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The New York Mets started their life in Major League Baseball in 1962 as lovable losers, losing their first nine games and sixteen of their first twenty. Now, nearly six and a half decades later, the Mets are losers again, but not remotely lovable. In fact, the team’s ownership appears to have taken a decided turn to the left, and since the team’s mascots warmly embraced New York City’s Communist Twelver Shi’ite mayor, it hasn’t won a game. Coincidence? Sure. But it’s a superbly symbolic one.

Amid the Mets’ now twelve-game tailspin, CUNY Professor Jeffrey Lax, a lifelong Met fan and longtime Mamdani observer (he was the first to post the video of Mamdani’s now-notorious 2020 speech in which he spoke in openly Marxist terms about the necessity of ultimately seizing the means of production), pointed out that “Mets owner @StevenACohen2 traded [star outfielder Brandon] Nimmo because he’s a Republican and that pissed off star Socialist shortstop Francisco Lindor. Now, the Mets have lost 10 straight games since literally (via their mascot) embracing Jew-hating Marxist Mamdani. Then… no Jewish heritage night. Fans are actually leaving.”

Indeed. I myself several years ago stopped watching baseball after decades of fandom. The woke displays simply  became too frequent and too overbearing. And in the Mets’ case, they’re emblematic of the decline of the city, which has likewise taken a sharp left turn even after already suffering years of leftist misrule. Lax tipped his hat to the man who made the connection: “After 43 years as a true die hard, I am unfathomably considering that and joining @sidrosenberg19, who started all of this, myself. Thank you, Sid, for bringing attention to all of this.”

New Yorkers all know Sid Rosenberg, who is a popular morning talk show host in the city. He stated on Monday (punctuation added for clarity): “The whole ‘Met Mamdani Curse,’ I started it. I know everyone and their mom is commenting on it, but it started with me calling Mr. Met an AntiSemite after ‘The Hug!’ It’s a metaphor for the city. Our city is cursed!!!!! Carry on keep losing!”

The Met Mamdani Curse, a metaphor for the decline of America’s largest city, began on April 9. On that day, Mamdani and his rabidly far-left, pro-Hamas wife Rama Duwaji visited Citi Field before the Mets’ game with the Arizona Diamondbacks, and exchanged happy hugs with the Mets’ mascots, Mr. and Mrs. Met.

The Mets promptly lost twelve games in a row since that fateful moment, and the Curse of Mamdani was born. (They’ve really only lost eleven in a row since Mr. and Mrs. Met met Comrades Mamdani and Duwaji, as the Mets had already lost one when Hizzoner and his wife showed up, but as is so often the case in situations of this kind, poetic license has entered the arena.)

Mamdani himself was asked about this, and quickly displayed the gelid fake smile he always shows when he is asked a question that annoys him, but he doesn’t want to show the annoyance.

“There’s a lot of baseball left to be played,” Mamdani began diplomatically, “and I am still keepin’ the faith, as I know that many Mets fans are across the city. Though I will accept being addressed as Mayor Mambino for the day.” This got the polite, dutiful laughter it deserved.

Then a reporter asked if there was anything Mamdani could possibly do to help the poor Mets and remove the Mamdani curse. He answered: “You know, I will keep my fingers crossed, as every Mets fan does, and I think that this is part and parcel of what it means to be the mayor, you take it in stride.”

Meanwhile, the Babylon Bee had a genuine idea of something he could do. The Bee headline was “Mamdani Orders Visiting Teams To Redistribute Some Of Their Runs To The Mets.” The Bee’s story was satire at its absolute finest, for it couldn’t possibly have hit the mark more exactly in illuminating what is wrong with Mamdani’s socialist world view. He is intent on taking money from the productive and giving it to the unproductive, but that won’t make the recipients successful any more than getting runs arbitrary assigned to them would make the Mets a better baseball team.

And so the Mets, as of this writing, continue to suffer from the Mamdani Curse. Even if the Mets win a game soon, however, for the city as a whole, Mamdani will be around at least a few more years. That means recovery is not even close to being on the horizon.