Credit City Desk for the best news of the morning — the lawsuit between the District’s two main kickball leagues has finally come to an end.

Quick recap: In 2006, the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) sued upstart DC Kickball, claiming that founder and former WAKA officer Carter Rabasa had stolen the association’s proprietary rules and then defamed WAKA by calling it “the Microsoft of kickball.” Offended and pouting, WAKA demanded $356,000 in damages. Had the legal recourse existed for it, they likely would have forced Rabasa to play bocce for the rest of his life.

Alas, it now appears the two sides successfully dismissed the case, bringing to an end a sad period in kickball’s otherwise storied history. Unfortunately, no info on the final settlement agreement has been made public, but Rabasa did post a heartfelt apology to WAKA: “Carter Rabasa, DCKickball and DCK Sports LLC regret and retract the defamatory and/or disparaging statements made regarding WAKA Kickball. Those statement [sic] were in error.”

City Paper scribe Dave McKenna gets the best line out of the end, finally, of so much ridiculousness:

[DC Kickball’s rules] are also pretty much the same rules used by third graders everywhere. No third graders were named as defendants.

Zing!