New York stars reveal the vile wild west of social media and the ugly messages theyve faced

When Ryne Stanek walked into the clubhouse after letting a close game get away from the Mets, he knew the kind of hate that would be waiting on his cell phone.Stanek’s ERA ballooned to 18.56 in August, the Mets fell to a season-worst seven games out of first place in their division and the 8.5 runs over/under for the Aug.21 game against the Nationals flipped as he gave up four in the eighth inning.“I get death threats all the time — every day,” the veteran relief pitcher told The Post.
“It’s not anything that every baseball player doesn’t deal with all the time.Like, ‘You cost me my parlay, I hope your family dies.’“Gambling in baseball is doing nothing but making the day-to-day lives of players substantially worse.
It’s just people that recklessly bet their money on just anything that they can and if you mess up their bad life choice, you’re the problem and you should die.”Giants kicker Graham Gano — the team’s representative for the NFL Players Association — shed light this week on a not-new-but-growing epidemic in sports: Athletes learning to cope with abhorrent, violence-threatening messages sent on social media by nameless, faceless, overly invested strangers.For Gano — who missed a field goal in last week’s loss and is about to miss his 21st game in a trying three-year period of injuries that has left the Giants at a disadvantage in close games — it was “someone told me to get cancer and die.”But even All-Stars, All-Pros and franchise faces are not immune.“It’s definitely crossed a line … more than a couple of times,” Knicks superstar Jalen Brunson said.“Some pretty messed up sh–.
The worst things you’re thinking of, it’s worse than that.”Give up a quarterback sack? Here comes racism, body shaming and stalking.“I feel like fans make burner accounts and say things — a couple called me the N-word before.Or [things] about your weight,” Giants right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor said.
“That’s wh...