{"id":33765,"date":"2018-11-24T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33765"},"modified":"2018-11-24T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T02:19:08","slug":"here-come-the-sod-poodles-gags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33765","title":{"rendered":"Here come the Sod Poodles gags"},"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\/2018\/11\/ama-sod-poodles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33766\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ama-sod-poodles-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ama-sod-poodles-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ama-sod-poodles.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they come. The jokes are going to become part of conversation in Amarillo, Texas, which is preparing to welcome the return of minor-league baseball next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The hole you see in the picture above is meant to poke fun of the new baseball team&#8217;s name, the Amarillo Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n<p>Sod Poodles supposedly is one archaic term for prairie dogs. I haven&#8217;t talked to anyone with any history in the Texas Panhandle or the High Plains who has heard of the term &#8220;Sod Poodles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, the jokes are piling up around the Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that the team owners are laughing hysterically themselves at what they have brought to the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Sod Poodles will be a AA minor-league outfit affiliated with the National League&#8217;s San Diego Padres. The team used to play as the San Antonio Missions, but moved to Amarillo when San Antonio welcomed a AAA team.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have moved away from Amarillo, but I am having fun watching this team&#8217;s presence in the city evolve and develop.<\/p>\n<p>The multipurpose event venue\/ballpark will be done by April 2019 when the Sod Poodles open Texas League play. They&#8217;ve laid down the sod. The structure is taking shape downtown.<\/p>\n<p>And the jokes are flying.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s play ball!<\/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>Here they come. The jokes are going to become part of conversation in Amarillo, Texas, which is preparing to welcome the return of minor-league baseball next spring. The hole you see in the picture above is meant to poke fun of the new baseball team&#8217;s name, the Amarillo Sod Poodles. Sod Poodles supposedly is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here come the Sod Poodles gags<\/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":[7881,1436,3105,7204,6530,5786],"class_list":["post-33765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mlb","tag-national-league","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765","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=33765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33767,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions\/33767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}