No. 14, Encarnacion/Sojo - The Baseball Thread continues

Re: No. 14, Edwin Encarnacion - The Baseball Thread continues

To answer my own question: Yes, yes he did. And he will be honored, dammit.

 

One of the most interesting interview subjects I ever had. Crazy story about the interview too.

 

Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

Geez, 'gola!
Lou Piniella wore No. 14 with the Yankees.

 

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Dude, I should know that. To my defense: I wasn't alive when Lou Piniella played for the Yankees.

I'll stick with Sojo. He won a World Series. Against a certain team from the other side of New York City.

 

Eight years ago, that must be rough.

 

It's all the yankees fans have now...or will have for the next 10 years

 

Re: No. 14, Edwin Encarnacion - The Baseball Thread continues

He also wore No. 11 for a slightly longer period of time.

Dion James, Jim Paciorek, Gus Polidor, Rick Dempsey and Charlie Hayes are the legends who have walked in the Milwaukee Brewers' No. 14.

If you take 14 and divide by those players it equals suck.

 

I was doing a catch-up story with a player on the Tampa Yankees and I wanted to speak to Sojo, since he's the manager down here.

So I talk to the player, all is fine and I never get a call that day from Sojo. So later that night, I am hanging out with my friends playing some video games, minding my own business when I get a call from an unknown number on my cell phone.

I silence it, but then I remember it could be Sojo. So I pick up the phone and say hello, this is Rumple. On the other end, I hear this thick accent saying "This is Luis Sojo of the Tampa Yankees."

At first I didn't think it was him because I never really heard him talk and I thought it was just one of my friends playing a trick on me. I said "I'm sorry, who is this again?" The second time he said it, I was like, "Oh man, how are you doing, do you have a few minutes."

Disaster averted.

 

Objection to the "wasn't alive" defense. Not in this kangaroo court, buddy.

 

I, for one, will not be satisfied until we get to Baseball Thread Bill Wegman.