Piniella to Samardzija: Cut Your Hair!

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Link.

 

Manager Lou Piniella was asked about his first impressions of former Notre Dame two-sport athlete Jeff Samardzija, who gave up football to sign with the Cubs.

 

"I've liked everything I saw -- but the hair," Piniella said. "He could use a little trim."

 

Piniella said he won't demand that Samardzija, who sports shoulder-length locks, get a haircut. Samardzija, though, can see the writing on the wall.

 

"I'll probably go to Super Cuts for nine bucks," he said.

 

[RichHillIsABeast]

:lol:

 

The Cubs org made him trim it back last season as well. I'm sure if Piniella didn't demand it, Oneiri and company would have.

[Chris]

:shock:

[CoolHandLuke]

I just saw them interview Samardzija on csn about the hair and it seemed to be mostly all in good fun. It is ridiculously long though.

[Tracer Bullet]

please please please don't let this turn into the Yankees "short hair and no facial hair" thing. It sounds like Lou was joking and I hope he was.

 

What a ridiculous thing to fight with players about.

[RichHillIsABeast]

please please please don't let this turn into the Yankees "short hair and no facial hair" thing. It sounds like Lou was joking and I hope he was.

 

What a ridiculous thing to fight with players about.

 

He said he wasn't going to make him. It's not a big deal and Piniella isn't making it one.

 

Last season the Cubs made him trim it and it was still way past the ears. This isn't the Yankees.

[moorecg]

I kind of like the Yankees rule...not that I have anything against long hair, but I think it promotes a "team first" attitude, and not such a "me first" stance that a lot of guys have these days...I wouldn't be upset of the Cubs adopted it.

 

(now ducks and covers waiting to get flammed)

[Burtonbell]

Mattingly! Cut those side burns!

 

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[USSoccer]

Piniella doesn't have time for hippies.

[karenmac]

If I remember right, I think Sean Gallagher told me once that the Cubs *do* have a thing about short hair and no facial hair. Perhaps that was just for minor leaguers but not sure...

[Chris]

If I remember right, I think Sean Gallagher told me once that the Cubs *do* have a thing about short hair and no facial hair. Perhaps that was just for minor leaguers but not sure...

 

I was trying to remember Sean's comments as well. I know he got his hair cut before his appearance at the Cubs Convention but I was wanting to say it was more because of family than any rule in the system.

[Tracer Bullet]

I kind of like the Yankees rule...not that I have anything against long hair, but I think it promotes a "team first" attitude, and not such a "me first" stance that a lot of guys have these days...I wouldn't be upset of the Cubs adopted it.

 

(now ducks and covers waiting to get flammed)

 

Giambi always thinks of the team when he's shooting himself in the butt with HGH.

 

Point being - of all the ways players act selfishly, I'm least concerned with hair length & facial hair. You can be a "team first" guy and still like to be an individual. Why does long hair and facial hair mean you're not a team player? The connection is totally lost on me.

[karenmac]

If I remember right, I think Sean Gallagher told me once that the Cubs *do* have a thing about short hair and no facial hair. Perhaps that was just for minor leaguers but not sure...

 

I was trying to remember Sean's comments as well. I know he got his hair cut before his appearance at the Cubs Convention but I was wanting to say it was more because of family than any rule in the system.

 

I think there is some kind of Cub rule though, because when we got a couple of guys on the Chiefs toward the end of last year in a trade (don't remember who or which trade), one of them - a pitcher if I recall- had to go and get a haircut or shave or something.

 

My memory is bad.

[sethuel1]

Piniella doesn't have time for hippies.

who does anymore?

[Derwood]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

[E.J.]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

[Guest]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

 

And some of us have the ability to look like Chewbacca after a one night stand with Jabba the Hut.

[imb]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

 

And some of us have the ability to look like Chewbacca after a one night stand with Jabba the Hut.

 

what?

[Post Count Padder]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

That's a shame.

 

*strokes his beard*

[WrigleyField 22]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

That's a shame.

 

*strokes his beard*

 

yea,

 

*strokes patchy stubble*

[Rob]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

That's a shame.

 

*strokes his beard*

 

yea,

 

*strokes patchy stubble*

 

Indeed.

 

*strokes fantastic goatee.*

[Chris]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

 

And some of us have the ability to look like Chewbacca after a one night stand with Jabba the Hut.

 

what?

 

:shock:

[Guest]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

 

And some of us have the ability to look like Chewbacca after a one night stand with Jabba the Hut.

 

what?

 

Use your imagination, on my ability for "facial hair."

 

Besides, I always wanted to pervert Star Wars.

[nilodnayr]

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

 

Some of us don't have the ability to grow a good goatee or soul patch. :cry:

That's a shame.

 

*strokes his beard*

 

QFT...I had to burn a couple weeks of vacation before the end of the year and decided to grow a beard...best decision ever. Beards are where its at.

[Magnetic Curses]

guys with goatees are weird.

 

when i envision a man with a goatee, i see someone with jean shorts, white socks, and black shoes in a pantera hat flipping his 4-wheeler into a creek. he may or may not have a gold chain and a tucked-in tank top to show off his "no fear" tattoo.

 

goatees have become the new mullets.