\u201ccurse\u201d on the Mets<\/a>\u00a0when he hugged Mr. and Mrs. Mets near the start of the season at Citi Field.<\/p>\n\u201cSomething like that,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I hate saying it but at the end of the day the Mets are gonna Met and it\u2019s just, I think I\u2019m allowed to kind of say that cause I\u2019ve bled orange and blue for, I don\u2019t know, eight years, made it to the World Series with them.<\/p>\n
MLB free agent pitcher Noah Syndergaard exits the White House following a meeting with the President\u2019s Council on Physical Fitness on May 5, 2026. Andrew Leyden\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n
\u201cJust kind of disappointed to see A) who they\u2019re inviting into their clubhouse and B) like just the lack of success that they\u2019re having which doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense. I mean, they have a huge payroll and it\u2019s not creating dividends for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following Mamdani\u2019s hug heard round the world, the Mets lost 11 straight games as part of an embarrassing 12-game losing skid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team was firmly in last place in the National League East with a pathetic 16-25 record heading into Wednesday night\u2019s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the club has one of the highest payrolls in the sport, the Mets lost key players during the offseason like first baseman Pete Alonso and outfielder Brandon Nimmo.<\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani meets Mrs. Met and Mr. Met at Citi Field prior to the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Mets on April 09, 2026 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Syndergaard, whose nickname is Thor, said both players \u2013 as well as former Mets pitching great Jacob DeGrom \u2013 were some of the \u201cbiggest conservatives\u201d he played with and claimed they wanted out of the \u201ccraziness that\u2019s going on in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then tore into Mamdani while admitting he\u2019d still love to play for the Mets or that other New York baseball team.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if I still played for the Mets or the Yankees I\u2019d be like \u2018oh, this is freaking awesome,\u2019\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could block the crazy part out and still focus on I get to play a kid\u2019s game in one of the greatest cities in the world, albeit ran by lunatic or I don\u2019t know, he\u2019s 34 years old. Is that right? Like I\u2019m 33 and I can\u2019t imagine being a mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Syndergaard also assailed the democratic socialist whom he said \u201cnever really held an actual job before\u201d he became mayor.<\/p>\n
Syndergaard spent six seasons on the mound for the Mets as part of a feared starting rotation including DeGrom and now-retired pitcher Matt Harvey.<\/p>\n
The team reached the World Series during his rookie season in 2015 \u2013 though the Metropolitans ended up losing to the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n
Syndergaard hopped around to a few other clubs after the Mets, last playing in 2023 with the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n
Synderhaard and other athletes spent some time with President Trump earlier this month to\u00a0celebrate the GOP leader\u2019s reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-New York Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard called Mayor Zohran Mamdani a \u201clunatic\u201d and advised his former squad to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57,20,9,11,320,10,90101,90519,58,82],"class_list":["post-230544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-metro","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-noah-syndergaard","tag-tomi-lahren","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230544","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=230544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}