The Early Report on the PBL

This is part of an article I am working on for Our Sports Central, and of course I hit writer's block so I am tossing it out here. For some reason things look better when I re-write things on the blog than on boring MS Word.

The PBL is in the third week of its season and to myself and many observers, this league is going to stay around for awhile.

Joe Newman may accuse me of being a "PBL Stooge", but that is not the case and not why I am complimentary towards them. Look at this one, in the first week of the season, the average margin of victory was seven points. Seven freaking points over a weekend of games? How is that for parody?

Stats are updated daily; transactions are put on the website when they actually happen; standings are updated and oh yeah, they have a national TV deal. Take that Joe Newman.

Teams are required to submit their game stories to the wonderkid who does everything, Adam Dantus. If they don't submit the wrapups within a couple of hours they get fined. A player is signed and Adam doesn't know about it at least 24 hours before the team's next scheduled game, they get fined. Heck, CEO Doyle has "mystery fans" at each game to ensure teams are doing things in a professional manner. Newman, you should have listened to Tom and Dr. Sev.

So far, the league gets an "A". It would be an "A+" if not for the fact that many of the teams don't have the ability to do live stats on game days.

The league is solid, all the games have been played and man alive, the Heaves ended Rochester's 48 game home winning streak. Watch out, this league is going to be fun this season.