{"id":1222,"date":"2006-09-01T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2006-09-05T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T18:10:05","slug":"player-eligibility-issues-at-asa-a-and-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Player Eligibility Issues at ASA &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;C&#8221;  Nationals ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/asalogo100.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThere is an interesting discussion going on in the  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=3138#3138\">&#8220;A&#8221; National section of the Illionois forum. <\/a><\/strong>, concerning player eligibility issues at the ASA &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals.    According to one poster, teams were told by ASA that players who competed in the ASA Major would not be permitted to play in the ASA &#8220;A&#8221;.  However, word is that one player who competed in the ASA Major &#8212; and made All American, no less, is being permitted to compete in the ASA &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals.   Go figure.    As Illinois\/FPW forum poster Steve66 put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;So I guess Brad Johnson that was an All American at the ASA Major can&#8217;t play in the A Major with Nakomis but will be allowed to play with with Florida Fastpitch in the C National&#8230;that is messed up&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Last year, it was ISC World Tournament Super Pool player Darren Zechman winning the ASA &#8220;C&#8221; Most Valuable Player award.  Two years prior, it was ISC World Tournament player Sonny Perkins winning the ASA &#8220;C&#8221; National MVP.)   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting discussion going on in the &#8220;A&#8221; National section of the Illionois forum. , concerning player eligibility issues at the ASA &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals. According to one poster, teams were told by ASA that players who competed in the ASA Major would not be permitted to play in the ASA &#8220;A&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}