Gabe Lerman ・ラーマン ゲイブ

@gabelerman.bsky.social

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NPB evangelist (wrote a travel guide!) and occasional voiceover guy, Mario fancomic writer, implementation consultant at Clariti. He/him. Profile pic by prawnlegs on Tumblr. http://www.linktr.ee/gabelerman

Reb Brown screaming in his golf cart from Space Mutiny with the MST3K silhouettes at the bottom.
The Bluesky "Add muted words and tags" window with "Platner" filled in.
My results on the AI Compass test. You are... The Skeptic patron saint: Ed Zitron It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.
Don Draper from Mad Men saying "That's what the money is for." I think I got this from a YouTube thumbnail?
A tall portrait photo of a hat organizer nailed to a wall and already full of baseball caps. The left two columns show the current NPB standings, the remainder are MLB or other caps.
A timeline diagram hastily thrown together in PowerPoint. The title is "So Gabe, where do you live?" Poster's name is Gabe, so the diagram is his answers. The left portion of the timeline up to July 1 2012 is labeled "Toronto" with quotation marks, indicating he doesn't actually live in the city. Between July 1 2012 and tomorrow (March 25 2026), it's labeled Toronto without quotes, indicating actually in the city. After tomorrow, it's back to "Toronto" with quotes.
Alex Ramirez of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars doing his "Yorokonde GETS" home run celebration in a video game
A Lakitu scientist with a teal peacock hairstyle, wearing a head set and chuckling while at a control desk.
My grey tabby short haired cat Mickey stretched out and snoozing on top of my legs as I'm reclining on the couch
My hand holding two copies of the JapanBall Travel Guide to Japanese Baseball (by me!) in paperback. Behind it are a hat rack of NPB caps and my old Blue Jays Ballpark Passes.
The cast announcement for Super Mario Adventures Continued: No Rest from the Wicked's official comic dub. Peach: @princesslida.bsky.social Mario: @hypervoiceacting.bsky.social (voice), @slickframe.bsky.social (singing) Luigi: @luckyjack020.bsky.social Daisy: @jordanscarzfava.bsky.social Bowser: @jespovoices.bsky.social Prince Peasley: @dojaymi.bsky.social Toad: @swordtee40.bsky.social Brunch: @sammiebeeva.bsky.social Raini: @deeleetheoddity.bsky.social Raz: me! I also do the narration.
Two acrylic keychains within plastic wrap on a table to show them off. The ACGGoods brand is on a paper backing. On the left is Bowser Koopa from the Super Mario Bros series in a chibi style, shaking maracas and wearing an outfit mirroring "Cuban Pete" from The Mask. On the right is a larger one showing various meats on top of a bowl of noodles, with an extra glaze of sauce and a tiny Waluigi flag sticking out.
The Ontario Place Cinesphere, a geodesic dome with an Omnimax cinema inside, surrounded by water and casting a reflection. The sky is blue, and there are trees flanking it.
A black longhaired cat looking at the camera while lying on my lap and getting chin scritches from my right hand. A turquoise couch and green cushion are seen in the background.
Two posts from @atrupar.com from President Trump's Iran War press conference, five minutes apart. The earlier one reads "We have right from the beginning projected 4 to 5 weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do whatever. Somebody said 'the president will get bored.' I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this." The later one, again only five minutes later, shows that Trump has indeed gotten bored of talking about the Iran War: "See that nice drape? When that comes down right now you see a very very deep hole, but in about a year and half you're gonna see a very very beautiful building. In fact, it looks so nice I think I'll leave it and save money on the doors. I believe it will be the most beautiful ballroom."
