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Friday, April 08, 2011
Lowering the standards to retire numbers so that we can have an excuse for celebration
Good, or not good, idea?
Related article: J-Doug.
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I see that the Nationals have retired the Expos numbers.(*) Was this accompanied with any fanfare, or was it simply someone who checked a box off? And, please, I hope their jerseys are still hanging at the Bell Centre?(**) I hope the Canadiens have legal ownership of those jerseys, just like the own Youppi. The Canadiens have done, and will do, a better job of preserving Expos history than any Nationals management will.
(*) UPDATE: Actually, I don’t think that history page is sanctioned by the Nationals management necessarily. I think that page is maintained by MLBAM, and whoever there is in charge of that page has put those numbers there, because that’s how they coded it. Let me ask. (Similar issue with the Devils, as their management don’t recognize their Scouts history, even if the programmers at NHL.com do.)
(**) UPDATE2: I have received confirmation from my bud in Montreal that they are still hanging there.
More importantly, why did the Expos never retire Steve Rogers’ number? There were 4 players with 44 or more WAR (the 5th highest was Vlad at 32), and 3 of them have their numbers retired (Dawson, Carter, Raines). And Rogers deserves it too. (Staub is a special case because he was the team’s first huge star.)
I’d also go with Vlad, Dennis Martinez, and Tim Wallach.
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