{"id":38250,"date":"2019-08-02T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38250"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:52:38","slug":"sod-poodles-on-quite-a-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38250","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles on quite a streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MPEV%20%23Hodgetown%20%23SodPoodles%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ama-soddies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38024\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ama-soddies-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ama-soddies-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ama-soddies.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just read something in the Amarillo Globe-News online edition that blows my mind.<\/p>\n<p>The Amarillo Sod Poodles are on a 20-game sellout streak at Hodgetown, the baseball team&#8217;s shiny new ballpark in the middle of downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twenty straight sellouts!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow, man!<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t repeat in detail what I&#8217;ve noted already, which is that some knowledgeable local baseball fans have proclaimed Amarillo to be a &#8220;baseball town&#8221; that would embrace the team once it set up shop in the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgetown&#8217;s initial &#8220;concept&#8221; was to seat about 4,500 fans, as I recall the discussion at the time. They ended up building a ballpark that seats nearly 7,000 \u2026 and the Sod Poodles are filling up those seats each game night.<\/p>\n<p>I also understand that the term &#8220;sellout crowd&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that every seat in the venue has a posterior parked in it. Still, the idea that this first-year AA minor league baseball team is selling all the seats over an extended period of time is, well, quite the accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Nice going.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MPEV%20%23Hodgetown%20%23SodPoodles%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read something in the Amarillo Globe-News online edition that blows my mind. The Amarillo Sod Poodles are on a 20-game sellout streak at Hodgetown, the baseball team&#8217;s shiny new ballpark in the middle of downtown Amarillo. Twenty straight sellouts! Wow, man! I won&#8217;t repeat in detail what I&#8217;ve noted already, which is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sod Poodles on quite a streak<\/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":[6125,7881,1436,8347,5631],"class_list":["post-38250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-aa-baseball","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-minor-league-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250","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=38250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38251,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions\/38251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}