Thirteen and a half games from top to bottom
BABL 20+: G.B. Millers 13-0-1 at .964, Berkshire Thunder 10-3-1 three back, Housatonic River Monsters 8-6 at five and a half, Pittsfield Patriots 6-8, Greylock Mountaineers 4-10, Berkshire Bandits 0-14 and thirteen and a half games out.
One club unbeaten but for a tie, another without a win in fourteen. In a six-team league where everybody plays everybody several times, that is a full season already decided by August and a Bandits roster turning up anyway.
The 33 League is listed and has no standings published at all.
Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves, so a second division does not go unrecorded because somebody was only keeping one table.
Berkshire Adult Baseball League in detail
- Founded 2011 for Berkshire County residents, in a 20-and-over league and a 33-and-over one.
- Fourteen games played in the 20 League, and no fixture list published.
- No results page, and a 13-0-1 record that raises a question the standings cannot answer.
- Twelve clubs named across two leagues, and no players published.
- No batting or pitching numbers are published.
- Two direct numbers: Jared Martin on 413-446-3071, Lou Orazio on 413-663-0741.
- $1,000 a team, $500 at the first meeting, the balance by April 1.
- No ballparks are named, though the club names give the towns away.
- Wood bats, seven innings, bat the whole roster, and eight men is enough.
- No news or announcements are published.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- No postseason is described, in a league with an unbeaten club.
- Established 2011, with a founding purpose written down.
- A president, a COO and a board of six, all with phone numbers published.
- Four of five answered, which almost nothing here manages.
- A sportsmanship code with suspensions and ejections behind it.
- One date is published and it is a money deadline: April 1.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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