Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani offered to help the Mets beat the “Curse of the Mambino” Wednesday — as the team tried to put an end to an embarrassing 12-game losing streak.
The Republican and well-known Yankees fan took aim at Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who some fans claimed set the team into a tailspin on April 9 when he hugged mascots Mr. and Mrs. Met during a photo op at Citi Field.
“Among the plagues visited on my great people of NYC, the first is the Curse of the Mambino,” the 81-year old posted on X. “[The Mets] should invite me to try and take the curse away or at least make an invocation for them.”
Guiliani — a self-proclaimed “die hard” Yankees fan who often sports Bombers gear — said the city’s baseball teams knocked it out of the park back when he was Hizonner.
“I have the record for living ex-Mayors for the most baseball records: 4 World Series championships, 12 or 13 Division championships, 2 perfect games, the only subway series for Mets-Yankees; also a Ranger cup, Knick final playoff contests, etc.”
The Mets have lost 11 consecutive games since the Mamdani-Met hug, part of their overall 12-game slide — sparking furor from fans who say he squeezed the mojo out of the Amazins. They now sit in dead last in the National League East, with long-suffering fans already starting to recite the familiar chorus of “wait till next year” even though it’s only April.
The stretch of losses is five games short of the Mets’ longest ever losing streak of 17 games, set in their notoriously awful inaugural season in 1962.
The Mets also lost 12 consecutive games in 2002, when Michael Bloomberg —who was famously not much of a baseball buff — was the city’s mayor.
