Hits Different

On the way to the beach and no time to write a description for this episode. Um, the Mets beat the Phillies at their home. But only God knows what's in store for the rest of this cursed summer. Let's go Bart! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ellen is the bravest woman in New York City, and she ate the clam chowder egg roll. About half of this week's Hits Different is about that—what else would you like us to talk about? The sick fools calling for the Mets to trade Francisco Lindor? They are going to hell and it's not polite to discuss that!!!! Just a few weeks after the Heat Emergency episode, Ellen, Dave, and Kait are forced to bring you the Wildfire Smoke episode. If we're inappropriately cruel about Bryce Harper, just know that we were prepared to pull this episode down if he perished of smoke inhalation during Thursday night's game. Send us questions about baseball and send us stories about your favorite minor league ballparks that we should add to our bucket lists—[email protected]'s go Mets? [Cough] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Mets won two games in Atlanta, both of which were normal. Then they came home and lost a game to Kansas City in a way that was perfectly normal. "When you meet a girl you don't start kissing her right away"—how many people talk about their relationships with their married coworkers. Dave, Ellen, and Kait are back in the regular studio (different room of Kait's apartment) and talking about the upcoming trade deadline (eek!) and the new Women's Professional Baseball League (sick!!). Poor Jared Young got a game-winning RBI on a hit-by-pitch and poor Matt Seelinger... that's it. Poor Matt Seelinger. There's just no way you can stop watching this baseball team. Let's go Mets!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guys it is so hot!!!! This week on Hits Different, we're podding from floor. It was too hot to pod in our "studio." We're talking about Carlos Mendoza getting fired (kind of, I think we actually skimmed over that a little), Steve Cohen popping off on a podcast in an unproductive fashion, and how HOT it is. Juicy report on mascot culture from Listener Mark. Let's go Mets? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different: We didn't know that Carlos Mendoza was going to be fired when we recorded!!! So we don't talk about that. Instead, Ellen, Dave, and Kait discuss the first time that every member of the Mets infield committed at least one error in the same game since 1962. A wonderful historical achievement. The Mets also gave up more than 50 runs in a week, allowed Bryce Harper to hit for the cycle, watched Kyle Schwarber hit 3 bombs in an hour, and raised Dansby Swanson's OPS by 60 points in four days. They traded David Peterson to the Cubs. He's surely happy to go. Anyway, happy Pride!!! Let's go Mets... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Hits Different!!! Sorry for taking a week off—we were all getting married. We're back and talking about the past 12 Mets games, all of which we remember with perfect clarity. Ellen has TWO egg rolls to review. Kait has a Citi Field Game Day Experience TM to review.When you get to the part where David is recapping the history of the Mets's Triple-A team and the New Orleans Baby Cakes come up please click this link to see the horrible mascot we're talking about. When you get to the David's Hometown Dates segment please click this link to see the horrible flag we're talking about. Let's go Mets!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Mets vanquished all of their demons by sweeping the Miami Marlins at home, and then they flew out to the Pacific Northwest to be a little embarrassing again. Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos responded to criticism by saying "I have to give myself props." This week on Hits Different, Ellen, Kait, and Dave report from a dank cave to talk about the pitchforks that are out for Swag, the lore behind the fake stat "game-winning RBI," the ethics of gambling and the ethics of having a 40-year-old ballboy who is dealing drugs to the players. Send us questions, we love them!!! [email protected]'s go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ten years ago this week, Mets manager Terry Collins begged for one more chance to try to kill Chase Utley—and you know what? He was right.This time on Hits Different, David breaks down an iconic moment in Mets history. Also, Kaitlyn reveals another irritating feminist stance she has been stewing over, and Ellen receives some thrilling information in a voicenote from Listener Thalia. We talk a bit about the 2026 New York Mets as well, but there's only so much we could say about what happened in Miami.You gotta believe! LGM!Send us questions at [email protected]!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were so back, then it was so over, then we were so back again, and then it was a little bit over. And next? Who knows!This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Dave recap their first Subway Series experience, and we get into conspiracy theories about why the Mets briefly gave Gary Carter's number to new Baby Met Nick Morabito. (Morabito has since switched to #55, in honor of Dicky Lovelady and/or Ryne Stanek.) The Yankees broke Clay Holmes leg and I had to see Brett Baty strike out on the side of a hotel in Times Square. But then Tyrone Taylor broke the Yankees and Brett Baty hit a home run into a dumpster.Francisco Lindor may be back in June!Who is your all-time favorite Met? Great question from a young listener this week. Let us know who yours is!Email us questions or stories at [email protected]'s go Mets!