Posted on 07/17/2015 3:56:29 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
What is with the current fad of major league baseball players displaying full beards and their sycophant fans exhibiting the same? In todays political climate, the only individuals I see sporting that facial hair are the Islamic extremists such as ISIS who are killing people throughout the world. Is this their attempt to identify with that religion and somehow send a message that they are badasses?
Im sorry but I just dont get it
..I have no problem with men and properly trimmed beards but these players are going to the extreme. With that being said, there should be a dress code in the MLB that requires all players to not only dress appropriately but restrict the hair length and facial hair.
Wow that’s cool!
It's a misspelled reference to Miley Cyrus' Evil Twin -
I think it is a fake but it is cool looking.
A breeding could produce the most noxious gene pool combination in recorded history...
For that to happen one of them would have to be a male.
The Mad Hungarian !! Wow, I actually remembered :)
Wonder how many 13 year-old girls he had to separate from their allowance to get that one?
Never gave any thought to ISIS though. Still don't. I think it's just a trend. They ARE awful looking. Just hideous.
Being from Boston, I grew up a big Red Sox fan, and of course hated the Yankees. I married NJ and became a Met fan, and still hated the Yankees.
BUT — I love the Yankee clean shaven and neat hair cut look. Also, no hanging stuff around their necks. Very professional! But that is as far as my admiration goes.
Go Mets!
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He grossed $80m in 2014.
That music stuff pays well if you’re popular.
That was it? I sure do hope he made it back.
My recollection is that this round of beards traces to Brian ‘Fear the Beard’ Wilson, pitcher for the Giants in the post-season a few years ago. MLB players have waves of wierd trends: Rally caps, same t-shirts every day, and worse.
Yeah, but from what I've seen being popular can cost you things you can't buy back.
I hit a deer once. In my ‘85 Mercury Capri RS Turbo...I hit it so square that it left some of the animal’s fur embedded in the paint.
Baseball has gone hipster...boring game anyways.
I can't believe very many like a guy with a large thick beard. A neatly groomed, closely shaven one would be more understandable. Then again, I'm no chick, so what the heck do I know about what they think or why they do what they do. The OJ-Nicole trend of recent years is another thing that baffles the hell out of me. Used to be just dopey hippy girls that did it.
I've kept a full beard for the last 20 years, off and on... and coworkers actually hung up a photo of Grover Cleveland in the office captioned with my name.
What's funny is in the 3 years since he started with the firm, the kid that put up the photo has grown out his beard just like you are saying. It's the male equivalent of yoga pants, riding boots and "infinity" scarves.
I hate hipsters.
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