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There was a time when baseball players didn't wear numbers on their uniforms, but it almost seems impossible to envision that kind of chaos today.
So isn't it strange that Dodger Thoughts hasn't given its commenters their digits?
Today, I invite you to request your number for the 2008 season. The only rule that I can think of is that you can't take a number that someone else claims ahead of you. Feel free to explain your choice or not. (I confess to hoping I might see some fun stories behind your number allegiences.)
No numbers are retired it's a clean slate but I'm grabbing 26. No, it's not an homage to Luis Gonzalez. That's just always been my number, whenever I could get it. I guess I'm just too fond of my birthday. Strangely, no one in Dodgerland has really gone to town with it, that I know of.
Updated Roster:
(Some commenters below chose numbers that were already claimed, and need to choose again.)
0 - apsio
00 Kevin Lewis
1 MC Safety
2 LogikReader
3- dzzrtRatt
3.14159265 - fan 4 40 plus
3:16 trainwreck
3.5 - stopthebeachballs
4 adamclyde
5 Paul Scott
6 TheBigGrabowski
07 - Midwest Blue
7 Wilbert Robertson
8 Greg Brock
9 blue22
10 Dusto
11 - GoBears
12 Gilberto Reyes
13 ryu
14 Robert Daeley
15 - Sushirabbit
16 KG16
17 27indigo
18 gcrl
19 hernari
20 Branch Rickey
21 Jacob L
22 - paranoidandroid
23 - bhsportsguy
24 ToyCannon
25 - bigcpa
26 Jon Weisman
27 D4P
28 El Lay Dave
29 - Fallout
30 - DXMachina
31 StolenMonkey86
32 Marty
33 - regfairfield
34 Eric L
35 - wireroom
36 Terry A
37 - Ken Noe
38 TellMeTheScoreRickMonday
39 - Jason in Canada
40 - A Dodger expatriate in Pennsylvania
41 Improbable88
42 - 3upn3down
43 - Samuel
44 CajunDodger
45 Bluebleeder87
46 - Jay Jaffe
47 Jacob Burch
48 - Gold Star for Robot Boy
49 - BlueCrew Bruin
50 Michael Green
51 - tjshere
52 - MikeB
53 Disabled List
55 - SoSG Orel
56 - Bleed Dodger Blue
57 - Linkmeister
58 silverwidow
59 - sporky
61 Clive Clements
62 kinbote
63 - scareduck
65 - player to be named later
66 - Indiana Jon
67 thinkblue0
68 - arbfuldodger
71 - Brendan
72 - Peanuts in My Shoes
76 - Eric Stephen
77 ssjames
79 - Shotupthemiddle
80 - therickdaddy
81 Johnny Nucleo
82 - berkowit28
84 Bill Crain
86 Humma Kavula
87 - Anteater87
88 - deburns
93 - GIDP
94 - Jeromy
97 gpellamjr
98 - underdog
99 jasonungar07
101 joekings
111 uke
175 - FirstMohican
212 - mollyknight
257 - matt kemp27
228 Xeifank
619 - PadreJeremy
666 Big Show
707 - Vishal
810 - Howard Fox
818 - Dane Bramage
888 - Connector
1066 - Gen3Blue
1313 - NoHoDodger
1950 - SgtWyatt
4497 - Suffering Bruin
5988 gibsonhobbs88
44201 - Blaine
112927 - Strike4
3,000,000 - Who Is Karim Garcia
silly i know, but its stuck in my local circles as 'my' number.
So, 47 tis requested.
In memory of,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/228_Incident
vr, Xei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/227_%28TV_series%29
(If anyone is interested in continuing the education talk, I left a long post in the LAT zone of the last thread.)
So I'll take #32
If it is, I'll take 42.
If not, I'll go with 7
All right. How about just "3."
That would be for Hammerin Hank and Pete Maravich.
Who's bringing postgame snacks this week?
2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 30, 31, 32, 37, 42, 44, 47, 228
Besides, who wouldn't want to have Babe Ruth's number?
Man, uniform numbers are screwy.
87,178,291,200 would be hard to fit legibly. ;)
3 is the magic number.
Oh yeah it is, it's the magic number.
I'm OK with using letters to spell team and player names.
2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27*, 28, 30, 31, 32, 37, 42, 44, 47, 228
(For Choi, of course, not the waste of cash and bench space wearing that number currently.)
It has always been about Duke Snider for me. My Dad was a Dodger fan and he would watch the MLB game of the week and would try to slow me down as I would run through the house to watch a few innings with him. When the Dodgers were the game of the week I am told that Duke Snider always hit a homerun everytime I watched for a few innings.
I intently watched the world series beginning in 55 and would wake to the Gillett Blue Blades commercial song as the official sound indicating the World Series was about to begin. That it was my team that moved to LA made it all that much better.
Agent Maxwell Smart's number.
Plus, all of my comments should probably be 86ed.
I had that number in Little League once, and of course, there is always Willy Mays Hayes
As of now, that list would go like this:
2 Greg Brock
7 Gilberto Reyes
8 KG16
13 GoBears
13 Robert Daeley
19 ssjames
32 dzzrtRatt
32 CajunDodger
33 Marty
33 Dusto
34 Xeifrank
43 silverwidow
44 ToyCannon
50 ryu
59 Ken Noe
62 adamclyde
64 blue22
66 Andrew Shimmin
67 Jacob Burch
68 Jon Weisman
69 Bumsrap
73 Greg S
82 DXMachina
83 Paul Scott
89 bhsportsguy
89 LogikReader
93 3upn3down
96 D4P
97 StolenMonkey86
99 hernari
Thanks
But then I looked back and found that Wally Moon used to wear #9. So things are all good again with me and ol' number 9.