A cartoon of an ancient man, looking vaguely like Jabba the Hutt, in a wheelchair with a tube running from his nose to an IV. The caption reads "Holden Bloodfeast (R) Iowa - 118 years old - please God just let us nuke Iran, nothing else matters, I'll do anything please I just want to see burning flesh one last time before I die - Respectable bipartisan"
A fake screenshot of a battle introduction from Pokemon Trading Card Game on the Game Boy Color. A custom pixel portrait from @Izzi8Bit.bsky.social of me (!) overlaps the regular opponent portait, and the text has been replaced with "Some Schmucko: Gabe, Annoyance Deck." Fun story for the alt text: I actually played an annoyance deck in Pokemon League at Sci-Fi World in Thornhill back when there were only three expansions. Stuff like Aerodactyl to stop evolutions, Muk to stop Pokemon Powers, Gust of Wind and Energy Removal to mess with the opposition.
The top half of the account owner's head from within a coffee shop, with a dark navy baseball cap on his head. A distinctive white buffalo logo with red eyes is on the cap.
A Yomiuri Giants road jersey with Okamoto 25 as the name and number on the back, laid on top of a bed. My black cat Yogi is just visible at the bottom right of the frame; hi Yogi!!
Ontario Premier Doug Ford wearing a grey suit with a white dress shirt and grey/blue tie. He is smiling at the viewer and pointing at them. Meme text is overlaid, with the top saying "Fuck you" and the bottom saying "Pay me."
A collection of memes arranged in four panels. Top left: a person's head with red scribbles all over it; they say "I just need to subsidize demand" Top right: a person laying in bed with a fatigued expression thinking "I just need to subsidize demand" Bottom left: a cycle with arrows looping around "people get angry," "subsidize demand," and "home prices go up." Bottom right: the "are ya winning son?" meme recaptioned as "Are u okay bro?" with the response "yes I just need to subsidize demand"
A black T-shirt lying on a table, with white and orange text on the front. The text reads "MORE BASEBALL IS ALWAYS MORE BASEBALL." My right hand doing a thumbs up is blocking the "LL" of the last word.
A postcard with a painted bird facing to the right in front of a grey background. Text is overlaid, printed, cut, and glued on. "The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math."
Two panels from the V for Vendetta graphic novel where (SPOILERS AWAY) after Evey, posing as V, announces that they are very much alive and the government has been lying to them. The left panel shows a crowd of sallow-faced citizens looking on at the end of the announcement. The right panel shows the start of a riot or protest as citizen's faces contort in anger.
A Peanuts strip that was drawn two months after the World Series; in the original, Charlie Brown wails about Willie McCovey being two feet taller in the final panel with the preceding three him and Linus sitting silently. In my crude edit, Charlie shouts "AND THEN ANDY FUCKIN' PAGES?!" about the 9th inning of Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. Yes, I am still processing how the Jays lost that one.
My domestic shorthair cat Mickey arching his back so much from skritches that his (toothless) mouth is agape. He's lying in a mound of clothing with my wife's hand on his back.
A candy-striped pole inside a TTC subway train, with LED Christmas lights strung up around the advertising panels and windows.
My tawny shorthair cat Mickey, getting scritched by my right hand and looking slightly off camera. His tongue is sticking out just a bit because he has no teeth.
The tail end of a verse of Rokko Oroshi, the Hanshin Tigers fight song, as sung by the left field bleachers at Hanshin Koshien Stadium. EVERYONE is singing along, there are flags waving and cheer sticks being hit together, and no one has left, even after 12 innings of baseball.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre standing behind a lectern, gesturing with his arms wide apart. The sign on the front has been digitally edited to say "FIX THE (6)" in English and French, a reference to the TTC Line 6 LRT that's had such a rough launch lately.
A Peanuts comic strip - the first three panels have Charlie Brown and Linus sitting glumly on the edge of a sidewalk and not budging or saying anything. The last panel has Charlie stand up, raise his fists, throw back his head and shout "MIGUEL FUCKIN' ROJAS?!," a reference to the improbable 9th inning home run that tied Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. The original line in the last panel was "Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?" in reference to the 1962 World Series.
