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My father Larry Barber, a pilot in the newly formed Air Force during the Korean War. He disappeared in 1959 after taking a small watercraft out on the Atlantic Ocean near Brigantine, NJ, and was never seen again. 66 years later, I still think about him every day; today, I thank him for his service.

I'm obsessed with this wonderful operation ❤️ Cats climb trees around Spokane, Washington and get stuck. When the fire department isn't able to help, Canopy Cat Rescue is there to answer the meows. Wish they had a bluesky page! www.canopycatrescue.com

I love the feeling of having said "I told you so" without saying it

Gotham City had Batman, now Gotham has our own Catman

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.

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

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."

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

Aww, poor baby didn't get his Nobel Peace Prize so now he's showing off his peaceful intentions by intimidating Nigerians, whose country sits on vast oil & gas reserves, so guess why he's all blustery & posturing like this. Anyone else smell a large donation of cash or a plane or a "big deal" here?

Okay, this game is going twenty innings

Food for thought on the Addison Barger ground rule double when Justin Dean held up his hands instead of digging for the ball: the rule protects players from risk of injury who might otherwise go digging or poking around for the ball. They could get scratched, bruised, stuck; the rule keeps them safe

Illinoisans, please support Dylan Blaha's campaign to represent your 13th district, which includes Springfield and parts of east St. Louis, but is mostly rural. We don't see his kind of integrity in our elected officials very often. Please don't miss this chance to change the culture of congress!

The urge to chase the baseball is one of the hardest things for a player to suppress, but Justin Dean did a stellar job of it in the bottom of the ninth when he held up his hands to signal the ball had lodged under the fence and was thus out of play (i.e., dead.) www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/wor...

That was not a swing; he didn’t offer at the pitch. My heart is pounding. Bottom of the ninth inning baseball is the best!

Not to wallow in schadenfreude over Andrew Spencer's defrocking by his own brother, but in honor of Virginia Giuffre I just ordered "Nobody's Girl," and am eagerly anticipating reading it, not so much for the guilty pleasure of hating on him, but out of deep and abiding respect for her.

I just followed Rep. Neguse here on Bluesky after seeing this. Re-framing matters.

The Holodomor Stalin's genocidal 1932-'33 campaign that starved millions of Ukranians. Meanwhile, US legislators argue while millions face food insecurity & severe health consequences from inadequate nutrition because congress cannot stop its petty internal squabbling. holodomor.ca/resource/hol...

He heard the viral cry of a trapped, terrified cat, and answered the call.

In honor of National Cat Day… 💙

A hundred years ago, the press was filled with stories and images demonizing Italians exactly the same way Cuomo vilifies Mamdani here, with Bartiromo simpering along sweetly, saying nothing to set him straight. Both of them, so nauseating in their willful ignorance and bigotry.

That there even IS such a thing as the United Bodegas of America makes me feel just a little bit better about things today. As long as the Bodega Cats approve, I'm all in. Still, I'm curious: there is no working website for this group, and listed contact info doesn't work either. UBoA, what gives?

Zohran Mamdani was a minor child when he and his parents emigrated to NYC from Uganda. Any loudmouth attacking his citizenship or threatening to have him deported for lying on an application form WHEN HE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD is either a bigot, or an idiot, or both. kfoxtv.com/news/nation-...

Opioid overdose deaths are way down in Minnesota because of the unyielding courage of activists like Louise Vincent, who died last month after decades of bravely putting her own addictions front & center to help shape harm reduction protocols for other addicts www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

There's a timely metaphor in there somewhere

Strikes, boycotts, public protests, shouting into The Void - these tactics WORK. Since most of us aren't lobbyists or cronies, they're an effective use of our time and energy ; they're how we make our voices heard, and how we hold public figures accountable. I'm not going down without a fight🥊

This is not coastal elitism 😇 It's a chance to see an exciting new brand of baseball played by women with skills they've been polishing since they were toddlers, so the talent will be off the charts. Covering the four corners of the continent, your new Women's Pro Baseball League!

