What Are They Thinking?

The first WATT goes to the Nashua Pride, who, according to this story, want to unretire Glenn Murray's number. Murray, a hitting coach for the Lancaster Barnstormers, arguably is the best hitter in Atlantic League history. He is the league's all-time home run leader and he dominated pitching pitching staffs for seven seasons. Now, after the team made a huge deal about retiring Murray's No. 34 last season, the Pride want to give it to former Red Sox reliever Rich Garces. Simply put, this is a disaster. DON'T RETIRE SOMEONE'S NUMBER IF YOU WANT TO GIVE IT SOMEONE ELSE LESS THAN A YEAR LATER.
The second WATT goes to Murray, who fulfilled a journalist's dream with some of his quotes in the story. As a preview:

“I basically said if you have to ask me, then use it,” Murray said. “But (Garces) doesn’t have the big-league time to pull my number from Nashua. Maybe from another team, but not from Nashua. I just left it as is. He (VP of baseball operations Chris Hall) was like, ‘It’s up to you.’ But it’s not up to me, because if you’re asking me, don’t ask me. You’ve already retired it. If you let him use it, don’t put it back up there. Take it down. That’s my attitude.“What’s the question? There shouldn’t be a question. Rich Garces, OK, yeah, he’s a big-league player, but even if he plays four more years in the big leagues, he’s not going to the Hall of Fame. They’re not going to retire his number. Michael Jordan came back (from retirement) and used 45. He didn’t even use his own number.”

It's good to see Murray cares that much about the Atlantic League, but let's keep things in perspective here. It's not like the Red Sox retired his number. Plus, the Pride are in a different league now, so it's almost like a new franchise without a history.