Number Me

[Guest Edgy DC]

Brian Bannister has been wearing 61, and will likely get a new number assigned to him shortly. What will it be?

[seawolf17]

Wore 25 in Binghamton; that'd get my vote if it weren't for Matsui.

34 is my guess, for the departed Benson.

[Frayed Knot]

What number(s) did his dad wear?
That answer may have the inside track.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I've been trying to think what number I'd give Milledge when he makes the big team. I kind of see him as a 10.

I'd like to see Bannister in a 33.

[Willets Point]

seawolf17 wrote: 34 is my guess, for the departed Benson.

Or 34 DD for the other departed Benson.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Frayed Knot wrote: What number(s) did his dad wear? That answer may have the inside track.

MBTN is thinking the same thing:

]Should Bannister wish to pay tribute to his dad Floyd, a cursory check through the baseball cards reveals he wore Nos. 19 and 38 in his career: Neither is available except in the case Heath Bell fails to make the roster or is traded -- both possibilities we've read in the last week.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This piece of phtographic evidence says that Daddy wore 38 and an ugly uniform while with the Mariners.


But I don't think Victor Zambrano is going to cough that up for a rookie.

How about 15, the number Floyd wore with the White Sox?



Well, I know he's not going to get up the noive to go to Beltran and ask for that. His dad wore many numbers, one of which is 19. I think he's going to grab that and let Heath Bell gnash his teeth.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow. I wasn't trying to steal from MbtN. I found a whole host of digits on his Dad's historical back --- including twenty-freakin'-four. A number that may have meant little to his dad, though, may resound more with him, if it's the number pops wore when junior first came to appreciate what he was doing. Nineteen, I say.

[soupcan]

Doesn't look like anybody's sporting 32 right now.

I'll go with that.

Always liked that for a Mets pitcher.

[Elster88]

19 has some historical significance for a lefty starter, no?

[Guest Edgy DC]

There's a big falloff after number one with 19, and a bigger cliff after number six. It's a number for afterthought infielders and emergency callup outfielders.

Top six nineteens:

1) Bob Ojeda
2) Roger Cedeno
3) Tim Foli
4) Lenny Harris
5) Anthony Young
6) Ron Gardenhire

Others: Luis Alvarado, Ed Bauta, Heath Bell, Butch Benton, Kevin Collins, Scott Erickson, Leo Foster, Jeff Gardner, Jim Gosger, Tom Hall, Jason Hardtke, Shawn Hare, Ken MacKenzie, Brian Ostrosser, Bill Spiers, John Stephenson, Jim Tatum, Hawk Taylor

(Source: http://www.mbtn.net)

[Willets Point]

I hate when I make a good ribald joke and it's totally ignored. Not even a LOL.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


How's that?

[Willets Point]

Thanks. I appreciate you taking pity on me.

[soupcan]

I did chuckle when I read it if that's any consolation.

[DocTee]

the answer: 40 (or maybe 19)

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060330&content_id=1375593&vkey=spt2006news&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym