When Shaving Cream Pie Attacks Go Wrong

The Chicago White Sox have a bit of a post game tradition. No matter the case, when a player is doing an interview on the sidelines after a victory, Toby Hall is going to get him with a shaving cream pie to the face. Toby's gotten them all this season, even team captain Paul Konerko (which Paulie didn't appreciate too much judging by the look on his face afterward).

Still, when you do something over and over again, eventually your teammates are going to figure it out...

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The White Sox Brotherhood of Toby Hall's Traveling Pants

It's not exactly a secret that baseball players, and athletes in general, are a superstitious bunch. A player can eat a bucket of fried chicken before a game and then go 3-for-4 with a home run and 4 runs driven in that night, and you know what he'll be eating the next day. That very same bucket of chicken, from the same restaurant, and he'll probably eat each piece in precisely the same order.

After all, it wasn't those hours in the film room or the batting cage that helped the player break out of his slump, it was that delicious KFC. It's ridiculous when you look at it objectively, but at the same time, it makes a lot of sense. Success in sports for an athlete is largely dependent on that athlete's mental makeup...

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Nick Swisher Is Thinking Pink

While nobody knows for sure who placed those blow-up dolls in the White Sox locker room, save for the players, and they aren't talking, I'd say the odds that it was Nick Swisher are probably pretty good. Given Nick's personality, it seems like something that would be right up his alley.

I mean, this is the same guy who refers to himself as Dirty Thirty, and has t-shirts and hats adorned with his self-imposed nickname. He also got a few members of the team to dye their facial hair blonde to start the season, and that's the real reason the team started off so well.

Now Nick is taking his insanity and facial hair, and using it to help others.

It was announced today that Chicago White Sox players Nick Swisher, John Danks and Toby Hall will dye their facial hair pink in honor of Mother’s Day and support of Breast Cancer awareness tomorrow (Weds., May 7). Swisher, Danks and Hall also will make a donation to the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation (Chicago) on behalf of all White Sox players.

A group of children from Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, a national organization whose mission is to eliminate pediatric cancer and to provide hope and support to those who are touched by it, who will be in attendance as part of the Nick Swisher Foundation’s “Swish’s Wishes” program, will assist with the players’ hair coloring.

That's right, those women-hating, sexist pigs in the White Sox clubhouse are dying their beards pink for Mother's Day to help breast cancer research and the kids.

Suck on that, Slezak.

I'm sure their mothers, daughters, wives and sisters are absolutely appalled by such charity.