{"id":38851,"date":"2019-09-14T02:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2019-09-14T02:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:13:29","slug":"sod-poodles-season-already-a-smashing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38851","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles&#8217; season already a smashing success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23MPEV%20%23Hodgetown%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 don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;ll be when the Amarillo Sod Poodles&#8217; initial baseball season comes to an end. They&#8217;ll either be Texas League champs or the runnerup to the Tulsa Drillers.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are trekking across Canada, where we might be out of touch for a time \u2026 or, then again, we might be fully connected to the rest of Planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 I&#8217;ll just get this off my chest right now. The Sod Poodles have scored a huge success in their maiden AA minor league baseball season.<\/p>\n<p>Win or lose! It doesn&#8217;t matter to me.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;d like to see the Soddies defeat the Drillers and win the Texas League title. If they come up short, well, suffice to say the team has done quite well.<\/p>\n<p>They have packed Hodgetown, the venue formerly known simply as the &#8220;multipurpose event venue,&#8221; or MPEV. The park is a gleaming addition to Amarillo&#8217;s downtown district. The rest of the downtown area is bustling with activity not seen since, oh, the days when Polk Street was the place to go on a Friday and\/or Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Sod Poodles are the talk of the town. They&#8217;re the talk of the Texas League, or so I have understood. The team&#8217;s nickname is a hit with the fans in the Panhandle and with other fans throughout the Texas League.<\/p>\n<p>On top of all that, the Sod Poodles played some good old-fashioned hardball.<\/p>\n<p>The Soddies have set the table for a lengthy and potentially prosperous run in Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>Good job!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23MPEV%20%23Hodgetown%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;ll be when the Amarillo Sod Poodles&#8217; initial baseball season comes to an end. They&#8217;ll either be Texas League champs or the runnerup to the Tulsa Drillers. My wife and I are trekking across Canada, where we might be out of touch for a time \u2026 or, then again, we might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sod Poodles&#8217; season already a smashing success!<\/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":[7881,1436,8347,5631,3153,5786],"class_list":["post-38851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mpev","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851","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=38851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38852,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions\/38852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}