BOTD: The great Mickey Mantle and my big brother Rocky! Little did I know when he was co-captain of the Stanford soccer team with a sideline of refereeing that Rocky would become my North Star of officiating.❤️ (Oh yes, he also climbed the Matterhorn, and was a Hot Box Girl in "Guys and Dolls.")

How sweet it was to be umpiring an early ballgame this morning and to look across the infield & see my darling nephew Jesse Kertland, my twin sister’s firstborn, on his way to a Blink182 festival with his brother - but he took the time to make a stop on the way to boo, I mean CHEER for the umpire❤️⚾️

Umpires everywhere shaking our heads at the confusion generated by a play we see all the time, when a ball hits a wall and is then "caught," which is not a legal catch, it's a ball in play so runners must advance or risk being forced out, which is what happened here. www.mlb.com/news/near-ho...

When he got hit by the thrown ball on first play by an infielder, Suarez was sitting on the top step of the dugout in a dead ball area; that's why the umpires ruled the ball out of play and awarded the batter/runner second base. It's also why umpires keep players in the dugouts!

22 to 1, sure, but did the game last 5 hours? Did it take 15 pitchers to conclude? Did one of the starting pitchers strike out 13, then get taken out after the 6th before the "next game" even started, and wind up on the losing side - SEVEN pitchers later? Baseball: it's old, but it never gets old⚾

From the art studio of the great Ann Telnaes: open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Fifteen innings with no bathroom breaks, no resting in the dugout between half-innings, no timeouts for coffee, and no cheers for him as he walked off the field; but crew chief Alan Porter gets my vote for Man of The Hour - of FIVE hours! - for his superlative job behind the plate in Seattle tonight

Washington Post, move over.

Cheap Trick: Rockford, Illinois's finest! "Admission $1 before 8:30, $1.50 after." I wonder what happened at 8:30 to raise the price a whole fifty cents. And whatever became of Purple People, anyway?

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

For those who can’t afford Taylor Swift’s new album, be sure to check your local library. My county library has The Life of a Showgirl up on the Hoopla app, and it’s free for me to stream with my library card. Libraries for the win! #taylorswift

A significant and emotional step forward turning the dream of a home for girls and women's baseball into the reality of an actual place right there in Rockford, Illinois at Beyer Stadium, former home of the Rockford Peaches, future home of a museum, activities center, and now, Maybelle Blair Park!!

Why I love closed captions Because "gold glove" magically becomes "cold love"

Proud to be difficult!

Let us not pass by or forget this good woman who devoted her adult life to loving and fighting for vulnerable creatures.

A bit of good baseball news, and I don't know about you, but I can really use some

My father vanished in a small watercraft off the coast of Atlantic City on this day in 1959, never to be seen alive again. My twin sister and I were six when it happened, and 66 years later, some days I feel like I've never gotten over it, and never will. Thinking of him today💔

Enjoying the Orioles @ Yankees game on a beautiful autumn night in the Bronx with longtime pal, author Lee Lowenfish and about 60,000 other happy fans who’ve seen Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton crush monster blasts outta the park! And it’s only the fifth inning! LOTTA baseball to go

Creepy and disturbing beyond belief that in his blithering idiot mind, he conflates "sexually transmitted" with actually HAVING SEX, then excitedly suggests HepB vaccines be given to girls starting at age 12 because by then they're "formed." I guess he would know. thehill.com/policy/healt...

What she did was often stigmatized and dismissed because of her history of addiction; but Louise Vincent's voice was an important one, and her dedication to the principle of harm reduction has made a lasting difference in how addiction is addressed and treated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

No kidding. The predictable backlash has legs after all. "We The Consumers" should be the first three words of the preamble to our new Constitution.

Rang out the summer of 2025 by playing catch at the Yogi Berra Museum in NJ with my partner Roberta Newman and 1178 other catch pairs, all of us joining in to set a world record for the biggest game of catch ever played in one place at one time. And guess what? WE DID IT!!! and it was a blast❤️⚾