Left Coast Sports Babe

Yankees payroll $309.40 million

Tigers payroll $98 million, Royals, $122 million, Guardians $106 million

So yes, the New York Yankees payroll is almost as much as the THREE AL Central teams who made the playoffs. Combined.

Wonder how the Yankees would do vs an AL Central all star team

At a stressful time for our country, at least there are still some simple pleasures…. like watching Aaron Rodgers lose. on #MNF

(And the Dallas Cowboys, any day.)

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Here’s a bizarre stat: Three of four starting pitchers Monday in the ALCS and NLCS are former San Francisco Giants. (Rodon in 2022, Manaea in 2023, Cobb in 2024.)

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What is it with clueless MAGA types and sports. Dave McCormick, running against Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, goes to a Phiadelphia tailgate and praises… the Steelers? Which is like going to San Francisco and praising the Dodgers.

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And this deserves more attention – Musk said he roots for the Steelers AND the Eagles? #heresy

Not just national races. Jon Tester’s Montana US Senate race remains tight, despite GOP candidate TIm Sheehy frequently having been caught lying.-( including about claiming his accidentally shooting himself on vacation as a gunshot wound inr Afghanistan), and making racist anti-Indigenous statements.

And not only does MT, with smaller population than San Diego, have 2 US Senate seats, each vote there counts about twice as a California vote in electoral college.

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This sounds like a bad joke. It isn’t. Trump is trying to sabotage Hurricane recovery. “Urgent message from U.S. Forest Service, part of the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, indicated that National Guard troops encountered militia members claiming they were “hunting FEMA.”

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When almost all Trump supporters have to keep telling the media that Donald doesn’t mean what he says then he is clearly not saying sane things.

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Trump is now attacking pro-business Bloomberg news. But what should get more attention, Trump is also attacking that noted bastion of liberalism the Wall Street Journal….

As Trump now talks about wonderfu peacefull people – “peace and love” on January 6.

We have gone from “no lie too small” to “how big can I make the lie

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Fox News originally was touting Trump’s interview with Bloomberg in Chicago

. You know how bad the interview was for Donald when you go to the Fox News website and there’s no longer a word about it.

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I’m so old I remember nonstop headlines & media outrage that President Biden wasn’t releasing ENOUGH medical records. Joe had one bad debate.

Donald Trump has increasingly spewed angry nonsense. Where’s the outrage now that Trump won’t release any records?

Donald Trump today railed against what he described as “bad stories…. “We have to straighten out our press because we have a corrupt press. That’s the one we really have to straighten out.” Remember, Hitler sent journalists to Dachau before he sent Jews.

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Jake Tapper on Monday was fact checking VA Gov Youngkin as Glenn lies repeatedly that Trump has NOT threatened his political opponents: Youngkin refuses to accept Trump actual quotes: “Thing that’s tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff.” It’s a cult.

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At 9:56 am day after his 30 minute dancing coma Trump tweeted “Kamala’s Medical Report is really bad. With all of the problems that she has, there is a real question as to whether or not she should be running for President! MY REPORT IS PERFECT – NO PROBLEMS!!” He. Is. Insane..

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If Trump were the Captain of the Titanic, his MAGA followers would not only exonerate him of all blame, they would demand he be given a medal for valiantly fighting the “woke” iceberg.

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Finally Interrupting insanity for facts: Per Bureau of Labor Statistics; USA lost 2.7 million jobs during Trump’s presidency. If the pandemic months are excluded, he added 6.7 million jobs. By contrast, 15.4 million jobs were added during Biden’s presidency. Democrats deliver!

Billionaire Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, says”the “year has been very painful for all,” in a statement released today after the White Sox lost their 114th game.

And then did he get in his private plane and fly home?

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As the White Sox may break the 1962 Mets modern record for the most losses., here’s what Reinsdorf is probably really thinking… “Maybe no one will notice becauee I’m not John Fisher.”.

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Please do not adjust your set, yes, the SF Giants put up 13 runs on the first place Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday night in an 13-2 win.

(Giants fans hope this means the team doesn’t get shut out for the rest of the week.)

You think you have a tough job. Imagine being a Trump surrogate Wednesday morning.

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Trump is big mad over Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala Harris. “I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better.”

How long until Donald says his daughter-in-law Lara Trump is a better singer?

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, a conservative Republican, today rebutted the Haitians eating pets lie, and said he spoke to the mayor of Springfield, Ohio who said the rumor wasn’t true. So what happened? MAGAs on social media are attacking DeWine. It’s a cult.

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Heard a GOP pundit brush off the debate as “With Trump you know what you’re doing to get.” But wasn’t the whole point of GOP attacks on President Biden that Joe was getting older with cognitive decline. And DonOld Trump is a 78 year old man with an unhealthy lifestyle.

