{"id":69903,"date":"2026-05-13T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:03:10","slug":"ex-mets-flamethrower-noah-syndergaard-calls-zohran-mamdani-a-lunatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69903\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard calls Zohran Mamdani a &#8216;lunatic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-New York Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard delivered some chin music to his former club Tuesday \u2013 advising the last-place squad to \u201cstop hanging out with socialist mayors\u201d as he leaned into the \u201cCurse of the Mambino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The retired MLB pitcher\u2019s statement came during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FXTXtrS8A5A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Outkick talk show host Tomi Lahren<\/a> when she asked how the Amazins can turn it around.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s front cover on the \u201cCurse of the Mambino\u201d that afflicted the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop hanging out with socialist mayors I guess, probably,\u201d Syndergaard said before Lahren asked if he believed Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u201ccursed\u201d the Mets when he embraced Mr. Met and Mrs. Met near the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething like that,\u201d he replied. \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<p>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<p>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<p>\u201cJust kind of disappointed to see A) who they\u2019re inviting into their clubhouse and B) like just the lack of the 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<p>The Mets are 16-25 and suffered an embarrassing 12-game skid in April. The club lost 11 games in a row during that stretch after the hug between Mamdani and the team\u2019s mascots, Mr. and Mrs. Met.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-New York Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard delivered some chin music to his former club Tuesday \u2013 advising the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[543,10984,23531,39967,36351,48,553],"class_list":{"0":"post-69903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zohran-mamdani","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-noah-syndergaard","12":"tag-tomi-lahren","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116569060598122791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}