On Friday morning, the Yankees made a shocking change to their decades-old facial hair policy, which dated back to 1976 under George Steinbrenner — a move The Post’s Joel Sherman called for in a 2022 column:
Just back from a vacation and, well, look at that, still in a lockout. I guess I can dig into who will be the Mets bench coach, but once that is announced, it will be the last time I think about that position until Buck Showalter is ejected and I turn to the person next to me and ask, “who is the bench coach again?”
So without free agency or trades to focus on, I have decided to tackle a really big issue. Facial hair. Notably the absence of it on Yankees players. Well, that is not exactly true. If you have social media accounts and follow any Yankee, you will learn that their favorite offseason hobby is not golfing or fishing. It is growing a beard.
This also is true for any player traded by the Yankees. It has become a rite of passage (away from The Bronx) that the first act after moving elsewhere is to give a hirsute middle finger to their former employer; a silent (yet hairy) signal that it was joyless distress playing for the Yankees.
