Retiring a number for a player that never played on your team (short of a Jackie Robinson-like league mandate) just screams bush league.
And how exactly do you give stars in a hangout thread? When I read the title of the thread earlier this evening, I thought it was about if he should put his parents in a retirement home, and he was going to Poll ClutchFans. The Football Cardinals moved from Chicago to St Louis to Phoenix (to Glendale). They took all that history (or lack of one) to the Phoenix desert.