Uniform Number Shuffle

[Gwreck]

Doing some updating of a Mets list or two that I keep around for reference and I stumble across what I've got to figure is a record.

Pending Phil Humber getting into a game, there will be no fewer than 10 (!) uniform numbers that were issued to more than one player during this 2006 season.

20 - Victor Diaz, Shawn Green
22 - Xavier Nady, Michael Tucker
25 - Kazuo Matsui, Pedro Feliciano
32 - Jeremi Gonzalez, Eli Marrero, Dave Williams
34 - Jorge Julio, Mike Pelfrey
36 - Henry Owens, Kelly Stinnett
39 - Pedro Feliciano, Roberto Hernandez
43 - Bartolome Fortunato, Royce Ring
49 - Roberto Hernandez, Phil Humber (pending)
59 - Alay Soler, Guillermo Mota

I'm pretty sure that's a record.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not that Samuels ever answers my calls, but I'm in favor of this happening less rather than more.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I can check that for ya later.

Hey look at me: http://uniwatchblog.com/

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Very cool, Johnny. (I made it all the way to the end, despite the tiny grey font. What's up with that?)

[Guest KC]

Nice interview.

>>>Although she thinks I spend too much time on the internet<<<

I'm sure none of us have heard this at home.

[Guest sharpie]

Velly nice.

[metirish]

That was really cool, sounds like a fun time Dickshot.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Capitalize that G in "God," ye sartorial heathen.

[MFS62]

Looking at wreck's list, I can't think of two more opposite looking players than Victor Diaz and Shawn Green in terms of body type.
I never thought about it before, but now I wonder -
Do they move the numbers to another uniform that fits the player and put the name on, or just alter the one with the number already on it (and change the name)?
As I type that, moving the numbers sounds much more logical. But it would still mean they have to keep a supply of different size uniforms, in all team "styles", on hand at all times. And that would be costly and a pain in the arse to tote with them in case there is a player change when the team is on the road.

Anybody know what they do?

Later

[Guest sharpie]

They give the lowest number to the smallest player and then they move on up.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Unis come and go with the players these days, mainly because of the names stitched directly to the uni, tho back in the old days they'd change with the guy. When Frank Thomas was traded for Gary Kroll, Kroll took 25 because Thomas' old jersey was the inly one that fit.

Read about Ross Gompers:

http://www.slate.com/id/2102057/

[Guest cooby]

That is a great, great interview.

]UW: Is your head completely wired for Mets numbers? Like, if you�re at a motel and they give you room No. 20, do you instinctively think of Tommie Agee? JS [simultaneously]: Howard Johnson? [Mutual laughter.] Yeah, to a certain extent. The PIN for my ATM card is a Mets-related number, too.

I do this too, my pin number and most of my log in passwords are Mets #s.


When I was a kid, I instinctively would look at the price of gas and connect it with a Mets player. Of course that was in the dark ages when gasoline was double digits.

Plus I remember when bread went from Jon Matlack to Jerry Kooseman a loaf, all in one jump, my parents were upset.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Very nice JD

[Gwreck]

Nice interview. The "uniform numbers according to height" also happened in my little leauge....oh, wait. Nevermind.

I do remember pissing off the uniform guy because I asked for #3, couldn't have it, and then traded someone for it despite it being a little too small.

[Guest cooby]

There was a kid on my son's LL team that was a Chipper Jones fan, so he would always choose #10, but I would call him Rey Ordonez just to tease him.

[G-Fafif]

Uni Watch meeting Mets By The Numbers is like watching some spectacular collision of trucks leaving a fabric and a numeral warehouse, respectively. Nobody gets hurt but you can't take your eyes off it.

Great interview.

]What I don�t like is being introduced to people as �the guy with the web site.� I�d be just as happy if people didn�t know.

Ah, that would explain the cringing circa 2002. Sorry 'bout that.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm pretty much the same way.

[metirish]

Johnny what did you think of the interview?

EDIT:..Lukas seems like a cool guy.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Johnny what did you think of the interview?

It was great! Made my day to see it this morning. I realize now I goofed when I said that thing about Lidle (Shingo took 10 last year, and I overlooked that).

I don't mind that other Met/baseball/uniform fans know that I do a dumb website: They should. It's awkward though when people who don;t really understand it find out. They might think you spend all day at it, or that you're crazy or obsessed or something, and that's only partly true.

[Centerfield]

cooby wrote: I do this too, my pin number and most of my log in passwords are Mets #s.

I get the feeling that if some hacker were to go around trying the pin "6986", he could make a lot of money off the posters here.

[G-Fafif]

Centerfield wrote: ="cooby"] I do this too, my pin number and most of my log in passwords are Mets #s. I get the feeling that if some hacker were to go around trying the pin "6986", he could make a lot of money off the posters here.

This seems more like a "7993" crowd.

[Guest KC]

True Fafif.

>>>It's awkward though when people who don;t really understand it find out. They might think you spend all day at it, or that you're crazy or obsessed or something, and that's only partly true.<<<

I feel that way with non-internet friends (nifs) ... it's impossible to convey
the history (and do it justice) and explain how so many of us became to
be friends and spend way too much time (at stuff like this).

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

G-Fafif wrote: This seems more like a "7993" crowd.

That's an interesting way to call us a bunch of losers.

[Guest cooby]

Yeah, really

[Guest Edgy DC]

Greg really runs a 6265 blog, if you ask me.

And if he starts dissing this forum again, I'm going to totally 7202 his ass before he knows what hit him.

[G-Fafif]

Aw p'shaw. Or Don Shaw.

I was referring to the depths CPFers plumb in their analysis of the franchise's rich and occasionally wanting history. Any Mets fan can theoretically punch 6986 into an ATM. It takes a special breed to program in a less glorious code.

As with the lineups alluded to from 1979 and 1993, no offense intended.

Lovingly,

Your Fellow Loser

[Centerfield]

It's "Looser" around these parts.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I answered gwreck's Q at the site:

1967had 15 sets of like-number-wearing teammates, including four-of-a-kind at 38 (unfortunately, they weren't Aces). Nolan Ryan assumes Humber's place as the rookie pitcher who saw no game action but occupied a jersey.

2 - Chuck Hiller, Phil Linz
5- Sandy Alomar, Ed Charles
6- Bob Johnson, Bart Shirley
18- Al Luplow, Joe Moock
19- Kevin Collins, Hawk Taylor
24- Johnny Lewis, Ken Boswell
26- Bob Shaw, Bill Graham
29- Danny Frisella, Nick Willhite
30- Dick Selma, Nolan Ryan
32- Jack Hamilton, Hal Reniff
33- Chuck Estrada, Bob Hendley
34- Jack Lamabe, Cal Koonce
35- Don Shaw, Billy Wynne
38- Ralph Terry, Dennis Bennett, Billy Wynne, Billy Connors
44- Bill Denehy, Al Schmelz

[Guest SI Metman]

Centerfield wrote: ="cooby"] I do this too, my pin number and most of my log in passwords are Mets #s. I get the feeling that if some hacker were to go around trying the pin "6986", he could make a lot of money off the posters here.

Heh, that was my last password at work mets6986 to be exact. Too bad it has to be changed on monday morning.

[soupcan]

Just read the interview - congrats JD. It was a fun read.

Funny how all the comments about '6986' and '7993' ring so true with all us.

For a while I was doing 1618 for Doc & Darryl but I've long since '86ed' that PIN.