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Mayor De Blasio: Mets, Yankees Fans Treat Me Poorly At Games

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Lay off, will ya?!

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took in a Brewers game with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett at Miller Park this past Friday night.

De Blasio was taken aback by how well Brewers fans treated their city's mayor at the ballpark. He's not used to that in the Big Apple.

"I had the pleasure of taking in a Brewers game with Mayor Tom Barrett last night," de Blasio said during a speech Saturday in Milwaukee, according to the New York Post. "I was struck by how many people kept coming up to the mayor to thank him for his service."

"I go to quite a few baseball games in my city of New York, and I gotta admit — the reception isn't always that cordial. People recognize me, all right. But oftentimes our exchanges are limited to a few choice words ... or even a particular finger!"

Mayor de Blasio was at the Mets' last two home openers, and was booed by the crowd each time.

"He's the worst," Diane McGrath, a 48-year-old city worker, told the newspaper on Sunday night. "What kind of reaction does he expect to get? He disrespects this city, disrespects the cops in this city, gets booed at their funerals, and seriously expects to get treated nice when he comes to the baseball games?

"Get out of here. New Yorkers don't forget."

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