The big news out of Port St. Lucie this morning? Oliver Perez’s mustache. Steve Popper:

Ollie shaves beard – leaves porn mustache. Its 1986 again.

And David Lennon:

Good Ollie, Bad Ollie … Porn Ollie? Perez shaved his beard and left the mustache. Weird.

I’m going to go with “Utterly Awesome Ollie,” and hope he keeps the ‘stache around for a while.

But it’s important to note that this is not the first time Ollie has rocked a mustache, and I believe I may be one of the only reporters to have noted it before. Check it out.

Don’t bother with the first two minutes of this video from 2008. In the final few seconds, as I’m wrapping with Eddie Kunz (in an interview I’m pretty certain jinxed and ruined his career), Ollie steps into the frame with a bold, beautiful mustache. I try, in vain, to ask him about it, but he bounds off into the bowels of Shea Stadium. The mustache wouldn’t return until today.