To all of my avid followers, you’ll remember a while ago I wrote an entry called “Bic It, Masterson” (keep scrolling down through the entries and you’ll find it).  I spoke of how Cleveland Indians Charities and the Wives Association held an auction where the players’ wives/girlfriends donated something of their husband/boyfriend that was a little different from normal auction items.  Chris Perez and his wife donated a 30 minute pitching lesson, the LaPorta’s donated a breakfast at a restaurant with them and the Masterson’s offered up the opportunity to have Justin Masterson shave someone’s head!

Getting to know Justin a little bit more this year, I’ve come to understand how perfect this auction item fits him.  The guy loves people’s heads!  He’ll just go up to them during meet and greets and rub their head.  There was one kid at an event who had a nice afro and Justin–while holding his baby daughter–walked up to the kid and had his daughter poke and rub the hair.  The rest of the day, as soon as she would get close to the hair she would reach for it and want to play with it.  For a guy who shaves his head, he definitely loves playing with hair. 

Oddly enough, it wasn’t even his idea to have this as the auction item.  The idea came from his wife, Meryl, asking Facebook fans what the item should be and the head shaving idea won…leading to the main purpose behind today’s blog.  Our winner, after a few months of waiting, was finally ready to have his head shaved. 

The shaving took place in the Indians dugout prior to the team taking batting practice.  Justin was ready with clippers, towels, shaving cream and a few razors.  He took his time and enjoyed it making sure it was a nice, smooth shave.  Although we were all waiting for it, no skin was cut during the shave.  Justin cleaned off the freshly shaved scalp with water, put on some aftershave and stood back to smile at his work.