Against All Odds: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

[Dick Whitman]

TV broadcaster Len Kasper said so today on the radio, and the subsequent hosts were having a field day with it the rest of the afternoon.

Seems ridiculous to me, though someone pointed out:

* Success as a starter and a closer.
* Coming back from multiple arm surgeries.
* Second-highest SO/9 in baseball history.
* The whole "New Mr. Cub" factor, i.e. coming back to the franchise, etc., etc.

Still seems ridiculous to me. Maybe the Indians care retire Joe Charboneau next.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Teases, heartbreak, unfulfilled promise ... no one more personifies a franchise.

Sure, why not?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

I'm sorry, but I was sure doodah had started this thread.

 

[Bubbler]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

You cannot be serious!

 

[micropolitan guy]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Not until they retire Tuffy Rhodes' number too.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

In my defense, this is in reaction to something someone else, someone in an official capacity with the ballclub, said. This is not me starting some random thread.

 

[Bubbler]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

In my defense, this is in reaction to something someone else, someone in an official capacity with the ballclub, said. This is not me starting some random thread.

No. It kinda is.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Doesn't he need to retire first?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

In my defense, this is in reaction to something someone else, someone in an official capacity with the ballclub, said. This is not me starting some random thread.

No. It kinda is.

No. It's kinda not.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Not before Carmen Fanzone

 

[Armchair_QB]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Jose Cardenal is wondering what he's got to do to get a little ****ing respect around here.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

What about guys who went on to do great things in sports after their Cubs days?

 

[Stoney]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Honestly, ****, you start some of the oddest damn threads.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Honestly, ****, you start some of the oddest damn threads.

It didn't feel that odd when they were talking about it all afternoon on the radio.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

What about guys who went on to do great things in sports after their Cubs days?

Not until the Cardinals retire his number.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

He could have at least kept with the theme and made the thread title "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

In my defense, this is in reaction to something someone else, someone in an official capacity with the ballclub, said. This is not me starting some random thread.

No. It kinda is.

No. It's kinda not.

It's random. You started it.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Sure, I can see it now--Wood's number affixed to the scoreboard right next to emblems of Leon Durham's glove, Bartman's headphones, and Cindy Sandberg's sundress.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

In my defense, this is in reaction to something someone else, someone in an official capacity with the ballclub, said. This is not me starting some random thread.

No. It kinda is.

No. It's kinda not.

It's random. You started it.

Not everything in life can be as orderly as the Dewey (Evans) Decimal System.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Re: Should the Cubs retire Kerry Wood's number?

Pitched what was probably the greatest game in history - by far the greatest of my conscious lifetime.