Yankees grooming policy rescinded

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by bk400

I thought the Yankees' grooming policy was actually a pretty classy thing.

Originally Posted by bk400

...but we're going to look the part, because people are buying tickets to see us play, and we're on TV, and we want to set an example for what a classy team looks like.

This is actually the first time I've heard the words "classy" and "Yankees" used in conjunction. My experience has always been just the opposite. My initial exposure to MLB was as a first grader in the spring of 1959 and it was the Yankees who tended to be favoured by the bigger kids in the schoolyard, i.e. the assholes. Then over the years I came to associate Yankee fans with leather lunged Bronx residents who drove cabs in Manhattan and cursed angrily at other drivers at every opportunity. And wore short fat ties over their bellies on those rare occasions when so required. Not to mention interfering with players from opposing teams on the field of play at Yankee Stadium. (See Jeffrey Maier 1996.)

But "classy" Yankees? No, never.