NCAA agree “major” violations were committed by the football program under Chip Kelly. So yeah, let’s put the program on probation for years and punish the coach with the big NFL contract by embarrassing him. Worked so well with USC and Pete Carroll.

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A thought, as awful as yesterday was in Boston, it really is good to see Americans, for the most part, coming together and forgetting most of the usual stuff we argue about.

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Topeka’s Westboro  Baptist   on the other hand,  is in their usual disgusting form,  threatening to picket the victims’ funerals.  If the FBI ever wants to recreate the crime scene using another bomb as part of their investigation,  I think most of America would join me in suggesting a certain church in Kansas ..

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Okay, and then in the midst of tragedy there is absurdity…. as news leaks today that Jenny Sanford has filed a criminal complaint alleging her ex-husband Mark has “entered into a pattern” of trespassing, and that she caught him inside her home in Feb. When will they ever learn?

(as my friend Michael Powers says   “Hello, Congresswoman Colbert Bush.”

And finally, kudos to the  Chicago Tribune.  So sad they had to do this, but a lovely response.

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