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After a five-inning rally in the top of the seventh inning that invoked the “mercy” rule -- forcing the side to retire with only one out -- the Washington D.C. women’s press corps softball team defeated the Congressional women's squad 13-7.
They let the members play the bottom of the seventh (of a seven-inning game) even though technically they couldn’t have tied the game without also invoking the mercy rule they use, which says a team can't score more than five runs in an inning.
Star players on the losing congressional team in the second annual congressional women's softball game were pitcher Kirsten Gillibrand, slugger Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Jean Schmidt, and Linda Sanchez. The congressional women are 0-for-2 in two years. Last year, they lost 14-8 to a staffers of the national committees.
The victorious scribes were led by MVP Trisha Turner of Fox and Dana Bash of CNN. Spouse John King was seen on the field in anchorman suit and tie trying to argue with the umpire about the mercy rule.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Yankee fan justice Sonia Sotomayor, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and other fans were in the stands.
(This reporter was an announcer for the game.)
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How about some posts on what Congress is up to? How the Financial Reform Bill no longer includes "too big to fail" or most of the other key elements it was supposed to, or maybe how Congress is taking the tax increases for wealthy investors out of the jobs bill while simultaneously reducing unemployment benefits, I mean any day of the week our esteemed Congress people are hard at work enriching the already rich while making the poor just a bit poorer, post some stuff about that, maybe GE won't be watching.