{"id":38801,"date":"2019-09-10T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38801"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:46:41","slug":"sod-poodles-playing-for-the-texas-league-pennant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38801","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles playing for the Texas League pennant!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Hodgetown%20%23SodPoodles%20%23TexasLeague%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38415\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hodgetown-7.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do I have this straight? The Amarillo Sod Poodles were on the ropes, ready to get decked by Midland&#8217;s Texas League AA baseball team. Then the Sod Poodles came back to win the fifth and final game of the South Division playoff.<\/p>\n<p>So, now the Sod Poodles &#8212; in their first year playing in Amarillo &#8212; are going to face the defending Texas League champs from Tulsa in the finals. Is that right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, what do you know about that?<\/p>\n<p>I am sad to report that I am even farther away from Amarillo, but I will cheer for the Sod Poodles from way up yonder.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the team and the reception it has received from Amarillo&#8217;s baseball community continues to impress me.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud of the baseball park built in downtown Amarillo; I am proud that so many fans fill Hodgetown&#8217;s seats for every home game; I am proud that the Sod Poodles had the second-ranked attendance record in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so as my friend Jack Light posted on social media, we&#8217;re talking now about the Sod Poodles winning the <em>Texas<\/em> League pennant. It must not go to a team from way over in Tulsa, <em>Oklahoma<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well done &#8212; so far &#8212; Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Hodgetown%20%23SodPoodles%20%23TexasLeague%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I have this straight? The Amarillo Sod Poodles were on the ropes, ready to get decked by Midland&#8217;s Texas League AA baseball team. Then the Sod Poodles came back to win the fifth and final game of the South Division playoff. So, now the Sod Poodles &#8212; in their first year playing in Amarillo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sod Poodles playing for the Texas League pennant!<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[8347,7816,5786],"class_list":["post-38801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-hodgetown","tag-sod-poodles","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801","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=38801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38802,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801\/revisions\/38802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}