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By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Texas Monthly has weighed in with its strangest and coolest minor-league baseball team names for 2021.<\/p>\n

Drum roll for Amarillo Sod Poodles fans: Your team made the cut as the sixth-strangest\/coolest name in Texas minor league baseball.<\/p>\n

As TM writes: As a new team, the Sod Poodles had the advantage of history in knowing how fans had taken to other quirky team names in choosing their identity, but we can\u2019t argue with the results: prairie dogs are certainly plentiful out near Amarillo, and the\u00a0old settler term \u201csod poodles\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is definitely a fun way to refer to them. Locals didn\u2019t exactly cotton to the name at first\u2014in fact, all five finalists for the team\u2019s name\u00a0drew eye rolls in the town<\/a>\u2014but can you really look at the family of grass-chewing, Stetson-wearing prairie dogs in the team\u2019s logo and not find yourself rooting for the lil\u2019 guys?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Texas’s Best (and Weirdest) Minor League Baseball Team Names, Ranked \u2013 Texas Monthly<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ll be candid. The name had to grow on me. I wasn’t crazy about the name when I first heard it had made the list of finalists under consideration. I didn’t know what a Sod Poodle is, but I found out it’s an old cowboy name for prairie dogs.<\/p>\n

Whatever its historical significance, the Sod Poodles have played some good hardball in their single year in existence.<\/p>\n

They are set to open their new season in early May.<\/p>\n

Yes, the Sod Poodles won the Texas League pennant in their first year in Amarillo. They are starting a new season this week. Maybe they’ll win another pennant, this time in the Central League.<\/p>\n

Now they have made TM’s roster of cool\/strange team nicknames.<\/p>\n

Play ball!<\/p>\n\n

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