Let us pray.
First, we introduced you to it. You shook hands with it, made small talk, gave it a light pet, felt its warmth. You got to know it.
Then, we schooled you on its significance. Its history. Its magnitude. Its authority among all other sportstaches.
And now, you’ve crowned it. You spoke up and you awarded Keith Hernandez’s Mustache as your Favorite Metstache of All Time. And we can’t say we disagree: it truly is a work of beauty and an inspiration to men everywhere, professional athletes and regular-folk alike. So, congratulations Keith.
And congratulations Wright Stache readers, for making an informed and educated decision on such an important issue. Your voice was heard. Our only hope is that one day, ideally one in the near future, the Favorite Metstache award can be handed over to David: our one and only Golden Boy. Because not only is it David’s destiny to wear such an honored and adorned crown…it’s his God-given birthright.
Make It So, and God bless the Metstache.
Whoever can explain this photo to us wins a prize. Seriously.
We’re bruised. We’re bloodied. We’re broken. We’re really sick of arguing. So we’re going to end
the poll once and for all. At exactly 2pm today, the poll booths are being folded up and the gymnasium doors locked – so vote while you can. We’ve had a decent turnout so far and we’re pretty sure we know who’s going to win, but we’re still waiting for a few of the red states to report – turns out HoJo might have a chance after all.
So pick ‘em while they’re hot, and check back later today to see which Metstache gets the gold ribbon.
Who sported your favorite Metstache?
- Keith Hernandez (72.0%, 313 Votes)
- Mike Piazza (10.0%, 45 Votes)
- Howard Johnson (6.0%, 27 Votes)
- John Franco (6.0%, 25 Votes)
- Jose Valentin (6.0%, 24 Votes)
Total Voters: 434
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Mets fans are going to be so upset when they read my jersey!
Last night, I received a telephone call from two friends of mine that are big Phillies fans. Naturally, I usually can’t talk baseball with these guys without goin’ to the fisticuffs. “World Champions” this, “Mets Suck” that. You know how it is: eternally resentful towards the Mets even though they just won the series.
But last night was different. Tom Keely and Rod Sliver (who’s names have been changed to protect their identities) instead called to tell me that they would be jumping ship if and when David grew the stache. Yep – two die hard Philles fans agreed to root for the Mets if and when our follicle folley becomes a reality.
And we think that’s fantastic. In fact, we don’t doubt that there are many other fans out there, ready and willing to make a power-move to Flushing when the stache-year rings in. Here are the top 5 teams you should consider abandoning to become a Mets fan when David grows the mustache:
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Photo used without permission.
Looking for more proof that David’s got a stache in him somewhere? Then look no further than
this post published by Chicago Mets Fan earlier today. Its a photo of David standing next to his signature
“The Wright Flight” plane, replete with a pencil-thin lip buzz and all.
David Wright? That man can grow.
Thanks to Seth F. for sending in his very own artist rendition of David with a Stache! Check it out…
Sort of looks like Norm MacDonald doing a Burt Reynolds impression.
Got a rendition you want to share with the rest of the world? Send it in an email to fanart[at]thewrightstache[dot]com
OK everyone, you can all exhale now. C’mon, let it out – it’s going to be alright! According to Matthew Cerrone from MetsBlog, David’s toe is indeed a happy one – and he’s totally fine. Says David:
Notice woman crossing arms in the background - that's David's girl. She's still mortified by the sight of the toenail.
“I knew it was nothing serious at the time… If I would have thought something was seriously wrong, I wouldn’t have been out there.”
As we reported in a previous post, Mets fans had a bit of a scare when they learned that David had fouled a ball off of his left foot during a WBC game against Venezuela. Thankfully, everything seems to be just fine.
Our sympathies go out to Tatis, Valentin, Campbell, and whoever else has been having fun filling D-Stache’s shoes in his absence. The fun ends here. It’s back to the bench for you guys – Big man’s back in town. And soon enough, with a big ‘ol lip beard to go along with all that swagger. You dig?
Help us decide before one of us gets hurt.
