Comments on: Misplaced loyalty on Opening Day

By: Peter Abraham

Peter Abraham — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:19:52 +0000

Jim:

Do you know LaTroy personally? If not you, you are unqualified to say what he thinks. You have no idea.

The team also decides which jerseys are used, not the players. The players work for the team. The only Yankees on the team the last 8 years are Jeter, Mo and Posada. They had nothing to do with it.

O’Neill was a very fine player. But if you’re retiring his jersey, then you might as well retire Gossage, Cone, Brosius, Martinez, etc. They were above average players who tried hard, too.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:02:21 +0000

You are 100% WRONG. Dead wrong. I love how you start with the .303 batting average, i guess that sums up a players career huh? The players on the Yankees for the past 8 years have decided themselves to retire Pauls number out of respect. The organization didn’t need to retire it, the players decided themselves not to wear it. Then LaTroy shows up (who could care less about past yankees) and puts on the jersey. I will never cheer for anything he does as long as he wears pin-stripes. Go wear that jersey for another team please

By: Ron gold

Ron gold — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:37:55 +0000

I loved Paulie as a player but his announcing is god awful. It’s truly painful to listen to him. He never sheds light on the present game, at bat, pitch etc. It’s always a story about him back in the day.

By: Ron gold

Ron gold — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:37:26 +0000

By: george

george — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:46:59 +0000

there are lots of retired numbers because of the Yanks’ history, not because they got ‘carried away’!

on any other team, O’Neill’s number would be retired, if that team had won 4 championships.

but on the Yankees, that’s less than 25% of the total number of championships. given all that, i think they’ve been conservative in retiring numbers. the O’Neill decision reflects that

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:44:24 +0000

Great post Pete!

Mark Alan – Don’t agree with you on Munson. He played his entire career with the Yankees, won the Rookie of the Year Award and the MVP Award plus he was The Captain. He IS the standard along with most of the others.

Rich

By: catjya

catjya — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:54:52 +0000

Pete your not a Yankee fan …let it go a far as wearing #21
true fans understand the number should be retired period,no disrespect intended to you~

By: Mark Alan

Mark Alan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:29:45 +0000

hmmmm…

It was not a strawman, but Munson doesn’t meet the criteria Pete laid out to exclude retiring Paulie’s number. They’re both very good players and sentimental choices, though.

As for booing Hawkins, I wouldn’t have done it and if the guy sitting next to me had, I’d probably throw him out of my luxury box… yeah, right. I would be hesitant to converse with him. Hawkins, a great guy by all accounts, was not being at all disrespectful of Paul O’Neal. And if Hawins is Puerto Rican, I can understand his wanting, being honored to wear Roberto Clemente’s #21.

By: Yanks fan in Austin

Yanks fan in Austin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:05:41 +0000

where’s my post?

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:25:33 +0000

“maybe even 51 for Bernie”

Maybe????