{"id":203545,"date":"2026-04-20T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:35:12","slug":"mamdani-curse-mets-lose-11-straight-after-young-mayors-mr-mrs-met-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203545\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani curse? Mets lose 11 straight after young mayor&#8217;s Mr., Mrs. Met hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Zo-jo!<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are on a historic losing after dropping 11 straight games \u2014 and New Yorkers are starting to point the finger at none other than the new Big Apple mayor. <\/p>\n<p>The beleaguered <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/19\/sports\/mets-drop-11th-straight-in-nightmare-extra-inning-loss-to-cubs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ball club lost their latest Sunday night, falling to the Chicago Cubs<\/a> 2-1 in extra innings. <\/p>\n<p>The down-and-out fanbase have been quick to point out that the diamond athletes have failed to muster up a single win since Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a photo op with Mr. and Mrs. Met. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39140956\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-126039997.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani laughing with Mrs. Met and Mr. Met.\" class=\"wp-image-39140956\"  \/>NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is all smiles as he meets Mr. and Mrs. Met. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39140961\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-mets-third-baseman-126002855.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets third baseman Mark Vientos (27) with a broken bat after hitting a pop-up.\" class=\"wp-image-39140961\"  \/>Mark Vientos breaks his bat after popping out to infield during a game against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, April 19, 2026. Matt Marton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The curse of the Hizzoner seemingly took effect on April 9. The Mets are off on Monday, so will not have another chance to break the mayoral enchantment on Tuesday night when they play the Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Zo-jo! The Mets are on a historic losing after dropping 11 straight games \u2014 and New Yorkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,55,54,320,56,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-203545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}