The Commish Puts Nelson Motors to a Vote from the League

The Commissioner has decided to put the fate of Nelson Motors in your hands allowing a league vote as to whether NM should be out of the league or allowed to stay. Nelson Motors forfeited five games this season, I believe the league rules allow three. Honestly, this is much a do about softball but alas, this was an entertaining part of my morning.

I thought about including the e-mail and just changing the names of those on the list, but with all of the disclosures attached to e-mails these days (and since we McWhalers try to maintain a certain level of comity), I decided it best to just give you an idea of what was communicated via e-mail as a professional courtesy to those involved.

The Set-Up

Motley Crue was supposed to play Nelson Motors tonight but with a total of five forfeits (an expulsionary league violation) Motors was out (they were just unaware; evidently Motors missed the meeting about being kicked out of the league for excessive forfeits) and the Crue's contact responded with the proverbial cat out of the bag e-mail informing them (Motors) the Crue was playing their make-up game against us tonight per the Commissioner.

The Juice

Now here is where it gets good: Motors responds back to the Crue with a bit of attitude using the old "Oh we will see about that!" firing off the next e-mail to the Commish, "So since we forfeited 5 of our games so we are out of the league. We paid our money so we cannot play our last game and so you told Motley Rice to schedule a make up game??" (Syntax aside, I think I would have been a little less "in-your-face" in my e-mail to the Commissioner because he responded with the following: "Of course, you are kidding. The biggest firm in the Southeast no-shows for a season and now wants to play?! I am happy to put it to a vote of the league, but I don't like your chances." As well as attaching all of the e-mail correspondence between the three parties below his comments. Finally, some excitement in the morning. By all means, leave your opinion-thumbs up or down in the comments section.