Majority Rules in the News

Remember Majorty Rules? Of course you do. They were the team that had to leave Tuesday nights because a certain Mets jersey wearing dope was taking the game way too seriously and ruining it for everyone else.

Well, now they play Thursday nights and it seems things are not going much better. Here's an excerpt from Capitol Weekly:

Springtime in Sacramento is softball season, where the city's parks fill up with co-ed leagues, many of which feature Capitol staffers, and the occasional newspaper reporter. But the dangers of such activity became apparent at a game last week featuring the Democratic Capitol-staffer-heavy team, Majority Rules. While the game was afoot, a custom canvas bag belonging to one staffer was under foot, or rather under leg, of one deaf pug, Leroy. Apparently the bag carried the embroidered name of the staffer's dog, and Leroy let his feelings about the bag, and presumably the other dog, be known, as he relieved himself all over the bag. Leroy's owner offered to pay $5 bucks to have the bag cleaned, but that apparently wasn't good enough. The staffer demanded the owner pay $40 for the bag, which was "custom" and irreplacable. Leroy's owner waffled but eventually coughed up forty bucks. But that did little to settle the bad blood the incident had conjured up. "Learn how to control your dog," the bag's owner barked at Leroy's chapperone. And you thought there was bad blood between the Yankees and Red Sox...