Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander may be winning Cy Young awards left and right, but Derek Jeter never had any facial hair.įrazier is an employee of a private company, and companies have the right to dictate how employees present themselves while they’re on the job. The policy is a marketing tactic that’s still in place for the middle-aged fans who lap up the Pride and Pinstripes stuff like it’s manna from heaven, that it’s how a real ballclub functioned back in my day, dammit, before these dang hippes got a hold of the sport. Today’s young people couldn’t care less about Frazier’s hair, beyond thinking that it’s pretty cool. The Boss’s word is law, even to this day, especially since his son owns the team. That apparently includes being presented as clean-shaven and clean-cut, and was so declared by George Steinbrenner himself. The Yankees are all about dynasty and tradition and Pride and Pinstripes. The Yankees have long aspired to portray themselves as regal and refined, as the example of professionalism and decorum. It’s hard to tell for sure, but it does appear to be testing the bounds of “below the collar,” without necessarily crossing over the line. Here’s the more important question, though: who gives a rip if a member of the Yankees has long hair, or a beard, or even just a Yoenis Cespedes-style soul patch? What’s the harm? Sure, it may have generated questions of “Well, why can’t I wear my hair that way?” but it’s also a matter of the Yankees’ long-standing policy being tested by a rising star - and manager Joe Girardi (and Frazier himself, probably) getting tired of being asked questions about it.įrazier did trim his hair a bit upon being traded to New York, but was it still really in violation of the rule? Let’s roll the film. It’s hard to imagine that Frazier’s hair itself was the distraction as much as the media’s questions about whether or not he’d be allowed to keep. “Distraction” was the word used to describe it. The Yankees barbershop is open for business…first customer, /9dM8r5bVwa His acquisition by the Yankees presented an obvious issue to the way he chose to wear his hair, and now things have come to a literal head: Frazier’s hair is gone. Frazier is one of the better prospects in baseball, and he was known just as much for his long red locks as he was for destroying baseballs like they said something about his mother. This brings us to young Clint Frazier, the fire-maned bat-speed-maven prospect the Yankees acquired in the Andrew Miller trade. Of course, we’ve seen guys like Andy Pettitte and CC Sabathia sporting some pretty serious stubble at times, but they’re veterans and they’ve earned a little flexibility, one would guess. It’s meant to make the Yankees look clean-cut, or something, while still allowing for Thurman Munson-esque bushy mustaches. No facial hair below the lip, no sideburns, no hair that’s long enough to fall below your collar. That’s our motto, and we’ve got to stick with it.The Yankees, as you probably know, have a pretty stringent (most of the time) policy when it comes to hair. “It shows our competitiveness on the field, and how hard we play,” Trosclair said.
23 South Al might have been hair-brained to some.īut the 37-19 Cajuns pulled off the improbable off anyway. With five games to go, they were four games out of first in the Sun Belt standings.Įven thinking it was possible to catch No.
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To do it as Sun Belt co-champs is satisfying indeed for the Cajuns, who after losing the first outing of their three-game series at South Alabama earlier this month did not at all appear likely to lay claim to the SBC Tournament’s No. UL also is seeking its fourth straight NCAA Regional appearance, third straight Super Regional berth and first trip to the College World Series since the bleach-blond bunch went to Omaha in 2000. The tight-and-trim Cajuns are in San Marcos looking to defend the conference tourney championship they won in 2015 by coming through the loser’s bracket and finishing with a title-game win over South Alabama in Troy, Alabama.
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