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
Stache Spotting, Updates, Wright Wreasons | Misopogon | 
June 3, 2009 12:10 pm | 
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The lapels are made of earlier Hernandez mustaches.
We’re a day late on this, but what an amazin’ piece on Always Amazin’ by Matthew Artus yesterday. He offers a convincing argument for our patron saint (and his killer stache) to be in the Hall of Fame. The logic centers around the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) statistic and complicated graphs. Matthew can explain it much better than I can.
Essentially, WAR attempts to quantify a player’s value over that of an “average” player. A positive WAR means that you’re an improvement over the average. A negative WAR means you’re dead weight.
Matthew goes on to show that Keith’s WAR numbers are better than Hall of Famers Tony Perez and Orlando Cepeda. The graphs are quite lovely and essentially we learn that Keith should be in the Hall of Fame where his bronze mustache can be viewed for centuries.
Now, if only we could get a Wins Above Replacement Mustache statistic. It’s WARM!
Always Amazin’
Jose thanks heaven everyday for his sweet chin whiskers.
Did you know that David Wright drove in José Reyes 42 times last year? Did you know that that is the second highest figure for a pair of teammates in the last six years? Neil Best knows it. And did you know that the highest figure for teammates in the last six years is 49 by Gary Sheffield and Rafael Furcal in 2003 while playing for the hated Atlanta Braves? That cannot stand. David and José need to destroy that record. They need to be better hairmates.
You see, José knows the power of facial hair. The mustache isn’t his thing, though. We here at The Wright Stache firmly believe that you do not select your facial hair. Your facial hair selects you.
And José is a chin hair guy. That’s the way it was meant to be. And David is a mustache guy. We know this. And once he accept it, José’s chin pubes whiskers and David’s stache will be the most productive teammates in baseball history.
Don’t believe that facial hair is the key to teammate run production? Take a look at Sheffield and Furcal in that 2003 season.
Follow José’s lead, David. The mustache has chosen you. Answer the call.
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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.
A mustache is a much better way to stay warm than whatever the hell that is on his head.
Baseball is a numbers game. No sport is more evaluated in terms of statistics than baseball is. Everyone talks about BA, OPS, VORP, WHIP, OPS, AARP and NAMBLA. You are only as good as your numbers. So today we’ll take a statistical look at how a mustache could aid David Wright by looking at some of his stat splits. Join me, won’t you?
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