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Anyone remember tibor75?

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As a tribute to Tibor75 (aka Guy Incognito), on this day in sports history in 1999......

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6/09/1999 - Bobby Valentine goes undercover

When Mets manager Bobby Valentine got ejected for arguing an interference call on Mike Piazza, he did something a tad unusual. Most managers stand in the hallway and relay strategies to their assistants when they get kicked out. Valentine went a step further, returning to the dugout in a pair of sunglasses, a Mets t-shirt, and a mustache made of eye black tape.

Despite leading the Mets to the Subway Series in 2000, Valentine was constantly hounded by the press in his tenure with the Mets. It was this stunt that would be referenced the most in their attempts to paint him as a joke.

Valentine didn't exactly help himself out when he denied allegations and visual proof that it was him. ''It was somebody else who didn't look like me,'' he told reporters. Baseball officials were not amused and gave Valentine a two-game suspension and $5,000 fine.

''It was an incident that occurred that I can't take back,'' Valentine said a few days later. ''It's one of those things that happened. If I had known what the responses would be and how seriously the outside world would take it, I never would have done it." ''Let's not kid anyone. I knew where the camera was. If I thought this was punishable by death, the camera never would have seen me. I didn't think it was that big a deal. But again I was incorrect."
 
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