It’s the “Curse of the Mambino!” a New York Post headline cleverly — and accurately — declared on April 21.

The headline, a pun on the “Curse of the Bambino,” followed the then-11-game losing streak by the New York Mets after Mayor Zohran Mamdani hugged the mascots Mr. and Mrs. Met during a Citi Field photo opp on April 9.

Ultimately, the Mets lost 12 straight games before finally winning a game on April 22.

In the immortal words of the Post, “fuming fans are blaming Hizzoner for squeezing the mojo out of the Amazins.

“The battered fan base has been left singing ‘Meet the Mess’ as it gets late early for the team, which has limped” to a 9-17 record as of early April 25 despite a $381 million payroll. (“Meet the Mets” is the official fight song and theme song of the Mets.)

“He (Mamdani) gave them bad juju. Bad juju. That was bad juju, that was no good,” the Post quoted Mets fan and Bronx resident Nelson Berrios, 49, who was sporting a team hat in Midtown.

“When he hugged them, I was like what’s going on? Nobody touches Mr. Met, only Mrs. Met, that’s it,” added Berrios, who said he voted for Mamdani as NYC mayor, the Post stated, adding “History paints a desolate — but not impossible — picture for Mets...”

Meanwhile, the Post noted that the Democratic socialist mayor’s visit had the stated purpose of cheering on stadium workers, but critics were left jeering after the team’s skid left them in last place of the National League East – with some calling the basement dwellers “The Mamdani Mets.”

The Post added, “Others said the mayor cast a ‘curse’ on the lovable losers as bad as the infamous ‘Curse of the Bambino,’ a longstanding myth that claimed the Boston Red Sox were hit with bad luck when they sold star Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees in 1919. The Sox didn’t win a World Series for 86 years after the deal, while the Yankees picked up 26 titles over the same stretch.

“Some Mamdani critics cracked jokes that the mayor, who campaigned on hiking taxes on wealthy New Yorkers, was squeezing the mojo out of the Mets like he wants to squeeze taxpayers,” the Post stated. “‘The Mets are embracing Mamdani Socialism: they’re spreading wins around to teams with far lower payrolls,’ one social media commenter quipped in reference to the Mets’ payroll – one of the highest in all of baseball.”

In the aftermath of the debacle, we ask Mamdani to stay away from the Mets.