Mike Fiers' Baseball Beard

About

Mike Fiers' Baseball Beard refers to the bizarrely-shaped beard of Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers. The beard, which is shaped in such a way that it forms one continuous line going down over his right raw and up over his lip, inspired jokes on Twitter.

Origin

On September 14th, 2019, Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers appeared in a baseball game, debuting his new, oddly shaped beard (GIF of Fiers' appearance tweeted by Brodie Brazil shown below).

Spread

After the game, Twitter users were quick to comment on the oddity of Fiers' beard. User RMaq28^[1] joked that the beard was a result of Fiers telling a barber he wanted to "look like a G" (shown below, left), gaining over 1,800 retweets and 8,500 likes (shown below, left). User @FransiscoFF07^[2] tweeted that the beard looked like Fiers' cat's tail, gaining over 240 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular jokes about the beard include a post by @AustinHuff that gained over 60 retweets and 610 likes (shown below, left) and a post by the official A's NBC account that gained over 250 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Mashable.^[3] Fiers explained, ""It's a long season, we're in mid-September and just to give the guys a laugh, I'm kinda the guy they want to laugh at, so they dared me to do it or didn't think I'd go out and pitch with it. But I don't care… We were thinking about something funny to do and we were searching on Google for funny beards and that was one of them that came up."

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