I had to look twice before i deduced that it was a joke. It is a joke right? You really do capture the slippery slope idiocy of her position. I would make the hypothesis that if it weren't for the initial segregation baseball went through, no player should have (and,) hypothetically, would have had the universal retirement of their jersey.

What an obvious insult to Eddie Gaedel, the famous midget pinch-hitter who wore the number 1/8. Honoring everyone in baseball history except Gaedel is a slap to vertically-challenged Americans!

Carl Pavano could wear i, an imaginary number.

Why not use their Salaries?

Farnsworth: Why is your number seven-eighth's?

Leela: All the whole numbers have been retired.

When you can Jackie Robinsonify everything in the whole godamn world. Retire #42 from THE WORLD. From the system of numbers as we understand it.

It's 2008, can't we just use those square scannable things like they have on plane tickets?

Good one, King.

Why can't they go back to the good old days when the numbers were assigned based on the batting order? That's how Ruth got #3 in the first place. I'm sure some clever jersey maker can come up with some neat way to put some sort of display on the back of each jersey that can display the appropriate number rather than this quaint way of sewing or ironing fabric numbers onto the jersey.

An unrelated thought, I wonder what number Ruth would've wanted to wear if he actually got to choose his number. Maybe someone should figure that out, and retire that number.

...I reserve filth-hundred and neep, or shinty-six if that's already taken.

If someone wore the number Pi how many digits would be displayed?

I've never understood how retiring a number actually honors the player who originally wore it. If the number is missing, aren't we more likely to forget it? They should make it mandatory for all teams to have a number 42 for Jackie Robinson.

And they can make all fat, white, drunkards wear Babe Ruth's number. Is David Wells still playing?

Is Selig talking about non-negative integers?

As a Cub fan, I know I once was very adamant about retiring Neifi Perez's number (and Neifi).

Gus Triandos, Woodie Held, George Zeber...

In my baseball heart, their numbers already are retired

alex65001 watch Futurama much?

Farnsworth: Why is your number seven-eighth's?

Leela: All the whole numbers have been retired.

Doh! (To coin a phrase.)

And actually, no. I think I watched the first episode, thought it was reasonably funny, and have never watched it again.

Arne is a douchebag Why stop at baseball ... When you can Jackie Robinsonify everything in the whole godamn world. Retire #42 from THE WORLD. From the system of numbers as we understand it.

You can't. It's the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Mantonat And they can make all fat, white, drunkards wear Babe Ruth's number. Is David Wells still playing?

Wells actually did wear Ruth's number when he pitched for the Red Sox.