Giancarlo Stanton and his muscles get body painted for Sports Illustrated cover
Giancarlo Stanton became the first MLB player to sign a $300 million contract last November, and now he’s following that up with another history-making feat: He’s the first male athlete to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated in body paint.
Him and his muscles, that is. Here’s the newest SI cover in which Stanton gets anointed the “model slugger,” a reference to both his hunky 6-foot-6 frame and his 37 homers last year.
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If a body-painted Stanton is your thing (and we don’t judge you if it is), then check out this behind-the-scenes image and more like it on the Marlins’ On Cloud Conine blog.
We’re just happy no one at SI pushed to have Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria body painted too.
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