Retired but not forgotten The Yankees retired Ron Guidry's number 49 yesterday in a pre-game ceremony. I think that leaves about 4 available numbers for future players to have. That makes about 300 retired numbers by now. Hell, they retired number 8 twice. They'll probably have to start givin a few guys the same number to avoid spillage into negative digits and Roman numerals. "Now batting, number -85, followed by XVI."