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Perry Barber@umpireplb· 29d

I'm sorry, what is that child doing at the hearing about Todd Blanche's nomination to the office of US Attorney General? Blanche just mentioned his family, is that one of his daughters? Why would he bring a child that young to a hearing where he's talking about crimes, drugs, guns, violence, etc?

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 14

My " World Cup baseball card" courtesy of Mayor Mamdani's fun exercise in creativity

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 14

Screen shot of an image from the iconic Fred Astaire "dancing on the ceiling" scene in "Royal Wedding."

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 10

She's a work in progress! And with still fewer than 20 big league games total under her belt, she has a long way to go before she becomes a permanent member of the mlb umpiring staff. Here's her ‪@umpscorecard.bsky.social‬ scorecard for that recent game in St. Louis:

Screen shot of the ‪@umpscorecard.bsky.social‬ website's scorecard for Jen Pawol recent plate job in St. Louis. With an overall consistency of 89%, it's clear why mlb keeps fill-in umpires like Jen busy working a mix of Triple AAA and major league games, sometimes for several years before they get an offer to fo full-time, so they get the necessary reps in to keep improving.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 9

Unveiling ceremony for team names, uniforms, and logos of the Women’s Pro Baseball League at the New Era flagship store in Manhattan yesterday. All names are homages to women baseball pioneers, and all the @wpbl.bsky.social WPBL women are READY TO PLAY!

Left to right:

Ashton Lansdell, Denae Benitez, WPBL commissioner Justine Siegal, Lexi Hastings, Mo’ne Davis, Kelsie Whittier

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 6

Would you want to work for someone you knew would throw you under the bus the minute some troglodyte demanded that a ruling you made be overturned? In sports officiating, it's crucial for umpires and referees to be able to trust their supervisors to back them up. Who would want to be one otherwise?

Screen shot of a Trump social media post in which he crows about having bullied the spineless head of FIFA into overturning a referee's on-field decision to issue a red card to a USMNT player.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 6

This was me after watching that ninth inning in Atlanta yesterday

Recap of the bottom of the ninth inning at Truistt Park in Atlanta yesterday

The Mets started the half-inning with a 6-run lead that was whittled down to a two-run lead with one out when Drake Baldwin hit a grand slam into the left field stands. The game ended painfully with the Mets barely hanging onto a 10-9 lead when former Mets favorite (today's too, just in a different uniform) Dom Smith struck out swinging.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 6

For the next 48 hours, New York and environs will experience heavy rains, 6-inch accumulations in places, and flash flooding with a relentlessly red, orange, and green blob of saturation advancing slowly eastward A break in the heat is the only salvation in this messy forecast. Stay safe, everyone!

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jul 2

When I was 12, I had to memorize the Nicene Creed to take communion at my Presbyterian church. I wonder if Vance can recite even one line of the creed from memory. (Actually, I don't wonder.) f anyone "butchers" its doctrines, it's Vance, not people who hang "those hideous signs" in their yard.

Text of the Nicene Creed:

"I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
begotten from the Father before all ages,
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made;
of the same essence as the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary,
and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried.
On the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God.
He will come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
I affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
and to life everlasting.
Amen."

Nowhere does the Creed command that we close any borders, force invasive genital checks on athletes, hate homosexuals, abandon poor people to the vicissitudes of poverty and inadequate health care, destroy the environment, sell one's soul to oligarchs, de-legitimize our fellow human beings by calling them "illegal," or arrange for the abduction, incarceration, and torture of immigrants - especially if you yourself are married to one.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 29

Lang is a click-baiting punk. Probably doesn't believe a word of his own placards about Black people, but parades around with them anyway to get the attention he craves. He also hung that despicable "Deport 100+ million" banner at Nationals Park last month and got himself banned. Good riddance.

A screen shot of a tweet posted by the execrable Jake Lang in which he proudly claims credit for the unfurling of a banner at Nationals Park last May that said something expectedly despicable about deporting 100 million +. For that stunt, he got himself a life time ban from the facility, deservedly so. His "free speech" ends at MY revulsion for White supremacist racists like him.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 29

I see what is happening here Yes, the Mets just got rid of this guy, Dick Lovelady, and the whole world stopped joking for a moment out of respect

Dick Lovelady, whom the Mets traded to the Nationals earlier this season. A moment of silence in New York for the tremendous loss of all those jokes, please.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 26

Scene from Hitchcock's "North By Northwest" set on a desolate farmland road where, according to a traveler waiting for a bus, "That plane's dusting crops where there ain't no crops."

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 26

The way he says “…destroying these tight-knit communitehs…” 🤮

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 20

I've been calling it that for years

Image of an ICE agent seen from the rear, an artistic perspective known as "rückenfigur," with lettering on the back of his vest that spells out "POLICE" on the top line and "LICE" beneath it. The image creator, me, Perry Barber, made this image NOT using AI, just a simple word program function.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 15

My beloved Matty loved butter too! I'd put some on my lips and she'd lick it off with her scratchy tongue, and it was bliss She's been gone almost 30 years now and I've had several since, but I'll always cherish the 12 wonderful years we had together. Thinking of your precious Becky today too, Dana

Matty in snow

She was a city cat who traveled with me everywhere in my Pontiac Firebird. She was the best traveling companion ever!

