WASHINGTON, DC - It's been a long cold winter, and you can still find reminders in the piles of cast aside snow that dot the capitol city sidewalks and parking lots. But it's spring once again and already the beer-belly ballers are breaking out the gear and hitting the diamonds. Sporadic practice games have been popping up all around DC over the last week (something you'll never see from the kickball league this early) and it's only a matter of time now before the crack of the bat and slap of leather is on every open patch of grass.
Registration has opened for the House Softball league and a few eager-beavers have begun to ping the chat boards. Already new drama has sprung with the departure and return of one of the more prolific bloggers, something I don't doubt the board will not let them live down easily.
The defending champion Texas Republic leads the lists of the early registrants, with the ever present Big Lebowskis, DGS and Dragon Slayers locked in for another run.
It's bound to be another glorious season of beer, trashtalk, field squatting, drama and victory. I'm looking forward to every minute of it. I'll be here all year folks, look forward to hearing your stories and covering the league for a second year.
