{"id":1796,"date":"2016-12-30T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2016-12-30T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:57:27","slug":"the-decision-2017-where-will-we-play-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/the-decision-2017-where-will-we-play-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Decision: 2017\u201d \u2013 Where Will We Play Next Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Day 6 of the SweatSox 14 Days of SweatMas SweatSite Extravaganza.\u00a0 If this is your 6th straight day visiting this site, don\u2019t you have anything better to do? \u00a0These are terrible!!<\/p>\n<p>Ever since we clinched the worst record in Tier 1 way back in May, the NCBL has been buzzing about which Tier we\u2019d be committing our errors in next season.\u00a0 While the decision was hardly unanimous, the spineless\u00a0small-balled vocal minority came away with the win in this team vote.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going back to Tier 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016hairmiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016hairmiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016hairmiss.jpg 585w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016hairmiss-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 4px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Final Decision: 2017 Notes\/Thoughts<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This decision is of course unofficial and subject to change until the 2017 NCBL Spring Meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest factor in this decision was the possibility of losing Kent Johnston to a lower tier; not for the hole he\u2019d leave in our middle outfield, but because he transports the gear to all our games.<\/li>\n<li>Craig Cornell could still make a pitch to the league this offseason, to go to directly to Tier 3.<\/li>\n<li>Since we only play in the Brewer Tournament when we\u2019re not in Tier 1, look for us at #BrewTourn17 this summer.<\/li>\n<li>Jason Klein will have to wait at least another season for his first trip to Winchester (since they\u2019re going to Tier 1), where he fully believes he\u2019d be playing on the field below.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically the same, except the outfield fence in RF is a bit taller:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#DECISION2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Missed any of the SweatSox 14 Days of SweatMas SweatSite Extravaganza posts so far?\u00a0 Here they are, in all their glory:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/25\/great-upheaval-day-sweatsox-vs-cubs-iii-recap\/\">Day 1: \u201cGreat Upheaval Day\u201d \u2013 SweatSox vs Cubs III Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/26\/marc-van-wilder-sweatsox-vs-brewers-iii-recap\/\">Day 2: \u201cMarc Van Wilder\u201d \u2013 SweatSox vs Brewers III Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/27\/i-need-to-learn-how-to-receive-it-sweatsox-vs-athletics-iii-recap\/\">Day 3: \u201cI Need to Learn How to Receive It\u201d \u2013 SweatSox vs Athletics III Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/kent-loves-children-now-sweatsox-vs-kingston-ponies-iii-recap\/\">Day 4: \u201cKent Loves Children Now\u201d \u2013 SweatSox vs Kingston Ponies III Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/29\/seventeen-runs-sweatsox-vs-panthers-iii-recap\/\">Day 5: \u201cSeventeen Runs\u201d \u2013 SweatSox vs Panthers III Recap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Day 6 of the SweatSox 14 Days of SweatMas SweatSite Extravaganza.\u00a0 If this is your 6th straight day visiting this site, don\u2019t you have anything better to do? \u00a0These are terrible!! Ever since we clinched the worst record in Tier 1 way back in May, the NCBL has been buzzing about which Tier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncbl","category-schedule"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8088.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41pWP-sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}