Yankees Amend Facial Hair Policy - A Brief History of how it started

The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Yankees amended their facial hair policy. Andrew discusses that news and revisits the history episode he previously recorded on how the policy started. Find us on Substack: https://bronxpinstripes.com/ Send your mailbags to [email protected]! Get in touch: @BronxPinstripes @Andrew_Rotondi @ScottReinen For sales inquiries, contact [email protected]. Intro/Outro music: One Way Ticket, by Anitek. nyy, yankees, newyork, newyorksports, wfan, espn, mlb, baseball, sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. What's up everybody? Welcome to an emergency episode of the Bronx
0:35.8	Pinstripe Show. That's right. you heard it. Emergency episode for the Yankees
0:39.8	not extending their manager, Aaron Boone. That's right. Didn't think a emergency episode was
0:46.0	warranted for that. Instead, Friday morning, a statement from Yankees managing general partner,
0:52.8	Hal Steinbrenner, regarding alteration of Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner regarding
0:54.9	alteration of Yankees facial hair policy. It says, in recent weeks, I have spoken to a large
1:01.1	number of former and current Yankees spanning several eras to elict their perspective on our
1:07.2	longstanding facial hair and grooming policy, and I appreciate their earnest and varied
1:12.6	feedback. These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates
1:17.9	back several years. Ultimately, the final decision rests with me, and after great consideration,
1:24.6	we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniform
1:29.0	personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward. It is the appropriate time to move beyond
1:34.7	the familiar comfort of our former policy. To be honest with you, I did not think that a
1:42.6	Steinbrenner would ever reverse this policy because it started with George Steinbrenner in the 70s.
1:48.7	You're going to hear on this history episode that I originally recorded in May of 2020 how the policy started and why it was implemented.
1:59.1	Really, really interesting stuff. You may have listened to that
2:02.3	episode five years ago when it first aired. Maybe you're a new listener since then. So I hope you
2:07.7	enjoy it regardless. But to be honest with you, I did not think Hal would ever go back on what his
2:13.7	dad had put in place. And so it's interesting to see this happen and him to say the
2:20.6	familiar comfort of our former policy, you know, referencing what his dad put in place. It's obviously
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