Bernie Williams, the quadruple World Series champion with the New York Yankees, will be in Tampa, Florida, soon for the spring training of this year to see how his former team is preparing for another season.
Although it is there, however, there could be a fairly striking difference in terms of the appearance of these players due to the scratch of a tradition to which he was used to during his play days.
Hal Steinbrenner, general partner of the Yankees, announced a shocking announcement that hair policy without ease, that his father, the late George M. Steinbrenner, set up in 1976, would no longer be.
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Former New York Yankees Voltueur Bernie Williams at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruzusa today Sports)
As such, players, coaches and Yankees staff are allowed to have “well -maintained beards”. New arrivals like Closer Devin Williams, who has already shaved his beard signature of his days with the Brewers of Milwaukee, are among those who could start letting their facial hair reproduce.
For Williams, it will certainly take a while for the Yankees to be allowed to do so, which is why he told PK Press Club Digital that he had “mixed emotions” about this change – the one that ends 50 years of a basic Yankees food.
“I have mixed emotions because, as a young player, it is a little difficult to keep this cut clean and shaved [look] Day after day, “said Williams, laughing, when he also discussed his important piece of the pulmonary health initiative.” As a rebellious kid practicing professional sports, you get all these distinctions and you feel like you are at the top of the world and you can do what you want.
The advertiser of the Yankees Michael Kay is reduced to the change of hair policy of the “seismic” face of the team
“But I think that this particular rule, first of all, it kept us together as a team – something that everyone had to do. No matter how much money you won in the team, from the recruit guy, to the best paid player that everyone must have these facial hair.
“The other side of the medal, it was a bit boring to pass it day after day.”
For Williams, the rule was something that highlighted the Yankees other than the fine signature scratches.
“We needed to have this policy and people loved it,” he said. “” These guys are so clean, and they are so beautiful. I would like to be associated with this team because they have this policy, and they want to represent themselves in the best possible way. “”
However, the love of politics has clearly changed since it was the last of the game in 2006, and he understands how the evolution of times leads to modified mentalities.
“I receive the fact that people repel, we live in another period, and I suppose that it is a bit fashionable to have a beautiful beard or well-neat facial hair,” he said.
However, where Williams traces the line, this is the place where the Captain of the Yankees Aaron Judge practically made during the discussion on the rule of facial hair, potentially giving a free agent of the second reflections on the membership of the organization – who has the most professional sports titles of all time.
Former Yankee Bernie Williams plays the national anthem on the guitar at the enthronement ceremony of the 2021 Baseball Temple on Wednesday September 8 in Cooperstown, New York. The ceremony honored the members of the 2020 class: Derek Jet, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker. (Imagn)
“I think in my mind and I don’t know how others take them, the facial hair is just a trivial thing,” said Williams smiling. “If you will not want to play for one of the best sports franchises because you have a problem with the facial hair – I mean, some people cannot even grow a beard properly. So, I think it’s a kind of trivial point, and you have worse problems if you think:” I’m not going to play for yankees because I’m not going to cut my hair. “It would be some other problems you have to face.”
The Yankees also make changes to music played in the Bronx after losses at home, showing that the organization seeks to modernize a little.
However, Williams knows the tradition and the nostalgia that will be the Yankees.
So, perhaps by presenting another jersey, which fans have debated for years, will not yet be in the cards.
Former New York Yankees Voltigeur, Bernie Williams, # 51, during the 2019 Old Timers Yankees match at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruzusa today Sports)
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“I think that if you do it with taste, you do not try to beat people upside down with a huge and sudden change. You do it gradually with good taste, I see nothing wrong with that,” said Williams.
Williams will first have to take a look at the beards.
