{"id":36049,"date":"2019-03-17T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36049"},"modified":"2019-03-17T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T01:37:36","slug":"ruckus-a-better-mascot-than-that-other-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36049","title":{"rendered":"‘Ruckus’ a better mascot than that . . . other thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have to hand it to the Amarillo Sod Poodles baseball organization.<\/p>\n

They’ve come up with a mascot for the AA baseball team that seems oh, so very appropriate for what they’ve decided to call the team.<\/p>\n

The mascot’s name is “Ruckus” and it looks like, well, a “Sod Poodle,” which the community is told is an old-time name for prairie dog. So, Ruckus looks a bit like a prairie dog.<\/p>\n

Compare “Ruckus” with what the previous baseball organization rolled out about eight years ago. It was meant to symbolize a “Sox.” It looked, well, kinda weird. And perhaps vaguely obscene.<\/p>\n

It was unidentifiable.<\/p>\n

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See what I mean?<\/p>\n

So, the Sod Poodles are going to play before a sold out house at Hodgetown on April 8. It’s their home opener in the Texas League. They’re playing in a shiny new ballpark in downtown Amarillo, and not in that rat hole dump at the Tri-State Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n

At least “Ruckus” looks like what he symbolizes.<\/p>\n

It’s a start!<\/p>\n\n

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I have to hand it to the Amarillo Sod Poodles baseball organization. They’ve come up with a mascot for the AA baseball team that seems oh, so very appropriate for what they’ve decided to call the team. The mascot’s name is “Ruckus” and it looks like, well, a “Sod Poodle,” which the community is told … Continue reading ‘Ruckus’ a better mascot than that . . . other thing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36050,"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":[7881,1436,8347,3153,5786],"class_list":["post-36049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-mpev","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049","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=36049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36052,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions\/36052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}