{"id":35221,"date":"2019-02-02T04:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35221"},"modified":"2019-02-02T04:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T04:16:13","slug":"now-lets-play-ball-sod-poodles-shall-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35221","title":{"rendered":"Now, let&#8217;s play ball, Sod Poodles . . . shall we?"},"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\/2019\/02\/ballpark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35222\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a relief.<\/p>\n<p>The Amarillo Sod Poodles have settled a goofy trademark dispute and are now setting their sights on opening night when they play a minor-league game of baseball at Hodgetown, the ballpark that&#8217;s under construction in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>An outfit named Stone Ranch Media had lodged a complaint against the Sod Poodles, suggesting that the team had pilfered the team&#8217;s nickname. The two entities have announced a settlement that will result in $5,000 being divvied up among the Amarillo Youth Activity Center, the Donley County Community Fund and the Downtown Amarillo Women&#8217;s Center.<\/p>\n<p>So, the fight is over.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is for work at Hodgetown &#8212; the ballpark named after retired pharmaceutical executive and former Amarillo Mayor Jerry Hodge &#8212; to be completed. The venue has sprung up along Buchanan Street and, to be honest, it&#8217;s looking like a first-class place to play some hardball.<\/p>\n<p>This venue &#8212; if you&#8217;ll pardon the intended pun &#8212; is a serious game changer for Amarillo. Its future is looking brighter all the time as its downtown district reaps the reward from the attention it has received.<\/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>That&#8217;s a relief. The Amarillo Sod Poodles have settled a goofy trademark dispute and are now setting their sights on opening night when they play a minor-league game of baseball at Hodgetown, the ballpark that&#8217;s under construction in downtown Amarillo. An outfit named Stone Ranch Media had lodged a complaint against the Sod Poodles, suggesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now, let&#8217;s play ball, Sod Poodles . . . shall we?<\/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":[7881,1436,8347,8021,5631,3153],"class_list":["post-35221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-jerry-hodge","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221","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=35221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35223,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions\/35223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}