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Post by mackem on Jul 17, 2017 15:51:14 GMT 10
Do we have a Baseball Victoria office?
The information about the up coming season is so overwhelming.
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Post by Buddha on Jul 17, 2017 19:52:15 GMT 10
what do u want to know ?
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Post by doubleplay on Jul 18, 2017 11:04:21 GMT 10
Realizing that it is the "off season for BV office". An occaisional update from the Admin Dept or even a snippet of Media wouldn't go astray. It sounds to me that staff are leaving their underpaid jobs and looking elsewhere for better employment. This will explain why there is no news. Then again, it isn't that hard to set out who is playing in what Divisions. At least that would be a start.
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Post by player on Jul 18, 2017 20:27:07 GMT 10
What do people want to know about the operations of the state governing body?
Wow, difficult to know where to start, but let's try.
What is the status of the independent inquiry into the operations of Baseball Victoria? When can we expect a report? How will the report be acted on (assuming that it is made public)?
Has BV advertised for a new CEO? If not, when can we expect that to happen? Will the job be advertised widely, and properly?
What if anything is BV doing about filling all of the other positions that have been vacated in the past year or two?
Summer League is only 10 weeks away. What do we know about likely numbers of teams at the various levels? Are there any new clubs? Any increase or decrease in team numbers? What about structure of the senior competition? Clubs need to be able to plan ahead for the season, surely.
What is the media and communications person doing during the off-season to earn whatever money he is being paid? Surely an occasional administrative notice or an article pinched from another source (such a club) is not enough.
Baseball Victoria now has responsibility for Melbourne Aces.
What is happening out at Altona? Are there any developments? Facilities, coaches, managers, prospective players?
What sponsorship have the Aces secured for the 2017/18 season?
Are there any plans to play games outside of Altona (EG at Latrobe, in Geelong or in Ballarat)?
What is likely to be the structure of the new ABL season? More games? Less games?
What about this rumour of a new team being entered in the ABL? And do we know for sure that the Aces will be playing?
What do people want to KNOW? Well, the above questions are maybe a reasonable starting point. The absolute bare minimum, I would have thought.
The current total lack of enthusiasm about Summer League and the ABL is a sad reflection on administration of the sport. It should not be up to individuals (such as "Buddha" on this pretty much defunct forum) to be carrying the can for a clearly dysfunctional state governing body. Where is the BV Board, the President, the acting CEO (and Aces General Manager), the marketing manager in all of this? Who is actually accountable, and for what, at the Baseball Victoria office?
What do people want to know? Are you serious? Paid-up stakeholders who own the sport should never have to be begging for snippets and scraps of information, especially when they are among those with so much already invested in baseball in one way or another.
The silence is deafening.
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Post by mackem on Jul 18, 2017 20:27:20 GMT 10
As we haven't had a P & S meeting in a long while I would like to know when we will be getting drafts of the draws and what clubs are in which division.
There was a rumour that there was only going to be 2 divisions.
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Post by Buddha on Jul 19, 2017 9:18:22 GMT 10
What do people want to know about the operations of the state governing body?
Wow, difficult to know where to start, but let's try.
What is the status of the independent inquiry into the operations of Baseball Victoria? When can we expect a report? How will the report be acted on (assuming that it is made public)?
<Buddha> Independent Inquiry is still progressing. Once we have information in regards to the reports etc, I am sure it will be released to the general public
Has BV advertised for a new CEO? If not, when can we expect that to happen? Will the job be advertised widely, and properly?
<Buddha> Not yet, once again it will come down to the independent review and then they will advertised
What if anything is BV doing about filling all of the other positions that have been vacated in the past year or two?
<Buddha> Tom Dicker’s role has been advertised and there is a short list of candidates for this role for interview. A couple of weeks away I would hazard a guess
Summer League is only 10 weeks away. What do we know about likely numbers of teams at the various levels? Are there any new clubs? Any increase or decrease in team numbers? What about structure of the senior competition? Clubs need to be able to plan ahead for the season, surely.
<Buddha> Division 1 is the same as last year, with Preston and Springvale being demoted, and Upwey and Sunshine being promoted. Mulgrave moves up to Div 2 and makes a 11 team comp. Div 3 will comprise of 8 teams (7 Clubs)
What is the media and communications person doing during the off-season to earn whatever money he is being paid? Surely an occasional administrative notice or an article pinched from another source (such a club) is not enough.
<Buddha> We still have responsibilities over the winter months, including all updates to IMG. All State Winter Championships need to be done, and the media / communications person is working on all of the as well as Melbourne Aces stuff for the coming year as well and working with clubs for announcements etc. you may think that nothing is coming out, however there is a lot behind the scenes that you just don’t see.
Baseball Victoria now has responsibility for Melbourne Aces.
What is happening out at Altona? Are there any developments? Facilities, coaches, managers, prospective players?
<Buddha> At the moment we are waiting on announcements from the ABL in regards to the coming season. But trust me it is exciting
What sponsorship have the Aces secured for the 2017/18 season?
<Buddha> I don’t know
Are there any plans to play games outside of Altona (EG at Latrobe, in Geelong or in Ballarat)?
<Buddha> I don’t know
What is likely to be the structure of the new ABL season? More games? Less games?
<Buddha> We are waiting on an announcement. This should be within the next week
What about this rumour of a new team being entered in the ABL? And do we know for sure that the Aces will be playing?
<Buddha> We are waiting on an announcement. This should be within the next week
What do people want to KNOW? Well, the above questions are maybe a reasonable starting point. The absolute bare minimum, I would have thought.
The current total lack of enthusiasm about Summer League and the ABL is a sad reflection on administration of the sport. It should not be up to individuals (such as "Buddha" on this pretty much defunct forum) to be carrying the can for a clearly dysfunctional state governing body. Where is the BV Board, the President, the acting CEO (and Aces General Manager), the marketing manager in all of this? Who is actually accountable, and for what, at the Baseball Victoria office?
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Post by player on Jul 19, 2017 10:16:24 GMT 10
Thank you for your candid and prompt responses.
This is the sort of information that people in the baseball community expect and deserve to get as a matter of reasonable organisation/stakeholder communication.
They should not have to be coming onto forums such as this to find out, though, and they should certainly not be attacked for having the temerity to ask relevant and vital questions of employed staff.
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Post by leftfield on Jul 19, 2017 16:03:10 GMT 10
Back in early April clubs were asked for their feedback on 1. The format of the Div 1 and 2 final series and 2. Any rule adjustments that clubs would like looked at. It seems more than enough time has passed for the responses to be looked at and at the very least, clubs would have been asked to vote on possible changes. Maybe at the next P+S meeting? When was the last P+S that was not an AGM?
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Post by krystalclear on Aug 1, 2017 19:03:25 GMT 10
Why are the standings/results from last season no longer available on the website? Can you point me in the right direction if they indeed are still online.
No D2 club going to be relegated? Again? Reason please.....
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Post by doubleplay on Aug 2, 2017 11:03:55 GMT 10
Can anyone tell me what the make up of Div 3 is this coming season?
8 weeks out and still a secret.
Is the BVSL actually doing anything at the moment, still very little info coming forth.
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Post by Buddha on Aug 3, 2017 17:52:01 GMT 10
Div 3 went out to the clubs last week. 8 teams, 7 clubs.
18 round draw
and yes we are doing stuff
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