{"id":41804,"date":"2020-03-21T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41804"},"modified":"2020-03-21T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:21:31","slug":"be-patient-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41804","title":{"rendered":"Be patient, sports fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sodsquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23MLB%20%23GregAbbott&#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>Those of us who enjoy watching sports activities &#8212; and are fortunate to stay healthy during this pandemic crisis &#8212; need to suck it up and be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a strict crackdown on gatherings of 10 or more people. Activities of all stripes have been postpone or canceled. Sports teams are put on hold. The governor&#8217;s order extends to <em>at least<\/em> April 3, although I wouldn&#8217;t bet my last dollar that he will lift the restriction on that date.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball&#8217;s season is put on hold. That means Major League Baseball won&#8217;t commence hardball. Nor will MLB&#8217;s farm teams, the minor league franchises that flourish in smaller to mid-size communities around the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Listen up, Amarillo Sod Poodles fans: That means you, too.<\/p>\n<p>The Sod Poodles finished their initial season in 2019 with a Texas League title. They whetted the appetites of their thousands of fans who packed Hodgetown at every home game.<\/p>\n<p>They likely will have to wait to resume their cheers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> I&#8217;m with you, ladies and gentlemen. I wish you could settle into your Hodgetown seats on time, but this crisis compels us to be patient and to do our part to help &#8220;flatten the curve&#8221; of new cases of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Our sporting appetite will be fulfilled in due course. None of us knows when our government can declare some semblance of victory over the deadly virus. I hope it is soon. So, too, do sports fans in every community from <em>coast to coast to coast.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sodsquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23MLB%20%23GregAbbott&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who enjoy watching sports activities &#8212; and are fortunate to stay healthy during this pandemic crisis &#8212; need to suck it up and be patient. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a strict crackdown on gatherings of 10 or more people. Activities of all stripes have been postpone or canceled. Sports teams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be patient, sports fans<\/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":[17],"tags":[9236,3105,9261,7816],"class_list":["post-41804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-mlb","tag-pandemic","tag-sod-poodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41804","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=41804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41805,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41804\/revisions\/41805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}