Former Simpsons guest star and baseball icon Don Mattingly will be feeling vindicated after his former team changed an infamous facial hair policy.
Mattingly appeared in the 1992 Simpsons episode ‘Homer at the Bat’ which saw him berated by Mr Burns who consistently told him to “get rid of those sideburns”.
During his Simpsons cameo, Mattingly joked that despite being cut from Mr Burns’s team he still preferred him to Steinbrenner.
In 1991, Mattingly did clash with Yankees coach Stump Merrill, who told him to cut his mullet hairdo otherwise he wouldn’t play.
“Ultimately the final decision rests with me, and after great consideration, we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward,” he added “It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.”.
