{"id":15555,"date":"2011-11-21T00:11:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15555"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:03:19","slug":"new-zealand-black-sox-sacking-likely-over-law-flouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15555","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Black Sox sacking likely over law flouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15557\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Black-Sox-sacking-likely-over-law-flouting\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/233491\/Default.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15557\" title=\"3news\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/3news.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Jim Kayes<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three Black Sox, including vice captain Brad Rona, face the sack when they meet with coach Eddie Kohlhase in Auckland tonight after they ignored a directive not to play baseball.<\/p>\n<p>The likely decision to drop the experienced Rona, along with his son Pita and Ben Enoka, will send shock waves through the sport but Black Sox officials say they have little choice.<\/p>\n<p>Rona has been a Black Sox pitcher for 11 years. He has only ever played for the love of the game but in baseball he sees a way for his talented son Pita to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know financially you can be sorted. I\u2019ve obviously played this game for many years and it&#8217;s not quite as good as baseball.\u201d<br \/>\nGood financially with interest from American major league ball clubs growing. Te Wera Bishop signed a seven year deal with the Red Sox early this year and the New York Yankees have also visited.<br \/>\nRona sees a potentially lucrative career for his fellow Black Sox son Pita in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get to qualify in that classic the scouts are going to come in waves.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Black-Sox-sacking-likely-over-law-flouting\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/233491\/Default.aspx#ixzz1eKE8kU5a\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Kayes Three Black Sox, including vice captain Brad Rona, face the sack when they meet with coach Eddie Kohlhase in Auckland tonight after they ignored a directive not to play baseball. The likely decision to drop the experienced Rona, along with his son Pita and Ben Enoka, will send shock waves through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-oceania","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44583,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions\/44583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}