Well, it happened. Keith Hernandez said he was going to shave his trademark facial hair at the Mets’ last home game of the season, and he did it. Well, someone else dd it for him, but the facial hair is gone all the same. Can our nation recover?

In 2007, Keith Hernandez’s mustache was voted the best mustache in sports history by the American Mustache Institute. Apparently, there’s no sanctity in winning such an honor, because — like our greatest nightmares come to life — Keith is going to go ahead and shave his mustache. It’s going to look something like the picture to the left, and it’s going to be terrifying.

It was June 14th, 1987. In the fictional world of “Seinfeld,” the Mets were playing the Phillies and a crucial Keith Hernandez error cost the Mets the game. As The Big Lead pointed out, that’s not at all what actually took place on June 14th, 1987 — to say nothing of the loogie Hernandez allegedly hocked on two of TV’s greatest and strangest characters. But hey, this is fictional history, so let’s look back and keep an eye out for the second spitter.

It’s always funny to hear the words people come up with when they can’t quite say what they want to because they’re, say, broadcasting for a live television audience. After the jump, what incredulous Mets announcer Keith Hernandez called a player on the Washington Nationals last night.

There is very little reason for anyone to be at Citi Field right now. The New York Mets, currently 76-85 and 25 games out of first place, are playing their last game of the year against the also-mediocre Cincinnati Reds. It’s a dreary and foggy day in New York. It’s the afternoon on a weekday. These are conditions that don’t exactly scream “baseball.”

There is one reason to be at Citi Field, though. Well, actually, there was, because that reason just got taken out of the game after one at-bat.

On June 14, 1987, Keith Hernandez became legendary…for something that never even really happened.

For all the jokes made about various people having “‘I’m Keith Hernandez!’ moments,” such moments just can’t measure up to the ones produced by the actual Keith Hernandez.