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‘This was my best debate ever. I thought it was very good.” Quote from Donald Trump after last night’s debate.

So is he somehow trying to avoid losing by proving that he’s too old to run for President.

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Seriously in the old Twitter days a comment like Elon Musk made to Taylor Swift would have gotten his account suspended.

(What he said – “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,”

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Getting closer NY Times.. “During the debate, Donald Trump used a false charge to attack Kamala Harris for her support of abortion rights.” But “used a false charge” is ungainly & takes up four words. How about “Donald Trump LIED?”

So will Trump and his good buddy billionaire Jets owner Woody Johnson claim the SF 49ers stole tonight’s Monday Night Football game and try to start a riot at Levi’s Stadium?

Johnson actually before the game told a reporter than the game was the only reason to go to San Francisco..

The 49ers actually play in Santa Clara. But maybe Woody got lucky, went to SF by mistake, and missed the game?

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The Kamala Harris Donald Trump debate is tonight.

No doubt media will be armed with every thing Kamala Harris has ever said so they can explain to us how she said something contradictory to a position she had in a high school debate.

Whereas with Donald Trump, its as if they think factchecking is like trying to bail a sinking boat with a teacup, so why bother?

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People who simply signed a petition to put Amendment Four, abortion rights on the ballot are getting visits from Ron DeSantis’ “election police” Allegedly to check for fraud.

DESantis’s “election police” are accompanied by real police. (All at Taxpayer expense) Or should we call them Florida gestapo?

(And it’s not isolated – DeSantis’s secretary of state has ordered elections supervisors in at least four counties to review at least 36,000 petition forms that had already been verified months ago

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Hey folks. – As GOP talks about shutting down the government to stop nonciizens from voting:

1. GOP is lying about there being a problem with noncitizens voting.

2. Voting as a noncitizen is already illegal.

3. Passports are expensive. And a certified copy of your birthday certificate is at least $25-30.

4. Their sham bill, on top of everything else, is a poll tax. Why isn’t media covering this more?

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And as GOP lies that USA has problem with noncitizens voting, do they realize how difficult it can be to prove citizenship, espec. for older rural voters. You need passport or a CERTIFIED birth certificate. Guessing many red state voters don’t have or can’t find that proof.

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Can’t be said enough. All these people who are opposing Trump and endorsing Harris from Donald’s first administration…. are people he himself originally HIRED

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Brig. General Steve Anderson, who with other former senior military officials endorsed Kamala Harris, points out today that Donald Trump would not even be eligible to JOIN the military, let alone lead it. “How did the Nazis rise to power? Because good people didn’t speak up.”

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Meanwhile the Biden adminstration just finalized a rule requiring insurers to pay for mental health like they do physical ailments.

Wish this got more coverage

GOP always talks about mental health after mass shootings. But they don’t do a darn thing to help Americans get mental health care. Democrats get things DONE. But competence isn’t clickbait.

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Okay CNN, your headline writer actually nailed it for Monday am. Hope this is a trend: “Trump warms up for debate by threatening to jail election officials.”

Thursday was one of those nights when many millions of Americans were wishing there was even a boring baseball game on television.

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So if this was the “unity” speech what the heck was in the speech that Donald Trump originally meant to give tonight at the RNC

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If you had “like nobody’s ever seen” on your Trump RNC drinking card Thursday night, I hope you drank lots of water and took a couple aspirin before going to bed.

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Wait, Donald Trump said “Kim Jong Un, I think he misses me”

I guess he’s jealous of the North Korea dictator now being BFF with Putin?

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Howard Dean sums up the chattering class right now re President Biden. “Those who say don’t know, those who know, don’t say.”

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The only doctor who has publicly said anything about Donald Trump’s injury is the man Donald calls “Dr. Ronny Johnson.” And Ronny JACKSON also has said Trump is 6’3″ and 239 pounds.

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Donald Trump says that J.D. Vance reminds him of a young Abraham Lincoln. Where’s Will Smith when you need him? “Take Abraham Lincoln’s name out of your bleeping mouth.”

Since the GOP is now an anti-vax party that pretends COVID is either a nothingburger or a hoax, maybe in the spirit of Joe Biden should show up at the RNC and shake everyone’s hand.

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Needs to be said repeatedly. As much as Trump is profiting off the image of him standing up after being shot at, that act of bravado, before we knew if there were other shooters etc, not only put himself but also Secret Service agents at risk .

Oklahoma Senator MarkWayne Mullin “When you go to McDonald’s and buy three meals you spend $50.” WTF is he buying at McDonald’s?

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ICYMI, JD Vance was asked if a woman who was the victim of rape or incest should be forced to carry a child to term.” “We believe that women and young boys in the womb should have the right to life. Two wrongs don’t make a right.”

Long-winded way of saying “Yes.”

