{"id":30928,"date":"2018-07-13T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30928"},"modified":"2018-07-13T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:01:49","slug":"sod-poodles-sounding-more-like-the-top-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30928","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles sounding more like the top name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m hearing from a number of longtime Texas Panhandle residents — many of them lifelong<\/em> residents — who say the same thing.<\/p>\n

Sod Poodles is not another name for prairie dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 team the Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n

And it’s over the apparent objections of those who contend that the finalist name — despite contentions from team owners — really has no historical reference to the critters that still populate the Caprock.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a 180 on the name. The first time I heard the list of finalist names … I hated all of them. I might even have hated Sod Poodles the most. The name I hate the most at the moment, though, is Jerky.<\/p>\n

Now? I understand the marketing ploy that the Elmore Group — owners of the team that is moving to Amarillo — is trying to use. They want a cute name. They want a name that will have fans talking about the label, the team. They want to gin up interest among baseball fans.<\/p>\n

I think they have accomplished their mission.<\/p>\n

For the record, I want the Amarillo Sod Poodles to play hardball next year.<\/p>\n\n

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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<\/span> →<\/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":[7881,5631,3153],"class_list":["post-30928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928","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=30928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30960,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928\/revisions\/30960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}