Bakersfield Adult Baseball League

About the Bakersfield Adult Baseball League

The league's entire address is a Facebook page, and Facebook will not serve it.

Rented from a company that will not answer

Bakersfield Adult Baseball has no website. The only address anyone holds for it is a Facebook page, and Facebook returns HTTP 400 -- a bad request -- to anything that is not a browser with a session cookie.

That means the league is invisible to search in the ordinary sense. It is not indexed as a league, it cannot be linked to as a record, and a man in Kern County looking for adult baseball finds it only if the algorithm happens to decide he should.

There are hundreds of leagues in this position and it is not carelessness. A Facebook page is free, immediate, and where the players already are. The cost is that the league does not own its own front door, its posts age out in a week, and none of it can be read by anyone standing outside.

A High Cheese league page is the thing the Facebook page cannot be: a permanent address the league controls, with the schedule, the standings and every roster rendered as pages that a search engine, a stranger and a returning player can all reach. The feed can carry on doing what feeds do.

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