This graph showed up on my Facebook page a little while ago, so I thought I would share it on High Plains Blogger. Check it out. Amarillo’s AA minor-league baseball team, the Sod Poodles, is leading the Texas League in attendance early in its initial season playing ball on the High Plains. Sixteen home dates … Continue reading Sod Poodles packin’ ’em in
I have repurposed this picture from my social media network and I now intend to use it to illustrate a point I think needs making. Amarillo’s Sod Poodles, the minor-league baseball team that has opened to big crowds at Hodgetown, appear ready to lead the city where my wife and I used to live toward … Continue reading Sod Poodles, ballpark add to city’s life and future
I messed up. I had thought I might be in Amarillo on April 8, when the city’s baseball team, the Sod Poodles, open their home season at Hodgetown, the shiny new ballpark in the city’s downtown district. Oops. Not so. We’re going to be on the road that day en route to points south and east … Continue reading Good luck on opening night, Sod Poodles
This bit of news simply knocks me out. The Amarillo Sod Poodles, which is about to begin playing AA hardball, has been named the top team nickname in all of minor-league baseball. The Sod Poodles beat out the El Paso Chihuahuas by a couple of percentage points in a vote taken by Fox Sports: MLB. … Continue reading Amarillo Sod Poodles: We’re No. 1?
I am acutely aware that a single sold-out event does not constitute a successful season, let alone a successful sports/entertainment/business venture. However, it tickles me giggly to read that the Amarillo Sod Poodles opening night at home has sold out. Yep. Hodgetown, the AA minor-league baseball team’s home field in downtown Amarillo has zero seats … Continue reading Sod Poodles off to a sold-out start!
I have to make an admission: The name of Amarillo’s new AA baseball team has grown on me. Yes, even more than it did before the city’s minor-league baseball team had actually chosen the name “Sod Poodles.” I find myself saying it out loud with hardly a hint of self-consciousness. I saw a story today … Continue reading Sod Poodles: The name grows on me
That’s a relief. The Amarillo Sod Poodles have settled a goofy trademark dispute and are now setting their sights on opening night when they play a minor-league game of baseball at Hodgetown, the ballpark that’s under construction in downtown Amarillo. An outfit named Stone Ranch Media had lodged a complaint against the Sod Poodles, suggesting … Continue reading Now, let’s play ball, Sod Poodles . . . shall we?
Here they come. The jokes are going to become part of conversation in Amarillo, Texas, which is preparing to welcome the return of minor-league baseball next spring. The hole you see in the picture above is meant to poke fun of the new baseball team’s name, the Amarillo Sod Poodles. Sod Poodles supposedly is one … Continue reading Here come the Sod Poodles gags
A friend of mine who responds regularly to my blog posts has pitched an interesting note of skepticism about the new baseball team that will start playing ball in downtown Amarillo next spring. He wonders about the ownership of the Amarillo Sod Poodles and whether the owner — the Elmore Group — is devoted sufficiently … Continue reading A deal to keep the Sod Poodles long term?
I am quite sure the Amarillo minor-league baseball community is trying to digest the name of the city’s new team. The team ownership announced that the Class AA team will be called the Sod Poodles, which reportedly is an old-fashioned term meant to describe prairie dogs. Whatever they say, I guess I’ll have to go … Continue reading Sod Poodles name will catch on eventually … honest, it will