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The first number ever retired in all of sports was Lou Gehrig's, in 1939. By the 100th anniversary of that ceremony, the Yankees will have retired about 25-30 n
by raldi 14y ago
The first number ever retired in all of sports was Lou Gehrig's, in 1939. By the 100th anniversary of that ceremony, the Yankees will have retired about 25-30 numbers. The active roster requires 40+ free numbers < 100. What happens when they run out?
- alexkus 14y ago> What happens when they run out? 2 digits of base > 10? 3 digit numbers? Hardly a tricky problem to solve...
- prawks 14y agoGot a nice chuckle picturing them wearing hex numbers.
- drivingmenuts 14y agoThat's a different problem. Retiring a number only affects the subset of all people who actually care about the Yankees numbering system, but only has to be done once with no further upkeep. The decision to lock down a domain name in perpetuity potentially affects everyone on the internet and more to the point, negatively affects the people responsible for maintaining the DNS servers and the content servers, etc.