Mascots, Medals & Mustaches

Good morning. Today we’ve got baseball nostalgia with fake mustaches, Olympic bagpipes with an Italian passport, and a gentle reminder that the world runs on equal parts pride and pageantry. Pour the coffee. Let’s see what we’ve done now. — Doug Marlowe

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Mascots, Medals & Mustaches

The Mets Celebrate a Great Baseball Moment: The Fake Mustache

The New York Mets are hosting a “Bobby Valentine Disguise Night,” handing out 15,000 fake mustache-and-glasses sets. It’s a nod to 1999, when Valentine got ejected, then snuck back into the dugout wearing that very look. He later managed the team to a World Series, but yes, the mustache is what stuck. Valentine, now 75, says he’ll be there, likely in disguise, because some jokes deserve a long run. It matters because sports run on memory as much as wins, and sometimes the silliest moment is the one fans keep forever.

At the Milan Cortina Winter Games, curling medal ceremonies come with bagpipes, in honor of the sport’s Scottish roots. The twist? The pipe band is Italian, from the Veneto region, about 2,000 miles from Scotland. They wear kilts, play it straight, and insist they don’t “improve” the tunes with Italian flair. For the band, this is their biggest stage yet, and they’re treating it with the gravity of a moon landing. It’s a tidy reminder that tradition travels well, and that pageantry, like pasta, can be exported anywhere.

That’s the roundup. If you find yourself pricing fake mustaches or humming bagpipes today, don’t worry — you’re simply keeping up with the times. Hit reply and tell me which one made you smile. — Doug