{"id":11891,"date":"2015-12-05T03:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T03:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2015-12-05T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T03:46:38","slug":"hey-maybe-amarillo-is-a-baseball-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11891","title":{"rendered":"Hey, maybe Amarillo really is a baseball town"},"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\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11893\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Matney\u00a0seems to be a serious expert on baseball and its potential interest in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Amarillo College president hit the stump this fall to campaign for approval of a multipurpose event venue in downtown Amarillo. Part of Matney&#8217;s pitch was that Amarillo &#8220;is a baseball town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MPEV received voters&#8217; endorsement on Nov. 3 in a non-binding municipal referendum. The Amarillo City Council then ratified the results and voted unanimously to proceed with development of the MPEV.<\/p>\n<p>Then, what do you think was revealed just this week?<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Dailey, head of Downtown Amarillo Inc., told the Local Government Corporation that, by golly, she&#8217;s had some informal contact with a Class AA minor-league baseball franchise that might be interested in setting up an operation in Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey said she is not at liberty &#8212; yet! &#8212; to disclose the name of the franchise. She said the city is on a &#8220;short list&#8221; of communities being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, didn&#8217;t Paul Matney predict this might happen if voters approved the MPEV?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I believe he did.<\/p>\n<p>The LGC is moving forward, per the City Council&#8217;s advice. It will report to the council regularly as it continues its work toward developing the $32 million MPEV.<\/p>\n<p>And now the conversation might include a minor-league baseball outfit, with major-league connections, that could move into the MPEV once it&#8217;s built.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. <em>Paul Matney<\/em> seemed to be ahead of the curve.<\/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>Paul Matney\u00a0seems to be a serious expert on baseball and its potential interest in his hometown. The retired Amarillo College president hit the stump this fall to campaign for approval of a multipurpose event venue in downtown Amarillo. Part of Matney&#8217;s pitch was that Amarillo &#8220;is a baseball town.&#8221; The MPEV received voters&#8217; endorsement on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, maybe Amarillo really is a baseball town<\/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":[9,17,1],"tags":[295,5539,1436,2860,5707,3153,3522],"class_list":["post-11891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","category-uncategorized","tag-amarillo-college","tag-dai","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-melissa-dailey","tag-mpev","tag-paul-matney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891","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=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11895,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions\/11895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}