Here at The Wright Stache, we like us some good old fashioned debatin’. And not the kind that ends in hand shakes – the kind that ends in fist fights. So when we all sat down and tried to plead our cases for our favorite Metstaches of all time, things got ugly. Names were called. Fingers were pointed. Mets memorabilia was shattered. Broken glass was….well, everywhere. So we figure the only way this is ever going to get settled is if we get our readers’ opinions. So, here goes:
Who sported your favorite Metstache?
- Keith Hernandez (72.0%, 313 Votes)
- Mike Piazza (10.0%, 45 Votes)
- Howard Johnson (6.0%, 27 Votes)
- John Franco (6.0%, 25 Votes)
- Jose Valentin (6.0%, 24 Votes)
Total Voters: 434
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He can see right through you.
Lets face it: baseball cards aren’t what they used to be. For one, the gum isn’t as powdery. Sometimes it even comes wrapped its own plastic, so it doesn’t dull the gloss on the cards. And the designs are too modern looking. And the photos… don’t even get me started. Today’s baseball card photos don’t capture the essence of a true baseball pose. You know the pose I’m talking about: Profile shot, head turned every-so-slightly towards the camera, bat resting on the shoulder. And back when we were kids, big goofy glasses, and occasionally facial hair, were required.
Which is why we love Nerd Baseball – a site solely dedicated to displaying some of the greatest baseball cards in history. And by greatest, we don’t mean the Ted Williams misprints or the Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie cards. My personal favorite? Sammy Stewart.
We mean no disrespect, but from here on out, you're just Jose to us.
Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for a gang of Mets fans to sit around a fire with a cold case of beer and talk mustache-lore of past and present. The usual suspects often come to mind… Hernandez, HoJo, Franco, Piazza and the like. But often, a very prominent stache is over looked. A stache that should be a lot more fresh on people’s minds. And that’s the stache of the man himself, The Stache. Of course I’m referring to Jose Valetin, the veteran infielder who made an amazing resurgence as the star second basemen of the 2006 Mets. The angular slant of his dark brown stache was commonly viewed as being porno-esque, and earned him the nickname, “The Stache”. Read more »
Japan defeated Team USA 9-4 in the World Baseball Classic semi-finals tonight. The loss marks the end of the road for USA, as they are now eliminated from the international tournament. The good news is that David Wright, who knocked in an RBI-double in tonight’s game, will be returning to the east coast to focus on more important things. First on the to-do list is to start boosting the Mets offense in spring training. After that? Grow a mustache of course. Now that David has some time to check his email and get back on a normal schedule, we’re certain he’ll catch wind of the effort we’re putting together over here sooner or later.
Check back tomorrow morning for the latest addition to the Better Know a Metstache series, where we’ll be profiling a long awaited “Stache”…hint hint.
There is nothing more American than a mustache. Nothing at all.
Unless you’re living in a cave or find no interest in sports whatsoever (nerd), you’ve likely seen David Wright in countless WBC-related photographs recently. You know what I’m talking about – the ones where he is grinning ear to ear and either shaking Derek Jeter’s hand, or elbow bumping Mark DeRosa. Yup, David is living it up at the World Baseball Classic, loving baseball and loving life.
But more importantly – loving his country. You see, even when David is playing baseball, he carries a certain selflessness and patriotism with him that should inspire all those around him – a true gentleman and American. SI.com is reporting that David personally arranged all of the accommodations for Sgt. Felix Perez, the wounded Iraq War veteran from Miami to travel out to Los Angeles to watch Team USA. And not only did David cover all expenses of the trip, but he even declined to speak about the matter with the public about the generous gesture.
David Wright: a class act and a true American.
We’ve been hearing whispers of D-Wright trash talking being thrown around on some message boards. Apparently, there are some naysayers out there that seem to think David wouldn’t even be able to grow a mustache if he tried. They claim he’s never even had a 5 o’clock shadow, let alone a full blown ’stache. One punk even referred to him as being “babyfaced”. So I want to take a moment to set the record straight, once and for all. See the scruff in the photo below for proof that David is no boy, baby, child, youngster, kid, teenager, or any other type of adolescent:
You're going green - with envy of David's future stache. David's going green because he cares about the environment.
