Left Coast Sports Babe

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.

Big Caitlin Clark fan but hate this headline. “Clark struggles, Boston exits as Fever routed by Liberty.” Fever got #1 WNBA draft pick for a reason. They were bad. And coming off a back to back.

Liberty were 32-8 in 2023, were expected to beat Las Vegas Aces in finals & are 7-2 in 2024. Give NY women their due.-

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But how cool was it that the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever were on National television – ESPN on Saturday?

Thank you Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.

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(And even rookie of the year Wemby couldn’t get the Spurs more than the 4th worst record in the NBA.)

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It’s been 31 years since any team from Canada won Stanley Cup.

And Edmonton Oilers are in NHL finals.

There was the usual nice display of sportsmanship with Dallas Stars shaking hands at end of game. Wonder if Trump or one of his Texas minions will call the Stars “losers” & claim the series was rigged?

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Tonight’s Trump fundraising email…. “A jury just convicted Trump! This is SICK!” No, this is justice.

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Mitt Romney actually said Alvin Bragg should have settled the case against Donald. “as would have been the normal procedure,” instead of bringing it to trial.

Uh, Mitt is not a stupid man. Presumably he knows that to settle a case a defendant has to admit SOME responsibility.

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Meanwhile, as Senate returns this week, Politico headline “Eight Senate Republicans vow to oppose all Biden nominees, Democratic legislation.” The far-right Republicans are led by Mike Lee & include VP wannabes J.D. Vance & Rick Scott. So it’s a day ending in Y?

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GOP pretends they care about issues that matter to Americans. What is House doing? Fighting internally, sabotaging border bills, defending a convicted felon & having performative hearings like next’s week’s attack on Dr Fauci.

Democrats are the party that cares about our lives.

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As we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day imagine if we had today’s Republicans at the time. GOP would have opposed the invasion, claiming that Hitler guy wasn’t really a threat to us, and because it could have helped FDR against Dewey.

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1st: Donald Trump was convicted in STATE not Federal Court & President Biden had nothing to do with the trial. 2nd:

if Joe Biden was both all-powerful & unscrupulous enough to use courts for his personal gain, wouldn’t you think he’d have made Hunter Biden’s charges go away?

In “As Good as it Gets,” Jack Nicholson says to Helen Hunt “You make me want to be a better man.”

Joe Biden inspires us all to be better men and women.

Watching the increasing level of anti-democracy vitriol from Trump supporters, it’s clear he wants them to be worse.

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Today’s GOP: There’s no problem with supporting Donald Trump, a convicted felon with other pending cases, to be re-elected as Presidentf.

Also today’s GOP: Joe Biden’s unconditional love for his son, who is facing charges from his addict days, makes him unfit to be President.-

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Meanwhile, congratulations to Claudia Sheinbaum, who will become Mexico’s first female president. And Mexico becomes yet another country to leapfrog the United States.

Two big leads lost late in three games. Who do the Indiana Pacers think they are? The NY Mets?

Whatever happens this season, the SF Giants at least won’t have fans turning off the game early.

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It’s less that Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever got their first WNBA win yesterday, against the LA Sparks.., with Clark’s late three being the dagger. But that millions of sports fans and media, actually cared. The #WNBA is for real.

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Washington Post Headline “Trump loudly heckled and booed at Libertarian National Convention.

NY Times “Trump Will Address the Libertarian Convention. Some Members Are Outraged.”

Waiting for them to say how this is bad for President Biden.

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Let’s sum it up for today’s GOP. To be considered as a possible VP candidate for the Republican candidate in 2024 election. You have to promise you won’t accept election results unless you win.

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RFK Jr actually compared wearing a mask to being a slave, and said he’d rather die of COVID than wear one.

So presume he doesn’t wear a seatbelt either?

Washington Post didn’t cover Alito’s upside down flag when they first learned about it in Jan 2021, because they decided it was just his wife’s doing. But Washington Post has no problem covering & amplifying Trump’s lies about Judge Merchan’s daughter.

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As insane as Donald Trump is sometimes, there’s a way in which his insistence he is winning every state makes sense. Because then when he loses in November he can scream “stolen” and get his cult members to try to overturn the election again.

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Can’t be coincidence that today’s Trump fundraising email is to launch his new MAGA flag.

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My father, a professor at Duke, passed away 4 years ago. We didn’t agree on much politically but he’d have appreciated logical falacy that Democrats’ Biden & Merchan are influenced by their adult children, but GOP judges Thomas & Alito pay no attention to their wives’ doings.

