Governed to the last detail
Fort Worth MSBL runs a 25+ division and a 35+ division under the national MSBL. Its published rules cover eighteen headings — age, fees, waivers, uniforms, baseballs, alcohol, conduct, schedules, infield practice, forfeits, lineups, designated runners, baserunning, substitutions, hit batsmen, fake tags, online statistics, professional players, umpire payments and playoffs — and they are written by somebody who has personally had every one of those arguments.
Everything else is empty. The schedule page has division filters and no games, the roster page nothing, the fields page column headers with no rows. High Cheese takes a league that already knows exactly how it wants to be run and gives it the working half — the fixtures, the table, the rosters the rulebook keeps referring to — at one address it owns.
Ft. Worth MSBL in detail
- Filters for both divisions and every team, and not one game listed.
- A standings link, two divisions, and no table behind it.
- Official at four and a half innings, 12-6 on a forfeit, and a tie is a tie.
- Twelve minimum, eight games to be eligible for the playoffs, and an ID challenge any time.
- The rules name an online statistics page. Nothing renders on it.
- A contact form, a rain-out line, and a protest window of 24 hours.
- A free agent form, a signed waiver, and a president who can assign you to a short club.
- A table headed Name, Address and Map, with nothing in it.
- Two and a half hours, nothing new after ten, and a forfeit scored 12-6 on purpose.
- An Announcements heading and a This Week's Events block, both empty.
- No album or gallery.
- Doc's Gloveworks and D-BAT Benbrook.
- Played to a winner, no matter how many nights it takes.
- No founding year or past champions are published.
- A president, an executive board, a disciplinary committee and a membership coordinator — none named.
- Who can play is answered exhaustively. Where and when are not answered at all.
- A liability waiver carrying an emergency contact, and a rulebook of eighteen headings.
- Weeknights ending at 10:30, rainouts pushed to the end of the season.
- Uniforms are required to a professional standard; nothing is sold.
- Paid per game, refunded on a suspension, and the plate umpire holds the clock.
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