Left Coast Sports Babe

Plenty of talk on how neither the 8-8 Buccaneers nor Panthers deserve a playoff home game just because they won a bad division

The New Orleans Saints, 11-5 in 2011, but who had to travel to Seattle to play the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks, would have agreed. #WhoDat

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Many fans are complaining that the 49ers and Seahawks had to play a Saturday night game after both teams had previous games on short rest.

And some ask, how could the NFL schedule the game Saturday? The answer probably is, because they couldn’t do Friday. #Ratings

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My father made us children watch CBS News every single night. “And that’s the way it was” to me often meant “we can go now?”

But I remember the casualty counts released by our government every week. “Viet cong” and “US Soldiers/Allies” And the counts were always hugely higher on the “enemy” side. I remember asking my dad. “If we’re killing so many more of them than they are killing of us, why aren’t we winning?”

And his response, well, ‘For one thing, our government is lying.”

Wonder how honest Trump will be about US casualties in Venezuela?

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JD Vance “Maduro is the newest person to find out that President Trump means what he says.”

He “means what he says?” “I’ll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.” “I’ll release the Epstein files?” “I’ll lower prices on day one.” “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it.”

Two words. “Yeah. Right.”

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So Trump has decided he can unilaterally take over a country if he doesn’t like their leader or if they don’t do what he wants.

Seriously, how long until NATO countries have to invoke Article 5 against USinvasion? (Denmark, Greenland, another country who won’t kowtow to him?)

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Trump says the United States is going to run Venezuela? With approval ratings in the 30s, pretty clear Donald can’t even run the United States.

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Trump: “We’re going to have a presence as it pertains to oil. We’re going to be taking tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, it will go to the people of Venezuela & also to USA as reimbursement for the damages done to us by that country.”

Boots on the ground, for oil. Didn’t we just do that?

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Did ANYONE vote for Trump in 2024 because they wanted him to bomb Venezuela? Asking for a country

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But okay all these MAGA types celebrating Trump’s attack on Venezuela and arrest of Maduro and his wife… Are they volunteering, or volunteering their kids and grandkids, to go fight this war?

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Yes, Rubio said it: “Are we going to live in a world where some American puts up a social media post,then gets to some airport somewhere & is arrested?” While anyone who wants to visit USA must turn over social media records for 5 yrs. Funeral services for irony are pending

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Hey media and potentially bored reporters.

So many billionaires, many Trump buddies, celebrated New Year’s Eve in St. Barts, reachable by ferry from St Maarten, by expensive small planes & by private jets.

Flights were canceled Saturday January 3. Many are canceled tomorrow. Wonder how many billionaires might have been warned to leave yesterday.

Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia has apologized for his “F* all the Voters” Instagram post after not winning the Heisman trophy.

A true apology for youthful impulsive bad behavior? Or his agent reminding him that he did NOT help his draft stock with his outburst

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Susie Wiles’ Vanity Fair interview was… interesting… But every minute media talk about it is a minute they aren’t focused on the Epstein Files. Legally required to be released by Friday.

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How many Americans voted for Trump because they wanted to send their sons and daughters to fight in Venezuela?

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So after praising Syrian President a-Sharaa at the White House, and saying ISIS terror attack that killed US troops has ‘nothing to do’ with Syria’s president, Donald Trump has now added Syria to his travel ban list. How much of a bribe will it take from al-Sharaa to remove the ban?

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GOP excuse that not releasing the second strike video against an alleged drug boat is a matter of national security would make a lot more sense if Hegseth and DOD weren’t gleefully releasing all their other snuff film videos.

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Fentanyl does not come from Venezuela Fentanyl does not come from Venezuela Fentanyl does not come from Venezuela. And most Fentanyl is smuggled into the US by American citizens. Is Trump going to start bombing Americans next?

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Today at the US Capitol they unveiled a statue of Civil Rights Activist Barbara Rose Johns. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin attending and spoke. Good thing he’s not running for office anytime soon. Honoring a black woman would in today’s GOP get him tagged as a RINO

Kaitlan Collins today to GOP Senator RIck Scott ” Do you disagree with Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran leader who was also indicted and convicted? ” I don’t — I never — I never met the guy and I don’t know anything about it”

‘As Republicans members of Congress continue their “I don’t know, didn’t see it, never heard” refrain, including on Trump’s comments about the death of Rob Reiner, maybe GOP needs to change their mascot from an elephant to a ostrich.

Make sense of this if you can.

The recepient of the FIFA “peace prize”

“When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, which is soccer in the United States, we seem to never call it [football] because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that’s called football,”

“But when you think about it, shouldn’t it really be called … this is football, there’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn’t make sense when you think about it.”

Another name? Am sure he wants “Trump”” in the title.

(and anyone think Donald has ever watched a full soccer match?

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Meanwhile, some fans are angry with the relatively easy draw the Americans have in the World Cup.

But why would anyone think FIFA, with their sterling reputation and clearly unbiased creation of a new “Peace” prize – complete with gold trophy & medal – just for Donald Trump, would rig a draw for the USA?

(And yes, the San Francisco Bay Area, home to Gavin Newsom, has been assigned some of the least interesting matches., without a single team in the top 15 playing at Levi’s Stadium

If Somalia could only come up with a really gaudy gold trophy and a prize for Trump he’d stop attacking their people tomorrow.

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GOP Senator Thom Tillis told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth “is responsible for the processes that led to killing survivors from a boat strike in the Caribbean.” If only Tillis had warning Hegseth was not a good man. Oh wait, never mind..

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So Donald finally found a handful of people willing to accept his Kennedy Center Honors. Who’s left? Seriously what’s he going to do next year? Other than maybe give one to Lara Trump? Or to Kash Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins?

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Donald has fallen out with the architect of his new ballroom and instead hirede DC-based Shalom Baranes Associates,

Earlier in 2025 in Mr Baranes: “Advocating for the demolition of major structures on basis of stylistic preferences strikes me as callously irresponsible.”

This is going to end well..

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Another reason not to watch CNN Just saw this headline for a video on their website: “See moment Trump wins new FIFA peace prize” Fixed it for you

“See moment Trump wins FIFA participation trophy.”

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Sometimes NY Times gets it

“Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?”

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Meanwhile Trump has decided that National Park admission will no longer be free on MLK Day and Juneteenth, but it wll be free on Trump’s brthday

On top of everything else awful about this, anyone thinkg Donald has ever volunterily visited a National Park?

(or hiked anywhere for that matter?)