{"id":140703,"date":"2026-02-21T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:23:14","slug":"mets-announce-bobby-valentine-mustache-disguise-giveaway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140703\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets announce Bobby Valentine mustache disguise giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb 19, 2026, 04:34 PM ET<\/p>\n

NEW YORK — That won’t necessarily be Bobby Valentine behind the sunglasses and fake mustache at Citi Field this summer.<\/p>\n

Among several promotions the <\/a>New York Mets<\/a> announced Thursday is a Bobby Valentine Disguise Night on May 29, inspired by what the former manager donned to return to the dugout after being ejected from a game in 1999. The giveaway for the first 15,000 fans will be a glasses-mustaches getup similar to what was worn by Valentine.<\/p>\n

“I love it!” Valentine wrote in a text to The Associated Press about the planned giveaway. “I’ll be there. Can’t wait.”<\/p>\n

Though Valentine went 536-467 as the Mets manager from 1996 to 2002, and helped guide them to the 2000 World Series, he is perhaps best remembered for the dugout disguise. The now 75-year-old former manager has even played into that over the years.<\/p>\n

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When Valentine was introduced during a Mets’ Old-Timers’ Day in 2022, he came out donning a fake mustache, drawing a loud chuckle from the crowd at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

During a television broadcast of a Mets game at the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in 2024, Valentine did an in-game interview in the Angels booth wearing a disguise.<\/p>\n

It was on June 9, 1999, that the excitable Valentine was ejected from a game against the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>. He was tossed in the 12th inning but returned to the dugout with the fake mustache fashioned from eye black and sunglasses for the rest of the 4\u00bd-hour game that the Mets won in 14 innings.<\/p>\n

Valentine was later suspended for two games and fined $5,000 for the stunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 19, 2026, 04:34 PM ET NEW YORK — That won’t necessarily be Bobby Valentine behind the sunglasses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-140703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}