Southwest Ohio MABL

About Southwest Ohio MABL

SOUTHWESTOHIOBASEBAL — the L fell off the end and never came back.

Twenty characters exactly

The account parameter reads SOUTHWESTOHIOBASEBAL. Southwest Ohio Baseball, minus the final L, because the field allowed twenty characters and the name needed twenty-one.

Nobody noticed, because nobody was supposed to look. It is a machine identifier that happened to become the last legible thing about a league.

The page it points at returns a HomeTeamsONLINE error -- connection failed, reference number, an offer of assistance in determining the issue -- and so does every other league on that platform, including the Cincinnati league forty miles down the road.

A High Cheese league page gives Southwest Ohio MABL its whole name, its own address and its schedule, standings and rosters rendered as pages. Twenty-one characters, all of them, at a URL the league controls rather than a truncated string inside somebody else's database call.

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