Desperate Yankee fans invoked the power of voodoo before World Series Game 2 Saturday – by sticking a pin Bobblehead doll of Dodgers superstar Freddy Freeman.
“Give me like 12 of those,” Mike L., 39, said before holding up a pushpin and stabbing it into the doll’s heart.
The Connecticut native traveled to the Bronx to fulfill his late father’s dream of watching the Yanks win the World Series in a bar outside Yankee Stadium.
Mike L. hoped the voodoo doll would keep the Dodgers star first baseman from violating his father’s will.
“I don’t hate Freddy. I respect him but I hate what he did to us,” Mike L. said of the Sluggers Walkoff grand slam in Game 1 on Friday night. “You got a pin? I’ll show you where I’ll stick it.
Many Bombers fans – and Mets fans, who have been tormented by Freeman for a decade – were eager to try the magic on the slugger.
The walkoff grand slam by the former Atlanta Braves star – who has hit .303 with 31 homeruns and 129 RBI in a lifetime against the Amazins – was the first in World Series history, and Cementing his legacy as New York’s all-time killer.
“As a longtime Mets fan I would definitely say that Freddy Freeman has been the Mets killer for a long time. , , “Countless horrible memories of Freddy Freeman’s destruction of the Mets franchise in the last NLCS,” said 21-year-old bartender Ryan Kirby, as he reached for a yellow pin.
“I’m going to put a pin in his glove. , , , “This will make it harder for him to catch.”
His friend and fellow bartender Joe Rendino (21) chose Freeman’s head.
“What did he do yesterday? His was a grand slam. “He won’t do it again,” said Rendino, of Connecticut.
While some fans stuck pushpins into Freeman’s arms, legs, and even neck, Albert Perez made the brilliant decision to put a pushpin in the doll’s right ankle – exactly where Freeman is dealing with a sprain.
“I hope he hurt his ankle! His ankle is messed up!” Perez, 57, shouted.
“He ruined my night,” Eduardo Perez, 50, of the Bronx, told The Post as he walked to the stadium with friend Jenny Zabala, who had just bought two Yankee hats for her two sons, 25 and 15. Had bought.
Zabala said Freeman’s performance was painful for Yanks fans: “I couldn’t drink all night. In sports: He’s the worst.”
Miguel C. was initially overjoyed that his 47th birthday fell on the first game of the World Series – but Freeman’s performance ruined the party.
“I hope next time he attacks,” he said.
Other fans refused to look at the opposing team’s doll – some refused to touch the younger Freeman.
“I’m not happy. I don’t feel good. “I don’t even want to see this guy here right now,” Hector Barrientos, 43, of the Bronx, said while enjoying a pregame beer at the Draft House.
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