I'm now hearing that the OBA is attempting to bring ECPL teams into the OBA fold.
Apparently, the OBA is travelling around to their affilate's monthly meetings, with a presentation that shows the OBA "vision" for a new OBA, which will include the OBA on top (where else), with PBLO and ECPL teams all under the same OBA umbrella.
I apologise for using "vision" and OBA in the same sentence...I can imagine it is confusing.
Rumor has it that OBA has approached some ECPL teams to "suggest" that they leave the ECPL and play only in an OBA "Recognized Alternate Baseball Program", which would no doubt make a former ECPL team eligible for all sorts of OBA goodies...like National team tryouts, OBA Eliminations etc etc.
So maybe this new olive branch added to the threat of player and coach suspensions looming (once they actually submit an amendment on time for next years AGM) will get the OBA what they truly want in Ontario....
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