BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
1 January 2303
CBO Year VIII Begins
We're still more than a month away from the first pitch tournament pitch of the season, but the 8th iteration of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization will begin.
Here are a few tidbits to know as we enter the first day of the 2303 year (and my inevitable first hangover of the year).
The biggest news is that the CBO will expand its schedule from 108 games to 120 games. This involves all teams now facing off. Teams from the North Charles Association will play each of the teams from the South Charles Association in a home-away combination to begin the season. As Commissioner Nate Howard, this is the beginning of interassociation play in the CBO. In the 2303 season, The Brotherhood League will visit the Minutemen League and then host the Railroad League. The Institute League will visit the Railroad League and then host the Minutemen League.
A number of constructions are underway throughout the Commonwealth with continued work on the Glowing Sea Dome near Vault 95, the Cambridge construction near C.I.T. Ruins displacing a BMU team, the downtown construction near Goodneighbor in what is currently Postal Square, and the expansion of the stadium in Nahant.
Additionally, clearing has nearly ended and construction on working underground rails have begun. Serious work has begun on stations in College Square, Revere Beach, Fens Way, Quincy, Park Street Station, Andrew Station, and West Roxbury Station.
There has been one location change as the former C.I.T. Ruins Refractors of the BMU had to leave because of stadium construction on the C.I.T. grounds. Thus, the Refractors have taken over the Cambridge Eyebots name for the 2303 season and have moved into Cambridge Polymer Field. The former Eyebots of the GRBL have taken on the Refractors name, but they relocated to the Lexington Synths' practice field for the 2303 season. The Refractors will find a more permanent home later.
In addition, Commissioner Nate Howard has changed up nearly all affiliations in the BMU to give variety to location and broader followings around the baseball players of the Commonwealth. The affiliations are listed below:
Brotherhood League
County Crossing - Eastlake
Easy Town - Corvega
Finch Farm - Nahant (no change)
Nordhagen Beach - Cabot House
Salem - Fiddler's Green
The Slog - Boston Common
Institute League
Abernathy - Bunker Hill
Concord - College Square (no change)
Fort Hagen - Forest Grove
Lexington - Vault 95
Starlight - Haymarket Mall
Sunshine Tidings - Breakheart Banks
Minutemen League
Atom - Greentop Nursery
Goodneighbor - Cambridge (was CIT Ruins)
Jamaica Plain - Somerville Place
Quincy - Malden
University Point - Graygarden
Warwick - Charles View (no change)
Railroad League
Diamond City - Natick Banks (no change)
Egret - Trinity Plaza
FHE - Mystic Pines
Oberland - Union Hope
Roxbury - Taffington Boathouse
Vault 81 - Everett