{"id":2637,"date":"2021-04-19T00:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2021-04-19T00:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:56:45","slug":"what-happened-in-the-ncbl-last-week-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/19\/what-happened-in-the-ncbl-last-week-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened in the NCBL Last Week 4.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was busy last week in the National Capital Baseball League, with happenings taking place across several of the NCBL\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. Facebook Free Agency<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were just 2 Free Agents looking for work on Facebook last week, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A guy who likes playing Scrabble, watching Harry Potter movies, and listening to Enrique Iglesias.<\/li><li>A guy who worked 9 years for the Alberta Association of Architects (he should\u2019ve been a City Planner), has a membership with the American Automobile Association, and will only use electronic devices that take AAA batteries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341-1024x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341-1024x385.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341-850x320.jpg 850w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1341.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"387\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340-1024x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340-1024x387.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340-850x321.jpg 850w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1340.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good luck to both players looking for teams; and regrets to Mich Cruzada Sobremisana who will have to look for a new team elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. Executive Meeting Minutes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late last week, the NCBL uploaded a draft version of the April 11th Executive Meeting Minutes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbl.ca\/ncblminutes.html\">official website<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are a few of I, Shaun Keay\u2019s, takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The meeting lasted exactly 39 minutes.<\/li><li>1 game played now qualifies someone for the playoffs.<\/li><li>No banquet again this year.<\/li><li>The NCBL isn\u2019t collecting fees yet? Then why did Cory make me send him $1000 last week?<\/li><li>No executive order to force the release of the SweatSox 2019 Championship Series Recap.<\/li><li>The next league meeting is April 25. I\u2019ll be there.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ncbl2021execmeetingminutesapr11.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">ncbl2021execmeetingminutesapr11<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3. R.I.P. Ontario Playgrounds<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, the Ontario Government announced they were extending the current stay-at-home order by 2 weeks <em>(until at least May 20th)<\/em>, closed the borders for recreational travel, and shut down every golf course, pickleball court, and baseball diamond in the province.\u00a0 Barring an unprecedented change in policy, this all but certainly means a delay to the start of the 2021 NCBL season, and the postponement of at least the first six SweatSox games that our &#8220;schedule insiders&#8221; say would&#8217;ve looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MockUpSchedule.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MockUpSchedule.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MockUpSchedule.png 601w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MockUpSchedule-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4. The Red Sox Masters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, with less than 48 hours left until the Ontario borders closed, the reigning, defending, undisputed Tier 2 champion Red Sox got together one last time for a round of golf in Gatineau.\u00a0 <em>(<strong>NOTE<\/strong>&#8211; If we\u2019re counting the 2020 Tier 2 bubble, they are neither reigning, defending, nor undisputed champions.\u00a0 Shoutout Blue Jays)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reached out to a few of my Red Sox sources, who told me the final leaderboard looked a little something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RedSoxGolf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RedSoxGolf.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RedSoxGolf.png 372w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RedSoxGolf-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Captain Mike once again led the way with 18 straight birdies to claim the coveted Red Jacket; what isn\u2019t known is why he charged each golfer $300+ for the round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1331-850x638.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun Keay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>DISCLAIMER<\/strong><\/p><p>This website is for entertainment purposes only.<\/p><p>The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious.  No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.<\/p><p>No animals were harmed in the making of this recap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was busy last week in the National Capital Baseball League, with happenings taking place across several of the NCBL\u2019s digital platforms. 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