Just my two cents. I'm sure it will be roughly criticized. There's more than one way to skin a cat, so I'll throw out some terrible ideas.

1. Split E up into upper and lower divisions

God knows there are enough teams to do this. Have the upper teams play national rules to help them prep for Worlds since they don't wanna move up.

2. Make a team in E and Rec that trophies, play at least two tournaments up a division.

I know Andy has moved up three Rec teams and hopefully a fourth after Minions blew through the Rec division the last time they played. All those teams are playing around a .500 record since moving up and probably won't trophy when teams like Unreal, G&J, and Maxed Out get to stay in E and beat each other up to see who's gonna win.

3. Break out the Rec- division.

Oh yeah! We could perpetuate the problem and open up the even lower division. Things that could be done to prevent teams from playing down in this division would be to not award them any prize, bump any team that wins permantely to Rec+, and publicly humiliate after ejecting any jerk that would play that low that could hit the ball out.

4. STFU and let Andy do his thang.

Everyone knows how competitive it is out there. If you don't like losing, go to your mama's house and see if she'll let you win at some checkers. Unless you play for Resmondo maybe, you're not getting paid to be out there. Most of us drop 20-30 bucks for these things. Be competitive and have some fun.

Bottom line- There are enough teams between E and Rec that a third class could be made somewhere but I'm too irrelevant for my opinion to matter. I just enjoy the F outta this game and am thankful everyday I get to put a glove on and play some ball. I would however like for the National rules to change their HR rule. That just seems like some communist BS that people all the way up to D can't hit a HR. It seems like that rule was made to keep teams from playing down, but all it has done is teach guys to choke up and take half swings. We are some grown ass men, let us get out there and drop some f'n bombs.

John Downard #9 Assassins C,OF,EH
I hit .850 with pop to all fields and played college ball at every position.

PS - Scottie, if you're the SS for Fusion. I seriously hate you bro. I led off with a late inning double and the guy hitting behind me goes backside 9 times out of 10, but not this time. Instead he hit a ground ball right to you and got me tagged out. I'm pretty sure if my coach had a knife, he would've shanked me at some point for getting too far off. Rick is crazy. I heard the only reason he's not in prison is because they can't find the bodies.