Bad news for the boys and girls of summer at The Paper of Record:

The New York Times is cancelling the softball team. An H.R. representative told me that the company is no longer paying for employee activities like this, if we want to continue we'll have to pay for it ourselves. The registration fee is $2000, and they're not willing to part with it.

This is a shame, especially when you consider the 30% growth in online revenues they predicted. (Oooh, we can't wait until next week's annual report, currently in edits!) Now we'll never see John Noble Wilford's gyroball!