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 12

Free car wash day in New York

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 12

A correction and a reminder of why it's a good idea to cool off before rage-tweeting: Andrew Giuliani did NOT make the decision to bar Omar Artan from entering the US, he only merely AGREED with Customs and Border Patrol's decision to deny entry because of what's called "derog," derogatory info.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 10

Here's that story:

An account of how Andrew Giuliani's bratty, entitled need to play catch with dad Rudy led to tens of thousands of Yankees fans being prevented by NYPD from going to their cars and leaving the Bronx after the Yankees won Game 6.

That's right, it wasn't enough that Hizzoner and and his entitled son Andrew, who was ten years old at the time, just HAD to indulge their narcissistic need for photo ops and fun by playing catch on the Yankee Stadium infield while outside, under direct orders from the frolicking mayor, prevented fans from going to their cars or the subway. They stood in menacing cordons outside the stadium and threatened parents with their young children, telling us we could not exit the cordoned-off area until Hizzoner was good and ready to stop playing catch. We couldn't even go to our car to get warm; we were forced to congregate on the sidewalks outside the stadium very late at night, with thousands of other fans milling about, none of us knowing why we couldn't just leave, many of us with small children in tow, wondering how long we'd have to stand around freezing our tuchuses off. All because Andrew Giuliani decided to invoke his son-of-the-mayor privileges with no regard for the discomfort, even danger, he was putting everybody else in while he played catch with his dad. And by the way, who paid for all the overtime put in by the cops assigned to herd all those game-goers into a pen around the perimeter of the stadium? Pretty sure that massive overtime check didn't come out of Rudy's pocket.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 10

Even more enraged after reading that the decision to bar Artan was made by Andrew Giuliani, entitled son of Rudy, who in 1996 kept tens of thousands of Yankees fans outside in the freezing cold, prevented by police from going to their cars so he could play catch with his dad on the field.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 6

Sometimes all it takes is one kind person. Such a sweet memory to have of a good man, and he loved cats too.

A screen shot of a bluesky post from Larry the cat (‪@number10cat.bsky.social‬) showing actor Anthony Head with one of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home cats he devoted himself to helping for more than two decades. Another good dude, gone. Thank you, sir.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 3

The woman he's insulting is SURROUNDED BY OTHER WOMEN How they can just sit there, complicit by their inaction, is beyond me. Their silence might as well be approval of his disgustingness. These pressers just give him the attention he craves; they're unnecessary since all he does is lie. End them.

Screen shot of a Trump presser during which he tells CNN's Kaitlin Collins she needs to "smile more" showing Collins surrounded by female colleagues who sit there silently instead of telling the sexist pig-in-chief exactly what he can do with his disgusting demands and insults

Perry Barber@umpireplb· Jun 1

Here's her umpire scorecard from last week at the White Sox, Michael - she's definitely holding her own1

Jen Pawol's Umpire Scorecard from her game of May 27. 2026, Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox. Her "overall consistency" score is 95%, which is in line with the standard for major league umpires. 2 out of 3 challenges were overturned, so she could stand to work on her "impactful missed calls," particularly the strikes she's been missing - no umpire wants to miss a chance to call a strike! - but overall, she's acquitting herself admirably. Good job, Jen.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 27

A+

That's me, PB, reading Todd Radom's gorgeous book "The Ballpark and Beyond"

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 23

Even more disappointing, when I went to the GIST website and signed up for the newsletter, it offered an opt-out of sharing, selling, or processing my personal info by exhorting me to "just click the 'Reject All' button." Guess what? There was no "reject all" button; I had to do it one by one.

Screen shot of the GIST home page, which offers an opt-out feature so subscribers can limit or prohibit the sharing, selling, or processing of personal information. They're exhorted to click on the "reject all" button, but there IS no "reject all" button. Rejecting those options one at a time is possible, but obviously much more cumbersome a process than clicking on just one button

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 17

Absolutely, iamashleystearns But placing that expectation upon children & young people is unreasonable when they didn't cause the problem we're asking them to fix. The ones who lead the way, as brave Ruby did, should be lauded, but those who choose a different response should't be held in contempt.

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 10

And then please finish the protocol with this

Image of a naked man with outstretched arms standing on a hill behind some sort of shield-looking apparatus that appears to be firing flames or heat rays directly into his genitalia

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 10

Of all the things I've ever done or accomplished, being an identical twin was always the best part of everything. Thanks, mom, for the greatest gift I've ever gotten (You gave me the second best gift I'll ever get too, by encouraging me to become a baseball umpire.)

Barber twins with their mother Jaqueline ("Jack")
on the left, Perry on the rightWarren

Perry Barber@umpireplb· May 5

This explanation makes as much sense as mine