Benny Bell "Shaving Cream"

It had gotten pretty bad.

My friend Amy Vanneman reminded me of the cautionary tale of Thidwick The Big Hearted Moose.  I certainly didn't want anything living in there.

Literally, with 2 outs in the top of the 9th, during Game 6 of the World Series, I went into the bathroom and plugged in my electric razor for the first time in weeks.

I'm not a huge fan of shaving.  I find it to be a messy hassle, a real drag on the morning routine.

Fortunately, I married a woman who likes a bit of facial hair on me, so I'm okay.

In fact, the last time I was clean shaven---shaved with a straight-edge razor---was my wedding day 8 years ago.

Since then, every week or two I use an electric razor to shave down to a 5 o'clock shadow and then let it grow for another week or two.

This was the longest I'd ever let it get.  I was doing it for the Sox---so I said.

But c'mon, I might as well be truthful, if this year's "thing" was to grow a rat-tail or get a Neil Diamond tattoo or walk around with a ferret dressed as Paul Revere, I wasn't likely to do it.

I like the Red Sox.  But I'm a bigger fan of not shaving.

So after the razor was charged up over night, I sheared my face.

And since then I've let it grow, all over again.

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Kansas "Dust In The Wind"

Baseball is a slow game.  So despite the excitement of the World Series, there was plenty of time between innings and between pitches, to think about songs that would make fun (but ultimately stupid) music cues for some of the players, like Dustin Pedroia.

Dustin The Wind.  Get it?


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Flatt & Scruggs "Salty Dog"

Baseball is a slow game.  So despite the excitement of the World Series, there was plenty of time between innings and between pitches, to think about songs that would make fun (but ultimately stupid) music cues for some of the players, like Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jon Lester.

I'm sure a guy nicknamed "Salty" has heard this one before.  But hey, it's performed by a guy named Lester, too!


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Little Feat "Don't Bogart That Joint"

Baseball is a slow game.  So despite the excitement of the World Series, there was plenty of time between innings and between pitches, to think about songs that would make fun (but ultimately stupid) music cues for some of the players.

Since Xander is from Aruba, which is part of the marijuana-friendly Netherlands, I'm most certain that he never bogarts a joint . . .


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The Beards "Got Me A Beard"

It's itchy.  It's getting so long that the mustache part is interfering with eating.  It's about to go from "Hey, that guy looks like he's not really taking care of himself" to looking like "Hey, get ready to dial 911, that guy looks crazy."

But The World Series starts tonight, and I'm not shaving my beard.

For those of you who aren't into baseball . . . The Red Sox are in the World Series.  And many of the players on the team have grown these long, wild, I'm-In-Fleet-Foxes style beards.  "Fear The Beard" has become a meme.

I don't know who the Sox have lined up to sing the National Anthem, but let me suggest that they embrace the beard, and fly in Australia's The Beards.

The band is know for not only having great beards, they write songs about beards with titles like "Got Me A Beard," "You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man" "The Beard Accessory Store" and "If Your Dad Doesn't Have A Beard, You Have 2 Moms."

Beard Up!  Go Sox!


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