The Batman Breaking Gun meme from the Dark Knight Returns comic. An aged Batman is snapping a shotgun in two at the stock, with the words "Black Friday" superimposed over the gun. His line is "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
A green-tinted book cover showing a collage of a baseball pitcher about to start his delivery, a cheerleader blowing a trumpet, an "uriko" serving a beer from a draught keg on her back, a batter finishing his swing, and a manager being thrown in the air by his team. Surrounding them are Tokyo Skytree, the Glico man on Dotonbori, and Nagoya Castle. At the top-right is "2026 Edition", along the bottom is "JapanBall Travel Guide to Japanese Baseball," with the author name Gabriel Lerman (me!)
The Drake Hotline Bling meme, where Drake is shunning the top text and accepting/pointing to the bottom text. Top text is "The Ford government," referring to the Ontario Progressive Conservatives and their premier, bottom text is "Doug and the Slugs," a reference to the Canadian rock band of the same name.
A bad attempt at using the Zohran for New York City generator, where the top text has the bottom-text size bar overlaid, and is clearly smushed together with the bottom text in Paint.NET. The text is "OH for Cryin' Out Loud"
Gif of a rally car almost falling off the dirt race track going around a curve and only falling back on at the end.
Don't ask me how, don't ask me how much, but I am very much in the 200 Level for Game 1 of the 2025 World Series.
That one comic panel of a sheriff accosting someone in a white robe (KKK implied). Sheriff starts by saying "why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? YOU" Other guy stammers "wh-wh-wh--?" Sheriff shouts "WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"
A Venn diagram showing two completely separate circles - the left is labeled "Seasons in which the Blue Jays win the AL pennant", the right is labeled "Seasons in which I attend at least one (1) Blue Jays game."
Bugs Bunny wearing a black tuxedo with a red flower, hands crossed over his abdomen and an aloof expression on his face. The caption at left is "I wish all Yankees fans a very Boone and Cashman get shitcanned."
A 3x3 grid of baseball player portraits, in no particular order, all of whom played at least one season with the Orix Buffaloes in NPB (Japanese professional baseball). They are: Wily Mo Peña Adam Jones (hit a go ahead home run in the 2021 Japan Series!) Stefen Romero Andrew Albers Yoshihisa Hirano (still with the team! Just got his 250th NPB save this year) Marwin Gonzalez Jacob Waguespack (closed the clinching game in 2022's Japan Series!) Ryan Vogelsong Park Chan-ho
A four-panel comic done entirely in pencil (by me!). The title is "Brett Bull Gives You Wiiiiings!" Panel 1 is set in the Blue Jays dugout - Brett Lawrie is vibrating all over his body with a vacant stare and his teeth set in a wide grimace. The only sound he's making is "eeeeeeeeeee" which carries through the next two panels. Panel 2 is a rotated view showing Colby Rasmus seated on the same bench as Lawrie, legs stretched out and arms behind his head, resting his eyes. Jose Bautista has entered the picture and is looking inquisitively at Lawrie, one eyebrow raised. Bautista says "Right, I'll ask: what has Brett done THIS time?" Rasmus replies: "Two words: Red Bull. Dang fool drank a whole gallon." Panel 3 is back to the original perspective facing the bench, as Bautista and Rasmus are shocked by the sudden raising and flexing of Lawrie's arms and legs. Bautista asks "Brett, are you ok-" but is interrupted by Lawrie's "eeeeee"-ing turning into him shouting "YOLO SWAG B____ES!" with the "s" in the last word becoming the new sound he's making, continuing into the final panel. Panel 4 has Bautista leaving the dugout while Rasmus tries to get a hand on Lawrie, who's vibrating even MORE to the point of his pupils disappearing. Bautista's line is "Hokai, I'll go tell Gibby to start Edwin." Rasmus comments, "Aw hell, he's vibratin' through the bench again!"
