Situation Averted: Axford Still Has Glorious Mustache

If there’s one thing that men aged 18-34* like to do, it’s champion glorious facial hair. Like, if instead of Republican or Democrat, a candidate ran as a member of the Sweet Mustache party, that candidate would almost definitely dominate the aforementioned demographic. That’s just good, common-sense thinking.

*That is, the demographic we’re attempting to indoctrinate here at NotGraphs.

Anyway, on account of this true truth, you can imagine the sort of outcry that cried out when a Fanshot very similar to the following appeared at Brew Crew Ball yesternight:

That post linked to the photo on the left, which, as you’ll see immediately with your eyes, lacks a distinctive feature of those two on the right — namely, the kempt mustache sported by Milwaukee closer John Axford for the better part of his Major League season.

Certainly, it appeared as though the world had become — temporarily, at least — a darker, less festive, less mustachioed place.

Appeared, fortunately, is the operative word in the above sentence. For, almost as soon as the news broke, an edited version of the afore-embedded Fanpost appeared, as follows:

The “False alarm” edit links to a tweet from Axford himself. Responding to Brew Crew Ball, Axford wrote the following:

So, crisis averted, is the story here. Or it’s one story, at least. The other story is that I’ve become demonstrably more comfortable with Paint.NET.

But mostly it’s the thing about Axford and his mustache.

(Note: the “t-shirts” in question, are these ones here, if you’re interested.)