>Meanwhile In The Yankee Game: Retire #21?

>Sorry it’s ten-zip on SNY, I’m channel surfing.

Who is Justin Christian and why is he playing left field for the Yankees and how did he get a real number (#17 not something in the sixties).

They showed Hawkins warming up and it reminded me that he got booed into not wearing Paul O’Neill’s #21.

That begs the question – are they going to retire Paulie O’s number? He was a leader, won a lot of rings, and in my mind a Hall of Famer. Some day they will retire 2 and 6 and twenty years from now probably even #13. At some point it gets silly.

Retire 21 or give it out? I’ll vote give it out. But I’d also unretire #44 and #1. Retired numbers should be even rarer than the Hall.

>It's Ten Nothing

>Why are we saving the bench? Get Easley in there to relieve Reyes for a few innings. If someone gets hurt – eh forfeit and go home. Or see if Pedro wants to play left for an inning. Who cares, it’s 10 zip.

As for losing two in a row, lets give Jerry some more rope before we panic.

As for you Delgado haters – who do you want to play first?

38,867

No that’s not some number that the exaggerating Howie Rose imagines is at Shea tonight.

Michael Kay just said that’s how many people (38, 867) are at the Yankee game in Pittsburgh. What’s amazing is that it’s the third largest crowd in stadium history.

Wow. So people showed up for the first two games ever at the stadium and then stopped going? That’s awful.

No pics available yet….and over at Shea the Mets never release any photo that shows the empty green and orange.

Interestingly, as of the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica, the survivor count is 39,665 or as Howie Rose would put it “about 40,000 in the fleet.”

Meanwhile In The Yankee Game: Retire #21?

Sorry it’s ten-zip on SNY, I’m channel surfing.

Who is Justin Christian and why is he playing left field for the Yankees and how did he get a real number (#17 not something in the sixties).

They showed Hawkins warming up and it reminded me that he got booed into not wearing Paul O’Neill’s #21.

That begs the question – are they going to retire Paulie O’s number? He was a leader, won a lot of rings, and in my mind a Hall of Famer. Some day they will retire 2 and 6 and twenty years from now probably even #13. At some point it gets silly.

Retire 21 or give it out? I’ll vote give it out. But I’d also unretire #44 and #1. Retired numbers should be even rarer than the Hall.

It’s Ten Nothing

Why are we saving the bench? Get Easley in there to relieve Reyes for a few innings. If someone gets hurt – eh forfeit and go home. Or see if Pedro wants to play left for an inning. Who cares, it’s 10 zip.

As for losing two in a row, lets give Jerry some more rope before we panic.

As for you Delgado haters – who do you want to play first?