It was busy last week in the National Capital Baseball League, with happenings taking place across several of the NCBL’s digital platforms. Fortunately for you, only one person has the testicular fortitude to go through everything, filter out the nonsense, and break it all down in one convenient location; that person is I, Shaun Keay, and that location is right here.
1. Facebook Free Agency
There was a record high 5 Free Agents looking for work on Facebook last week, including:
- A guy who started his career playing for our Bete Noire: the Outaouais Tribu
- A guy who played most of his career on a team who couldn’t keep track of their sponsored banner
- A guy who went to Alcoholics Anonymous in high school
- A male 40 year old who is hoping his 7th post is the one that finally gets him signed
- A guy who has mastered every infield and outfield position in only 5 years
SweatTip: Cam Taylor, don’t let your new team ever call you Tiger, or Lion.
Good luck to all 5 players looking for teams.
2. A Special Message from Josh Ramage
Last Thursday, the Hero of Hydration turned the big 3-4. Our little firestarter received somewhere between 68 and 70 birthday wishes on his special day, including some very thoughtful messages from retired NCBL’ers Mark Dorrington, Denver Hunt, and Jean Lazure, not to mention a lovely poem from SweatSox Manager Cory Bond:
Josh was so touched by everyone who reached out, he asked that I pass along his own personal message of gratitude:
You’re welcome Mr. Winchester.
3. Team Korea Opts Out
Also last Thursday, Team Korea announced via Twitter that they had opted-out of the 2021 NCBL season. Sources say they made it official to the Commissioner a short while ago, but only got around to Tweeting it now.
Team Korea will return in 2022, where they hope to finally be able to play their franchise’s 1st ever official game since being accepted into the league way back in March 2020.
4. R.I.P. Prince Philip
On Friday, Her Majesty The Queen announced the passing of Prince Philip, the Daisy Duke of Edinburgh. Nobody on the SweatSox was more upset that there was one less Prince in the world than Craig Cornell, a noted fan of the Royal Family (and monarchies in general).
To cheer Craig up, and to restore balance to the universe, I, Shaun Keay, the Tier 3 Representative on the NCBL’s Social Media Committee, hereby dubbed thee:
Prince Cornell XVII, Count of the NCBL
He’s basically #2 in the Line of Succession for the NCBL Commissioner’s throne anyways.
5. NCBL Executive Meeting
Finally, I’ve learned that there was an emergency NCBL Executive Meeting early Sunday Morning. Prince Cornell and Secretary Bond aren’t talking, so I’ll need a bit of time before I can properly leak the full details to everyone (my guess is about as much time as the SweatSox 2019 Championship recap is taking). I can confirm the following though:
- Most of us live in Ottawa Canada
- Nick = Ottawa Canada
- We live in Nick
- Mark Keeping has been fined an undisclosed amount for missing this mandatory meeting
- The saying “Clear as Mudd” should really be “Clear as Giants” now (x5)
- If the SweatSox tweet a boxscore, but nobody is following to read it, did it ever really happen?
Yours,
Shaun Keay
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