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Brooklyn pizzeria owner rejects Dodgers booking during World Series because Yankees loyalist: ‘This won’t happen
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Brooklyn pizzeria owner rejects Dodgers booking during World Series because Yankees loyalist: ‘This won’t happen

There’s nothing that can beat team loyalty.

Owner of your lover Lucali, the pizzeria in Brooklyn He turned down the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wanted to book themselves in the Sunday night hot spot; He turned down the Yankees, saying he loved them too much to feed them. World Series rivals.

“Um, yeah that’s not going to happen, Lucali won’t have a groin impact,” team owner Mark Lacono told the team representative. viral celebration gesture It was displayed by Dodger players during the playoffs.

A die-hard Bombers fan since childhood, the native Brooklynite turned down a 30-man reservation on the eve of Monday’s Game 3 at Yankee Stadium because he couldn’t in his conscience serve the enemy.

“My father was turning in his grave,” Lacono said when contacted by The Post. “No Ohtani pizza here.”


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Mark Lacono rejected a Dodgers representative’s request for a 30-man reservation. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Lacono – whose star studA Dodgers representative who called on Oct. 23 said he understood why he was playing hardball in the kitchen and accepted the rejection.

Yankees players on Tuesday night were talking about the disdain of red sauce after the team’s surprise comeback win, according to a Yankees insider.

One insider jokingly said that any restaurant serving the Yankees’ rivals “should have its NYC residency revoked.”


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Mark Lacono’s pizzeria in Carroll Gardens often draws lines around the block. Stephen Yang

But at least one Dodgers player got to eat Italian in the Big Apple on Sunday.

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was dining off-night at star-studded restaurant Emilio’s Ballato in Soho during the World Series, according to Restaurant Founder Emilio Vitolo.

“When he’s in New York, Freeman loves coming here,” Vitolo said; He himself claimed to fight for the Bombers, even though he was trashing his enemies on the field.

Asked why feeding the enemy isn’t a problem, Vitolo pointed to a photo of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge on the wall Wednesday afternoon and said, “I love everybody.”

“I hope to see the Yankees blow them out of the water tonight,” he said.

He was arrested because he fed the wrong team, his son, executive chef Anthony Vitolo, told The Post.

“How did you learn this information?” he asked. “We were supposed to be a Yankees restaurant.”

The Dodgers lead the Yankees in the World Series with a 3-to-1 record. The teams will face each other again on Wednesday night.