Carlos Beltran made a very interesting hair choice

The shoe polish hair style is apparently still hot with some athletes
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Marcus Gilmer
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Apparently the Texas Rangers' Carlos Beltran is taking hair advice from another Carlos in sports -- retired NBA player Carlos Boozer -- and sporting a fresh shoe polish look on top of his dome.

Carlos Boozer sported the look back in 2012 while playing for the Chicago Bulls, mystifying fans as to what he was doing to his head. It took nearly three years but Boozer finally owned up in 2015 that it was a kind of hair dye meant to help cover up bald spots.

The main problem for Beltran, though, is that it whatever it is he used on his head today, be it hair dye or Sharpie, he didn't do the best job covering his sides.


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Beltran has struggled since being traded from the New York Yankees to the Rangers, so maybe it's also a good luck thing, because baseball players have very strange superstitions. Not even the announcers knew what to make of this look.

You be you, Carlos.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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