New York Post

CURSE OF BILLY ‘GLOAT’

Blas-team losing streak

- By RICH CALDER

It’s the curse of the Blas-bino. With the Yankees being knocked out of the playoffs Tuesday by his beloved Boston Red Sox, Mayor de Blasio has clinched a dubious distinctio­n: New York City’s first mayor in more than a century who won’t celebrate a single championsh­ip by any of Gotham’s major sports teams.

The Big Apple’s previous 14 mayors over the past 100 years saw at least one of the 49 NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL titles earned by city teams over that period.

An eight-year-long jinx started once the native New Englander arrived at City Hall in 2014 and openly began using his mayoral pulpit to gush about his unabashed love for the Red Sox and New England Patriots. The last NYC champs were the Giants, who won the Super Bowl in 2012.

While New York sports fans were shut out during his tenure, the mayor got to enjoy Tom Brady leading the Patriots to three more Super Bowls and the Red Sox winning another championsh­ip in 2018.

The good news: The bad mayoral mojo might end with de Blasio leaving office at the end of the year.

“There is no doubt about it,” fumed Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee in this year’s mayoral race. “New York needs to throw him back to Boston — the same way Yankee fans used to throw the ball back whenever [exRed Sox slugger] Manny Ramirez hit a home run into the left-field stands at Yankee Stadium.”

But things could get worse. With de Blasio flirting with the idea of running for governor next year, New York teams in other parts of the state — the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders — could suffer.

“From public safety to our economy, Bill de Blasio has consistent­ly struck out,” said Councilman Bob Holden (D-Queens). “Everything fails around de Blasio, even our sports teams.”

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