Perry Barber

@umpireplb.bsky.social

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Yours Truly with Emma Charlesworth-Seiler at the inaugural Maria Pepe Tournament in New Jersey, June 2019
Final Score: Team Korea 2 USA WNT 22
My " World Cup baseball card" courtesy of Mayor Mamdani's fun exercise in creativity
Screen shot of an image from the iconic Fred Astaire "dancing on the ceiling" scene in "Royal Wedding."
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.
Left to right: Ashton Lansdell, Denae Benitez, WPBL commissioner Justine Siegal, Lexi Hastings, Mo’ne Davis, Kelsie Whittier
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Matty in snow She was a city cat who traveled with me everywhere in my Pontiac Firebird. She was the best traveling companion ever!
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.
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.
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
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.
That's me, PB, reading Todd Radom's gorgeous book "The Ballpark and Beyond"
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
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
Barber twins with their mother Jaqueline ("Jack") on the left, Perry on the rightWarren
A copy and paste of a post on another site explaining that the reason Todd Blanche thinks showing ID when you go to a restaurant is a thing is because he and MAGAs eat mostly at strip clubs, where ID presentation IS a thing.
Text from the Washington Times article: "Trump’s superpower, it has always seemed to me, is to make the people around him debase themselves while offering them no loyalty in return. If, as St Paul says, a man cannot serve two masters, Vance has made his choice. Even now, a residual MAGA base will cheer the president unconditionally. At an event in Texas last week, I made a slighting reference to Trump’s tendency to insult U.S. allies. Afterward, a perfectly charming couple spoke to me in a succession of MAGA clichés, like online Russian bots made flesh: “He’s playing chess while you’re playing checkers,” “He’s smarter than his critics,” “Where do you get your news from, the New York Times?” I can’t help noticing, though, that such people are fewer than they were a year ago."
A still image of Charlie Chaplin from "The Gold Rush." Here, he contemplates a plate of steaming... shoe? on the table in front of him as he prepares to eat. One of the most famous silent movie sequences of all time!
A still image from "The Gold Rush" showing Charlie Chaplin staring balefully at the sole of his shoe steaming on a plate in front of him. The sole has nails sticking up from it as Chaplin prepares to start eating to ward off the starvation facing him from being snowed in during an Alaskan blizzard. One of the most famous silent film sequences of all time.
An image of a quotation by Roberto Clemente that says: "If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth."
A photo collage of four images. From left to right, clockwise: Four women seated at consoles, smiling. A few men can be seen in the background, standing behind them. Two women, one of them White, the other Black with dreadlocks, intently watching something in front of them. A woman touching a globe while other women in th background look on. And finally, two women, one who appears to be of Asian descent ,the other a young Black woman, seated at a desk or console, pointing at a screen in front of them.
Grok explains how Rep Randy Fine of Florida totally lied about a remark made by someone who is no longer in the Mamdani administration, to make it appear that Mamdani wants to impose Sharia law on New Yorkers and make it illegal for them to own dogs because dog ownership violates the rules of Islam. The official who made the remark that Fine then totally misrepresented as a call to impose Sharia law in New York has since departed, and Fine's ridiculous claims have been thoroughly debunked; yet he clings to his lies as if no one has read a newspaper or watched the news and seen for themselves that Mamdani is a good dude who's doing a terrific job so far, tackling pot holes and housing and transportation and child care issues like a boss, while Fine's dick shrivels in comparison and he compensates for his own shortcomings by following the MAGA playbook and attacking his detractors, lying about his opponents, and trying to bully Floridians into believing this is who they want representing them.
Am image of a much younger-than-now Donald Trump dressed in an all-white suit as he gropes his very young daughter Ivanka, grasping her by the hips while she's halfway seated on his lap, making Trump look like nothing so much as a weird creepy oedipal pedophile, and poor Ivanka like a child being groomed without even knowing what's happening
Two photos, side by side, showing flowers and trees beginning to blossom again on a New York City street after a long, cold winter
From the Red Cross website, a comprehensive explanation of blood types, and why a diverse population with different blood types is crucial for the health of anyone who may need a transfusion.
An image of the "sign" I made and carried at one of the No Kings protests. The sign has two images, the first of an obese Trump with royal robes draped over his rolls of fat, a golden crown perched on his head, the second of a group of drag queens wearing full regalia and make-up. The words on the sign read: NO KINGS, QUEENS WELCOME.
A photo of a overturned car lying on its side with an inset of a bloated, pasty, puffy-faced, bleary-eyed Tiger Woods, the driver of the vehicle. News reports say he was wasted on painkillers at the time, which would explain his poor reflexes and shitty driving skills, and definitely augur against his keeping his driver license. I hope the state of Florida takes his license away before he kills himself and somebody else along with him - he's certainly wealthy enough to have a full-time staff of drivers - and that he's able to shake the shackles of his (probably) multiple addictions before it's too late. These things never end well; he'll either quit the pills and live, or he'll fall deeper into the clutches of his addictions and die. The best that can be hoped for is that no one dies along with him. I pass no judgment on him or his actions; I just have infinite compassion for an obviously sick man who needs serious help in reclaiming his health and sobriety so he can enjoy and share all the blessings his talents have brought him for another 50 years.
NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani taking in the Mets 2026 regular season home opener at sunny Citifield in Flushing. The Mets outscored the Pirates 11-7, two lucky numbers, almost matching their opening day record of total runs scored, 12. They beat Pirates ace Paul Skenes, so expect a lot more internet memes now about how he almost won a game the same way he almost joined the Air Force.
The Empire State Building 3/25/2026 all lit up in Mets orange and blue in anticipation of Opening Day on March 26th. Seen from street level.
The Empire State Building all lit up in Mets orange and blue, the half moon that was visible the night before obscured by clouds
The top of the Empire State Building illuminated in red set against the glowing aura of the half moon, Tuesday evening March 24, 2026 View is from street level facing east on West 34th Street