It's a new day.

It's a new dawn.

It's a new life for Devin.

Yankees saw Devin Williams' broken spirit.

He shaved his face and he became a puddle of sadness.

And they said, we don't want to do this to people.

They asked around the clubhouse, said, do you think we've done this to other people? They say, yeah, man. And they said,

all right, we'll update the grooming standards. The Yankees antiquated facial hair policy is no more.

Also, the kids out there, the youngans that are younger than me, they just know the word grooming as the predator, sexual predator.

Right. I saw some of those reactions. And I was because they were like, they were like, why did you call, why did you use that phrase? I'm like, grooming standard. That's like what it's called. Yeah, I mean, it's in their official note, the facial hair and grooming policy. Yes. And how about how? It's funny when words just changed.

Right.

How's like, you know what?

Recent conversations, ongoing internal dialogue that dates back several years.

We will be amending our expectations to allow our players in uniform personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward.

It's the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.

And I will say, Jake, you retweet or you put it on my radar, Devin Williams' picture.

Yeah.

Where he's got a well-maintained beard in his team photo.

Right.

And I was like, hmm, something's up.

I actually wonder if Devin Williams showed up with a beard because he heard buzz that they weren't going to do it.

And he was like, well, I won't even shave it then.

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