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[quote=Anonymous]In reporting this story since the spring, I made many requests for comment to Klisch and Sweeney via email and in person. Both repeatedly turned down the opportunity. When I approached Klisch after the NWLL all-stars’ win over Mamie Johnson Little League in July, he politely declined to speak to me, saying only, “It’s been a long, stressful couple years.” After reaching out to Sweeney and Klisch one last time on Sept. 16, I received an email from Megan L. Meier, a D.C. attorney. Meier said she was representing Klisch and Sweeney in a defamation lawsuit they filed on Sept. 4 against other NWLL parents, and that she intended to subpoena me in that suit. The letter, in which Meier pointed out that she’d successfully sued Fox News on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems (and got a $787.5 million settlement), also threatened litigation against me and Defector.

In subsequent conversations with Defector’s lawyer, Meier raised an interaction I had with Klisch about a year ago at our kids’ soccer game. I was sitting on the sidelines with my wife when a guy wearing NWLL gear, who I’d also seen wearing NWLL gear at previous games, walked past. The Washington Post pieces about the Little League drama were a big topic on local message boards at the time, so I asked if he liked the stories. The man told me he was responsible for the Post articles, and asked me what I thought of them. At this point I surmised I was talking to Klisch, who I’d never met before, and said that I knew lots of people in the stories, including Davenport-Thomas, and that I had always thought very highly of him. “You probably won’t like me then,” Klisch said. I responded that if he’s the guy in the newspaper stories, he’s probably right. His attorney, Meier, showed Defector’s lawyer a photo that Klisch had taken of me at that soccer game, along with a text Klisch sent that day to another NWLL coach saying I’d “confronted” him and told him, “I don’t like you.” Needless to say, Klisch’s text message was shown to Defector’s lawyer in an attempt to paint me as out to get Klisch.[/quote]

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