{"id":38920,"date":"2019-09-20T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38920"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:54:44","slug":"bidding-adieu-to-sod-poodles-for-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38920","title":{"rendered":"Bidding adieu to Sod Poodles &#8230; for this season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23SodSquad%20%23Soddies%20%23Hodgetown%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am going to bid adieu to the Amarillo Sod Poodles with this brief blog post.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am likely to be back when the Soddies take the field for Season No. 2 next spring.<\/p>\n<p>They had a hell of a ride in their initial minor-league baseball season in the Texas League. They won the league championship in fine fashion, defeating the defending champs with a come-from-behind victory in the fifth and final game of the championship series. They had their fans sweating bullets, only to unload on the Tulsa Drillers in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether Amarillo is going to throw a party any time soon for the Sod Poodles to celebrate their championship or whether they&#8217;ll wait until the start of the 2020 season to honor &#8217;em with a presentation at Hodgetown, some speeches from Mayor Ginger Nelson or even a state legislator or two. Whatever, the fans will flock to the ballpark and will cheer mightily.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy for the fans who attended the games in fine fashion. They filled the 7,000 or so seats most games. Hodgetown is a jewel. The city has made huge strides toward revamping, remaking and re-creating its downtown district. The Sod Poodles can lay claim to being a major part of that effort and the result it is producing.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great season. It ended the right way.<\/p>\n<p>So, to paraphrase the late great Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks: Let&#8217;s win <em>two<\/em> championships.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23SodSquad%20%23Soddies%20%23Hodgetown%20%23downtownAmarillo&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to bid adieu to the Amarillo Sod Poodles with this brief blog post. However, I am likely to be back when the Soddies take the field for Season No. 2 next spring. They had a hell of a ride in their initial minor-league baseball season in the Texas League. They won the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bidding adieu to Sod Poodles &#8230; for this season<\/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":[7881,1436,8347,5786],"class_list":["post-38920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-sod-poodles","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38920","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=38920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38921,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38920\/revisions\/38921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}