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‘Thumbs Down’ Mets Fan Gary Dunaier Becomes Celebrity To Yankees Fans

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If you’ve been watching the Yankees games, you’ve seen a lot of thumbs down from the fans and the players.

But for this year’s Yankees, thumbs down is a good thing now – though it all started with a Mets fan who was not making a supportive gesture. CBS2’s Cindy Hsu introduced us Thursday to the man who started it all.

The whole thing started about five weeks ago, when the Yankees’ Todd Frazier hit a three-run homer against the Tampa Bay Rays at Citi Field — the game displaced by Hurricane Irma.