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How Trustworthy are the Phillies Beards?

You know, we all love the facial hair on the Phillies, but do we really know why?  I may have found part of the answer yesterday, with this handy dandy chart on the "Trustworthiness of Beards."  Maybe just having some kind of facial hair makes us feel a certain way about a player, or perhaps the player has a certain type of facial hair to instill a certain feeling in his opponents.  Let's explore it now.

Here you have your "very trustworthy" facial hair:

So I guess that Eric Bruntlett was somewhere between Philosopher and Full Beard - so very trustworthy, not threatening at all, just a good dude with a beard who turns unassisted triple plays.

But what about Jayson Werth.  Untill this year, he was rocking the "landing strip" which, according to the chart, is only threatening:

Now, here is where it gets a bit tricky, how would you classify Werth's beard now?  Is it a werewolf (because of the length of his actual hair too?).

If we go with werewolf, then Jayson has gone from threatening to DANGEROUS -as shown here:

So maybe Jayson came to camp this year really wanting to be more than just a threat against the opposing team, and to really make the point, he grows all the hair out - to put in the subconscious of the opponents that he is indeed, DANGEROUS.

How do other Phillies facial hairs stand up to the chart?  Well, here is Chase on Opening Day:

  

Chase was rocking a bit of a soul patch, so Chase = Threatening.

 

And here is Roy Halladay at the Phillies home opener - full beard.  Roy = Very Trustworthy

 

Here's the whole chart (or go to the website to see it in more detail) so you can asses the threat levels of beards on your own:

 

 

 

Phillies Opening Day - A National Halladay

Made the trek to Nationals Park for Phillies opening day today w/ Mr. ChickPhilA and our friend @WWBD102 (a.k.a. Eric Bruntlett's biggest fan).  We left @ 7 am, got back @ 8 pm, and what happened in between was amazing opening day baseball in our nation's capital.

Highlights include feeling like we were in CPB south with the amount of Phills fans in DC, getting Kyle Kendrick to laugh at @WWBD102's awesome shirt, yelling at Nyjer Morgan all game (and also yelling at Shane and Jayson - who totally heard us and kept acknowledging the crowd - very fun).  Oh and watching that Halladay guy DOMINATE through 7 innings while we put up almost a dozen runs in support.  (Let's hope they saved some run support for King Cole on Wednesday!).

I took almost 500 photos - so have to sift through them over the next day or so and get them up here and on the flickr, but I have a few goofy ones to share now:

I had no idea Jack Bauer was on the Nationals! He looks like he may have put on a few since he saved the country last time...

 

Presidents outside the park - Poor Teddy who never wins!!

 

Metal Detectors - for the actual President. Lines were not bad (this was about 10:50 am), though I did have to turn on every camera/phone/flip cam/etc... that we had.  Apparently they messed with my camera settings too when they were making sure it wasn't a bomb, and I didn't notice until halfway through BP - so a bunch of photos did not come out...

 

And last but not least, @WWBD102's game day outfit (we made many friends through out the day with this get up):