{"id":11694,"date":"2015-11-20T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:55:57","slug":"baseball-team-needs-new-place-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11694","title":{"rendered":"Baseball team needs new place ID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baseball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11695\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baseball.png\" alt=\"baseball\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision has been made to combine the Amarillo Thunderheads baseball franchise with the Grand Prairie AirHogs.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll split their 2016 season between the locales: one here on the Texas Tundra, and one in Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided the new team nickname should be the Air Heads, given that it looks like a dorky decision to combine the teams in that fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The more problematic issue, though, might be how to identify the location name.<\/p>\n<p>Every sports franchise has a place named in front of the nickname. <em>Houston<\/em> Astros, <em>Denver<\/em> Broncos, <em>Houston<\/em> Texans &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have mentioned the Dallas Cowboys, but that pro football team hasn&#8217;t played home games in Big D since the early 1970s, when it moved from the Cotton Bowl to Irving; the Cowboys\u00a0now play way over yonder in Arlington, which is closer to Fort Worth than it is to Dallas, which gives Cowtown residents fits. But that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Amarillo-Grand Prairie team be able to identify its location in a manner suitable to each city&#8217;s rabid fan base?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all stay tuned to this one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision has been made to combine the Amarillo Thunderheads baseball franchise with the Grand Prairie AirHogs. They&#8217;ll split their 2016 season between the locales: one here on the Texas Tundra, and one in Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex. I&#8217;ve decided the new team nickname should be the Air Heads, given that it looks like a dorky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baseball team needs new place ID<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[337,552,5636,1241],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-thunderheads","tag-baseball","tag-cowtown","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}