On May 16, 2008, D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles personally delivered controversial baseball tickets to then-D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, ending one of the more mind-boggling standoffs between councilmembers and the administration of then-Mayor Adrian Fenty. At least for that year.
At the center of the dispute were 19 tickets in Suite 61 at the taxpayer-funded [...]

Baseball tickets: Remember them?
That insubstantial issue indicative of much larger problems reappeared today when Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray wrote Mayor Adrian M. Fenty a terse letter this afternoon asking, in effect, what's up with this?
"We are at a loss to understand why you and the Nationals have allowed this absurdity to happen again," Gray [...]