{"id":1355,"date":"2010-02-19T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2013-12-08T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:26:13","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"For the Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If recent dispatches from Port St. Ledger are any indication, David Waldstein of the Times seems determined to wrest the title of Uni Number Beatwriter Champion from Marty Noble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3.gif\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Today he gets Hisanori Takahashi on the record discussing what we&#8217;d already reported here &#8212; he&#8217;s got eyes for the vacant No. 21 jersey, and not the 47 they&#8217;ve outfitted him in already. The other day Waldstein explored whether Jerry Manuel would consider changing his jersey number to 3 so as to mimic the Yankees&#8217; Joe Girardi and his pretentious switch from 27 to 28 this spring. As if Joe shouldn&#8217;t really get to the point and change his jersey number to 208 million.<\/p>\n<p>That piece sparked an even dumber post on the Bats blog where Jim Luttrell tries to zing the Mets by demonstrating he hasn&#8217;t realized the 21-day disabled list is long since dead and once again raises the issue of retiring Mets jerseys (Harrelson?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If recent dispatches from Port St. Ledger are any indication, David Waldstein of the Times seems determined to wrest the title of Uni Number Beatwriter Champion from Marty Noble. Today he gets Hisanori Takahashi on the record discussing what we&#8217;d already reported here &#8212; he&#8217;s got eyes for the vacant No. 21 jersey, and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For the Record&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,227],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hisanori-takahashi","tag-jerry-manuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}