HAIL! To this idea of brilliance.
HAIL! To these whiskered heroes.
HAIL! HAIL! To Mustaches for Michigan.
I think I wet my pants.
The Wright Stache, as is publicly known, is generally and publically in favor of any increase in public mustachionism. So we understandably couldn’t help but say “GO YOU!” when one of America’s top public institutions got it into their winged heads to do thus:
As Michigan Alumni, we are here to say that we support you, Rich. We support Michigan. And we’re showing it with our mustaches. We’ll be growing beards during the month of August, and on September 5th, we’ll be sporting serious staches for that first game. Go Blue.
We here at the WrightStache have been trying all summer to get ONE guy to grow a mustache; these fellas are out to convince 106,201 (we’re guessing the invitation does not include the cheerleaders). But when you’re the winningest program in college football history, I guess dreaming big comes with the arborial territory.
To see how they play the game, enter the Big House of Stache, Gate 4.
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A bit late, but no less relevant: Wright Stache commenter Sean alerted us to the fact that the Cardinals startering pitchers have all grown mustaches. Adam Wainwright, Kyle Lohse, Joel Piñeiro and Todd Wellemeyer sported lip-sweaters starting in early July as a way to try and change the team’s forunes, and judging by the standings today (they’re two games up on Chicago in the NL Central) it seems to be working. Said Wainright:
“We were sitting around thinking of something to do and one of the other guys said we should mix it up. We wondered how we could do it and ended up cutting mustaches that night. We won the next day.”
Oh woeful 2009 Mets, couldn’t you learn a thing or two from these Cards?
Frank Selee's mustache was the first to suggest putting Tinkers, Evers, and Chance in the same infield
TheWrightStache.com has already established the link between mustaches and leadership. But while every manager instinctively understands how motivational posters a lip sweater can contribute to productivity, it’s hard to quantify that.
Well, fortunately for us, in baseball you can quantify everything, including mustached leadership.
Unlike a mustache on David Wright, There is no promise of championships for any manager who grows a mustache. As managerial great Sparky Anderson once said (to paraphrase) “Mangers don’t win or lose ballgames. Ballgames are decided in three places: on the field, at the plate, and above David Wright’s lip.”
Can greater facial growth on MLB’s current managers contribute to leadership skills, or will the burden of proper grooming prove too much for the mustached few? Find out, after the call to the bullpen…
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Tags: cecil cooper, cito gaston, damn lies, Davey Johnson, david wright, frank selee, Jim Leyland, lies, lots of other managers, sparky anderson, statistics, willie randolph
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The Stanley Cup is annually bequeathed to the hockey team that can grow the most facial hair.
MLB does a lot of things better than the NHL, but one thing hockey has right is a longstanding, well-established connection between facial hair and winning. While players tend to rock whatever they like during the regular season, come the first day of Passover,* the razors get thrown out like so many leftover bagels.
The tradition is so well-established, it even has its own page on Wikipedia.
For the 2008-09 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Detroit Red Wings are using the connection as their chief promotional tag-line: “The Beard is Back.” They’re also now just two wins from hoisting Lord Stanley for the fifth time in a dozen seasons. There’s a reason these guys are pro sports’ model franchise.
After the jump: The Beard is Back; The Stache Never Left
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He can run; he can hit for average; he can hit for power; he can throw; he can fi... he can run!
At first, we thought it was a joke. I mean, c’mon, get real, a campaign to get Lastings Milledge in the All Star Game?
I mean…Lastings?
Lastings Milledge?
Lastings MILLedge?!?
It didn’t make any sense. They couldn’t possibly be talking about the same guy — the five-tool fella that Mets fans remember for his friendly fan interaction (and fly ball non-interaction)!
Could it be our erstwhile young Lastings is already grown up and worthy of an All Star ticket?
I thought no.
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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.
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