Dave Portnoy for Mayor? The Barstool Sports Founder Bashes Mamdani, Muses About Running for Office
The crowd Portnoy draws “can be all over the map,” he said. The “people-hate-my-guts crowd. A couple of them may show up, so you never know.” Badan wondered what the over/under on protesters might be. Alas, there were no obvious objectors to be seen. The audience at the 92nd Street Y had an air of conspicuous consumption—a Gucci bag here, a Louis Vuitton there—cut with a mix of polyester golf polos and fraternity-appropriate streetwear. Most of all, there was Barstool merch: Stu Feiner, a sports handicapper, wore a T-shirt with his own face alongside Portnoy’s, and led a brief chant for the arrival of his fellow Barstool personality Frank “The Tank” Fleming, a diehard New York Mets fan known for his viral meltdowns and weight-loss journey. (“Some could even argue that Barstool’s natural gravitational pull for weirdos has been our secret sauce throughout the years,” Portnoy writes in Cancel Me If You Can. “We’re the best there is at finding people who have no business existing in real life anywhere but with us.”) Over his …