Heh heh.
I could live with 44.
13 GoBears
14 Robert Daeley
My number is interesting too, thought kinda sad when you think about it.
Aren't you a little young to have a son that was born in 97...?
Do you remember when the PUC split the 818 area code and gave 626 to the San Gabriel Valley. The Asian community there was up in arms, but to no avail.
If the DT community denies me both of those, maybe 666 (the number of the beast)
will have to do. I have a little nostalgia for 8 when it was worn by Shotgun Shuba, tho.
Did you marry gpellamIII's mother...?
Dewitt is the only one standing out. Greg Miller..Yikes!
http://tinyurl.com/ywmxxq
j/k, I'll stick with 53.
Naturally, on the Dodgers front, the Gil Hodges and Mike Scioscia connections are pretty spiffy as well.
Duh. Clearly that's why Scioscia and Hodges chose it as well.
If his is not available, I will settle for Nap Rucker's.
Now I really don't like him as an announcer very much.
You kinda gotta root for Tuffy Gosewisch, though. Whoever he is.
I'll take 97. Someone's gotta sympathize with Beimel.
http://www.mlb.com/mlb/events/winterleagues/multimedia/?league=afl
Of course, we weren't even close to the right answer. Cool anyways.
Without my media guide, I'm lost as to which number(s) I want. 30?
Rotation:
32 Marty
53 Disabled List
55 - SoSG Orel
20 Branch Rickey
34 Eric L
Bullpen:
38 - TellMeTheScoreRickMonday
44 - CajunDodger
97 - gpellamjr
58 - silverwidow
Others?
#99
Don Shula likes the Patriots' chances of going undefeated, but the Bill Belichick-inspired spying scandal has clouded Shula's thinking when comparing New England with his unbeaten 1972 Dolphins team.
"The Spygate thing has diminished what they've accomplished," Shula said in an interview with the New York Daily News. "You would hate to have that attached to your accomplishments. They've got it."
I'm ready to start work on my rotisserie team for next year, and this year I'm definitely up for a DT game. I'm still mad at myself for not making it last year. And I am sure Jon will arrange a sit-down with Torre. Thanks to one and all for keeping me in touch with Matters Dodger from my outpost in Berkeley. Unfortunately, my one visit to Phone Co. Park was for the game where Ray Durham's late HR ruined a good game.
Is 21 still on the table? If so, I'll take it.
One more try: 36 or bust.
No, but I am willing to compromise and do it my way.
I'm not sure I have a view past that.
He who snoozes loses.
I'm more of an actinide fan myself, although I have a certain fondness for the heavy metals. W, Os, Ta, and Ir are among my favorites, although osmium compounds can be extremely hazardous.
I just worked with an iridium complex for the first time last week - gorgeous, almost luminous bright red colour. Reaction wasn't very succesful though.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Perfect for this crowd.
http://tinyurl.com/3excvt
Does Robocop count as human?
Just one of life's many mysteries, such as why I can't paint you, given that a picture paints a thousand words.
I was thinking of 50--the year Vinnie was hired. Does that work?
Did you OPS .666?
3.14159265
and if that's taken
2.71828183
i've never been accused of being rational
I would have wanted #26, for Jon Arnett, but some clueless Stanford alum seems to have got to it first.
And hey, Jon, I claimed #57 back at 150 . That was the good Steve Howe.
That is so stupid.
Goes to Rollins.
http://tinyurl.com/2usltb
Amidst this recent Grady/Torre/Colletti drama, I've forgotten about how well Russell did this year.
So gimme 15 if it's still open. I always associate that number with Klammer in 76 even though I'm not sure that was his number.
Elegant on the edge. I bet he can drive well, too.
1) Everything else is taken
2) Pedro Guerrero was my first "favorite player."
43, 81, 10, 24, & 17
No in the same order, they're my lucky number, former favorite Dodgers number, and my birth day, month and year.
175 it is.
Assuming I didn't overlook it when I scanned all the previous posts.
a girl on my soccer team once wore 666 on her uni until the other teams got freaked out (brought in an exorcist, etc)
[you know, Mockingbird Lane.]
After all, 13 was taken.
Because all the good numbers are taken.
The lowest number waiting to be claimed is now 46, aka Burt Hooton's.
46
49
52
54
56
59
60
64-66
68-71
73
74
76
78
80
82
83
85
87
89-96
Right now, the only user whose name is also a command is TellMeTheScoreRickMonday, and I think it would be nice to join him as 86 Humma Kavula.
May I have 818 please?
(in honor of a certain area code...)
Todd Williams 1995
Paul Konerko 1997
Norihiro Nakamura 2005
I got stuck in between updates.
BTW, I like trainwreck and all, but isn't 3:16 technically two numbers?
in tribute to all the fans that come out to support our blue crew!
I'll take 888, since 8 and 88 are taken.
8 is my favorite number. In Kabbalistic terminology 8 means above-nature, eternal. (The 8-days of Hanuka, for example.)I have little pieces of paper with "8"s on them in my coinpurse and in my wallet to bring me eternal success.
It's for the year of my birth, people.
That said... 4497. My son's birthday.
I'll take 07.
Thanks
Thanks.
TechMang
thanks
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