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First Female Home Plate Umpire In MLB History Set Women Back 100 Years After Worst Call You’ll Ever See
Daily Caller ^ | 03/20/2026 | Andrew Powell

Posted on 03/22/2026 8:30:49 AM PDT by DFG

OnlyFans, emotions and the first female home plate umpire in MLB history … this is why women can’t have nice things!

The 2026 season for Major League Baseball will see the implementation of the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system into actual games. Meaning, umpires will have to be on their toes this year, or get called out like it’s everybody’s business. Just take this example that I have for you today.

In the 2025 campaign, Jen Pawol made MLB history by becoming the first female umpire to work a regular-season contest, which took place Aug. 9 in a game between the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins. The next day, that’s when she would become the first female home plate umpire.

Fast forward to March 2026, and the woman is already embarrassing herself with flying colors. During a recent spring training contest between the Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds, she called a ball after Cincy starting pitcher Nick Lodolo threw a slider, which came against Cleveland left fielder Steven Kwan. In response, the Reds catcher requested an ABS challenge, and that’s when Pawol was exposed as a complete fraud as the pitch went right down the middle of the plate.

And just like that, women got set back to 1926.

In the words of my wife, not me: “This is why nobody takes us seriously.” … I concur.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: balls; mennevermakebadcalls; mlb; sports; strikes; umpire; women

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1 posted on 03/22/2026 8:30:49 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

https://x.com/JonnyRoot_/status/2034847988699599085


2 posted on 03/22/2026 8:31:29 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Can’t be any worse than Angel Hernandez.


3 posted on 03/22/2026 8:33:46 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: DFG

Yikes! 🫣


4 posted on 03/22/2026 8:34:00 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DFG

Well, she looks like a traditional male Umpire. So there is that. She looks the part.


5 posted on 03/22/2026 8:34:46 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: DFG

DIE in action.


6 posted on 03/22/2026 8:34:52 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: kawhill

Tigers fan, huh?


7 posted on 03/22/2026 8:36:43 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG; SaveFerris
Can't be worse than Enrico Pallazzo...


8 posted on 03/22/2026 8:37:59 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

“an ABS challenge, and that’s when Pawol was exposed as a complete fraud as the pitch went right down the middle of the plate.”

That’s not what matters....what matters is a female (and that’s questionable IMO) is now an an ump in MLB.

And all other considerations are secondary to that.

And THAT, is DEI in a nutshell.


9 posted on 03/22/2026 8:38:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: DFG

Professional sportsball has long been scripted like movies and television. At least the WWE is honest about it.


10 posted on 03/22/2026 8:39:11 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I’m not so sure “she” is even a biological woman.


11 posted on 03/22/2026 8:40:05 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DFG

THAT’S a WOMAN??????

I may be an old, stocky, bass-playing, biker woman, but NOBODY ever mistakes me for a Man.

(((And I’m Glad!)))


12 posted on 03/22/2026 8:40:19 AM PDT by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: DFG

Why are women in men's sports?


13 posted on 03/22/2026 8:43:04 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Tommy Revolts
Why are women in men's sports?

Good Question! We've been focusing on the opposite, but they're related.
14 posted on 03/22/2026 8:51:49 AM PDT by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: DFG

MLB could probably screen most of this out if they added parallel parking to the umpire tests.


15 posted on 03/22/2026 8:51:57 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: DFG

Tell me that creature doesn’t look like Pete Rose.


16 posted on 03/22/2026 8:55:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

This happened a year ago.


17 posted on 03/22/2026 8:58:29 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DFG

diesel dyke ...


18 posted on 03/22/2026 9:01:32 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: kawhill
Can’t be any worse than Angel Hernandez. Fair point.
19 posted on 03/22/2026 9:02:45 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DFG

Does she throw guys out of the game for something they did years ago?


20 posted on 03/22/2026 9:05:30 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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