{"id":40754,"date":"2020-01-14T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40754"},"modified":"2020-01-14T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:37:12","slug":"waiting-for-baseball-season-to-begin-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40754","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for baseball season to begin &#8230; already?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sodsquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23TexasLeague%20%23Hodgetown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33497\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sod-poodles.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am likely not offering a big-time scoop but I am getting some buzz from up yonder in Amarillo that Texas Panhandle baseball fans are counting down the days for Season No. 2 of the Amarillo Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, why not?<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys didn&#8217;t make it to the pro football playoffs; the Houston Texans blew a big lead against the Kansas City Chiefs over the weekend, so they&#8217;re out. The Dallas Mavericks are off to a good pro basketball start. The Dallas Stars? Beats me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Baseball<\/em> is on the minds of a lot of sports fans in the Panhandle. The Sod Poodles whet their appetites by doing something quite remarkable in their initial season. They won the Texas League championship in a five-game thriller against the defending league champs, the Tulsa Drillers.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgetown, where the Sod Poodles play their home games, is mostly dark these days. That&#8217;s my guess anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re halfway through January already. The season starts in April. The Sod Poodles will have some sort of ceremony on opening day to celebrate their Texas League title. They&#8217;ll hear speeches from the mayor, maybe a county judge or two. The fans will cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Someone will toss out the ceremonial first pitch.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll start playing hardball at Hodgetown, which more than likely will be chock full of fans.<\/p>\n<p>So the next season is right around the corner. Isn&#8217;t that correct?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what winning does. It makes fans anxious for the next season to begin.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sodsquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23TexasLeague%20%23Hodgetown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am likely not offering a big-time scoop but I am getting some buzz from up yonder in Amarillo that Texas Panhandle baseball fans are counting down the days for Season No. 2 of the Amarillo Sod Poodles. Hey, why not? The Dallas Cowboys didn&#8217;t make it to the pro football playoffs; the Houston Texans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for baseball season to begin &#8230; already?<\/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":[6125,1436,8347,7816,5786],"class_list":["post-40754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-aa-baseball","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-sod-poodles","tag-texas-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40754","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=40754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40755,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40754\/revisions\/40755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}