Mets legend Keith Hernandez calls out fan base's 'grotesque' chant he can't stand

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New York Mets fans have a lot to cheer about recently after what looked to be a lost season earlier on in 2024. 

The Mets are in the playoff hunt in the National League, and fans have been packing out Citi Field and rallying around each other, whether it is because of Grimace or the recent "OMG" signs and chants that have been seen and heard around Queens. 

While hopes are higher than they have been for the Mets, one of its legends is not a fan of one rallying cry in particular that fans have used over the years. 

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Former New York Met Keith Hernandez throws the ceremonial first pitch before game one of the 2015 MLB National League Championship Series at Citi Field on Oct. 17, 2015. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Keith Hernandez, who serves as a color commentator for Mets broadcasts on SNY, voiced his displeasure with fans using "LFGM" as a chant, which adds an expletive to the standard "Let’s Go Mets!"

"As long as they, on the other one, don’t add on the ‘F.’ I don’t like the ‘F,’" Hernandez said during the Mets’ broadcast on Monday afternoon.   

He then took it a step further as fans have tried to get him to sign memorabilia with "LFGM." 

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"I’ve had people ask me, something to sign, and, ‘Would you mind putting LF…?’ I say, ‘No, no. I don’t do that.’ Very, very grotesque," Hernandez explained. 

Hernandez, whose number 17 is retired by the franchise, may not like the chant used, but fellow first baseman Pete Alonso was one that helped popularize it in recent years. Alonso used to