The Beard That Is Sweeping the Nation

If your household is anything like mine (read: rambunctious!), you have may disagreements from time to time. In my personal bungalow, one such discussion revolves around the San Francisco Giants closer, and whether his persona is all cynical and whatnot. I find Brian Wilson entertaining, no matter his motivation.

Well, The Beard just got a little weirder. There is now a Fear the Beard video game that features the eccentric closer battling evil monks, tomahawks and the like, all the while feeding on the energy of the crowd – personified by orange rally towels. Though game play is rudimentary, it is perhaps not the point.

“Fear the Beard: The Baseball Odyssey Game” was made on a site called GameSpark that allows amateurs like you and I to make our own 2D and 3D games. As the site proclaims, you can make “holiday games featuring friends, family and pets.” Making a game based on your family pet may sound abhorrent, but it also becomes a quick inside joke that all the family can enjoy. Rudimentary game play means your aunt can enjoy making Sparky eat all the pies in the house!

So this really isn’t about Brian Wilson. It’s about continuing to bask in the glow that is a world championship. It’s about having an inside joke with all the rest of the Giants fans. It’s about smiling just a little longer.

There will always be time to come back to earth and discuss things like Brian Wilson benefiting from wide strike zones more than any other reliever in baseball, as J-Doug at Beyond the Box Score did just this Wednesday. There will always be time for cynicism and analysis. For now, just jump on the trampoline and fire some fastballs at that monk coming from the left.