You've heard the adage "If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around does it make a sound", right? I have an updated version - "If a team appears on a schedule, do they actually exist?"
Our rec league softball team has had an odd season so far. We've have three rain-outs, a schedule malfunction, and a team that no-showed us twice. On Saturday all the girls were there, we took the field and started our warm ups. At 1:00, there was still no one for us to play. Assuming it was another scheduling screw-up, I told the girls we'd just have an intra-squad scrimmage until the other team arrived. 10 minutes later our league commissioner came and told me the team we were scheduled to play.....wait for it.....does not exist. They don't exist. Just to make sure you've got it, they don't exist. The commissioner for this other league apparently thought they would have a team in this age division, but the team was never assembled. Yet somehow this non-existent team had 15 games scheduled for themselves.
On a bright note, our rec league team is undefeated - 3 no-show forfeits and an actual win.....
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