After receiving disturbing threats on Instagram, Katia Reguero Lindor — the wife of Francisco Lindor — criticized the “cowardly social media hate” that “crosses a line” by mentioning the death of the Mets’ shortstop and their kids.
And, one day later, Mets owner Steve Cohen endorsed an idea posed by multiple X users to give Lindor a standing ovation when the Mets return from their road trip.
“Love that idea . It worked in Philly with Turner . Positivity goes a long way,” Cohen wrote Saturday in a post on X.
Last season, in the first year of his massive $300 million contract, Turner — the Phillies’ star shortstop — was struggling and hitting just above .242 by the start of August.
of the disturbing Instagram messages that
she received. Screengrab via X/@RegueroKatia
“cowardly social media hate” that “crosses a
line.” Screengrab via X/@RegueroKatia
Philadelphia fans tried booing Turner as early as May, but when nothing seemed to spark a resurgence at the plate, they instead planned a standing ovation for Aug. 4.
By the time the end of the month arrived, Turner had hit .375 since the ovation with a 1.184 OPS, engineering a tear that extended through September and the Phillies’ postseason run.
So, after the Mets play two more games in Cincinnati and complete a four-game series in Atlanta, perhaps a standing ovation will be coordinated for Lindor when the Mets host the Royals on April 12.
Cohen’s reply on X connected back to Katia’s original post — where she shared images of the threatening Instagram messages — through a thread of two others that supported the idea for a standing ovation.
Katia wrote that she typically views social media messages as “borderline comical,” but those two, which explicitly referenced the death of Lindor and their children, were different.
“When lowlifes like this bring my husband and kids to the conversation, whew, that really crosses a boundary & it saddens me to know how vile some people are,” Katia wrote, in part. “How unhappy must you be with your own life? Go take out your anger elsewhere, please.”
Before Cohen endorsed the standing ovation Saturday, Katia replied to her original Friday night post with a “message of gratitude” to those who have supported her.
“For every negative comment, there’s an outpouring of positive ones,” Lindor wrote, in part, adding a heart hands emoji at the end.
Lindor, one of the faces of the Mets’ franchise after a $341-million extension in 2021, has struggled — along with most of his teammates amid a 2-5 start entering Saturday — to begin the 2024 season, with just one hit and a .038 average through his first seven games.
He attributed the issue to timing, according to The Post’s Jared Schwartz, and added that “everything should get better” once that gets fixed.