Grimace tattoos, getting blocked by Mets owner Steve Cohen and other tales from NY’s craziest sports social feed
NY Post
Meet the Mets — and their brazen legion of digital fans, whose dedication to the team is downright amazin’, if not occasionally certifiable.
Devotees of the “Loveable Losers” are well-acquainted with the roller coaster of emotions that come with every baseball season, and they slide headfirst into social media in unique — and sometimes bold — ways.
“Mets Twitter is like being in a dive bar,” Mark C. Healey, editor of Gotham Baseball and a longtime dean of Mets Twitter (now X), told The Post. “When the Mets are winning, it’s a lot of fun; when they are losing, it’s Rock’Em, Sock’Em Robots.”
Some fans have elevated their passion to such furor that they’ve managed to get themselves blocked on X by Mets owner Steve Cohen, a testament to the influence of social media in the world of sports fandom.
“Steve Cohen blocks me on [X] because he says I’m too negative,” said “Frank The Tank” Fleming, 48, of Bellville, New Jersey, an outspoken Barstool Sports blogger and one of the most polarizing Mets fans on social media. “He wouldn’t take a picture with me, he said, because I needed to be nicer to his players.”
Amid his ongoing feud with the Mets boss, Fleming posted a video last week asking for Francisco Lindor’s autograph — despite ripping the Mets shortstop as the “most (overpaid) and (overrated) bum in baseball” a month before.
