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

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❤️⚾

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Zooming in on the annual IWBC/SABR Women in Baseball Conference for the eye-opening scholarship and research, leaving with congratulations and gratitude for all nominees and beloved author Jean Ardell, winner of the 2025 Dorothy, aka the Women in Baseball Lifetime Achievement Award.

You don’t have to be a @mets.com fan to appreciate team owners Alex and Steve Cohen’s solid belief in a future for girls’ and women’s baseball, and in IWBC’s mission to make it happen. They are stepping up to the sport! YOU can too! @iwbc4me.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

Steve and Alex Cohen, using their wealth & generosity for the highest purpose: making the world a better place for all through IWBC’s good works, and our promise to preserve, protect, and promote the history of girls and women in baseball. The future too, which the new @wpbl.bsky.social has lit up!

The first major league manager to encourage me when I was hired to umpire some Mets intrasquads during spring training in St. Petersburg in 1985. Every umpire needs and deserves validation, and Dave Johnson gave it to me for no reason other than that he was a good guy. Safe travels to him.

Some things we should never forget. What happened to Emmett Till, and what's happened to us, a nation of supposedly united states, since his murder are some of those things. Remembrance and respect for his memory, and for his family.

A fantastic, spot-on look at the new Women's Professional Baseball League by the great Howard Megdal of The IX. Howard "gets it;" he lauds the upcoming league for doing what so many of us have only dreamed about since the dissolution of the AAGPBL in 1954. www.theixsports.com/features/for...

He SHOULD be remembered Not just for his unique personality or the fact that he threw a no-hitter while wasted on acid, but because in the last years of his life, he totally devoted himself to helping others dealing with addiction. A REALLY good man who walked the walk, gone way too soon.

Progressive Field 8/21-22 A Play At The Plate event, where the players play for the pure love of the game in major league settings, and the umpires LOVE getting a dressing room with big fluffy towels - never mind that it’s the WOMEN umpires’ room, I can share. Jen Pawol, your dressing room awaits!

I know the people involved in this and some of the players at the tryouts. Can’t wait for this to come to fruition and to get to watch them play. 🙏🙏⚾️⚾️

Ukranian war chronicler Yaroslava Antipina wishes her country's beautiful art and culture drew as much attention as the war. So do I. Art before war!

One of my favorite views of Manhattan anytime I come back from being away: coming up the ramp on the back side of Grand Central, greeting Cornelius Vanderbilt and Hermes' enormous package, then circling through this tunnel to emerge onto northbound Park Avenue. The grandest of entrances!

He was the classic "happy on the outside but lonely on the inside" guy. I didn't see it the day he drove to New York to meet me from his home in Endicott, a long way from the city, where he lived with his mother and cared for her even after she stopped recognizing him. Looking forward to Jim's bio

Only 24 girls have played in the Little League World Series since it started - in 1947, three quarters+ of a century ago. And most of the ones who have, have played since 1984, the year Belgian Victoria Roche led the way. That's only the last 40 years!

One of the world's best international umpires, Sophiyah Liu, will be representing all us women umps who toil away in obscurity, not for gelt or glory, but for the pure love of the game when she's honored at PNC Park in Pittsburgh by the Pirates on September 3rd. I'll be right there cheering her on!

Six months ago my Facebook page was hijacked. The imposter who took it over has since scammed friends out of money. I've tried and tried to rectify this, but FB has been ZERO help Now I don't even want my account back because Mark Zuckerburg is such a creep

"Zuckerberg scolded generative AI product managers for moving too cautiously on the rollout of digital companions and expressed displeasure that safety restrictions had made the chatbots boring..." He's a creep all right. He's also selling women's period tracking info captured on a Meta app.

Register for this September’s SABR Women in Baseball Diamond Stories with Cecilia Tan! When: Saturday, Sept. 6th Time: 10-11am EST, 7-8am PST Open to Everyone: -SABR members -Baseball fans -You! Registration Link: kent-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Jen Pawol is back in Triple AAA tonight, working the plate for the Charlotte Knights @ Memphis Redbirds game. From the pinnacle to the prosaic in less than 48 hours: such is the life of an umpire, a life Jen embraces, one that's finally embracing her back. We'll see her up in the big leagues again.

On this day in 1880, Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, PA. One of the most beloved athletes of his era, he was baseball’s first superstar. Here’s my painting of him hanging out before a game at West Side Park in 1913. That lilac color on the patch and hat brim makes me happy.

August 12th is always a special day for me: I celebrate the birthday of my beloved Christy Mathewson, whose 373 career victories in the National League still stand, more than 100 years after he set it, as a record (shared with Grover Cleveland Alexander) that will never be broken.

Pete Caldera is a man of many talents: Yankees beat writer, Frank Sinatra-style crooner with big bands, vocal supporter/fundraiser for several worthy charities. Here, I talk to him about Jen Pawol's brief ascendance to the major leagues and what it all means. www.northjersey.com/story/sports...

Lack of cultural awareness or respect by this administration will be its undoing nypost.com/2025/07/08/u...

Thanks to Dan Epstein for talking to me about the significance of recent events in Atlanta. I don't claim any credit for Jen's talent or success, but she's my "protegé" for the same reason I say that about EVERY woman who's out there umpiring baseball in 2025. They're all my babies! Look at us fly!

Janet Marie Smith, baseball architect/urban planner spoke to MLB preparations for the day when female umpires would take the field. That day is today for umpire, Jen Pawol. Hear Janet Marie speak to the future that is unfolding today. www.buzzsprout.com/1125350/epis...

Anticipation in Atlanta!

I'm practically in tears After 45 years of umpiring and advocating for other women umpires, I'm about to witness what I was beginning to believe would never happen: Jen Pawol will be in uniform on the field in Atlanta this Saturday for the Marlins @ Braves doubleheader. www.mlb.com/news/jen-paw...

Been busy these past weeks: driven 7000+ miles cross-country and back, umpired in Reno at Baseball For All Nationals, flew round trip Las Vegas to New York to umpire the Alzheimer's Memorial Cup game in Brooklyn, cleared out of my home in Florida, and oops, had two car accidents. (No one got hurt.)

Been busy these past weeks: driven 7000+ miles cross-country and back, umpired in Reno at Baseball For All Nationals, flew round trip Las Vegas to New York to umpire the Alzheimer's Memorial Cup game in Brooklyn, cleared out of my home in Florida, and oops, had two car accidents. (No one got hurt.)

I'll be an "icon" to anyone, young women, young men, older women, kids, anyone who loves baseball and wants to contribute to the game, to uphold its rules and its integrity, and to be actively involved. To me, there's no more fun, illuminating, or rewarding way to do that than umpiring.

This is a scam. If you get this or a similar message, be aware that New York State will never text you asking for information about your driver license: do not reply "Y," do not click on any links, just delete it. Be circumspect, stay safe!

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This is what Putin has been bent on destroying for the past three and half years - but indomitable Ukranians won't let him, and no one else should either. Slava Ukraini! Heroim Slava!

Cats are mobilizing

Satchel Paige, enjoying a moment 43 years after he died

Focusing on medical breakthroughs like this one instead of, say, sending rockets to Mars or dismantling democracy, would actually benefit a lot of humans pretty much immediately.

The blond leading the blond

SABR author Mark Armour brings the incredible story of Leroy Satchel Paige into focus by tracking his appearances in every baseball game he ever played in for which there's a verifiable record. A fantastic project undertaken with Mark's usual meticulous care and creativity. Can't wait for the book!

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