You didn’t think we’d forgotten the baseball post, did you? Never! Our full coverage of last week’s annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game was always destined to come on Sunday, because Sunday is a day for watching baseball after Church. This was always the plan. Always. Always time infinity. (Lies.) So let’s take a photo tour of Republicans vs. Democrats playing a sport, terribly, in their tights (YES, THAT MEANS JOE BARTON) at Nationals Stadium. Up top: escaped Uighurs from New Jersey sneak into the field! MORE »

* Phil Gingrey proves you can always trust a congressman with a dyed mustache to give you the best information on cockroach and rodent infestation. [Think Progress]
* Sam Brownback pretends he likes girls. [Spin Cycle]
* “CNN Contributor Tom DeLay, live, in the Situation Room.” [Political Wire]
* Scooter planning to out Valerie Plame — as a lesbian. [Comedy Central Insider]
* Hillary Clinton is conspiring to make sure your blog sucks. [Eschaton]
* Cops and firefighters remember why they hate Giuliani. [NYDN, Political Insider]

* Heard on the Hill: Senate Foreign Relations staffers sends out an email about the President of Liberia. Email .sig is, naturally, a still from Friday with a hilarious and racially-insensitive quote beneath it… Phil Gingrey admitted to being the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Former Spanish PM Jose Maria Aznar canceled a lunch at Nathans when he learned that Spanish reporters would be there… Libby trial jurors all wore matching red t-shirts with white hearts on Valentine’s Day. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Ward 2 Council Member Jack Evans wants more Indian movies filmed in DC… Who’s to blame for yesterday not being a snow day? Office of Personnel Management Director Linda Springer. [Examiner]
* Under the Dome: Rahm Emanuel’s photo still hangs prominently at DCCC headquarters… Rep. Dan Burton apologized for skipping work to play golf. [The Hill]
* Shenanigans: Roy Blunt has a YouTube channel! But they’re deleting all the comments on the videos for bad language… Outgoing NATO Afghanistan commander Gen. Karl Eikenberry says we’re all at war with the “Islamist militant extremist fascist movement.” … Rep Wally Herger (R-CA) gave Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS) a book of Mormon. Wicker’s a baptist. [Politico]

* Heard on the Hill: Pelosi to do Leno… Politicians sending fund raiser invites disguised as Valentines… Phil Gingrey shaved his mustache because he’s going gray. []
* Reliable Source: Teri Hatcher and George H. W. Bush have developed a bizarre and unhealthy relationship. Baking cookies! Riding Segways! It’s all very sad. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Y&N call up a couple of Joe Biden’s imaginary friends in Long Island. They claim never to have heard of the man… Chris Heinz, John Kerry’s step-son, went to two strip clubs during his bachelor party last week… Mary Bono: Bad at predicting the Grammys. [Examiner]
* Under the Dome: Dana Rohrbacher blamed global warming on “dinosaur flatulence.” [The Hill]
* Shenanigans: Might Helen Thomas have to sit in the back at White House briefings? … Jack Quinn and Ed Gillespie are partners, but not partner partners. [Politico]
* The Sleuth: David Sirota, denied a Capitol press pass, becomes a Bernie Sanders “intern.” [WP]

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Thanks for all your guesses in response to yesterday’s blind item about a southern Republican congressman who has found himself in a bit of trouble. We won’t pass on the correctness or incorrectness of your guesses; we’ll just pass them along, with minimal comment.

Here was one of the better responses:

Oh God, oh God, oh God! Please, please, please let it be Jeff Sessions! And please let his mistress be John Cornyn!

Sorry to disappoint you, dear reader. But it can’t be Jeff Sessions, since he’s a senator rather than a representative. Points for creativity, though!

More guesses, after the jump.

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