Ten seasons, and the champion of every one
The MVAA Recreational Baseball League was founded in 2016 and describes itself simply: it has been bringing players together for years of competitive and fun recreational baseball, and is committed to providing a great experience for players of all skill levels.
What it has done properly is keep a champion for every year it has existed. What it cannot do is show anything else — the standings, schedule, teams and statistics pages all deliver the same word to a plain reader: Loading. A decade of Mahoning Valley baseball is sitting behind a script. High Cheese publishes a league's schedule, table and rosters as plain text on an address it owns, which is the difference between a season that happened and a season anybody can find.
Mahoning Valley AA Baseball in detail
- A Games This Week block on the front page, permanently loading.
- A table headed team, wins, losses, percentage and games behind — and one row reading Loading.
- No results are published.
- Cardinals, Buckeyes, Metro Ice, Prospects and Rays — named only as winners.
- A Stats page in the main navigation, delivering nothing.
- A commissioner referred to, and no name, address or number published.
- A three-field form, and the commissioner gets in touch.
- No ballparks are named.
- No rulebook is published.
- An Announcements panel that loads forever.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- A champion every year; no bracket or format published.
- Cardinals, then five Buckeyes titles in six years, then the Prospects and the Rays.
- A commissioner exists; nobody is named.
- One of five answered: how to put your name forward.
- No forms, waiver or rulebook are published.
- No dates are published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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