{"id":43078,"date":"2020-06-09T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43078"},"modified":"2020-06-09T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:47:58","slug":"heart-hurts-for-baseball-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43078","title":{"rendered":"Heart hurts for baseball fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23SodSquad%20%23MLB%20%23pandemic%20%23Hodgetown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/baseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31635\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/baseball-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/baseball-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/baseball-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/baseball.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I might be one of the few and not-so-proud baseball fans out here who is concerned that Major League Baseball&#8217;s 2020 season is in dire peril.<\/p>\n<p>It might not happen. The MLB&#8217;s owners have pitched a 76-game schedule that cuts deeply into the money the players would earn from a regular season and from a playoff system resulting in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still dickering, quarreling and negotiating over the terms of the season. It doesn&#8217;t look good, at least not to these eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it&#8217;s beginning to look equally bleak for all those minor-league teams and the communities that support them for what they hoped would be a stellar season in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s you, my friends and former neighbors in Amarillo, those of you who root hard for the Sod Poodles, the city&#8217;s AA franchise affiliated with the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>The Soddies won the Texas League title in 2019. They had high hopes of defending their title this season &#8230; until the coronavirus pandemic shut everything down.<\/p>\n<p>This hurts fans all across the land. The big leagues have their faithful fanatics. So do the minor leagues. MLB has its players union. Minor league baseball isn&#8217;t affected so much by that governing body.<\/p>\n<p>That damn pandemic is threating to wipe out an entire season.<\/p>\n<p>My heart hurts for the fans who have been waiting &#8230; patiently.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodPoodles%20%23SodSquad%20%23MLB%20%23pandemic%20%23Hodgetown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might be one of the few and not-so-proud baseball fans out here who is concerned that Major League Baseball&#8217;s 2020 season is in dire peril. It might not happen. The MLB&#8217;s owners have pitched a 76-game schedule that cuts deeply into the money the players would earn from a regular season and from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heart hurts for baseball 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":[9,17],"tags":[8347,3105,9261,7816],"class_list":["post-43078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-hodgetown","tag-mlb","tag-pandemic","tag-sod-poodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43078","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=43078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43079,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43078\/revisions\/43079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}