Ryukyu Golden Kings' 2011-12 championship memorabilia are now proudly displayed throughout Okinawa, what with the team dethroning the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix in Sunday's title game. At the same time, the long summer of discontent has already arrived.

And it's not even June 1 yet.

There are growing voices of disgust over the appearance, dissenters argue, that there isn't a level playing field. Or how, it appears, the league has enabled teams to get around normal procedures to pick up players.