{"id":4180,"date":"2008-12-31T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:06:41","slug":"carlsbad-youth-baseball-counted-out-of-70000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Youth Baseball Counted Out Of $70,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online fee collection website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countmein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Count Me In<\/a><\/strong> is out of money and that included $70,000 of dues paid by parents of <strong>Carlsbad Youth Baseball<\/strong> players that never made it to the league, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-little-league-fees31-2008dec31,0,5684439.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Watson<\/strong>, president of Carlsbad Youth Baseball in San Diego, said more than 90% of parents paid for their children&#8217;s fees with credit cards through Count Me In and the group was missing $70,000. . . . &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a challenge for us to operate our programs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The kids and their parents are going to suffer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Count Me In founder <strong>Terry Drayton<\/strong> says he was &#8220;he was in discussions with three possible investors to raise funds to pay back their money&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How did we get here? We made some errors with the lack of financial oversight,&#8221; Drayton said in a telephone interview. &#8220;At the end of the day this is my responsibility. I&#8217;m the CEO and my job is to fix it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, there is no mention of the problems on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countmein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Count Me In&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> website. Which you&#8217;d think would be step one in &#8220;fixing&#8221; things. So far no criminal charges have been filed. Maybe they should be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-little-league-fees31-2008dec31,0,5684439.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online fee collection website Count Me In is out of money and that included $70,000 of dues paid by parents of Carlsbad Youth Baseball players that never made it to the league, according to a story in the LA Times. Tom Watson, president of Carlsbad Youth Baseball in San Diego, said more than 90% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}