{"id":50397,"date":"2022-02-04T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50397"},"modified":"2022-02-04T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T01:12:39","slug":"ready-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50397","title":{"rendered":"Ready for baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ama-sod-poodles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36571\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ama-sod-poodles-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ama-sod-poodles-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ama-sod-poodles-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ama-sod-poodles.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, let me be clear about something. My baseball-loving days are behind me. I don&#8217;t follow the Grand Old Game with nearly the fervor I did as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am kinda getting ready for teams to report for spring training. I say that as we&#8217;re still enduring a winter blast in North Texas and as I read about the chilled bones among my many friends in the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>My many friends who are devotees of the Amarillo Sod Poodles no doubt are waiting, too, for the first pitch of the season. I don&#8217;t blame &#8217;em. Not one single bit.<\/p>\n<p>The Sod Poodles were unable to defend their Double A league pennant last season, having been shelved for the 2020 season by the COVID-19 virus. No worries this year. I&#8217;ll cheer for them from afar. I hope to get back to Amarillo one day next season to see a game at Hodgetown. Or &#8230; I might yell for the Soddies when they venture to nearby Frisco to play the Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; that will occur in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The Big League season will commence, too. I have one favorite player. Albert Pujols wants to play one more season. The future first-ballot Hall of Famer finished last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. No word if he&#8217;s returning or if he&#8217;ll shop himself around for a final fling with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the football season is almost over; they&#8217;re going to play that big game soon in LA. I cannot say I am all that dialed into the pro basketball season, nor with the college hoops players.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball is still out there, waiting to commence. Bring it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, let me be clear about something. My baseball-loving days are behind me. I don&#8217;t follow the Grand Old Game with nearly the fervor I did as a youngster. However, I am kinda getting ready for teams to report for spring training. I say that as we&#8217;re still enduring a winter blast in North Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for baseball<\/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":[8347,2860,3105,7816],"class_list":["post-50397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-hodgetown","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sod-poodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397","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=50397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50399,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions\/50399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}