We played a game tonight against a team which had misplaced themselves into our D league. They were moved up during the season, and so spotted us 4 runs and brought their new league's rules down to our game. However, nobody informed us ahead of time--so the other team brought legal C league bats and got a free homerun for an over-the-fence hit.

What I don't get is why--if they are bumped up a league--do they remain in our brackets and, essentially, penalize us because they underestimated their own talent at the beginning of the season? We joined a league to play...not, necessarily, to win, but to play good games against equally good...or bad...teams.

Our team doesn't want 4 "free" runs. That's demeaning. We want to play in a fair league.

It seems that the rule to have better teams who have moved up a league mid-season bring the better league's rules down...or to make us play "up" to their skills and rules is unfair.

The teams which misplace their own skill level should be charged a fee and moved up into another league. Our team came within 2 runs of beating them (or 6 if you subtract the 4 gimmes), but staying on the field through their hitting sprees wasn't worth the 4 points we got.

It is simply frustrating.