De Blasio booed by Mets fans during 1st pitch

NY Post ^ | 3/31/14 | Beth DeFalco, Priscilla DeGregory and David K. Li

[jimbo123]

Mets fans greeted Mayor de Blasio with hearty Bronx cheers on Monday, before he left early on the Amazins’ bitter Opening Day loss.

Donning a pinstripe home white jersey and blue Mets cap over dress pants, de Blasio was loudly booed twice by Flushing faithful — once as he was announced and then again as he left the Citi Field diamond.

The wave of boos didn’t get to de Blasio, who kept his cool, kicked and delivered from just in front of the pitcher’s mound.

De Blasio — wearing a No. 6 Mets jersey with his name on the back – tossed a strike to Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud, and flashed a relieved grin that he delivered a corner-painting, Opening Day pitch.

He played off the boos, suggesting that his supporters might have been too cold to cheer.

“As for the response of the crowd, I think everyone is going to be too cold to respond,” de Blasio said, before the Mets 9-7 loss in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals.

“But whatever it is it is, I’m a sports fan. Sports fans have a right to express themselves any way they want.”

[Calvin Locke]

I have no love for Bloomberg, but a simple "Don't let the door..." would have sufficed, and it wasn't as if De Blasio edged Bloomie in a bitter campaign, either.

One nasty POS being succeeded by a even nastier and more delusional POS..

[SkyDancer]

He just got elected. He’s in this much trouble already???

[Amagi]

The cheers-to-boos ratio for DiBlow was unfair.
It did nor reflect a representative cross section of NY City voters ... plus the dead are vocally challenged.