San Diego, California
The Ledger
1 August 2026
CPO results land in August and pinning follows in September, which gives a command a matter of weeks to get gear designed, printed and shipped without anyone fronting money.
Ministry merch usually costs a church more volunteer hours than it returns, and Kingdom Come is what it looks like when the work is handed off instead.
Families are most willing to buy in the week they register, which is usually months before a league gets its store open, and the gap is the whole problem.
Fall ball registration always produces one volunteer running a merch operation out of her garage. A real team store removes the job instead of reassigning it.
