Perhaps this is something Zach Galifianakis should have done before he took a razor to his signature beard on Saturday during his appearance on SNL. That beard was central to his identity and he wiped most of it out like it was nothing.

Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis understands the value of facial hair. He's allowing fans to vote on one of four facial hair designs he could sport on Opening Day against the Yankees. There's his usual goatee, the Magnum P.I. mustache, the clean shaven look that is bizarre and bound to lose and the Fu Manchu (which would copy the Youk Manchu he grew last year for his official photo). A little limiting, if you ask me. Huge mutton chops and a soul patch deserve a right to compete.

Of course, frivolity can't exist for frivolity's sake, so there is a charity element to all this. In order to vote, a $1 donation has to be made to Youk's charity, Hits for Kids, which describes itself as "dedicated to rallying local and corporate support for charities and organizations focused on the health and wellbeing of children". Essentially, it's a charity for charities. Good to know. Either way, you're doing somebody some good and you potentially get to make a ballplayer look ridiculous.

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SEC officials did not have a good year in 2009. Ask any Arkansas fan.
Before you do so, make sure he's strapped to a table and there aren't
any children within a five mile radius, but go ahead and ask if you need
evidence here.

You probably don't, however, since you know that the SEC admitted
error from the crew that did the Arkansas-Florida game, suspended
them, retroactively announced that flags
in the Georgia-LSU game were ridiculous, failed to call Terrence
Cody for taking his helmet off after he blocked a potentially
game-winning Tennessee field goal, gave Florida a
phantom touchdown against Mississippi State, and did not give LSU an
obvious interception in their game against Alabama. In all of this,
SN's Matt Hayes provided the closest thing to a defense: "SEC
officials just bad, not crooked." A ringing endorsement, that.

The last two are the worst because both of them were reviewed and the
calls were still wrong. People sitting at home watched the replay twenty
times, saw it was an incorrect call twenty times, and were then told not
to trust their lying eyes. It was almost like the guy at home with high
definition was getting a better view of replay than the guy in the stadium at the booth. What
say you, national coordinator of football officials Dave Parry?

"Sometimes a guy at home with high definition was getting a
better view of replay than the guy in the stadium at the
booth."

Wha?

High-definition televisions are coming to instant replay this
football season in three or four conferences, including the SEC.

You mean to say that big time college football couldn't shell out for
HDTVs until it was definitively proven that attempting to rely on a
black and white RCA television from 1956 might not be the world's best
idea?

What other blindingly obvious revelations have you come to
recently, national coordinator of football officials Dave Parry?

Some conferences will do more training of replay officials this
off-season, Parry said. "We're finding people are less forgiving
for the replay official's errors than an on-field official. We're still
relatively new at this. We've tweaked it every year."

Argh argh argh argh argh. This is because they get to look at the
play twenty times and sometimes they do crazy things like arbitrarily
declare the pylon to be part of the field. This is because replay
officials are usually decrepit former officials who are evidently very
confused these days. There is a certain amount of tolerance people have
for difficult split-second decisions. That tolerance disappears when any
idiot with a 54-inch plasma screen can clearly see something is wrong but the
people in charge of things can't.

But, hey, they finally shelled out a few thousand dollars to keep the
brain hemorrhages down this year. So they've got that going for
them.

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