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Perry Barber

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 27d

We can't all be Jane Goodall, but we can all sure as hell be difficult.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Oct 2

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 15h

Lovely Poppy with the beautiful golden eyes ❤️

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry, all the MAGA rats are jumping ship already, vowing to leave New York if they haven't already because they don't want to live under Sharia law. So silly, but they think they're owning the libs by lying about Mamdani and acting as if he had something to do with 9/11. Despicable.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

"VAGOP"

I saw VAG OP and as sure it had to be about ICE swooping in on middle-aged sweat-pantsed women as they meet up for book club

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Jamie, that Lego set was designed by my buddy Maia Weinstock, a polymath with a side gig as a New York Baseball Giants aficionada. She fought for lego to make that set and another one, the Supremes (women of SCOTUS.) So glad you're over the moon about getting a set, I'll tell her, she'll love it

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Rückenfigur, my favorite perspective!

It's not about ass, either, just something about seeing things the same way the subject of a painting or photograph sees them that connects the viewer to what's being viewed in a powerful and visceral way

An exemplar of "rückenfigur," a perspective used in painting and photography to represent what is seen by the subject of the artwork rather than by the viewer. As in, from the rear, ass-facing, tuchus-pointing, etc. This one is of Yours Truly (ass left) with my partners Kathy Morrison (ass center) and Janet Thomas (ass right) before we took the field at Fenway for of a women's fantasy camp reunion game.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Rückenfigur, my favorite perspective!

It's not about ass, either, just something about seeing things the same way a subject in a photograph or painting sees them

An exemplar of "rückenfigur," a perspective used in painting and photography to represent what is seen by the subject of the artwork rather than by the viewer. As in, from the rear, ass-facing, tuchus-displaying, etc. This one is of Yours Truly taking a break in the outfield between half-innings of a women's fantasy camp game at Fenway South in Fort Myers, spring training home of the Boston Red Sox.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Gotham City had Batman, now Gotham has our own Catman

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

You're the second sports person who's mentioned Middlemarch recently (the other is @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social,) so out of curiosity I just downloaded it from audible.com - for free!

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

The draft for the 4-team Women's Professional Baseball League is drawing nigh.

But it's not just about the players and coaches. Stay tuned for news about something huge about to happen in the world of women umpires, one of the most exciting and profoundly personal projects I've ever been a part of.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

But if you are *from* Staten Island, Staten Island is in you, and there is no purging Staten Island. It's been tried, seldom successfully.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

Not really - what you're doing is inferring something I'm not implying. That's on you, Spite. I'm not telling you how to read or misread what I wrote. Thanks for your input anyway.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

where's the mets cap 🥺

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not doing that, Spite, MAGAs are doing it all over X and other social media.

I'm just setting them straight.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

It's not pandering or flip-flopping or backtracking to retool a political position, refine an idea that once seemed promising, or ditch it entirely if it loses the luster that made it so appealing in the first place. Mamdani is listening to experts, and more importantly, hearing his constituents too

Screen shot of a post on X by a user who goes by the handle "The Patriot Oasis" in which he clutches his pearls and fans his fevered brow about the despicable hypocrisy of Zohran Mamdani amending his stance on "free grocery stores," a made-up meme that very inadequately describes the program Mamdani originally envisioned to help make nutritious food affordable and accessible in some of the poorest neighborhoods of New York. He's since modified his vision, and MAGAs are making hay over that to try to make him appear to be a hypocrite or a weakling instead of as a reasonable person open to new and better ideas as additional information becomes available. Mamdani doesn't shy away from being exactly who he is: he leans into his democratic socialism and his islamicism because that's who he is. He's showing us that a muslim in 2025 is light years removed from a muslim in 2001, and we should not be afraid of HIM, only of staying stuck in patterns that corrupt and destroy instead of uplift and sustain.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

And died literally the very day everyone else saw at least some of the monsters he created get kicked back into their radioactive cocoons, giving us just long enough to catch our breaths, regroup, and get back to work.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 1d

He conflates "asylum seekers" with people let out of asylums for the criminally insane; & "sexually transmitted," which HepatitisB be can be, from infected mother to baby during childbirth, with actually HAVING SEX, which is no doubt why he thinks the vaccine should be given to 12-year-olds and up.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 2d

An original "influencer," Feller created his own brand with his post-season barnstorming tours, which netted him lucrative endorsements and paydays that he shared with his fellow players. A fascinating figure in baseball lore

Author Luke Epplin shares a chapter about him from his book "Our Team."

Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d

Today is Bob Feller's 107 birthday, so let's do something different: For my newsletter, I posted a passage that I cut from "Our Team" that gives a little more flavor to Feller's famed 1946 barnstorming tour. If you ever wanted more "Our Team," here you go: lepplin.substack.com/p/bob-feller...

Bob Feller’s Overbooked Barnstorming Tour of 1946

An Outtake from "Our Team"

lepplin.substack.com

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 2d

I think you can watch "Jeopardy!" streaming on Peacock and Hulu if you have either of those, Michael www.jeopardy.com/watch

Good Final answer tonight, made me think

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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 2d

Changed how? For better or worse?

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

Supporting my friend who's a tour guide for the Dodgers, which is a real job that should pay a fair wage

Tavi @baseballszn.bsky.social · 3d

I.A.T.S.E. Local B-192 would like to congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers on their World Series Win. We are sure this Win will be prosperous for the Dodgers organization. You can pay the Dodger Stadium Tour Guides a living wage.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

I made her face a little easier to see, it's so darn cute

Gizzy the cat, a lovely little calico

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

I get your objection, Join, but he's not "glorifying" abduction or rape by using that sculpture in his own craft. His brilliant depictions of baseball as art stand on their own merits, and are not necessarily infused with any specific political perspective, but are intended to edify and illuminate.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

BTW, the Norton Simon museum's collections are fantastic! If you have the chance, definitely go.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

So season-appropriate: the deal Proserpina's mother Ceres made with Pluto, lord of the underworld and her abductor, to get her daughter back was because she'd eaten 6 pomegranate seeds, she'd spend 6 months on earth with her and 6 in the underworld with him, which is why we have summer and winter.

Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 3d

Yay Trigger! Sounds like he has a few more lives left in him.