There were no sticky situations on this Yankees-Guardians broadcast.
Nate Rosenhaus, the long-haired bat boy on loan from the Guardians in the visitors’ dugout at Cleveland’s Progressive Field, was back in the Yankees’ gear Saturday for the first game of a doubleheader, a win-3 -2 from the Bronx Bombers.
A year ago, Yankees television announcer Michael Kay criticized Rosenhaus for having a mustache and hair that fell below his shoulders.
This would have been contrary to the Yankees’ “Cleanliness Matters” hair policy for players and coaches instituted in 1976, as Kay pointed out.
John Flaherty, who was filling in for Kay on Saturday as the play-by-play voice, apparently ignored Rosenhaus before the game when the YES Network camera zoomed in on him.
Maybe he didn’t remember him — or maybe he was just avoiding the type of controversy that followed Kay.
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“It’s strange to see a Yankee uniform, someone wearing that uniform with that kind of hair,” Kay said at the time. “If players aren’t allowed, I don’t know if the bat boy should be allowed. There are rules. The rules are the rules. He disobeys two of them. I think there is facial hair and obviously the hair is below the collar.
Kay later said that he and Rosenhaus had a good laugh over the hubbub created.
Rosenhaus put his hair in his helmet for the next game and Kay blamed people for overreacting.
“It’s truly a horrible time. It’s a horrible time,” he said on his ESPN radio show. “It’s a really terrible time in our history as a planet and as a human race. Everyone sucks. I tell you, it really is. To dig into something like that and say I attacked someone. I didn’t attack anyone!
The hair was back in all its glory Saturday – covering up the “s” in “Yankees” on Rosenhaus’ hoodie.
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