You play hardball all year...why not toss 'em a softball once in a while?

“What did the president know, and when did she know it?!” you bark, like the utterly ferocious media-type you are.

But by the time summer rolls around, you’re ready for a softball or two.

Our solution: Don’t write a puff piece.

Instead, join me and dozens of other out-of-shape, picked next-to-last-in-gym-class media professionsals as we drink cold suds, run the bags and vie for the mediabistro west Softball League cup.

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