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PGF is a business that started off by offering what they felt was a superior product to the one they had been buying for many years. Their business model is to provide a product that many teams want, rather than what an arrogant and unresponsive NGB deemed it would provide. The market determines whether their business is successful or not. Criticizing them for being successful is un-American - at least it used to be.No. A restaurant is a business, it can't be mistaken for much else. What does P.G.F. stand for? Premier Girls Fastpitch or sommat like that? It sounds nice. It sounds like good intentions. Seriously.
Honestly I'm ok with someone starting something like the P.G.F. and running it like a business, how about a little honesty though? How about a name like P.A.Y.D.A.Y.? I'm not sure how to make that sound like an organization that is supposed to be about advancing youth sports, but at least no one can confuse it for anything other than what it is, right? What about M.E.A.L.T.I.C.K.E.T.? Unfortunately you'll have to use your imagination and fill in the blanks with this one too, but I hope one of you entrepreneurs reading this takes one or both of them and runs with it.
Do you have similar complaints about the 'honesty' of all the for-profit leagues whose names "sound like good intentions" (e.g. NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc)? Name for-profit businesses - any industry - whose name is in a vein similar to what you suggest. Seriously.
Perhaps you should dedicate yourself to providing a non-profit alternative to PGF. The Pollyanna Fantasy League sounds appropriate.