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They’re waiting with bated breath in Amarillo, Texas, for an announcement that’s set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The owners of the Double A minor-league baseball franchise, the Elmore Group, is going to reveal the name of the new team that opens play in April. I also understand they’ll reveal the new team logo.<\/p>\n

The Elmore Group, which relocated the San Antonio Missions to Amarillo, revealed a list of five finalists culled from a long list of proposed team nicknames.<\/p>\n

My favorite team name, the Sod Poodles, initially was my least<\/em> favorite among the finalist names. It’s now my favorite<\/em> name. I hope the team will be called the Sod Poodles when they begin playing hardball at the downtown stadium that’s under construction.<\/p>\n

But . . .<\/p>\n

A snitch who claims to have knowledge of the situation tells me that the Sod Poodles won’t<\/em> take the field next spring. The team will be called something else, according to my snitch\/friend. I won’t reveal his name; instead, I’ll just say he is someone who’s been associated with the Panhandle athletic community for a long time.<\/p>\n

The five finalist names are: Jerky, Boot Scooters, Bronc Busters, Long Haulers and, of course, Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n

The multipurpose event venue that’s being built will seat about 5,000 fans. It will be used primarily as a baseball park for the newly relocated franchise. Other events will occur there, too; hence, that’s why it’s being called a “multipurpose event venue.”<\/p>\n

Baseball fans long have suffered sitting through games at that rathole ballpark next to the Tri-State Fairgrounds. It’s a dump that needs to be knocked down; they need to clear out the rubble and make the space available for other fair-related uses.<\/p>\n

As for the new team’s nickname \u2026 I am awaiting with my own bated breath to know what they’re going to call the team.<\/p>\n

I’ll hope for Sod Poodles until I hear it will be something else.<\/p>\n

Whatever they decide, just don’t call the team “Jerky.”<\/p>\n\n

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