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The Cape League on Facebook

Posted by Andrew | Filed Under News | 

FacebookOne of the largest free social networking sites, Facebook, has quite a few groups dedicated to the Cape League. The groups serve little purpose (other than to showcase ones interests and occasionally chat with other members), but it’s still interesting. The largest group currently has 324 members. Here are some of the other ones on there:

So, judging from Facebook (admittedly a poor measure), Hyannis has the most fans. Wareham and Y-D are the only teams without at least one dedicated team group.

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10 Responses to “The Cape League on Facebook”

  1. Terry on October 22nd, 2007 12:41 am

    I just want to say that YD has at least two facebook groups of which I’m a member… YD Red Sox ‘06 Cape League Champions and 2007 Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, A Dynasty is Born

    These groups are specific to the people associated directly with the team, but they are groups for the team none the less

  2. Andrew on October 22nd, 2007 1:55 pm

    Thanks for the info, Terry!

    You’re right. I only listed the public groups.

    Is the Facebook Y-D group the key to your success?… Did you guys use it to chat during the off-season and introduce yourselves before the summer starts? (Seems like such a trivial thing, but we all know the importance of team-building, and this is something that could not easily be done before the Internet)

  3. Terry on October 22nd, 2007 7:03 pm

    No, the groups were both made after the last two years. It’s summer vacation and the teams spend at least 5 hours a day together all summer so that’s when the relationships build. Most of the guys that I’ve played with the past two years i met the first day of practice in YD.

  4. Andrew on October 23rd, 2007 4:42 pm

    Ah, well that makes sense based on the group names. It would be an interesting experiment to create groups ahead of time.

    Thanks for joining us on CodBall, Terry. Hope you had a good fall, and enjoy the off-season!

  5. Capeman on October 23rd, 2007 5:04 pm

    I know that some of you were following the situation with John Wylde on the Gatemen website. I just took a look and the news is not good. Check out the home page of the site…it is right there…or here. http://www.gatemen.org

  6. Greg on October 24th, 2007 10:54 pm

    Very interesting, Andrew. I’m surprised we haven’t written about this earlier.

    Timely reporting since Microsoft today purchased Facebook.

    http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/24/213242.shtml

  7. Andrew on October 24th, 2007 11:30 pm

    Interesting! It’s a 1.6% stake in Facebook though, not a complete acquisition. That’s amazing that it costs that much just to get a piece of the social network. Zuckerberg has very big plans for Facebook and he probably won’t part with it for any price.

  8. Greg on October 25th, 2007 11:15 am

    Capeman, thanks for your update on John Wylde. There is a book about the Red Sox and their phenomenal success in 2004 called Faithful. Faithful is a good word for the situation in Wareham.

    I have sent flowers to the Wylde family at Beth Israel from their faithful friends at CodBall.

  9. Capeman on October 25th, 2007 1:43 pm

    Very nice gesture Greg…..

  10. Joseph F. Cavanaugh III on October 28th, 2007 6:12 pm

    I’d like to say that I’m very impressed with the chat concerning Mr. Wylde in Wareham. It is wonderful to see such concern and such well wishes for a difficult situation. The display of support from the Cape Cod Baseball League community, and CodBall.com in particular, is tremendous. I’m sure it’s also well deserved by Mr. Wilde. I wish to add my thoughts and prayers to the chorus in support of him. I’ve never met the man, but I, like most people, have had cancer affect my family. Best wishes to Mr. Wilde and his family.

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