{"id":25556,"date":"2024-02-26T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=25556"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:41:45","slug":"mattingly-trims-those-sideburns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/02\/mattingly-trims-those-sideburns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattingly Trims Those Sideburns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly had an interesting facial hair style for the team&#8217;s opening weekend of spring training.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMattingly! I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!\u201d ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6oy8SpmREy\">pic.twitter.com\/6oy8SpmREy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1761058667351138811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Beard? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Sideburns? No way.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a reference to a Simpsons episode from 1992, when Mr. Burns demanded Mattingly shave his sideburns to play on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team (a reference to the New York Yankees&#8217; policy requiring players to be clean shaven).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjHOtxCRhnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"The Simpsons - Don Mattingly Sideburns\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly had an interesting facial hair style for the team&#8217;s opening weekend of spring training. \u201cMattingly! I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!\u201d ? pic.twitter.com\/6oy8SpmREy &mdash; Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) February 23, 2024 Beard? Yes. Sideburns? No way. Seems like a reference to a Simpsons episode from 1992,","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":25474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3313],"class_list":["post-25556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-afternoons-with-craig-needles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 01:51:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/02\/mattingly-trims-those-sideburns\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25557,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions\/25557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}