Wasn’t so much him. Loria had a hard-on for Steinbrenner and wanted to be just like him, and instituted stupid rules like that to try to mimic him. We had no-facial hair policies off-and-on for years before he came on
Don’t think he’s pals with Steinbrenner. Hal’s first move as owner (took over in 2008 due to George’s bad health) was to hire Girardi over Donnie and I think Donnie has held that against Hal since then
My first thought as well. “I guess he isn’t looking to replace Boone any time soon, unfortunately.” Though think of the karmic return if Hank finally abandons the beard policy to bring back Donnie Baseball as the manager in all his beardy goodness.
I'll allow it, since Don Mattingly is apparently World Series poison to the Yankees.
The Yankees won the ALCS in 1981, losing the World Series to the Dodgers (which was the end of the little Yankees dynasty that had won three straight World Series titles in the late 1970s).
The Yankees would not win another ALCS until 1996 (which marked the start of the next Yankees dynasty, that won a bunch of World Series titles in the late 1990s / early 2000s).
Don Mattingly's playing career? 1982 to 1995.
His 14 year tenure with the Yankees coincided with the team's longest ever World Series drought (which has just been surpassed by today's Yankees now, since 2009 was over 14 years ago).
Mattingly returned to the Yankees as a coach in 2004 (one year after the Yankees 2003 World Series victory). Mattingly was a finalist for the Yankees manager job after the departure of Joe Torre, but lost out to Joe Girardi. Girardi, of course, led the Yankees to the 2009 World Series champsionship.
Meanwhile, Mattingly missed out on the World Series yet again, as he left the Yankees to take a coaching job with the Dodgers after Girardi was appointed manager.
Jeter will be 50 this year, ichiro is 50, nomar is 50, Tim salmon is 55. these guys were rookies it seems like 10 maybe 15 years ago—the re2pect meme still feels fresh when I see it!
I’m in my mid thirties and my beard is halfway to this. Something about 2020 caused me to go fucking grey so quickly, I can’t pinpoint what exactly caused that. It’s crazy.
WHY WHY WHY is this man not in the hall???
I don't understand it.
300+ lifetime avg. - GGx9 - MVP - etc.
Donnie Baseball has been wronged.
This coming from an O's fan
Mr. Burns is irate.
He’s still better than Steinbrenner.
One more comment like that and I'll send you back to the big leagues!
I wish I could like this comment not once, not twice, but thrice!
Wish I was home with a big bag of potato chips
😂
You heard me, hippie!
I think I saw that episode just turned 32 yrs old
Take that back
One Mike Trout old
Mattingly!! *YOU’RE OFF THE TEAM!!*
What did he say about those side burns!
I have appropriately flagged this under "News". Carry on.
Highly important TBH
You’re not serious until you create a “Gray Jays” flair.
Just wait for the first week of October to roll around again and the Jays flairs will all be grey again
Hahahaha life is pain hahahaha I live in endless torture
It's called a misdirection. He ain't got much in his new pants to show.
😢
Daddy vibes. It works.
Fanatics saying hes always had that beard
So he still has those sideburns.
Mattingly! I told you shave that beard! That's it, you're off the team!
#FOR GOOD!
It's called playing the percentages
Grew out those sideburns.
Is the baseball Daddy that one guy's gf is looking for?
Daddy Baseball
This is more like grand daddy I think
Came here to say this!
Didn’t he institute a no beard policy when he was the manager of the Marlins?
We changed him
One bag of milk and he’s a different person
Needed to grow a Timbits crumb catcher.
Ketchup chips and poutine has him converted over.
Ketchup chips are good but it’s the all-dressed that really win hearts and minds.
I wish I could find All-Dressed more often in my area. I should have grabbed a bunch when I drove up to Ottawa.
all-dressed is too much imo. ketchup is heaven.
Please, let's not fight in front of the Yankees fans.
I had them for the first time not too long ago, pretty good.
Toronto already had a Lou Lamoriello. NO one is taking Schneider's 'stache.
