Metal Mike Piazza + Zakk Wylde’s Beardstache
by Jose's Chin Pubes | March 31st, 2009
Metal!
Personal acquaintances of your Wright Stache editors know quite well that Jose’s Chin Pubes is a big fan of everything heavy metal. In fact, yours truly even has a website devoted entirely to the love/hate of this fine musical genre (shameless plug!). But what you might not know is that Mike Piazza — he of numerous facial hair stylings (but that’s a topic for a future post) — is himself a big metal fan too.
Piazza regularly made guest appearances on Eddie Trunk’s weekly Saturday night metal show on Q104.3 whenever the Mets were in town, and was often seen mingling with metal beardos. Piazza made a guest vocal appearance with legendary ’80s thrashsters Overkill, and often hung out with his good friend Zakk Wylde of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame, pictured at right in his younger, pre-bearded days.
Zakk Wylde would later go on to become a scary, bearded biker-dude. Mike Piazza, on the other hand, would eventually go clean-shaven. My question to you, our loyal readers: why are there no beards in baseball? The history of the mustache is inexorably intertwined with that of our national pastime, but the beard is the unwitting red-headed step-child frowned upon by society. What gives? Maybe we should get to launching TheOllieBeard.com.
-JCP
Tags: david wright, metal, mike piazza, oliver perez, zakk wylde
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