{"id":343677,"date":"2026-09-11T06:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343677\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T06:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:19:58","slug":"what-happens-when-a-viral-sports-ranter-joins-staten-island-ferryhawks-dugout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343677\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When a Viral Sports Ranter Joins Staten Island FerryHawks\u2019 Dugout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frank &#8220;The Tank&#8221; Fleming stepped into the Staten Island FerryHawks dugout as a guest bench coach on Tuesday. The Barstool Sports personality is known for viral sports rants, especially about Mets collapses and NFL heartbreak. He joined manager Wally Backman for a doubleheader against the Long Island Ducks at SIUH Community Park in St. George. Fleming said the analytics were useful and called the FerryHawks&#8217; season record of 20-102 a &#8220;messy situation.&#8221; He also praised the stadium views, saying he did not understand how the Yankees got rid of that view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank &#8220;The Tank&#8221; Fleming stepped into the Staten Island FerryHawks dugout as a guest bench coach on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[17360,58172,9,24,22,63,134,109985,136,135,103654],"class_list":["post-343677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-barstool-sports","tag-long-island-ducks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nfl","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-ferryhawks","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-wally-backman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343677","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=343677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}