Earn it on the field...what a concept.
Or you can just challenge the other team to play you in the middle of the season and then act like babies when they don't immediately agree.
Oh, and my son and his friends just challenged the New York Yankees to a baseball game tomorrow night. Let me know when the Steinbrenner's allow it.
The challenge was at the behest of fans. It played out in social media. Basically a publicity stunt from my perspective. But if the Roughnecks can play the University of Tulsa, I'm sure they can fit the Athletics into their schedule at some point. The "little guy" has to have a chip on his shoulders, or he fades away.
More akin to the Tulsa Drillers challenging the OKC Dodgers (really, changed their name to the Dodgers?), than High School challenging the Yankees. The Roughnecks are one division higher than the Athletics (NPSL to USL). I know your boy is a good athlete, but I'm not sure he's at AAA level just yet. By my count, he's 7 levels of play from there. So, when the Rouchnecks are challenging Barcelona, let me know (NPSL, USL, NASL, MLS, US National Team, Various other pro-leagues I don't want to debate [English, Spanish, Italian, German), Champions League caliber teams... figure that's about 7 steps).
(I know you were saying that in jest, just felt like looking into the leagues)