You have until the end of the month to bid on a ball of hair shaved off the face of David Ortiz or Shane Victorino and the razor that did the trimming.
Free shipping and delivery promised for around Christmas! The proceeds go to charity, so all or part may be tax deductible (check with your accountant.)
Bargain hunters should opt for Shane’s beard ball because right now Big Papi’s is going for nearly twice as much as his.
From Buzzfeed,
because Red Sox.
The Red Sox won the World Series 4 games to 2 over the St. Louis Cardinals and I like to think that my letting my facial hair grow unchecked for the last 50 days (previous post) had something to do with it. Sunday night as part of my usual prep for the upcoming work week I will trim it back to its former shorter length.
The second shift supervisor for our Turned Parts Department is also a Red Sox fan and when he came in this afternoon he walked over to where I was sitting and asked, “How do you like it?” pointing at his hat. From my seated position I could make out an arc of the words World Champions above the Red Sox’s B. I asked, “What did you do? Dial the souvenir hotline at midnight last night and order a hat overnighted to you?” Then I stood up and saw the number 2007 below the B. It was from the last World Series.
I told him that I bought similar hats after both the 2004 and 2007 Series, but they were worn out. That’s when he let me in on his secret, he orders two hats. One to wear out and the other as a keepsake.
Going to go hats shopping tomorrow.
I said in the middle of last month that I hoped I had made my last beard post, but as long as the FRS are still in the playoffs people will be writing about them, so shall I.
Grantland posted up another article about baseball, beards and Boston: Sportstorialist: Basebeards
Inside that article they linked to a Boston Globe photo essay that is worth a look: Red Sox? ?beard bonding? symbolic of attitude adjustment
The title says at least two more beard posts, this counts as one. The other will be the one with a photo of my shaggy mug when the Sox are done with the playoffs, which could come as early as this Friday, October 11th or as late as Thursday, October 31st.
The night before last’s photo run through something called underpainting1 on BeFunky.com, an online photo editor with effects.
Some more (and hopefully the last) Red Sox Beard updates:
The FRS have announced that Wednesday, Sept. 18 will be “Dollar Beard Night” at Fenway Park. Any fan who shows up with a beard — real or fake — will receive one $1 ticket to that night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.
Also, as you can tell from the above image, they have a added a site where you can add a virtual beard to an uploaded photo or one from your Facebook page – redsox.com/beards
I have been wearing a beard since 1978, before then I only sported a mustache because that is all the facial hair I could have as a Naval Air Crewman. Beards prevented full sealing of the oxygen mask.
Nearly every guy on this year’s FRS team is sporting a beard and they come in a large variety styles and lengths. It started with a couple of the off season’s free agent signees in Spring Training and over the season has spread through the clubhouse like a zombie virus.
I’ve always kept my beard trimmed, but I want to help the guys in their quest to go from worst to first and hopefully beyond this year, so until the Red Sox season ends, be it being swept in the division series or winning the World Series in seven games, I won’t trim my beard (sideburns and mustache excluded.)
Lucky for Donna my beard isn’t very thick and doesn’t grow very fast, so I won’t end up looking like a member of the Duck Dynasty or ZZ Top.
Here’s A recent NY Times story on the bearded Bosox: Bonding With Beards, the Red Sox Repair Their Clubhouse Chemistry and the team also features many winners in Grantland’s Base-Beards (The 2013 MLB Beard Awards)