Biblical scholars will tell you the number 8 signifies resurrection and regeneration, that it’s the number of a new beginning. In ancient times, Pythagoras would have his students draw, look at, and meditate upon the number 8 as a way of invoking infinite abundance. Numerologists say it’s the symbol of harmony and balance. The Beatles sang of Eight Days a Week. The number 8 is the atomic number for oxygen, there are 8 planets, a byte is 8 bits.
In other words, the number 8 rocks.
“Give it to 8,” Larry Fedora, who’s wont to refer to players by their uniform numbers, has said more than once since 2013.