{"id":36035,"date":"2019-03-16T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36035"},"modified":"2019-03-16T22:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T22:12:49","slug":"sod-poodles-off-to-a-sold-out-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36035","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles off to a sold-out start!"},"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-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35471\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ballpark-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am acutely aware that a single sold-out event does not constitute a successful season, let alone a successful sports\/entertainment\/business venture.<\/p>\n<p>However, it tickles me giggly to read that the Amarillo Sod Poodles opening night at home has sold out. Yep. Hodgetown, the AA minor-league baseball team&#8217;s home field in downtown Amarillo has <em>zero<\/em> seats left for the April 8 date.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the sellout could bode well for the interest shown by the community for the Sod Poodles, the team affiliated with the National League&#8217;s San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>The Sod Poodles have relocated to the Texas Panhandle from San Antonio, where they played as the Missions in South Texas. They&#8217;ve moved out to make room in the Alamo City for a AAA franchise that is relocating there from Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgetown seats a little more than 7,000 spectators. All that&#8217;s left is <em>standing room-only<\/em> viewing. A ticket gets you into the ballpark; then you&#8217;ve got to find a place to <em>stand<\/em> and watch the Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n<p>I remain a staunch supporter of this effort. To be candid, I had my doubts not too long ago that the city would bring this project to fruition. It did. My concern was misplaced. I am delighted to hear about this latest bit of positive news from my distant perch in Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>The future remains to be determined. If this event &#8212; the selling out of the ballpark for opening night &#8212; can be relegated to the &#8220;most recent past,&#8221; then let us hope it serves as a prologue for a bright future for the Sod Poodles and for the city that has invested in this worthwhile project.<\/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>I am acutely aware that a single sold-out event does not constitute a successful season, let alone a successful sports\/entertainment\/business venture. However, it tickles me giggly to read that the Amarillo Sod Poodles opening night at home has sold out. Yep. Hodgetown, the AA minor-league baseball team&#8217;s home field in downtown Amarillo has zero seats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sod Poodles off to a sold-out start!<\/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":[3,9,17],"tags":[6125,1436,3153,7816],"class_list":["post-36035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-aa-baseball","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev","tag-sod-poodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035","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=36035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36037,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035\/revisions\/36037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}