Tim_VanVooren's Blog

Great relief work by Seth McClung of the Brewers on Thursday at St. Louis.  Lousy number.  I know he wore 37 before he came to Milwaukee, but couldn't have that because Jeff Suppan already wore it with the Brewers, so McClung reversed the digits.  I understand why he sports number 73.  I just don't like it.  I didn't like Carlton Fisk going from 27 with the Red Sox to 72 with the White Sox.  I sure didn't like Jim Bruske wearing 88 with the Brewers just because he was a screwball.  I didn't really like Scott Linebrink wearing 71 last year, but at least that was a tribute to his former bullpen catcher in San Diego who was battling cancer.  And it's not just baseball.  Dennis Rodman in anything after 10 with the Pistons, just a cry for attention (but how surprising is that ?)  Drew Gooden wearing 91 ??!!  Simply, no.  Shawn Bradley was 7 feet 6 inches tall.  He still didn't need to wear number 76.  Back in the day when a basketball player had to wear 3,4,5,10,11,12,13,14,15,20,21,22,23,24,25,30,31,32,33,3
4,35,40,41,42,43,44,45,50,51,52,53,54, or 55 it was just better.  If you are thinking, "this isn't really much of a big deal", I would agree with you. And I don't have sleepless nights worrying about Andrew Lang banging under the boards wearing number 28.  But the other night, I saw a clip of Hideo Nomo pitching for the Royals and after I assured myself that we are no longer in Spring Training, here's the question I asked myself.  How is he back on a roster, and why is he wearing a number 91 ?