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A Number a Day, Jan 9-12

Found January 13, 2012 on Seattle Marinerds:
PLAYERS: Freddy Sanchez,  Kenshin Kawakami
TEAMS: San Francisco Giants,  Pittsburgh Pirates

I'm not going to do this during the weekend of Jan 13-16 on account of the fact that I'm going to Boston for the MIT Mystery Hunt.Do you remember when Freddy Sanchez was the lone All-Star for the Pittsburgh Pirates? Yeah, nobody else does either. But that's when I bought this shirt, when I was in Pittsburgh for CMU Carnival or something and decided I wanted another Pirates t-shirt that wasn't for someone named Jason (ie, I already had Bay and Kendall). And I kinda liked Freddy Sanchez and didn't trust Zach Duke. So.Anyway, he's #12 for the 12th, even though I realize that's not the number he wears on the San Francisco Giants.I flipped a coin. Kenshin Kawakami won for being #11 on the 11th, though it's just as well as I don't really want anyone at work to ask me about Darvish :)You know, what's really nostalgic is how this was the Game 1 matchup in both the 2006 and 2007 Japan Series... and both times, the team that lost that Game 1 ended up wi...
Original Story: http://marinerds.blogspot.com/2012/01...
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