Local Hour: The Yankees Beard Policy Reveal
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What is the breaking news that lit up the studio?
Big news was broken to me. And God, I am so jealous of Taylor who got to deliver this huge news. Chris, what was the news that you guys received that made that entire room light up?
It was baseball related. If we start there as a hint, like what could I say in the baseball realm that would get the room fired up? And I'll tell you, it's the Yankees getting rid of their beard policy.
Why did the Yankees change their beard policy?
That's insane news.
And worthy of that reaction.
I think we did it. I think it was us. We were the tipping point. Tony, I think you're absolutely right. Our edition of Who Dat Is, the most recent one where we couldn't get two of the most recent Yankee signings because Paul Goldschmidt looks Dominican all of a sudden when he's clean shaven.
The Hall of Famer.
The guy's the Hall of Famer and none of us knew him. Totally unrecognizable clean shaven. So I'm glad that the Yankees, and look, America's already on the rebound. Nature is healing. The country is healing, at least in sports terms. George Steinbrenner is rolling over in his grave right now. Jess, do you have an official statement? This is worthy of an official statement from the New York Yankees.
Yeah, it's a statement from Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner. Wow. alteration of Yankees facial hair policy. In recent weeks I've spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees spanning several eras to elicit their perspectives on our long-standing facial hair and grooming policy and I appreciate their earnest and varied feedback. These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates back several years. Ultimately the final decision rests with me and after great consideration we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward. It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.
Well-groomed beards? Took him a while to have this conversation, eh? It took him a while to just say, hey, you can grow a beard. Who determines what's well-groomed? How many PR firms helped craft that?
The dean of my Catholic school determines what is well-groomed.
Someone or some company made at least $600,000 coming up with that statement.
And I still stumbled over how, for some reason.
Man, this just teaches me change is possible. Yeah. I would have never thought that they would do this, and they did.
Hooray us. Hooray Yankees. This is great. This can only help the game. All right, so speaking of growing niche sports, let's talk about hockey last night. He's the best player in the world. You may want to mark him. That was ridiculous. All right, so look. Headline, great for the sport. They gave us a week in February, a random week in February that we all really came together and argued about politics. And it was great. And we loved the game of hockey. The hockey was top of the line stuff. You had a great game deliver on all the hype and expectation. I'm sure this number is going to be massive. You lose in overtime, that's tough. I understand that. But how you lose in overtime really kind of really twists a knife a little bit because number 97 is Connor McDavid. McOverrated, I think we can drop that for a little bit. Pretty big goal that he scored last night. He's the best player in the world. He's wide open in front of the net. He's wide open in front of the net, and that's number 34 that is supposed to be marking him.
How did Canada defeat the USA in hockey?
Austin Matthews, who in the group chat I saw was referred to as Austin Badthews, who did not have the greatest tournament. I know he set some people up, and defensively he played all right, but this is a huge, huge mistake from a Selke finalist, one of the top defending forwards in the league. You cannot do this!
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the breaking news that lit up the studio?
0:40–1:04
2
Why did the Yankees change their beard policy?
1:04–3:55
3
How did Canada defeat the USA in hockey?
3:55–10:04
4
What are the political implications of the Four Nations Face-Off?
10:04–12:43
5
What is the impact of Victor Wembanyama's injury on the NBA?
12:43–17:17
6
How does the NHL's international play compare to the NBA?
17:17–43:52
Speakers
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