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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.
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Oops I'm jingoposting again
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."
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Happy to announce that the second edition of the #JapanBall Travel Guide to Japanese #Baseball will be launching on the JapanBall store THIS FRIDAY! It'll be exclusive there for a month, then available on Amazon for Kindle and print-on-demand copies.
1/2
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!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#ONgov
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.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Did the top text load all the way at the bottom of the page for anyone else? Tried on Firefox and Edge.
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"
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Dodgers series in a GIF. Well played, what a series, but goddamn this is my new answer for what if a series result got flipped.
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL EVENING, FANS.
#WANTITALL
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.
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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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?"
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Of course this was the first season in 20 years I check out almost completely from the club. Congrats to the Jays fans who rode from game one all the way to Game 1.
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."
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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I drafted this one up yesterday when it was 6-1. Still hoping it manifests for y'all.
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."
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"Oops, All Orix Buffaloes!" edition.
And this excludes the Guys currently on the team like Andres Machado, Anderson Espinoza, and Edward Olivares!
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
September 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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When I was doing a Draw Something Every Day project in 2013, this was what Lawrie inspired me to put to paper. His love for the *toro rosso* was well-documented on his Twitter feed. Hope he's enjoying his post-playing days.
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!"
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Thursday semifinals: erased an early 3-0 deficit, held on to win 12-6.
2-3, all infield stuff again. Everything right to the shortstop. Grump.
2B/3B/RF, a couple good touches.
One bruise from pitching, other leg this time.
We play for the title next week.
A pasty white upper leg (mine), with a nicely colour -changing bruise about 2/3 to the knee. Ow.
August 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The second TF2 was a gift purchase. It would be 3 years after Half-Life (still haven't played it!) before I bought something else for myself, Cities in Motion 1. University kinda took priority.
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
August 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Hello Mickey!!
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.
August 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Just revealed in the #SMACDirect, issue 9 of #SuperMarioAdventuresContinued "No Rest from the Wicked" launches TOMORROW, and runs until just into 2026. Check @soveryunofficial.bsky.social 's socials for the links tomorrow AM!
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
August 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A little rich to get a reply on *that* story from an AI bot with *this* slop for a profile picture.
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.
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Hello Yogi!! #catsky
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.
July 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Here, you can use the image yourself if you like it.
A Windows blue screen of death reformatted for a smartphone screen to be used as wallpaper or a lock screen.
July 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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No cheating, post your 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.
July 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Great example of "if only he stayed healthy" - he did in my OOTP save, and just won his 6th ring as Mr. Rockie.
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.
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Can't stand NPB erasure.
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?"
July 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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This is why my Internet has been out for the last 11 hours. And of course the cell network is overloaded from everyone tethering.
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.
July 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Thursday Game 2, got mercied early and never recovered, lost 25-15.
3-3 with 2 RBI and 2 R.
2B/3B/RF, no real chances.
And while pitching, earned THIS beauty from a line drive. Nothing feels broken, and I've got full range of motion.
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).
July 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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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?"
July 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Hello Yogi!!
A black domestic longhair cat looking at the camera while resting on my lap/belly.
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM