And so somehow yesterday it slipped through the cracks.

Morabito got the number eight, and it was confirmed that it's a one-day-only thing. And today he's going to switch back to the number I guess he's going to wear, which is 55. Here's my problem with the Mets right now. What? Slip through the crack. I don't know how it slips through the cracks, and I'm not going to lose sleep over one game game even though Nick Morbito in a way cost him five runs by not catching the inside the park grand slam that he got a glove on and then be going into the stands on a sacrifice fly in which he could have let it go for a foul ball but you'd need it outs in that inning I get it I'm just spot the lie Nick Morabito cost him at's five runs am I wrong true I like kid. I think he's going to be really good. Tyrone Taylor could have cost him a couple runs too. Yeah. Him standing there didn't help, but that was going to be a three-run triple anyway at that point. Right. So my problem with the Mets is either retire the number or give it out. Like you've retired Keith Hernandez, you've retired Doc, you've retired

Dary Cousman, you're going to retire Carlos Beltron.

Number eight has been out of circulation for 25 years.

Unfortunately, Gary Carter hasn't been with us for more than a decade now.

Just retire the number.

Yeah.

It just feels weird to me.

You know, it's funny, because I read the game notes that we get every day from the Mets and the Yankees. And in that game note, I noticed that. It's like they've recalled or, yeah, no, recalled because he was already on the 40 man, Nick Morabito, and he's going to wear number eight. and it didn't register. If it was you had read it, you would have, it would have registered right away.

I didn't register it. If it was you had read it, it would have registered right away. I didn't register that right away. I was just like, all right, cool, number eight. That's a cool number. No, I get you. And now that you're saying it, how does that mistake, putting that in quotes, how does that happen? The only way it happens is they're on the road, and whoever is running that clubhouse right now, it's just not familiar with the unofficial rules. Or they didn't have another jersey? Like, what else? How, how you do that? I don't know, but retire the number. And I've speculated that I think the Mets are going to surprise us by retiring the number later this year.

Like they're going to do what they did with Willie Mays a few years ago because it was the same thing with 24. For a long time, 24 was out of circulation. It was worn randomly like Ricky Henderson wore it. Robbie Knoe wore it. But outside of that, I think those were only the two guys that wore it over the course of a long period of time. and then finally the Met said,

screw it, we're going to retire the number.

We're going to honor the legacy of Willie Mays

in his New York baseball history. two guys that ward over the course of a long period of time. And then finally the Met said, screw it.

We're going to retire the number.

We're going to honor the legacy of Willie Mays in his New York baseball history.

Retire the number eight.

Like if it's out of circulation, what are we doing?

It's like half a retirement.

Is it possible they're waiting for like his family to pick a day or a year they want to come do this?

Haven't they had a decade to do that? Okay, but I'm just saying even if it's come up

in the last couple of years, you know? I don't know

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