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All right, 703. Nice to have you with us. It is the Boomer and Geo program coming to you live from the bill. Ford Tough Studio. Geo is out until Tuesday. So I sit in with the booms. 888-808-101-19 is the phone number. A lot on the hockey, a little bit on the football last hour. and this hour we turn our attention essentially to baseball with Cilow mixed in in the middle as well.

And that was, we got the announcement yesterday of number 52 going into Monument Park, a plaque

for C.C. Sabathia. And, you know, so I'm sure your reaction, I don't know what it was, but I know mine was, my initial reaction was, yeah, that sounds about right.

But I was always left with thinking that that team could have and should have won more, which is a really snarky thing to say because there are teams like the Mets that haven't won since 1986,

and there are other teams that have never won.

But just a great pitcher here.

And whenever I think of C.C. Sabathia, yes, 2009 with the World Series for sure,

I will always come back to that half a season after the trade deadline, not even half a season,

when he was with Milwaukee, pitching every three days to will that team into the postseason.

A gamer, as good as they get, and just a big congratulations to C.C.

Yeah, the guy was a piece for sure, you know, and he played 19 years in the major leagues. And look, he's a Hall of Famer. Yep. You know, so Hall of Famers get plaques and get their numbers retired. And, you know, it's really great. He's been a real, I think he's been like one of their, you know, for his era of Yankee, Yankee, they didn't win as much as they probably should have in terms of championships. But, you know, he was the guy that took the ball every five days. Yeah, he was a work course. He wanted to be out there. He wanted to be out there. It wasn't perfect. It didn't end the, you know, the sweetest way it could have. But, yeah, I don't, I don't have any problem with with it and as a matter of fact i when i did see it

i was like okay it's about time absolutely and you know you we talk about 200 innings like

being the gold standard now and so i pulled up his numbers just because you know you figure

you're a numbers guy well no but I think sometimes they're valid.

And, you know, in 2007 with Cleveland, 241, that 2008 year that I was talking about, 253.

It's ridiculous. I mean, really just a throwback to some level.

And then went in the World Series 9 with the Yankees.

And then, you know, you look at his numbers.

Those first five or six years were so damn good. And then I had a little bit of injury stuff in maybe a couple of years not so great. But, you know, for the most part, he was a guy that you wanted to go watch pitch. He was different looking. He was big. He had the oversized jersey was on him. But he was a great pitcher. And so he goes into Monument Park. And so I thought this would be interesting. I don't have the exact number, but there's a lot of numbers that the Yankees have retired. Yeah, okay. A lot of numbers of the Yankees have retired. Now, there are only... And the thing about it is, since they do not have the name on the back of the jersey, the number is the number belongs to that player. Correct. Except number eight, I think, is to his Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey. But you're right. Otherwise, it belongs to the player. So in terms of monuments in Monument Park, you've only got Miller Huggins, George Steinbrenner, Lou Gehrig, Babe with Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.

That's it.

Everybody else gets a plaque. No mindment. So, Al, I'm going to ask you a couple of numbers. Now, you are a 1980s baseball maven. Yeah. It's hard to actually argue with them, believe it or not. We've done this. Some of these are from earlier. I'm going to give you a Yankee number.

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