{"id":2356,"date":"2020-02-19T23:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2020-02-20T00:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:30:37","slug":"a-secondhand-account-of-the-2020-ncbl-winter-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/a-secondhand-account-of-the-2020-ncbl-winter-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Secondhand Account of the 2020 NCBL Winter Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HALL F<\/strong>– This past Sunday, the NCBL Winter Meeting took place balls deep inside the Nepean Sportsplex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I, Shaun Keay, the Tier 3 Representative on the NCBL\u2019s Social Media Committee, was not there; but thanks to some well-placed sources, I\u2019m once again able to provide what is surely to be a perfectly accurate report of the meeting\u2019s happenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STRAGGLERS<\/strong>: The Winter Meeting was originally scheduled to start at 10:30am but wasn\u2019t called to order until 10:32, giving some extra time for the stragglers to make their way in.  This delay wasn\u2019t long enough for notorious straggler Joe Beelen, who many minutes later strutted into the room like he was Vince McMahon making his way to the ring to strip Steve Austin of the title.  Straggler Joe is really milking his 2019 Fall Ball Championship victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FERDA<\/strong>: The first order of business was deciding the fate of the Ferda Baseball Club, who joined the NCBL last year on a probationary basis (as all new teams do) and needed to be confirmed to full status members by a vote of all teams.  No team in history has ever been denied \u201cfull\u201d status, and Ferda didn\u2019t have any former Knights or a Scolli on their team, so their application was granted.  Long live Ferda!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As full-fledged members of the NCBL for only a few moments, Ferda took the new power they had and used it to summon the Grim Reaper, and then set him loose against themselves. Just like that, Ferda was dead. R.I.P. Ferda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, opponents weren\u2019t taking the Ferda name or team seriously, so management opted for a rebrand, something a little more intimidating: The Rideau Valley Reapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some big changes coming for this szn. #ferda4ever<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/YorUrcTzG2<\/a><\/p>— Rideau Valley Reapers (@ReapersNCBL) January 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>