{"id":3440,"date":"2013-07-05T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2013-07-05T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:40:59","slug":"manny-ramirez-gets-dreadlocks-cut-as-condition-of-deal-with-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/05\/manny-ramirez-gets-dreadlocks-cut-as-condition-of-deal-with-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Ramirez gets dreadlocks cut as condition of deal with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3441\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3441\" alt=\"ramirezdreads\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads.jpg\" width=\"603\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads.jpg 603w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/ramirezdreads-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuLiOCuRY\/status\/352597087029977088\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Manny Ramirez signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers recently. While the deal gives the 41-year-old slugger another chance at the big leagues it also came at the expense of his dreadlocks.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez still has his 555 MLB home runs but does not have the dreadlocks anymore. The Rangers have a rule requiring their minor leaguers to keep their hair cut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Manny Ramirez: &#8220;I&#8217;m blessed to have another chance to play the game I love.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Rangers&amp;src=hash\">#Rangers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/pu6666xUZb\">pic.twitter.com\/pu6666xUZb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Winkler (@WinklerKEYE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinklerKEYE\/statuses\/352895028810625024\">July 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez is scheduled to DH for Round Rock on Sunday. His return to the big leagues does not have any schedule attached to it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Ramirez signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers recently. While the deal gives the 41-year-old slugger another chance at the big leagues it also came at the expense of his dreadlocks. Ramirez still has his 555 MLB home runs but does not have the dreadlocks anymore. The Rangers have a rule requiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[90,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-manny-ramirez","8":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}