Posted on 11/06/2016 6:26:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
There are beards, and then there’s Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta’s beard. In a league of its own, the facial hair of the reigning Cy Young Award winner and now World Series champion is the stuff of legends.
With the end of the baseball season, Arrieta decided to make a big change. He shaved his beard.
In a photo posted to Twitter on Sunday by Kristina Lackey, the wife of Cubs pitcher John Lackey, the Arrieta and Lackey families are gathered in front of a plane.
Captioned “Goodbye Chicago, you've been amazing.....Austin here we come for you!!!” the picture is an innocent enough way to bid farewell to the city and kick off the offseason.
But as plenty of responses indicated, that was hardly the main focus. Though Arrieta shaved at the end of the 2015 season, the change was no less shocking to fans who made their shock known.
One even went so far as to post a close-up of just Arrieta’s hairless face on Instagram.
No matter how jarring it may be, Cubs fans can take solace in the fact that they had nearly a full month more of the beard this year than last. Besides, as Arrieta’s wife told those who worried last year:
The Cubs report to Mesa, Arizona, for spring training in February, so that gives Arrieta plenty of time to grow the beard back before next season.
When Hillary loses the election, I think she may shave her beard.
Good. He looked like crazy Jim Brolin in Amityville with that mess.
Why is this news ?
HOLY CRAP. WE ARE AT THE GREATEST MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND PEOPLE CARE ABOUT STICK BALL player BEARD SHAVING? You have to be brain dead to care.
Exactly. The fate of the Republic is at stake and some of us are concerned about some a**hole shaving his beard.
He looks better sans the beard in my opinion.
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“When Hillary loses the election, I think she may shave her beard.”
She’s married to him.
“Lighten up Francis” We can watch baseball and vote too.
In other news, after the election obamas beard will get rid of him
Yay, Cubs!
But you posted about it!
No this is not the greatest moment in American history and it’s healthy that people take a break from the swamp and enjoy the greatest American sport
"She's married to him." (Flaglady 47 in reply).
Best freeper line of the campaign season !!!
Leni
If a rank amatuer politician spouting nationalism and opposing globalism wins this election, it is the biggest political earthquake in American History since Abe Lincoln liberated the slaves. George Washington defeating the British and creating first real democracy on earth was the biggest event in American history.
WGAS!
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