As we mentioned earlier in the baseball season, we have our own spin on the MLB post-season awards. We call them the BUNTYs and we don’t give them traditional names.

We love Cy Young. I mean who doesn’t? But our top pitchers win the Old Hoss Radbourn Award. Charles was fierce and so is our 2012 winner … R.A. Dickey from the New York Mets.

Mr. Dickey recorded 20 wins, a 2.73 ERA and 2,144 PTS in Topps BUNT this year. 

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We tried to keep Keith Hernandez from shaving his mustache. We issued a petition through Change.org and we took to the social media universe to have our voices heard, but it wasn’t enough.

On Thursday, before hundreds outside Citi Field, Hernandez said goodbye to his stache. Hernandez and Schick Hydro partnered to donate $10,000 to the Jacquellyn Hernandez Adult Day Health Center, which is named in his mother’s honor. 

“I want to thank all my fans who supported my mustache over the years,” Hernandez told MLB.com, “but it’s time for it to take a backseat and give my upper lip some time to shine.”

We caught the action at Citi Field and captured every moment of the historic event:

This is Keith Hernandez before he goes under the razor.

Hernandez talking with his barber before the shave.

Posing with reps from his mother’s center and Schick.

The “am-I-really-doing-this” face.

Hot towel, anyone?

Lathered up with shaving cream. The razor is about to touch skin.

The barber trimmed the edges before getting rid of the stache.

Seconds before the new-look Keith was unveiled.

Keith was all smiles … 

… as he waves goodbye to his stache, for now.

Out valiant effort to keep Keith Hernandez from shaving his mustache has ended … and we did not win this mustachioed battle.

Before the Mets game on Sept. 27, Hernandez will shave his mustache for charity. It’s the same mustache that was voted best sports stache in America by the American Mustache Institute in 2007. It’s the same stache that was on Seinfeld, that won a World Series, and sits next to Ron and Gary in the SNY broadcast booth. And for a short while at least, that stache will no longer be under Keith’s nose.

Money raised will go to benefit the  Jacquelyn Hernandez Adult Day Health Center in Brooklyn, named in Keith’s mother’s honor. She died in 1989 of Alzheimer’s.

Read the full story on The New York Times

Keith Hernandez’s mustache is a cultural icon. It was there when the Mets won the World Series in 1986. It was there when you were a child and you were an adult. It’s turned heads, it’s kissed babies, it’s made you laugh and cry. It’s a part of you. It’s your mustache just as much as Keith’s.

So when the former Mets and Cardinals legend announced last week during a broadcast on SNY that he could potentially shave it by season’s end, it set off a spine tingling sensation. Collectively, as fans of Keith and his mustachioed self, we need to stop him.

“I don’t want to draw attention to it,” he told Richard Sandomir of The New York Times. “I’ll do it, and whoever’s watching the game will see it.”

Let’s hope not. Sign the petition and SAVE THE STACHE!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION!

P.S. Hey Keith, shaving your stache is no way get a Topps BUNT avatar next season!

During Saturday’s Mets-Astros game at Citi Field, one faithful fan in Flushing had enough and brought out the paper bags in full force.

It wasn’t just one that said “Bay Fan Club,” which he wore proudly on his head (on the back had Jason Bay’s season statistics), but it also included a bag over his hand that said, “Thole #1 Fan,” to pick on the young Mets catcher.

If Mets fans are doing this on Mike Piazza bobble head day while R.A. Dickey is on the mound, you can only imagine what the fans in Houston or Colorado are doing.

Last week the Mets road off on a trip with country western attire, this week they kicked it up a notch and sported hockey jerseys on their road trip to - where else - Toronto.

Mets manager Terry Collins said they decided in spring training that some road trips will have themes to harness team bonding and an overall fun atmosphere. It helps the Mets came back to beat the Reds with a huge 8th inning the day they left for Toronto to start interleague play.

Most players wore jerseys - purchases from the NHL store, according to Collins - with connections to their lives or hometowns. Perhaps the most perfect combination was team radio broadcaster Howie Rose, who wore a New York Islanders jersey because he also does play-by-play for the Isles during hockey season.

Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had on his Predators jersey since he hails from Tennessee. Andres Torres, a New Jersey native, had a Devils top. Johan Santana, a longtime Minnesota native from his time pitching for the Twins, had a Wild jersey.

Jason Bay, a Canadian native, did not wear a Canucks jersey - his favorite team - instead, sporting a Hartford Whalers sweater in true hockey fan sense.

“I wanted to be a true hockey guy and throw back a little vintage,” said Bay.

Mets fans one day would like to see vintage Bay - the one who hit 35 home runs and 109 RBI in 2006 with the Pirates or the one who hit 36 home runs and 119 RBI with Boston in 2009.

Check out an NHL.com video about the Mets and their new jerseys.

In keeping with the idea of weird, we’ll be on the lookout for odd or unique plays.

Today’s video takes a look at an awkward dive by Mets outfielder Jason Bay, who was anything but graceful in his attempt to catch a fly ball during Monday night’s game against the Giants.

Click here to see the video.

If you see a weird play you want to share, shoot us a line via Twitter @ToppsBUNTCast. To learn more about Topps BUNT, click here.