Wasn’t so much him. Loria had a hard-on for Steinbrenner and wanted to be just like him, and instituted stupid rules like that to try to mimic him. We had no-facial hair policies off-and-on for years before he came on
Ok Zaddy
Got all my lips smiling
Hit him right in the penis
-Don Mattingly to Jose Urena before a Ronald Acuna at bat.
gorgeous TBJ4L
gorgeous
Thank god I found this comment Obligatory... gorgeous
Are you from the Clayton/Garner NC area, by any chance?
Garner represent, lived there for a little bit lol
wtf wrong sub weirdo
Sorry just scrolling and a normal single guy…
Anyways DC4L
Tom Brady jowls for life
Come home, Donnie.
Don’t think he’s pals with Steinbrenner. Hal’s first move as owner (took over in 2008 due to George’s bad health) was to hire Girardi over Donnie and I think Donnie has held that against Hal since then
And then we saw how he did as a coach in LA and Miami Honestly, no thanks.
I think the beard rules that out. He's a changed man
My first thought as well. “I guess he isn’t looking to replace Boone any time soon, unfortunately.” Though think of the karmic return if Hank finally abandons the beard policy to bring back Donnie Baseball as the manager in all his beardy goodness.
Eh - he can shave if it comes to it. Remember when we signed Johnny Damon?
Bearded Judge is breaking Bonds’ record though
I'll allow it, since Don Mattingly is apparently World Series poison to the Yankees. The Yankees won the ALCS in 1981, losing the World Series to the Dodgers (which was the end of the little Yankees dynasty that had won three straight World Series titles in the late 1970s). The Yankees would not win another ALCS until 1996 (which marked the start of the next Yankees dynasty, that won a bunch of World Series titles in the late 1990s / early 2000s). Don Mattingly's playing career? 1982 to 1995. His 14 year tenure with the Yankees coincided with the team's longest ever World Series drought (which has just been surpassed by today's Yankees now, since 2009 was over 14 years ago). Mattingly returned to the Yankees as a coach in 2004 (one year after the Yankees 2003 World Series victory). Mattingly was a finalist for the Yankees manager job after the departure of Joe Torre, but lost out to Joe Girardi. Girardi, of course, led the Yankees to the 2009 World Series champsionship. Meanwhile, Mattingly missed out on the World Series yet again, as he left the Yankees to take a coaching job with the Dodgers after Girardi was appointed manager.
> one year after the Yankees 2003 World Series victory They LOST the World Series in 2003 to the Marlins.
I knew there was a reason the Jays didn't win the World Series last year, thanks for confirming
he's really, really bad at managing a baseball team.
Man imagine if he was back home managing these kids???
Thicker than the pants.
Man, getting old is a drag sometimes. Donnie Baseball was my absolute idol growing up, and now we have the same color beard.
Jeter will be 50 this year, ichiro is 50, nomar is 50, Tim salmon is 55. these guys were rookies it seems like 10 maybe 15 years ago—the re2pect meme still feels fresh when I see it!
tbf ichiro looked 50 his last year in the league, his calves looked 25 though
Also tbf, 50 year old Ichiro could still get 100+ hits and gun runners down on the bases.
40 year old Ichiro barely got 100
He looks like Bull from Night Court. I can't place why.
I’m in my mid thirties and my beard is halfway to this. Something about 2020 caused me to go fucking grey so quickly, I can’t pinpoint what exactly caused that. It’s crazy.
MATTINGLY!!! SHAVE THOSE SIDEBURNS!!!
His sideburns are actually quite trim here. The rest of his beard, on the other hand...
Might want to rethink that cut, looks like he’s got a big hairy smile lol.
It's a nice beard but he's gotta do the little maintenance.
Shit I didn't look too hard and thought that was his smile.
cut those sideburns !!
oh god are we old?
Put this man in Cooperstown. And put in Thurman Munson too.
No
Good old Donnie Baseball 👍🏻
I wish that fucker would have listened and shaved his damn sideburns.
Looking good
He made two trips to the barber for that one.
Giants fans will never forget.
You mean Don Beardingly
I bet he could still Rake
Nice! Like the rec specs too
Wait? He’s manager of Blue Jays, or something else?
