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Got the number 13 tattooed on my neck

Edgy DC Apr 30 2007 10:42 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on May 01 2007 09:07 PM

Reds retiring Concepcion's number.

soupcan May 01 2007 09:19 AM

I'm surprised to read that the Reds have not retired Rose's 14.

Yancy Street Gang May 01 2007 09:22 AM

I'm sure that 14 has been kept dormant since Rose was gone. They're probably waiting (hoping) for a reinstatement before they do a ceremony. (As things stand now he wouldn't be allowed to attend.) It's probably also why they waited 19 years to retire Concepcion's number. They may have wanted it to coincide with a Hall-of-Fame induction, but since that doesn't seem to be happening, they want to get it done while he's still alive. (Not that he has one foot in the grave or anything like that.)

iramets May 01 2007 09:27 AM

I was surprised to learn that the thread title wasn't a confessional "Edgy-loves-Fonzie" descent-into-madness kind of thing. I thought the boy had finally cracked.

Yancy Street Gang May 01 2007 09:28 AM

Give it time. If this thread survives to three or four pages, a descent into madness is practically inevitable.

Edgy DC May 01 2007 09:29 AM

They may be prohibiited from retiring his number. He played in a post-season softball game of Retired Reds Luminaries to mark the end of Riverfront. Maybe they should have had a ceremony then. That may not work now. His standing is only getting worse. Maybe they should have a retirement ceremony between races at a horse track. Or at a cock fight.

Yancy Street Gang May 01 2007 09:31 AM

They can have it in Las Vegas.

SteveJRogers May 01 2007 05:36 PM

IIRC the NY Giants announced that Frank Gifford's number was being retired that night at some dinner function during the offseason or something a couple of years back? No fancy pre-game or half time ceromony at Giants Stadium or anything, just "Ladies and Gentlemen, Frank Gifford's uniform number is now retired. Thank you, don't forget to tip your waiters and please, try the veal." Actually, wasn't Casey Stengel's number retirement by the Mets handled the same way as well? Not during a game, just a Press Conference and Stengel talking in front of an empty Shea Stadium? The Reds could try that approach.