{"id":282,"date":"2003-02-10T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=282"},"modified":"2013-11-29T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T17:51:18","slug":"stricklands-new-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Strickland&#8217;s New Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/orange.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>When\u00a0<strong>Scott Strickland<\/strong>\u00a0(front row, right) appeared last week in his ridiculous new orange jersey, we were surprised to see it bear\u00a0<strong>No. 28<\/strong>\u00a0and not\u00a0<strong>25<\/strong>\u00a0as it did last season. We now know the switch was made so that new bench coach\u00a0<strong>Don Baylor<\/strong>\u00a0could wear 25, the digits he wore throughout his playing and managing career. (Thanks to alert MBTN readers Matt, Chris and Larry for the update).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0Scott Strickland\u00a0(front row, right) appeared last week in his ridiculous new orange jersey, we were surprised to see it bear\u00a0No. 28\u00a0and not\u00a025\u00a0as it did last season. We now know the switch was made so that new bench coach\u00a0Don Baylor\u00a0could wear 25, the digits he wore throughout his playing and managing career. (Thanks to alert MBTN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strickland&#8217;s New Number&#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":[105,63],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-don-baylor","tag-scott-strickland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}