The ‘Stache Gets Some Love on ESPN

Yesterday we reported on Clay Zavada’s glorious lip-sweater that should serve as an inspiration to a certain clean-shaven third baseman in Queens. Apparently ESPN took notice too, as they interviewed Friend O’ The Stache and Chairman of the American Mustache Institute Dr. Aaron Perlut about Zavada’s stache and the role of the cookie-duster in baseball, past and present. Dr. Perlut throws around some fantastic ’stache lingo (“flavor-saving instrument of justice” [!]) and even provides a statistical analysis of Rick Ankiel’s stache experiment of which The Wright Stache Statistics Department (TWSSD for short) highly approves. Watch the whole interview clip from ESPN below.

Clay Zavada is an Inspiration

Bask in it.  Stare at it longlingly.  Rub your face on the screen right now and imagine it tickling your cheeks.  There are staches that just rest there on the upper lip and then there are staches that transcend facial hair and mean so much more to society.  These are the staches that act as a beacon of hope in a sea of naked lips.

Clay Zavada, we salute you.

Thanks to Jorge Says No! (via Deadspin) for drawing attention to this gloriousness.