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Bryce Harper's New Cornrows Are Just Plain Awful

The Washington Nationals slugger debuted an ill-advised new look

By Tyler Daswick September 6, 2017
Bryce Harper Corn Rows
Bryce Harper/Joe Robbins

Bryce Harper, star of the Washington Nationals and perennial MVP candidate in Major League Baseball, has always been blessed with great hair. Harper’s post-batting helmet hair flip is the stuff of GIF legend, in fact.

But in a perplexing new style move, Harper revealed on his Instagram yesterday that he had battened down his luscious locks into cornrows, a move that even the most forgiving Nats fan has to describe as “ill-advised.” Some would argue that a white guy like Bryce Harper wearing cornrows is an issue in itself. The slugger’s been ripped for his new hair choice online, with numerous comparisons aligning the outfielder with other doomed cornrowers over the years.

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Not great. Harper’s since wiped the post from his Instagram (though he has a new photo on his Instagram story), and his current sidelining due to a bone bruise means we might not see his new look in action for some time. On the other hand, Harper might soon shave it off, or is leveraging some of his injury time to grow the flow back out.

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The guy’s an uber-popular baseball player and one of sports’ most influential young athletes. The least he could do is not set such an unseemly style example. Give us European-soccer Bryce or Mountain-Man Bryce, but let us never see Cornrow Bryce again.

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