This is a Truly Hideous Tattoo of Royals Manager Ned Yost

Welp. This just showed up on a bad tattoo article. #Royals #Yosted pic.twitter.com/f7vN18MIAF
— Krissi (@sunnyone0107) March 15, 2017

Have you ever gotten a haircut and about halfway through you start to get the feeling that maybe this barber is butchering your hair? You stay quiet, because you are not a jerk and are giving him the benefit of the doubt that he is going to right this ship and not make you look like Lloyd Christmas. It's a relatively easy benefit-of-the-doubt to give, too, since your hair will grow back. This is one of several crucial differences between haircuts and tattoos, and one driven home quite capably by this demonic Ned Yost on the small of some dude's back.

Unlike your hair, the blank patch of skin on this gentleman's back will never grow back. The only hope for it is either several rounds of laser treatment to remove it, or to incorporate it into some larger chupacabra or Satan-chewing-on-Judas-Brutus-and-Cassius frieze.

It's a real shame, too, because a lot of the detail in it is actually pretty good. The artist nails the Royals hat on Yost's head. His cheekbones are pretty on point. Even his right ear looks pretty solid. But then we get to the mouth and everything goes directly and violently to hell. Ned Yost is missing, I would say, 95 percent of the top of his lip in this thing. He also appears to have something like five teeth, all generously spread out across the top row with a Strahan-esque gap in the middle.

Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star flagged this abhorrence, culled from a slideshow of similarly haywire tattoos, and checked with the Royals skipper to see what he thought:

"My sons showed me that," Yost said. "I think they could have gotten a better picture."

Not sure it was the picture, Ned, but you're a nice guy.

[KC Star]