Carpal tunnel has never been more rewarding.
Over the course of the past 3 days, we’ve been steadily crunching numbers in the basement of an old, rundown, rat-infested Brooklyn warehouse. We’re trying to find out if people are talking about The Wright Stache and how they’re finding out about it. And we found that the best way to calculate this data is using cutting edge World Wide Web technologies (provided by top tech companies like Prodigy and EarthLink) and some good old fashioned statistics. While we can’t get into exact figures (our statistics are highly confidential), we can say with a great deal of certainty that The Wright Stache is picking up some serious traction. Since our launch, only 2 short days ago, we’ve already increased our site traffic tenfold. And the majority of the traffic is coming from people who are coming here straight from Facebook, Twitter, and share links posted all over the web. We’re showing up on other blogs, message boards, and all types of social networks. What does this all mean? It means that people are talkin ’bout the Stache!
And we couldn’t be happier. In all seriousness, it looks like this whole crazy idea might actually be catching on. If you’re reading this, then you may just be one of the many that would love to see our beloved Mets hero grow a stache on that smooth upper lip of his. So, tell and friend, won’t you? We’d greatly appreciate it. And we’ll see you at Citi Field in only a few short weeks.
Is it just me, or is David looking a little scruffy in this picture?
Last night, in a true WBC thriller, David Wright drove in the game winning run with a walk-off hit to put Team USA on top of Puerto Rico, 6-5. The win lands USA in the semi-finals and a stache-hair’s length away from entering the final round of the international tournament. The semi-finals begin on Saturday, March 21st at Dodger Stadium. David has been nothing short of amazing in this year’s WBC, batting .348 in 23 at-bats, with 3 RBIs.
The irony in this story is obviously that Team USA would have likely mercy-ruled Puerto Rico if David had been sporting a stache. A hotly-debated topic among baseball enthusiasts and a rule of WBC play, the Mercy rule ends games in which one team is leading by 10 or more runs after 7 innings of baseball.
Outside The Wright Stache headquarters.
Yesterday marked the first full day of our movement: an uphill battle that we’re certain will be met with challenges of varying degrees and intensities. We fear not. Throughout the day, we received a mixed-bag of feedback from folks of all walks of life. There were those that showed nothing but support; martyrs who were ready to die for our cause. For that, we are truly grateful. There were those that were angry: People who took the stache in vain and shouted “witchcraft” and “blasphemy”. There were some that were downright confused, conflicted, or disturbed by the notion of creating an entire movement behind an individual’s future mustache. And there were some who simply scoffed at the thought of such a ludicrous challenge.
Towards those, we confidently smile. Read more »
The Mustache Mecca
Hey, David – looking for a little inspiration for that silky-smooth upper lip of yours? Need some ideas for that soon-to-be-cilium that will exist directly below your nose?
Then look no further than the 2009 New York City Beard and Moustache Championships, taking place this Saturday at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. We know you can’t make it since you’re playing in the World Baseball Classic, but we’re certain that after the event, there will be plenty of photos sprinkled throughout the Interwebs, just waiting to grace the glass screen of your iPhone.
Just think: in a year from now, you’ll be crowned victor of the 2010 event via an absentee registration, and you’ll be able to add Mustache King to your ever-growing list of accomplishments (in addition to Major League Baseball Player, Three-time All Star, Golden Glove Winner, Silver Slugger Winner, Vitamin Water Pioneer, Esteemed Philanthropist and founder of the David Wright Foundation).
David, in case you couldn’t tell…we’re big fans of yours. But we won’t be your biggest fans until you grow that stache. So get crackin’.
So what exactly made the 1986 Mets so special? Was it their magical charisma? A lack of ’substance’ in Doc Gooden’s life? A fate-twisting error by Bill Buckner? Of course, those all played their part. But there were other factors as well. The 1986 Mets truly were a thing of amazin’ment. However, under the statistical microscope, the 2008 Mets, a team that will go down in history as one of the most disappointing ever, were better offensively than the 1986 team. Many will blame the 2008 bullpen and pitching in general for the monumental collapse. I blame something else entirely. Take a look: Read more »
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