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Also JD Vance actually said last week ” I was talking with/ friend about 1st truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, maybe Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts? We sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the U.K., since Labour just took over.” Stay classy.

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A 20 yr old man just tried to assassinate the former President of the United States. So 8th Circuit Court of Appeal, where 9 of 11 judges are GOP, responds today by striking down Minnesota’s ban on 18-20 yr olds openly carrying handguns. Once again four words. Pro Life My Ass.

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Meanwhile the more comes out the worse the lapses sound. President Biden’s dog Commander reportedly bit Secret Service agents 24 times. Think maybe Republicans owe Commander an apology

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RIP Bob Newhart. Always loved this quote: People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

RIP Orlando Cepeda, 86, less than two weeks after Willie Mays, 93, passed away. Thinking baseball heaven has added enough SF Francisco Giants to their All-Star roster for a while.

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(And if you want to honor Cepeda, the Cha Cha Bowl at Orlando’s Carribbean BBQ is one of the best things at Oracle Park.)

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As the NBA draft concluded, kind of cool that more Americans probably know big names drafted in the WNBA than the NBA for 2024.

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SCOTUS just ruled six-three that the judiciary, not experts who work in government agencies, should be in charge of making regulatory decisions.

So when those six get sick assume they will ask their fellow conservatives for medical advice rather than going to a doctor?

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Nonpolitical rant: Summer started last week – And this week’s Safeway ad has “Early back to school sale.”

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Asked about Trump’s iie that she was responsible for January 6, Nancy Pelosi responded “He thinks I planned my own assassination? He’s sicker than i thought.”

Madame Speaker Emeritus is, as always, badass.

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Thinking back to 2016, remember media making big deal of Trump bringing Bill Clinton’s accusers to one of Donald’s debates w/ Hillary. They barely mention not only did Melania not bother to show up, but also Trump is a felon in part because jury said he DID have sex w/ porn star.

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Buried lede in NY Times anti-Biden editorial. “It is a tragedy that Republicans themselves are not engaged in deeper soul-searching after Thursday’s debate. Mr. Trump’s own performance ought to be regarded as disqualifying.”

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Remember, the NY Times, who now wants President Biden to step down, earlier this year wanted President Biden to sit down for an one-on-one interview but Joe refused…

They haven’t forgiven him…. Same as Maureen Dowd didn’t forgive Obama for blowing her off once.

All the news that’s fit to be petulant.

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NY Times “Former President Trump’s attacks were frequently false, lacked context or were vague enough to be misleading.” Why is it so hard for them them to say these two words “Trump lies”?

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If you needed reminder that far more important than Biden having bad night are 200+ judges Joe & Dems have gotten confirmed:

Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government. Want more Biden judges? Or more judges like Alito & Aileen Cannon?

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President Biden will not be on the ballot in 2028

Donald Trump will not be on the ballot in 2028

Whoever is elected President in November, however, will appoint federal judges between now and 2028 who will have lifetime appointments. Vote accordingly.

Sigh, who else saw Luke Jackson coming in the 10th and thought “game over?” #SFGiants

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Can anyone imagine if SCOTUS were asked to rule on treating a medical emergency of a man taking Viagra and having an “erection lasting more than four hours”? They’d have a decision in mens’ favor within four hours

Yes, President Biden had a raspy voice and seemed like he had a bad cold. Not his best performance. But Washington Post headline. “Biden struggles. Trump deflects questions.” Should have at the least been “Biden struggles, Trump lies.”

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A CNN exec in the control room reportedly said “We are very proud of Jake and Dana. Our job was to make sure candidates were heard so voters can make informed decisions and we are pleased we were able to do that.”

Has someone drug tested CNN executives?

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Now I REALLY wish Dana Bash had skipped the debate to announce the women’s Congressional Softball Game as she usually has done last night… She’s good at it, far better than her softball performance as a CNN moderator tonight.

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President Biden says Trump has the morals of an alley cat. Okay, Joe’s first lie of the night. Alley-cats have far better morals than Donald Trump.

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Can someone remind Donald Trump please during this campaign that the people he is now bragging about firing, he HIRED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

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NY Times “Facing Trump’s Misleading Attacks, Biden Appears Shaky at Times.” They have no problem attacking Biden but can’t say “Facing Trump’s LIES?”

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But hey, anyone still on fence about voting in November?

Presidents appoint Federal Justices beyond SCOTUS. Biden has now gotten over 200 judges confirmed & would get probably that many confirmed in 2nd term with a blue Senate. Want more Biden judges? Or judges like Aileen Cannon?

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President Biden stutters & at times sounds old.

Joe’s been a great president and surrounds himself with a strong staff & Dem leaders who he trusts and relies on for advice & counsel

Trump blusters & lies at top of his voice. He listens only to himself. The choice isn’t hard.