I asked Liam Hendriks on Sunday morning to show me his man bun after hearing the Chicago White Sox closer came up with an idea to call the team’s late-inning crew — Michael Kopech, Craig Kimbrel and himself — the “Ponytail Gang.”
Hendriks doffed his cap to reveal a mop of unkempt, oddly cut hair, but it wasn’t enough to form a true man bun, making the nickname a non-starter in my book.
A more appropriate name would be the “Sox Zoo,” as this team could be a modern version of the 1978 New York Yankees squad remembered as the “Bronx Zoo” after closer Sparky Lyle’s tell-all book of the same name.