You’ll all the time know when Stephen A. Smith is heated.
On Friday, the ESPN character allowed his anger to boil over whereas reacting to the Yankees’ resolution to carry a prolonged press convention to debate their new facial hair coverage.
The Yankees introduced Friday that, eventually, they up to date their long-standing facial hair coverage.
“After great consideration, we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward,” proprietor Hal Steinbrenner mentioned in a press release on Friday.
“It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.”
Though Smith is an unapologetic Yankee fan, he wasn’t notably upset concerning the coverage change itself.
As an alternative, he was irritated concerning the membership dedicating a complete 20 minutes of press time to the topic.
“A 20-minute press conference over facial hair? I mean, what a disgrace,” Smith exclaimed on ESPN.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he continued. “I’m a Yankee fan, you realize I’m a die-hard Yankee fan. I’m attempting to maintain my cool. You perceive what I’m saying? However I imply, rattling. You ain’t gained a World Collection title since 2009. You ain’t been to at least one since then till final yr—you bought romped by the Dodgers.
“And facial hair is a reason there was a press conference?”
The Yankees did simply make the World Collection final season however haven’t hung a banner since their championship in 2009.
And after dropping Juan Soto to the crosstown rival Mets, followers like Smith are dropping persistence with the group’s long-running World Collection drought, which is getting nearer to twenty years.
