The point of playing is competition. It makes no sense to have a team in any league which is either so much better or so much worse than the other teams that their games are not competitive. That's why we have all the divisions we use - age divisions, major/minor divisions, 3A, 4a school divisions, etc. We've all seen hideously mismatched teams play - there's little benefit to anyone in those games. Somebody screwed up to allow the mismatch to be as bad as it was in that rec league. Telling the team to find a different league or venue to play in was doing them a favor.