A pasty white upper leg (mine), with a nicely colour -changing bruise about 2/3 to the knee. Ow.
A screenshot of my Steam purchase history: 21 Nov, 2008 Half-Life 14 Aug, 2008 Team Fortress 2 (gift) 18 Jul, 2008 Garry's Mod 10 Jul, 2008 Audiosurf 2 Jun, 2008 Team Fortress 2
My domestic shorthair cat Mickey looking off camera while lying on my belly as I fall to get myself off the couch to start my work day.
A quasi-selfie of four Nintendo characters on vacation. Princess Daisy and Luigi are smiling and giving peace signs up the camera, while Princess Peach and Mario are looking worried and off-camera
A clearly AI generated slop picture showing a smiling man with vaguely Asian characteristics holding a book to the camera at a book launch. There's an iPad showing Amazon (or something like it) reviews, a disembodied hand holding a giant phone with Google search results, piles of books in front of the author, and more floating hands around the periphery. All the text is nonsense.
My black domestic longhair cat Yogi poking his face and one leg out from a hidey-hole as part of a grey cat tree. The sun is streaming in from behind it as the cat tree is in front of my balcony window.
A Windows blue screen of death reformatted for a smartphone screen to be used as wallpaper or a lock screen.
An Android lock screen, with a few notification icons and 32% battery life. The background is the modern Windows blue screen of death as a static image.
A screenshot of Out of the Park Baseball showing Grady Sizemore's career stats after the 2021 season; over 2,300 games, over 2,400 hits, 540 doubles, 361 HRs, 407 SBs, and 67.1 WAR. Grady has also won 6 WS rings, 4 Silver Sluggers, 5 postseason round MVPs, and 8 All-Star Nods. He is, in this game, the franchise leader in hits, runs, total bases, doubles, walks, HBP, strikeouts, and games played.
The "is this a pigeon?" meme, with the man overlaid with "MLB", the butterfly overlaid with "a 28-year-old man with 7 batting titles, 3 MVPs, and 7 Golden Gloves in Japan," and the bottom caption of "is this a rookie?"
Two tweets from Bell Support on X. "We have confirmed that the cause of the service interruption in downtown Toronto was a third party not affiliated with Bell conducting work in the area. Our teams are on site to restore service as quickly as possible, with full restoration expected by tomorrow due to the complexity of the repair work required." There is a photo of a construction site from Google Maps of the new condo located at Yonge Street & Scrivener Square, with an X indicating where the damage was done.
A photo of my right leg, taken from my waist, with my sock and cleat visible away from the camera. The photo is focused on a giant bruise just below my knee. You can see the stitching from the softball where it struck me. Hardest I've ever been hit in a game (OW).
A panel from Preacher: Book Five, where Jesse shouts at another (might be a Klan member?). Dialog is: Jesse: "Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? YOU!" Dude: "wh-wh-wh--?" Jesse: "WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"
A black domestic longhair cat looking at the camera while resting on my lap/belly.
A white CD case cover with "THE BLUE HEARTS" in a circle in shiny blue embossing at the top-right quadrant.
The first twenty seconds of this video are the Iron Chef intro sequence, with Chairman Kaga stepping into Kitchen Stadium and surveying the ingredients available. As Kaga bites into a bell pepper, the video cuts to podcast host Steve Dangle attempting to eat a bell pepper (for charity!) and immediately gagging with his cohosts Jesse Blake and Adam Wylde laughing loudly.
The stats screen from Out of the Park Baseball 26 of Ryan Anderson, who IRL blew out his arm multiple times but in this save stayed healthy for a 20 season career and racked up the 19th most career wins and 3rd most career strikeouts in MLB history. Seven Cy Youngs, but no Rings (just couldn't get over the hump)
A brown domestic shorthair cat looking at the camera with an expression best described as "dial tone", tongue sticking out of left side of mouth. This cat also has no teeth so he's especially cute like this.