{"id":35746,"date":"2019-03-01T04:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35746"},"modified":"2019-03-01T04:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:05:30","slug":"sod-poodles-the-name-grows-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35746","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles: The name grows on me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have to make an admission: The name of Amarillo’s new AA baseball team has grown on me.<\/p>\n

Yes, even more than it did before the city’s minor-league baseball team had actually chosen the name “Sod Poodles.”<\/p>\n

I find myself saying it out loud with hardly a hint of self-consciousness. I saw a story today in the online version of the Amarillo Globe-News that the Sod Poodles had unveiled the team bus, which they’ll take as they travel from city to city to play baseball in the Texas League.<\/p>\n

Certainly, the name had a steep hill to climb when it emerged on a list of five finalist name under consideration. My initial reaction to Sod Poodles was “Huh? What the hell is that? What are Sod Poodles, for crying out loud?”<\/p>\n

We learned that Sod Poodles supposedly is an Old West term to describe prairie dogs. I have yet to hear anyone say they knew that.<\/p>\n

But . . . the name is growing on me. It becomes the team’s identity around the Texas League.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure baseball fans in all the cities in the league are going to be, um, talking about the Sod Poodles. I just hope they do so with no more than a smile on their faces.<\/p>\n\n

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I have to make an admission: The name of Amarillo’s new AA baseball team has grown on me. Yes, even more than it did before the city’s minor-league baseball team had actually chosen the name “Sod Poodles.” I find myself saying it out loud with hardly a hint of self-consciousness. I saw a story today … Continue reading Sod Poodles: The name grows on me<\/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":[7881,5631,3153,5786],"class_list":["post-35746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mpev","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746","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=35746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35747,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}