Two weekends left, four teams in it
The league's own update: the regular season is barrelling to a close with two weekends left, the playoff divisions close to set but the seedings still moving, the Angels dethroned for the first time in years and still in the race, and two games between the first and fourth seeds with three to play. It closes by saying that if this level of play continues into the playoffs, 2026 will be a season to remember.
Writing that before you know how it ends is what makes it worth reading.
A league on High Cheese gets a wire of its own where finals post themselves as books are finalized, so the person writing this keeps writing the parts that need a person.
Central Coast MSBL/MABL in detail
- Seven clubs on California's central coast, and the year the Angels finally got dethroned.
- A League Schedule section, with two weekends of regular season left in August.
- Primos and Angels tied at 8-2, and a Hogs side at 0-10 that keeps turning up.
- No results page, and run totals that tell most of the story anyway.
- Seven clubs, closed rosters, and managers who recruit for themselves.
- Five awards per club, chosen by the club: Slugger, Ace, Ironman, MVP and Gold Glove.
- The player interest form is the published route in.
- Rosters are closed for 2026, and the interest form is being collected for 2027.
- No ballparks are named.
- A 2026 rulebook, published and dated.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Playoff divisions nearly set, seedings still moving with three games left.
- The Angels sat on top for years, and 2026 is the year that ended.
- Nobody is named as running it.
- Whether you can join this year is answered outright, and the answer is no.
- The 2026 rulebook and the player interest form.
- August, two weekends from the end of the regular season.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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