New Schedule Announced

Two new teams added to the USC Summer Softball Leagues. All "Byes" have been eliminated and new games scheduled.
By Bob Loblaw, Voice Staff Writer
June 6, 2007

LOS ANGELES, CA. — After an exciting first week of games in the USC Summer Softball league, it appears that everyone wants to get in on the action.

Two new teams have been added to the the USC Summer Softball leagues, one to each sub-division, removing all remaining byes. Representing the USC Office of Admissions in the Summer "A" Division are "The Jewels of Denial," while the Summer "B" Division now has to face the team from CAPS (Career and Protective Services). No news yet as to whether or not CAPS will ever pick an actual name for their team.

With the addition of another team to the Summer "B" Division, the MAPP Marauders' June 25th "Bye" has been eliminated and replaced with a 7:15pm game against CAPS. Also, all of the 6:30pm games have now been moved up to 6:15pm.

As a consequence of the removal of the "Byes" all teams that did not play on Monday, June 4th were awarded an automatic win to make up for the missing game on their schedule. This set off the hot-tempered Marauders manager, Neil Teixeira, who wrote to protest the decision.

According to sources at USC Recreational Sports, Teixeira wrote an e-mail to Summer Softball coordinator Michael Dominguez stating, "If no one else has a BYE anymore, then why would we ever give a WIN to a team who didn’t play a game? Maybe we just calculate win percentage instead, since the newcomer teams can’t make up their missed game either!"

Teixeira continued, "I know that there are no playoffs and whoever wants to enter the tournament gets to play, but this entire "W", "L" and forfeit system is screwed up. Give a win to a team that didn’t play a game and then, in our case, not have the Rec. Sports game manager enforce the forfeit rule?"

Seeming eager to avoid a suspension, the Marauder's skipper let up a little saying, "I know that you all have the job to make this fun for everyone, and that’s what it should be about, so I’m not going to pursue this any further if we have no case. However, if you do receive complaints from other teams about the WIN for a BYE, I think that should be re-examined."

Mr. Dominguez was not available for comment on the issue of the "Win" for a "Bye" at press time.