24: Live Another Day (split from Canó DFA'd)

[Edgy MD]

Interesting Sideplot: Does the number 24 stay in circulation or return to the mothballs?

[Gwreck]

Something in the middle.



24 is probably going to be treated like 7 or 8; it's not going to openly assigned, but if someone asks and has a good reason, sure, they can have it.



As opposed to anything actually retired (or #5), which are not available.

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: Interesting Sideplot: Does the number 24 stay in circulation or return to the mothballs?

Retire "24" for Willie and do it at a ceremony soon (it was his 91st birthday yesterday). If you want to argue about his time as a Met not being worthy of this honor think about his tenure in New York baseball.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Something in the middle. 24 is probably going to be treated like 7 or 8; it's not going to openly assigned, but if someone asks and has a good reason, sure, they can have it. As opposed to anything actually retired (or #5), which are not available.

"7" is getting the (sigh) "8" treatment? I did not know that and it doesn't look that way from the way "7" has been issued, historically.



On "24", I don't have a good feel for what might happen next, but if I had to guess, I'd go with how the number was treated just before it was assigned to Cano because given Willie's advanced age, if Cohen was leaning towards retiring "24, I'm guessing he'd have done it before announcing the retirement of Keith's "17, given the apparent urgency of the situation.



That's all I got. I'm staying out of whether "24" should even be retired by the Mets in the first place.

Edited May 7, 2022 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Retire 24 for payson

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Retire 24 for payson

Brilliant! She was a trailblazer!

[G-Fafif]

24 is Willie's number, not Joan's. I get the linkage, but each rates their own explicit acknowledgment as great New York National League figures.

[kcmets]

Not to change the subject, as that rarely happens here, but does anyone

have that Jay Satan 666 classic photo anywhere? I thought it was on the

kcmets server but couldn't find it doing a quick search.

[roger_that]

I think Shamsky and Rickey would feel honored.