“Is that our goal next year? Yes, to be at that number, that’s our goal.”
As some observant fans may have noticed, the Yankees have invited 84 players to Major League camp as Spring Training opens this week. This presents a clear, if minor, problem: once you factor in coaches, guest instructors, and all the team’s retired or unused uniform numbers, it’s inevitable that a few invitees will have to don triple digits in Tampa.
NoMaas has a solution that frees up at least one two-digit number for an ST hopeful: Joe Girardi should give up #28.
As everyone knows, for the last few years Joe’s uniform number has represented the Yankees’ goal of winning a 28th World Championship. Since the goal has changed, he should instead switch to #189. It would really reflect the attitude of the front office, and would be a gracious gesture on the manager’s part.
#Vacate28
6 Comments
Moshe Mandel February 11, 2013 14:47
Jewing it to 189
Casey Jones February 11, 2013 15:43
This is the first strong, old school no maas style post in a long time fellas.
Get off Brian Kenny’s nut sack and stick to funny clever posts. I really don’t give a shit about your analysis of a fastball using pie charts. You got two good eyes and you still don’t see! Nova & Hughes throw a pitch called a meatball. I don’t need the infrared ultrasound graphs to tell me that.
Granderson has a three inch hole in the middle of his bat and it’s two inches too short. I don’t need a powerpoint to tell me that. He hits home runs by accident. But he is in his walk year, so if he didn’t shop at BioGenesis last year I expect him to hit 54 and strikeout much less because he will put duct tape on that hole.
Joe Girardi February 11, 2013 16:51
I’m not giving up my number. These forearms don’t lie!
Jorge Posada February 11, 2013 21:31
How about No. 195?
That would represent 162 regular season games plus 33 spring games remaining for Joe to baby-sit before I replace him.
You know what, NoMaas? February 12, 2013 04:21
I like your attitude! I love this post and I agree, this is old school, “go fuck yourself,” reality NoMaas. More… MORE!!
Call me Crazy February 12, 2013 09:43
…but they could change Kuroda’s number to hachi (八).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
(First Nomaas post I’ve laughed out loud at in quite a while. Good work, guys.)