Numerology

[DocTee]

SI is running a list of the best baseball players to wear specific numbers and it is a joke.

For 17, they chose Dizzy Dean (fine) but for runners-up?: Mark Grace, with honorable mention to Lance Berkman, Vic Raschi, Todd Helton, Brandon Webb and BJ Surhoff.

No love for Mex. The rest of the list is similarly flawed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0804/mlb.best.baseball.players.numbers.0-22/content.21.html

[metirish]

No need to wonder who # 2 is , no it's not Jimmie Foxx .

Seaver is # 41.


The whole thing is very cumbersome to look at.

[DocTee]

Cumbersome, yes. But thems are some purty pictures.


The powder blue Montreal unis are to die for...

[metirish]

Agree , grerat pictures , would be nice if the whole thing was in thumbnail.

[Guest AG/DC]

I coldn't read past two.

Couldn't read.

[DocTee]

Rey-Rey is runner up for Zero. That's gotta count for something?

[Fman99]

DocTee wrote: No love for Mex. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0804/mlb.best.baseball.players.numbers.0-22/content.21.html

I am boycotting based on this fact alone. Those bastards.

[metirish]

Mets are all over # 50 , Matt Lawton , Sid Fernandez and Benny.

[stevejrogers]

Maybe they figure since Hernandez only wore 17 with the Mets for just 5 years, and some change with the Indians, and actually wore 37 for a longer period of time (1977-6/15/1983), hence it really is a bigger deal on the local level.

[seawolf17]

MATT LAWTON!?!? Are they fucking kidding?

[batmagadanleadoff]

SteveJRogers wrote: Maybe they figure since Hernandez only wore 17 with the Mets for just 5 years, and some change with the Indians, and actually wore 37 for a longer period of time (1977-6/15/1983), hence it really is a bigger deal on the local level.

That's what I thought, too. But SI gave #35 to Rickey Henderson, even acknowledging that Rickey only wore that number at the beginning of his career. Dizzy Dean's a good choice. But no honorable mention of Keith? That ain't right. SI also gave #57 to Francisco Rodriguez over Johan Santana.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Awful.

Hate to say it but the whole SI franchise is going the way of The Sporting News.

[soupcan]

'Tis true.

[Guest AG/DC]

It'll always have a share of the Maxim audience though.

[TransMonk]

How could you confuse this with Maxim?

[DocTee]

Mex gets no love for 37 either: Dave Steib and Bill Lee.

[Theoldmole]

Dick Allen and Beltran both better than Munson.

[metsmarathon]

not to suckle at the yankee teat, but gibson over mattingly?

[stevejrogers]

Hernandez gets love from the reader reaction to this photo essay.

[stevejrogers]

Heh, but Benny does not based on this quote on a page suggesting Jamie Moyer for # 50

]Matt Lawton with No. 50? Hello! Jamie Moyer is still playing and he's had two 20-win seasons! Not even a runner-up? Who is Benny Agbayani anyway? -free_Dickey