Niese Knows Noses
Young Mets left-hander Jon Niese had some work done.
As a before and after shot, this is pretty impressive. The Before has Niese growling at a celebrating foe or contemplating spoiled chicken, the After has (perhaps) a fawning female in the crop.
As a comment on society’s pressure to confirm, this might be less impressive. Niese, planning on the surgery for aesthetic reasons anyway, turned the story into a BSOHL story quickly. He told ESPN’s Adam Rubin that the rhinoplasty “helped a lot with [his] running” and “working out. As far as the mound, I’m not sure.”
And as some baseball fans roll their eyes, Mets fans might laugh at the next trick Niese played. When all else fails, #blamebeltran. What does Carlos Beltran have to do with his nose job?
“He wanted me to have a new nose,” Niese said about Beltran. “So he offered to pay for it. I was just like, ‘All right.’ Then it turned into seeing doctors and to getting it fixed.”
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He clearly lost some of the vertical drop on his hook this off season.