Lukas: On David Wright’s unusual baseball habit
From SABR member Paul Lukas at Uni Watch on June 19, 2013:
As you’ve probably heard by now, the Mets found yet another way to embarrass themselves last week, as some idiot functionary in the team’s marketing department tried to get an online dating site to help stuff the ballot box for David Wright’s All-Star candidacy. (Among the many takeaways from that story is that our society is long overdue for a moratorium on the terms “reach out” and “blast.”)
Wright is obviously the best everyday player on the Mets, and arguably the best everyday player in the club’s history, so the team does its best to promote him as often as possible. This had led Wright to become known, somewhat reflexively, as “the face of the franchise,” a term that has become such a cliché that if you google Wright’s name in conjunction with the words “face of the franchise,” you get over 160,000 hits.
I’ve always found this “face of the franchise” term to be an unfortunate choice of words — not because it isn’t true, but because, as many of you are probably aware, Wright has an odd facial tic: He sticks out his tongue. A lot.
Read the full article here: http://www.uni-watch.com/2013/06/18/does-david-wrights-habit-of-sticking-out-his-tongue-affect-how-hes-perceived/
Originally published: June 19, 2013. Last Updated: June 19, 2013.