The state of the softball field
I wasn't going to say anything until the news broke outside the building. That took all of one day. Gannett is selling a big chunk of our corporate campus, the chunk currently used for our softball field. This field is of course home to the Sultans of Dot and our entire company softball league. Early reports indicate we'll play out this season before losing the field in '08, but there's no firm word yet.
There are fields nearby, most notably the beautiful fields next to Capitol One's complex on 123, fields neither my dentist nor I in our discussion last year knew how to access, but in rush hour traffic we may be talking 20 minutes newsroom-to-field. Not good for newsroom teams, who typically hustle between deadlines and game times.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 PM
[...] I was happy about the wins but happier we still had a field, given we supposedly sold the land two years ago. Went 1-2 in the first game and 0-1 in the second, platooning, but made good contact after figuring [...]
March 26th, 2010 at 9:55 PM
[...] season began Thursday evening on Gannett Field, years after its projected death now the Fenway of media conglomerate softball fields. We took on a team from SAIC, our defense [...]