Well, so much for spies and snitches who led me astray. The Amarillo baseball franchise that starts playing ball next spring today revealed the name of the Double A team that will take the field next April. Amarillo Sod Poodles? Yep, that’s it, man! Sod Poodles. Get used to it. A friend who said he … Continue reading Sod Poodles it is!
There’s some chatter up yonder in Amarillo about the name of the brand new minor-league baseball team. It well might be that the Amarillo Sod Poodles are going to play hardball in the new ballpark under construction in the city’s downtown district. The new team’s owners are going to announce the name on Nov. 13. … Continue reading Play ball, ‘Sod Poodles’? Sure, why not?
I am getting a bit of enjoyment reading the smattering of letters to the editor of the Amarillo Globe-News from baseball fans arguing against Sod Poodles as the name of the new AA minor-league baseball team that will play ball next spring in Amarillo, Texas. One of them appeared today. There have been some others. … Continue reading Get ready for it: Amarillo Sod Poodles
I’m hearing from a number of longtime Texas Panhandle residents — many of them lifelong residents — who say the same thing. Sod Poodles is not another name for prairie dogs. Yet the owners of the minor-league baseball team that will play ball in Amarillo, Texas, beginning next April might be leaning toward naming their … Continue reading Sod Poodles sounding more like the top name
Maybe it’s just me, but my sense from afar — from my new perch in Collin County — I am beginning to sense that Sod Poodles is slated to be the name of Amarillo’s new AA minor-league baseball team. Sod Poodles emerged as one of five finalist names under consideration by the Elmore Group, the … Continue reading Sod Poodles? Is this the name?
AMARILLO, Texas — OK, I’m just kidding about that suggestion to name the tower after Sod Poodles. I mention it because of an announcement today that Amarillo’s tallest structure is slated to carry the name of another bank. Chase left the ground floor of the 31-story tower and today it was announced that FirstBank Southwest … Continue reading Let’s try ‘Sod Poodles Tower’
AMARILLO, Texas — We’re all entitled to change our minds, right? Politicians do it all the time, saying their views have “evolved.” Or, in the case of Donald John Trump, his views change according to whatever his closest friends or his children tell him. But … I digress. I have done a nearly 180-degree about-face … Continue reading Sod Poodles? Let’s play ball … but hurry up!
I am about to deliver a assessment or two I hope I won’t regret. I’ve been giving more thought to the silly list of “finalist” names delivered by the owners of Amarillo’s future AA minor-league baseball team. I also have been trying to digest the reasoning behind the five names chosen to be considered for … Continue reading Sod Poodles? Let’s think about this
I just have to give a shout-out to my many friends in Amarillo and the surrounding area who have been spending many days and evenings at Hodgetown cheering for the minor league baseball team, the Sod Poodles. You see, a lot of those former Soddies now are suiting up for the Arizona Diamondbacks of the … Continue reading How ’bout them ex-Soddies?
By John Kanelis / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Amarillo’s Central League baseball team, the Sod Poodles, are struggling a bit on the field this year. They are in last place in their division. But … there’s some good news to report on the team that won the Texas League pennant in their first year of existence in 2019. … Continue reading Soddies have firm grip on fans