Did the Navan Dragons lie about the reasons for rescheduling games from 2025? They admitted they lied. Did Anke, the SL Chair, lie in order to cover up how the Navan Dragons lied about rescheduling games from 2025? She admitted she lied, and admitted to the intent to cover up the Navan Dragons’ lie. Were
After learning what we learned (but mostly already knew) at the 2025 Softball Leinster Annual General Meeting (SL AGM), it would be useful to clarify a few things before the 2026 season. With that in mind, let’s consider a few questions for the league committee to answer. “Do we know which teams paid to play
The meeting started late. Everything in softball starts late, no one ever cares, and no one ever will. In fact, if you do care, you are being unreasonable. The league’s accounts are known only until 31 August (it is now 22 October). Apparently it is impossible for the league to access their bank account details
The league can improve. By including bylaws that enhance the game as it is played in Ireland, the issues surrounding dwindling participation and disorganization can be addressed. If you don’t agree that games lasting 90 minutes or more, coupled with extended travel time, is unreasonable and alienates players; or if you don’t agree that umpires
Mehdi Hasan, the journalist formerly of Al Jazeera and MSNBC, and founder of Zeteo, who is also Muslim and a US immigrant, was recently discussing his policy of not platforming or engaging in discussion with fascists. He admitted it’s getting so that he’s having to relax that policy a bit, otherwise he’d not be able
Once again, we have an open letter that is absolutely not confidential. The unauthorized rescheduling of league games, the teams and individuals who lied about it, the failure to provide oversight of requests to reschedule games, and the attempt to cover up those lies and failures, all requires investigation to understand exactly what happened. In
Karma is quite a concept: do good things, and good things happen; do bad things, and bad things happen. They can often happen to you – that’s the part most people forget. People rarely get away with their bullshit. Sure, there’s a huge lack of accountability in the world, but at some point or another,
There’s a word for administrations that look to silence voices and opinions they don’t agree with: fascism. I’ve long known the people who are in charge of softball in Ireland are morally and ethically bankrupt… and now they’ve actually written it down in their official complaints policy. 10. COMPLAINTS, DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES AND APPEALS 10.8 Public
When an umpire selectively ignores rules, doesn’t bother knowing other frequently-encountered situations, and is completely ignorant of other rules, a lot of things happen to a softball game. Players get confused, frustrated, and upset, at each other, and at the umpire. A lot of yelling and shouting often results, as bad decisions pile upon bad
It was my first game back in 2025 after having been ill and reversing my decision to sit out the season. The team I play with was getting destroyed, for no good reason except they seem to have reverted to making poor in-game decisions (not knowing what base to throw the ball to, for example),