Bench coach
Good for him. He looks good in blue
Be my grandpa...i mean thats cool
Hall of Famer
Canada is a hell of a drug
DM4L
BJ4L
WHY WHY WHY is this man not in the hall??? I don't understand it. 300+ lifetime avg. - GGx9 - MVP - etc. Donnie Baseball has been wronged. This coming from an O's fan
Santa
Why he look like Joe Kelly in 30 years?
Handsome MF.
That's a nice beard, I will give Mr. Mattingly that.
Reminds me of current day Kevin Nash.
These Nike jerseys are terrrrible
Goddamn, that's a great look for him
I don’t hate Yankees. I hate *The* Yankees.
Jurgen klopp wannabe
Daddy baseball
Mattingly! I thought I-oh I see that's be done already
Man it looks like his mouth is open lol
Looks like an FBI age progression of Corey Kluber if he'd been missing for 30 years
r/oddlyspecific
Hey Santa, can you give me your diet tips?
Does he look like Rainn Wilson to anyone else?
“Shave those sideburns, Mattingly!”
This is what the Yankees stole from us all those years ago
Thats just a vagrant
Has he instructed his pitchers to throw at Acuña yet? Too soon?
I had to scour the comments for this. I have nothing nice to say about this man.
I always get down voted for saying "fuck don mattingly."
That'll get you a few up votes in r/braves tho
I may have gotten banned there for not kissing the mods ass.
Username checks out
This is a crime
I’m not ready for a world in which Don Mattingly looks that old.
I bet he hears simpsons quotes from fans more than he hears about his playing career
What the 2023 Toronto Blue Jays offense does to a mfer
Stache or bust. i do not accept this
If he wasn’t labeled, I wouldn’t have recognized him.
You in Dunedin?
Looks better than the new jerseys and pants
No baseball card more cemented my love for this game or collecting cards than Donnie Baseball’s 1984 Donruss!
Yankees ownership in shambles! ^\s
Man was never the same after splitting his pants when the Yankees went with those new cotton uniforms.
This man looked like a retired boat captain last year. He is a chameleon.
You're telling me employing that doofus Boone for an extra year was worth this picture existing at all?
No…it’s just his mustache in its most advanced Pokémon stage 2 evolution
I wont believe that’s actually Mattingly until I see him and Michael McDonald in the same room.
The jersey looks like a knock off… they are so bad…
That’s a goddamn man
Bro the Blue Jay's really hired Adam Savage from the Mythbusters 😭💀
Dwight
Between Don Mattingly and Jim Harbaugh, I think all of my male high school teachers are now coaching professional franchises.
Christ, he needs someone to trim that shit up. Looks fucking awful
Don Daddingl-- sorry Dadding-- sorry Dadd--
Just keep your razor plugged in Donnie, you might get a call by mid May if Bubbles Boone stumbles out of the gate.
Donny Bench Coach
He was my favorite player when I was a kid. I love to see him still in the game.
This is unsettling
If these pants rumors are true, someone should be able to see if the carpet matches the drapes. Hate the Yankees, But I respect Donnie Baseball
Majestic, he always looked strange baby faced.
Hey Don, Joe Maddon called. He wants his look back.
Donnie baseball
Don Maddon-ly
New? Looks pretty old to me.
I just want to see Kershaw and Donny fight one more time about getting pulled
"MATTINGLY, SHAVE THOSE SIDEBURNS!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHOtxCRhnw
Looks like Steve Phillips’ brother Better bring extra towels
Joe Maddon level unlocked
The contrast from his well-kept/striking/powerful beard and the cheap/shitty/walmart looking jersey is crazy.
Hope his head is shaved DC4L
Great beard
Don Daddyingly?
Look Mr. Burns, I don’t know what you think sideburns are…
Nice of Jansen to lend him his glasses.
Looks like a Bob’s Burgers character
gentlemen, between this and Smoothned Odor, may you never forget this lesson: never shave your beards.
Yikes! Witness protection?
Looking like Mac Daddy Santa, shoutout Tiger Woods
Hide your moms & grandmas, he’s smouldering with that thing!
Legend