Hyde: Hair-brained policy raises Hanley’s ire

No cornrowed hair!
Let’s run down to the practice field
attention and fame
a career, career, career, career

Hanley Ramirez, the lone Marlin with five stars to his resume, walked through Thursday morning’s clubhouse with a message written across his chest in Sharpie.

“I’m sick of this s—-,” it read. He was serious. “I’m angry,” he said.

“I want to be traded,” Ramirez soon said.

No, he doesn’t. Not really. And by the end of this column the temperature will cool down. But it’s never good when your best player entered Thursday’s game batting .091 for the spring and blamed it on some silly organizational decrees.

For a while, Hanley vs. Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! sounded like The Mane Event of spring. Ramirez, see, used to wear his hair in cornrows.

“I had to cut it,” he said.

He also had to take off the jewelry dangling from his neck while playing.

“It’s incredible,” he said an hour later in the dugout, still angry. “We’re big-leaguers.”

...“We want to look professional,” manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “Nice and neat.”