{"id":43408,"date":"2020-07-02T00:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T00:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43408"},"modified":"2020-07-02T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T00:38:09","slug":"minor-league-baseball-hits-the-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43408","title":{"rendered":"Minor league baseball hits the showers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodSquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23MLB%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/baseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14008\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/baseball-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/baseball-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/baseball.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official &#8230; there will be no minor league baseball in America this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The dang pandemic has claimed a major casualty. I got word of the demise of minor league hardball in my morning newspaper, which reported that the myriad leagues around the country couldn&#8217;t pull it together in time to throw out first pitches.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped to attend a few games this summer in Frisco, where the Roughriders play ball. It won&#8217;t happen. What&#8217;s more, I had intended to cheer for the Amarillo Sod Poodles when they ventured to Collin County to play the Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, my heart hurts more for the Soddies&#8217; fans than for the Roughrider fans. I mean, the Sod Poodles wanted to defend their Texas League championship, which they won in 2019 during their initial season in existence.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Leagues are set to play a 60-game schedule that begins late this month. I hope they make the grade, although given current infection trends in many states I am not going to cash in my chips on it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the minor league cities all across the nation that root hard for their Major League wannabes, let&#8217;s justsit tight and wait for next year to arrive.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodSquad%20%23SodPoodles%20%23MLB%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official &#8230; there will be no minor league baseball in America this summer. The dang pandemic has claimed a major casualty. I got word of the demise of minor league hardball in my morning newspaper, which reported that the myriad leagues around the country couldn&#8217;t pull it together in time to throw out first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minor league baseball hits the showers<\/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":[9236,9431,5631,3105,9261,7816],"class_list":["post-43408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-frisco-roughriders","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pandemic","tag-sod-poodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43408","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=43408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43410,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43408\/revisions\/43410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}