This just in: former Blue Jays prospect turned Mets ace Noah Syndergaard only washes his hair every three or four days.
And he says his blonde mane only requires “a little TLC.”
If only the rest of us were so lucky.
These are among the things you’ll learn in a recent interview with Syndergaard and GQ Magazine’s Clay Skipper. Here are three takeaways from the GQ interview:
PRESERVING THE MONEY MAKER: The 23-year-old flame-thrower looks like quite the threat up there, 6-foot-6, all Thor-like. But it turns out there are players who do intimidate Syndergaard: Giancarlo Stanton, for one. “I don’t really care if a guy hits the ball 500 feet off me,” Syndergaard told GQ. “I just don’t want him to hit one back at my face. The money maker.”
That’s a solid point.
And the last guy he’d want to see charging the mound? Yasiel Puig. Syndergaard pointed out “he looks like a linebacker.”
Lastly, the big Game of Thrones fan pointed out that, unlike Tyrion, he “would never go in a dungeon with two dragons.”
HAIR TO STAY: His flow was, rightly so, a large topic of discussion. He uses AXE products, and said his hair started to take on a life of its own and “gain traction once the whole Thor persona started to come out, which I think is pretty cool.”
The best news: “I don’t see my hair being cut anytime in the near future,” he said.
PRO BAT FLIPS: Syndergaard has Jose Bautista’s back. Bat flips came up, and Syndergaard said he sometimes believes they’re disrespectful, but believes that in some games the tension and atmosphere combine to make them acceptable.
“Like, the whole Bautista bat flip, I can totally understand being the divisional series,” Syndergaard told GQ. “Emotions got the best of him, and he was excited, and it wasn’t really, in my mind, showing the pitcher up.”
