I think Giambi should worry about finding a razor for that porn 'stache he's workin on.
Better still, from ESPN "Page 2"
LINK"Is that? …
Sure looks like it …
Think he could have spiked his Gatorade with Miracle-Gro?
To celebrate would have been premature but, four days later, our hunch that Giambi was growing a legitimate, all-out mustache was confirmed by the New York Times:
"Jason Giambi's new mustache is here to stay. Giambi said he wanted to look like Don Mattingly, who wore a mustache as a player in the 1980s when Giambi idolized him. 'Back in the 'Hit Man' days,' Giambi said, laughing."
Giambi wins the pennant! Giambi wins the pennant! Not to take anything away from the Yankees' excellent Bobby Abreu/Corey Lidle pre-deadline move, but Giambi's mustache is the best, most exciting in-season pickup the Yankees have made in years. At the same time ground was being broken for the new Yankee Stadium, new life was sprouting in the old Bronx ballyard. The emergence of the Giambi mustache is the cherry atop his career rejuvenation, and all but secures the Yanks' 27th world championship.It takes a brave man to wake up one morning and decide it's a good day to shave his entire face -- save the upper lip. This mustache hair cultivation is, without a doubt, a heroic effort by Giambi and his biggest contribution to the Yanks in his five seasons with the team. His Comeback Player of the Year award in 2005 was a good start -- but he was coming back from the ugly embarrassment of testifying before a grand jury in which he reportedly detailed his steroid usage, and from treatment of a pituitary tumor that one couldn't help but think was somehow related to those steroids. As the mustachioed Teddy Roosevelt once said, "I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
Growing the 'stache confirms, once and for all, that Giambi has overcome the difficulties in his life and become a selfless team player who, in this one grooming tweak, has put himself in the running for team MVP -- maybe even league MVP. (Derek Jeter's recent unveiling of his own fragrance line automatically takes him out of contention and should call into question his captainship.) No longer is Giambi hoping to blend into the Yankee clubhouse and avoid the New York limelight -- he's taken his public lumps and now he's leading by prominent example. The mustache, unlike the masking action of a beard, calls attention to its wearer by stating confidently: I am furry and riding shotgun -- you got a problem with that?"
