NEW YORK — Todd Frazier never imagined his thumbs-down salute becoming a trend. Neither, frankly, did Mets fan Gary Dunaier.
Yet here the New York Yankees are, using Dunaier's inverted digit as a rallying cry during their postseason push after a YES Network camera caught the bearded, suspender-wearing Dunaier making the disapproving gesture during a game Monday night.
"When I read — and re-read — the accounts of how the Yankees have taken my expression of disapproval and turned it around to something positive for them, I get a big kick out of it," Dunaier told The Associated Press on Friday night.