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Meanwhile, would President Biden get more attention for his accomplishments if he promised to talk about them in a press conference where he took no questions

The Giants win a game, the Giants win a game! #BeatLA

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SF Giants had signed Curt Casali to a one-year contract on Wednesday after all their recent injuries, including to three of their catchers.)

(Casali is less 2 years older than Buster Posey. Say, didn’t manager Bob Melvin used to catch? )

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SI reports that on May 24 Joe Buck is set to call his first MLB Game in three years, Cardinals-Cubs, with Chip Caray.

“I’ve really missed hearing Joe Buck calling a baseball game” said nobody.

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Am a San Antonio Spurs fan so haven’t been laser-focused on the NBA playoffs. But in a world where Red Sox-Yankees still dominates baseball, seems a bit odd that we are a game away from Boston-New York Eastern Conference final and sports media so far is strangely quiet.

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More trial news out of New York. We have a jury in the Senator Bob Menendez trial. I’m a Democrat, if he’s found guilty he should go to jail. See how easy that is?

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Florida Governor Ron DeathSantis just signed GOP legislation that will make climate change a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes.

Of course as Florida increasingly suffers from climate disasters DeSantis will demand more federal aid.

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Trump responds to backlash over Noem killing her dog: ‘We all have bad weeks.”

You know who wishes they had bad weeks these days? Cricket.

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After Don’s interview aired, Biden campaign statement, “At the Biden campaign, we are proudly anti-puppy-killing & don’t think those who murder puppies are ‘terrific.’”

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Many GOP Senators on Senate Floor Wednesday talking about National Police Week and memoralizing fallen officers.

For some reason none of them mentioned Brian Sicknick.

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Tuesday Biden hit Chinese electric vehicles & chips w/h higher tariffs.

Asked on Trump’s claim China now “eating our lunch” economically, Dark Brandon replied “He’s been feeding them for a long time.”

Little coverage in national media. Would it help if Joe insulted reporters?

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So will Donald Trump ask Hannibal Lecter to attend the first debate?

Media is all over former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan running for U.S. Senate and saying how bipartisan he supposedly is..

Has anyone asked Larry Hogan who he is voting for for President in November?

Tommy Tuberville says attending Trump trial was “‘Most depressing thing I’ve ever been in’ Did Coach Tubby forget about that 2008 36-0 Auburn loss to Alabama? (It was after that year Auburn paid him $5 million to go away)

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So would Senators J.D. Vance and Tommy Tuberville like to explain to their constituents how they are promoting family values by attending the trial of a man charged with election crimes over paying to cover up sex with a porn star?

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Okay. SF Giants manager Bob Melvin said Luis Matos will “get a good shot here” in center field with Jung Hoo Lee out.

Cue a rousing chorus of “I am not throwing away my shot” from Luis Matos. (Three run home run that at the time gave SF Giants a 3-1 lead.)

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Jimmy Carter is 99 years old and I’ll bet he wouldn’t confuse Donald Trump with Braves catcher Chadwick Tromp.

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Donald Trump was attacking President Jimmy Connors. How long until he starts ranting about Senator Chris Evert and DOT Secretary Pete Sampras?

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KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker attacked Biden in speech at Benedictine college for being Catholic but pro-abortion. As Trump courts evangelical voters while on trial for paying illegal hush money over sex with a porn-star & his Playboy bunny mistress.

NY Times & other major media love to write about young people being upset with Biden over Mideast. Shame they don’t have time or space to cover Trump’s regular promises to institute Muslim ban, arrest & deport pro-Palestine protesters & his absolute support for Netanyahu.

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New York Times/Siena College nationwide poll last month found that 31% of registered women voters think Trump respects women. Uh, what would Donald he have to do to convince them he doesn’t respect women? Sexually assault someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

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Maybe he just went about it wrong. If Bill Clinton had tried to pay hush money to Linda Tripp and others to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky would the GOP have supported him?

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Even Stan Barnes, an Arizona GOP strategist gets it on Kari Lake. “She regrettably, has been on record on all sides of abortion issue. And the 1 thing you cannot do in the pro-life, pro-choice argument as a political figure, is to be on more than 1 side.”

Ruben Gallego is an easy choice for Arizona

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Trump fundraising email. “The FILTHY BIDEN JUDGE could throw me in jail at any moment. So before I step back into that New York courtroom tomorrow & face possibility of LIFE IN PRISON, I need to know: Are there any final words you’d like to share with me?” Should we tell him?