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I think it's time they stopped retiring numbers.. unless the person is arguably the greatest ever... like Gretzky or Jordan. They'll eventually run out of numbers. In stead, they should put the jersey out there with his name on it.
Hey buddy retiring numbers is good AND you only retire the numbers worn by players who spent the majority of their great career in one place for example TED WILLIAMS and YAZ.

Anywho even the Celtics and Yankees haven't retired ALL the numbers.
Eventually they'll run out of numbers. Honor the MAN, not the number.

Bert Blyleven was good, but how many all star appearances did he make? 2. How many Cy Youngs did he win? 0. How many MVPs did he win? 0. And how is he better than Jack Morris? At least Morris has appeared in 5 ASGs.

Now I'm not saying leave him out, but I don't think he's a no brainer, either.
Jack Morris, yeah. His 7th game performance in the 1991 world series for the Twins had to be one of the greatest of all time, probably the highlite of his career. Morris starts and pitches into extra innings as the Twins win 1-0. Awesome game. Then Toronto signs him to a big fat contract and he gets two more world series rings in 92 and 93. He was kind of scary for the Jays though. 1992 he goes 21-6 with an over 4 era, and incredible run support. Disaster waiting to happen. He got blown away in the playoffs that year, and didn't do much of anything the following year, spent the 93 playoffs on the bench. Did one more year in the majors with Cleveland and retired.