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Earlier this week an online company called 800Razors.com offered one million dollars for Brian Wilson of the Los Angeles Dodgers to vanquish the Bigfoot of sports beards.

800Razors.com President Philip Masiello told RadarOnline.com “His (Wilson’s) management feels we need to match his present salary of $1 million at a minimum, the discussions commenced Friday and are continuing.”

Apparently James Harden was not available for this offer, seeing as how Wilson is being paid the arbitration figure this year (that’s one million dollars for one year for those who don’t speak baseball finances) and hasn’t been the impact closer that warranted his own facial hair getting a twitter account.

                               

Still, Wilson has been much better with the hill of hair on his face.

Wilson’s beard began to mount on a few occasions during the 2010 season. In 70 games that year Wilson recorded a career high 48 saves, had a career low 1.81 earned run average, and finished seventh in the CY Young voting.

Oh, and the Giants won their first World Series title since 1954.

Flash forward two years and two injury plagued seasons and Wilson is now finishing games for the Dodgers. He picked up his first action as a Dodger against the Marlins yesterday by striking out two of three batters.

While Wilson could have a positive impact for LA at a low price, the question can be asked if Wilson’s facial hair could make a difference in someone else’s life.

One school of thought is that that Wilson should shave for the betterment of others. Perhaps Wilson could tell 800Razors.com to up their offer to three million dollars and that the money gets donated to the charity of his choice.

Even though he’s making the arbitration figure this year Brian Wilson doesn’t need the gift million dollars. He made 4,440,000 dollars in 2010, 6.5 million in 2011, and 8.5 million last season.

That move would be fantastic public relations on the Dodgers part and could help someone far less fortunate than Wilson and his luscious locks of facial hair. No pressure or anything here.

On the other side of the fence is all of the stigma that Wilson’s beard holds a huge portion of his identity as a player. Wilson shaving off the beard would be like Chris Andersen getting rid of all his tattoos, Prince Fielder getting rid of his fat, or Tim Tebow losing his ability to miss receivers by a country mile.

Though all beard fans don’t have to worry about the big bad razors anymore, the Dodger pitcher will have no part of it.

Wilson’s reps told Yahoo sports.com earlier today that the former all-star will not so much as trim his famous trademark. Apparently Wilson’s beard is “going with him to the grave.”

While one shudders to think of Wilson’s wake with a silky white beard that goes down past his sternum, there is something positive to be said about a unique characteristic defining an athlete.

For Wilson it is his beard, and it appears it’s here to stay.