... it was because Team Samson all shaved their heads in a sign of unison:
"I think that's who we are as a team," Sox general manager Theo Epstein said. "It's our personnel. We couldn't do it any other way. I mean, let's say we had a policy requiring haircuts and no facial hair. The benefits would be uniformity, discipline, and perhaps a heightened sense of order. But we'd lose individuality, self-expression, and fun. Given our personalities, our players thrive when they're allowed to be themselves and have fun. When we've played our best baseball the last two years, we've looked like this. It's a pack of sloppy, fun-loving renegades. We play our best ball when we're having fun, like when you are a kid."
Kevin Millar's thoughts on the still-in-first-place Yankees?:
"They wear helmets during batting practice. When Schilling first came over here, he'd say, `Look at them. They look like pros.' Over here, we're not. You see guys during BP wearing sleeveless shirts or parachute tops, no hat, game hat, red-and-blue hat. We look like sloppy, no-discipline dirtbags."
Gee, you think Boston pushes the Dirtdog image?
You want to get multi-millionaire Cowboy Up no-discipline dirtbag Trot Nixon really angry? Tell him to clean his batting helmet. Pine tar on his batting helmet? Why is it so important to him? Because he has a contrived image to protect?
You know, the Red Sox are hardly the opposite of the Yankees, even though they constantly try very hard to portray themselves as the gritty underdog. They're a $130 mill team chock full of free agents and one of the season-long favorites to win the World Series.
The Expos are the anti-Yankees. Unclear, however, if growing their hair, or trading away their shortstop, would help them win like the Red Sox.
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