{"id":894,"date":"2014-09-18T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2014-09-18T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:36:18","slug":"the-2015-sweatsox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/the-2015-sweatsox\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 SweatSox"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Webmaster for the award winning, highly popular, and most talked about website in the history of amateur baseball, I\u2019m privy to information unavailable to the ordinary man. Since our season ended, my network of sources has reported that teams all across the NCBL have been wildly speculating about the immediate future of the SweatSox.<\/p>\n

One of the rumours is that the SweatSox are folding. This would imply that the Trepanier Prophecy (he signs, he dominates, he terminates) has struck one of the Ottawa Recreational Baseball League\u2019s original teams, and one of the National Capital Baseball League\u2019s most valuable franchises.<\/p>\n

It has not, we are not<\/strong> folding.<\/p>\n

A more common rumour is that we\u2019re open to expanding our roster by merging with a second team. We\u2019ve heard from extremely reliable sources that the following teams are begging us to let them join: the Nepean Brewers (Tier 1), the Braves and Winchester Sox (Tier 2), the Dukes (Tier 3), and the Orleans Lynx (Tier 4). It seems the vultures are circling just because we lost a few games. It\u2019ll take more than 17 losses to break up the SweatSox.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all* back next year, we are not<\/strong> merging.<\/p>\n

So now that we\u2019ve established the SweatSox are sticking around in its current form, the question now becomes where exactly we\u2019re going to play. As a result of finishing last in Tier 2 this year, by rule of the NCBL Constitution, the SweatSox must drop to Tier 3 next season.<\/p>\n

By-Law 4.14 Teams that finish in last place, in the regular season, in Tiers I, II, and III shall move to Tiers II, III and IV respectively, in the following season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve been busy studying that very same Constitution over the past several weeks to see, should we so choose, if there was some way around it, and came across Bylaw 4.16:<\/p>\n

By-Law 4.16 Notwithstanding By-Laws 4.14 and 4.15, a team may request to remain in or move to a Tier. Permission shall be granted if the teams in each Tier affected by such request agree by majority vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While it is tempting to go back to the tier where we went twenty three and one back in two thousand five, the fact is the last time we missed the playoffs, we won the championship the next year. The way Craig Cornell sees it: we\u2019re the 2015 Tier 2 favourites!<\/p>\n

We are<\/strong> making a pitch to stay in Tier 2. That pitch will be 4 words:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re the motherfucking SweatSox.<\/p>\n

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