{"id":582595,"date":"2026-02-20T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:03:23","slug":"mets-hosting-bobby-valentine-disguise-night-at-citi-field-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582595\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets hosting Bobby Valentine disguise night at Citi Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon, any Mets fan will be able to recreate the legendary Bobby Valentine disguise in Queens.<\/p>\n

The Mets announced Thursday as part of their promotional schedule that May 29 will be Bobby Valentine Disguise Night at Citi Field, a nod to when the former manager was ejected from a game during the 1999 season and slyly returned to the dugout wearing a fake mustache and glasses.<\/p>\n

The first 15,000 fans will receive a set of glasses and mustaches similar to what Valentine wore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it!\u201d Valentine said in a text to The Associated Press about the upcoming promotion. \u201cI\u2019ll be there. <\/p>\n

\u201cCan\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valentine managed the Mets from 1996-2002, holding a 536-467 record, the team to a World Series appearance in 2000.<\/p>\n

The dugout disguise is perhaps one of the skipper\u2019s most memorable moments in Queens, with Valentine even playing into the schtick multiple times in recent years.<\/p>\n

During the Mets\u2019 Old-Timers\u2019 Day in 2022<\/a>, Valentine, 75, was wearing a fake mustache while being introduced.<\/p>\n

During a 2024 game against the Angels, Valentine did a mid-game interview in Los Angeles\u2019 booth while donning the disguise.<\/p>\n

Valentine was tossed from a game<\/a> against the Blue Jays on June 9, 1999, in the 12th inning, but returned to the dugout wearing the disguise until the Mets finally got the win after 14 innings.<\/p>\n

\"BobbyMets manager Bobby Valentine was tossed from a game vs. the Blue Jays on June 9, 1999 during the 12th inning. MLB<\/p>\n

He was then suspended for two games and issued a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n

The promotion comes as Valentine is expected to be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame during the 2026 season, alongside former players Carlos Beltran and Lee Mazzilli.<\/p>\n

Valentine spoke to The Post in December<\/a> about his induction, saying the ceremony is going to be special.<\/p>\n

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\"IllustrationThe first 15,000 fans will receive a set of glasses and mustaches similar to what Valentine wore. X\/@Mets<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a manager, I was all-in, so there might\u2019ve been a day or two where I thought that I would always be considered a Met because there was nothing else that I was thinking of in my life,\u201d Valentine told The Post\u2019s Mike Puma of his Mets legacy. \u201cI wore the blue and orange, but then we separated for a while. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I didn\u2019t know if there would be a continuance, and May 30 will be as special a day as I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Valentine also admitted that even he believes his getup is what he is most remembered for during his Mets tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs crazy as our world is, I think the thing [fans] think about the most is I wore a fake mustache and went back in the dugout after I got ejected,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the thing that\u2019s allowed me to be generational and allowed me to have someone who\u2019s 12 years old recognize the name and face that was disguised.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soon, any Mets fan will be able to recreate the legendary Bobby Valentine disguise in Queens. The Mets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,35247,9017,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":["post-582595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-valentine","tag-citi-field","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116102156529722843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}