Comrades in Harm: Mamdani Revives Obama Sports Curse

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire for inflicting what many have described as a "curse" on the New York Mets after hugging the team's mascots during a photo op earlier this month. The Mets have now lost 10 consecutive games since Mamdani visited Citi Field on April 9. They've been outscored 55-17 during that stretch. Before Mamdani's ill-fated intervention, the Mets were 7-5 and had outscored their opponents 70-27. Now they're in the midst of the worst losing streak in team history.

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire for inflicting what many have described as a "curse" on the New York Mets after hugging the team's mascots during a photo op earlier this month. The Mets have now lost 10 consecutive games since Mamdani visited Citi Field on April 9. They've been outscored 55-17 during that stretch. Before Mamdani's ill-fated intervention, the Mets were 7-5 and had outscored their opponents 70-27. Now they're in the midst of the worst losing streak in team history.

"He gave them bad juju. Bad juju. That was bad juju, that was no good," Nelson Berrios, a 49-year-old Mets fan who voted for Mamdani, told the New York Post. "When he hugged them, I was like what's going on? Nobody touches Mr. Met, only Mrs. Met, that's it."

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Given the strength of evidence, Mamdani's defenders have failed to offer a compelling alternative explanation for the Mets' recent struggles. The mayor's meeting with former president Barack Obama over the weekend further undermined Mamdani's claim to innocence. Obama, whom many regard as the intellectual predecessor of Mamdani's radical anti-capitalist, pro-terrorist brand of progressivism, was widely criticized for his frequent deployment of sports-related curses.

Their meeting in the Bronx on Saturday—at a time when the Mets had already lost nine straight games—sparked outrage among American citizens who want their elected leaders to spend more time solving problems and less time conjuring the dark arts to meddle in professional sports.

Some have speculated that Mamdani is punishing the Mets for giving their players too much money. The team has the second-highest payroll in the league, with total spending approaching $500 million, including luxury tax. Mamdani has repeatedly argued that successful individuals, including the hardworking immigrants who play for the Mets, are not paying their fair share in taxes. Another possible explanation is that Mamdani simply despises a sport that is widely regarded as "America's pastime." He prefers soccer, a so-called sport that is more accurately described as an anti-American abomination in which players compete to see who can fall down the most and pretend to be injured.

Mamdani addressed the controversy during a press conference on Tuesday, saying he would send his "best wishes" to the team while "keeping the faith" that the Mets could turn their season around. He even made what some have described as a joke, suggesting New Yorkers could refer to him as "Mayor Mambino" for the day in reference to the New York Post's cover on Tuesday. Concerned Mets fans have referenced the "Curse of the Bambino," which is believed to have plagued the Boston Red Sox nearly a century after the team sold superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919.

There are already indications that the mayor's curse is not limited to the Mets. On Monday, hours after Mamdani erected a display celebrating the New York Knicks in the City Hall lobby, the Knicks lost to the lower-seeded Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden. Obama almost certainly played a role in the team's defeat, given his prior experience meddling in the NBA.

In 2019, for example, Obama traveled to Canada where he met with then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and attended Game 2 of the NBA finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors, representing America, the country of Obama's (alleged) birth, lost two starters to injuries on Obama's watch and ended up losing the series in six games. The injuries occurred less than five months after Obama watched Duke play North Carolina and looked on as Duke star Zion Williamson suffered a freak knee injury just 36 seconds into the game. He did not return to the game, which UNC won 88-72.

Tiger Woods, one of the greatest professional golfers to ever live, did not win a single major championship during Obama's presidency. Two years after Donald Trump took office, Tiger won his fifth green jacket at the Masters. Many have suggested that Obama took pleasure in cursing athletes because he always imagined himself to be good at sports, but must have known deep down that he was terrible. The evidence speaks for itself.

On President Joe Biden's watch in 2023, the United States lost to Japan—the country responsible for the infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor—in the World Baseball Classic.