Taco Bell minting new hilarious hats

Remember when reports surfaced that Mark Sanchez wore a Taco Bell hat?

It turned out it wasn’t that type of Taco Bell hat, but there’s hope yet. It looks like in celebration of the Doritos Locos Taco, Taco Bell is producing a new version of that same hilarious taco hat:

Anyone know where I can track one of these down? If you have one, please send one to me and/or Mark Sanchez. You can reach me via email at the contact box above. You can reach Mark Sanchez on his boat phone.

Via the inimitable Sam Page.

Dale Thayer’s mustache is in the best shape of its life, and also no longer with Dale Thayer

When the Mets first cut Dale Thayer in June, I wrote:

Thayer will head to Buffalo, but where the mustache goes from here is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it catches on above another Major League lip or takes time off to travel.

Yesterday, the Mets tweeted a photo of lefty specialist and masterful videobomber Tim Byrdak sporting something that looks a hell of a lot like Dale Thayer’s rejuvenated, slightly retooled mustache, misidentified as a goatee:

Note that the facial-hair pattern in question does not connect on Byrdak’s chin, so it is not a Van Dyke or goatee but a horseshoe mustache. It is very clearly Dale Thayer’s mustache muscled up after a long offseason, proudly adorning the face of a pitcher much more likely to last the season with the big-league club.

 

Today in underreported Spring Training stories

Within the next couple of weeks, you will inevitably read several reports about which Mets are in the best shapes of their lives and then several snarky blog posts (perhaps from this site) about those reports pointing out that players almost always claim to be in the best shape of their lives and there are dozens of those stories every spring. There’ll also be stories about pitchers working on new pitches.

That’s Spring Training, and it’s not really anyone’s fault. Everyone’s looking for something to write about and there’s only so much you can say about baseball players stretching.

What I’m hoping to hear more about soon, though, is something Matt Cerrone caught in the background of this WheelHouse segment. It’s hard to see for sure, but it looks as if Danny Herrera’s hair just might be in the best shape of its life. Look at the volume and body and sheen!

We’ve seen baseball players endeavor all sorts of groundbreaking work in facial hair, but we really haven’t seen enough recently in the way of fabulous flowing man-manes. Here’s hoping the diminutive screwballer keeps it, grows it, and both rinses and repeats in 2012. Also that he makes the team. 5’6″ lefty screwballers are the new market inefficiency.

 

Dillon Gee finds a way to distinguish himself

Adam Rubin Tweeted this picture this morning:

I’m not sure I can support this no-mustache goatee look, but to Gee’s credit, now he’s got something to distinguish himself. He’s not just a back-of-the-rotation Major League starter anymore, he’s that back-of-the-rotation Major League starter with the ridiculous chin beard.

He might as well just grow the rest in though, no?

All Lin

Around 11 p.m. on Friday evening, some guy was walking down 2nd Ave. just north of 86th street shouting, “JEREMY LIN! JEREMY LIN!” like he’d gotten the Spirit. Passersby encouraged him with high-fives and bro-hugs.

Here’s what the front of the Daily News’ online sports section looks like right now, with some arrows for emphasis:

The time for Jeremy Lin snark will probably come, but we’re not there yet. Let’s enjoy this while it lasts. It’s rare to have a phenomenon so gloriously unifying in this city’s divisive sports landscape.