Love it or hate it, D.C. kickball has reached new heights of publicity. Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a front-page feature story on the D.C. WAKA and DCKickball adult kickball leagues, complete with a hedcut portrait of DCKickball founder Carter Rabasa. To his credit, Rabasa seems to speak to his audience well:

“WAKA is a monopoly, but there doesn’t seem to be any structural reason for that to be the case,” says Mr. Rabasa, an information-technology consultant. “Despite their dominance, I can create a compelling product, market it to the same people, and start taking their customers.”

Over at the DCKickball blog the players seem to resent being in the shadow of the WAKA league. Our last post about kickball summarized a City Paper cover story on the “war” between the two leagues, and elicited some comments, including one who observed the events were “Once again proving the point that white professional DC is the home of high school ex-student body vice presidents,” and another upon hearing about the length of time spent drinking after games asks “should you at least spend time PLAYING the sport?!”