The Baconball National Championship started out a little shaky with 4-5 hours of rain Friday night into Saturday morning. The grass was a little soupy but the fields ended up great. We started buy honoring two Kansas City Kansas fallen officers, Captain Dave Melton and Det. Brad Lancaster.

The 12th Annual Police Softball World Series was held at the Big League Dreams facility in Las Vegas, Nevada on the 2nd weekend of October, 2016. The theme of the event was the “changing of the guard” as several established teams were feeling the heat of the young guns breathing down their necks all season. The youth movement was far more prevalent this year than in the past so of course, ps.com decided to market that angle. It was no longer about East vs. West, as the cyber-friendships created by social media killed that rivalry. What it didn’t kill was the inevitable changing of the guard. Older, established teams were classified as being Legends of the Old Guard, while the newer teams were simply referred to as the New World Order.

2017 snapshot season preview. The following bullet points will contain information gleaned from the Stool Pigeon along with official team announcements. If your team is not mentioned it is because we did not receive any updates during the off-season, which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Here are the top stories and some commentary leading into the 2017 season:

Once again we kicked off 2017 on the East Coast with the Brian Aselton Memorial Tournament in Kissimmee Florida. I have to start by saying, many teams came up to me over the weekend thanking me for having this tournament but in all reality , I cant express how fortunate I feel to be able to host this long running event. That cold wet Saturday evening shift back in 01/23/99 when Brian's life was so tragically taken from us 18 years ago, still seems like yesterday. So I am the one that needs to be thanking each and every one of you who participated, and in turn helps me to be able to keep Brian's name alive.

The weather was perfect and the atmosphere was great. the fields were in the best shape in years, and competition was fierce. In the end the final two teams, North Florida and the Shamrocks were left standing. North Florida was undefeated and Shamrocks had to double dip them to win the title. In the first game, Shamrocks pulled out a tough victory, they played great all day, and North Florida didn't want to have to play them twice.

The 4th Annual West Coast United Reno/Sparks tournament was held this year on May 12th and 13th. The Golden Eagle Complex was perfect as usual and the weather cooperated. Once again money was raised the help Nik Jackson (Mark Jackson’s son) with his ongoing battle with Hodgkin Lymphoma. Thanks to Brett Helmer, Big Tone and Tyson Becker for assisting with our prize packages.

The greater Palm Springs area welcomed the police softball back to the desert for the annual West Conference Championships this past weekend. The two-day tournament was condensed down to ensure teams got the most amount of games over the shortest duration of time possible. Friday evening kicked off the round robin and there were no huge surprises.

Hello Boyz,The 2017 PS.com Southern Regional Championship “The Texas Showdown” has finally come to an end and now that the dust has settled, I am able to give a brief recap of the tournament. I will be brief with this recap and try to cover some of the highlights of the tournament as I still have a video in the works that will highlight more of the tournaments events including sights and sounds in case you were not able to attend this year’s Texas Showdown.

The weather was hot, complex was nice, Miken bats were provided. Great opening ceremony, players party was off the charts. A new format was put in place to add new competition for the major teams. While still having a gold division championship as well. It's called a slugfest tourney. you have the top seeded major teams play each other for seeding 1-5. Then all the other teams are pre seeded in the open bracket with the major teams. They then play 2 and out tourney. After being eliminated the bottom 9 teams dropped to a gold division 2 and out tourney.