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're discussing the Mets' 5-4 road trip out West. At moments, the boys we love were bopping. At others, we were watching guys we had never seen before in our lives commit defensive errors resulting in runs. On Mothers' Day no less. David Stearns caught an attitude in his latest press conference and SOMEONE (no idea who) leaked an incredibly awesome thing that Pete Alonso said to his face in 2024. We're in about the 5 millionth chapter of this nerd-vs-jock narrative, and in this one it is Pete who is coming out looking like the hero. But who knows? Next week that could change. Just kidding—Pete forever!!!Let's go Mets <3 Send us your questions at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Mets have been out west in the SNOW. They've scored some runs but they've also entered a "fluid" shortstop situation. They've decided not to fire their manager, but this announcement has done nothing to tamp down the utterly hysterical discourse about whether they should fire their manager.This week on Hits Different, we discuss David's new membership in the Society of American Baseball Research and Ellen's latest adventure with Citi Field egg rolls. Kait went to visit Pete at Yankee Stadium. We were a little all over the place, and near the end I think we talk about CIA intervention in Latin America for longer than made sense.We're still waiting to find out how we feel about the Mets this year. Anything could happen! Carson Benge could win Rookie and Cutie of the Year!! Let's go Mets <3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Mets won a baseball game, ending their worst losing streak since last week. But then they lost again. Everyone else's managers are fired. Swaggy V is back on the market. Citi Field has sprung multiple leaks and Ellen's parents were drenched. This week on Hits Different, Ellen, David, and Kait talk about another wonderful week of New York baseball. The Mets are off on a nine-game road trip and we will miss them!!! Let's go Mets. (Feebly) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the Amazins' amazing 12-game losing streak, their longest since 2002. On Wednesday night, the streak finally ended, but at what cost? Francisco Lindor is now in a walking boot due to a calf strain so severe that he refuses to even look at the imaging. He hasn't looked down at his leg at all, actually. He doesn't want to know!!!How are you feeling about the Mets? It's sort of a weird time, because of course we all saw a Baty Bomb (not discussed in this episode) on Thursday night, but we also saw Craig Kimbrel. We saw the streak end, but it was with two narrow victories over a team that (with respect) has no aspirations to accomplish anything this year. We saw Francisco Lindor wince and we screamed.The one thing we are sure about is that the Minnesota-themed Hot Dish egg roll was GREAT. Two thumbs up. Ellen's most enthusiastic review so far (out of the two she has done).The one other thing we're sure about is LET'S GO METS.Send us questions at [email protected]— send via voice note if you wish! We would love that.Let's go Mets!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many horrible things have happened. It's 90 degrees in April. We're without David. We're sweating. We're upset because the Mets won't stop losing. You would think at some point they would win because of a fluke, but they haven't. This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kait mostly discuss their physical and emotional discomfort. Brett Baty is the only qualified hitter left in MLB who has yet to record a walk, and we were there to see him almost record one but then have it taken back by ABS. (I, Kait, am now anti-ABS.) Three Mets struck out on 10 pitches in the 9th inning of a one-run game even though only 2 of those pitches were in the strike zone. We received a surprisingly moving and delightful voice note from an avowed Atlanta Braves fan? Nothing's right. Everything's wrong. Jared Young is having knee surgery! We'll probably go to every single game when the Mets get back to New York. We should be with them in their darkest hour. Let's go Mets! Write to us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Obviously when we recorded this episode and we said "the Mets have yet to see a game slip away because of the bullpen" the Mets had yet to see a game slip away because of the bullpen. They did so about 12 hours later. C'est la vie! This week on Hits Diff, Dave and Kait are missing Ellen, who is in Guatemala, and Juan Soto, who is in an ice bath probably. We miss them equally! Kait tried to fill in for Ellen's egg roll review segment but it didn't hit the same. It hit different (derogatory). Come back, Ellen!! And come back, Juan!! And come back, Double Play David Peterson?? Will you?? Though the Mets are sweet and kind and gentle, a lot of other baseball players were fighting or talking about fighting this week, so we spent some time thinking about our favorite baseball brawls and why baseball brawls are so great. Please send us your questions and links to YOUR favorite baseball brawls at [email protected]—send as a voice note, if you will, so we can play them on the show! Also, please send us your recommendations for Mets bars. Dave and Kait were randomly attacked by "Trivia Night" while trying to watch the boys at a local pub last night and we can't have that happen again. Let's go Mets!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One day into the 2026 season the new-look lineup for the New York Mets was knocking Paul Skenes out in the first inning, silencing the haters, and securing David Stearns somewhere between 4 and 6 meaty biographies one day. One week into the 2026 season and the New York Mets have sole possession of last place in the NL East.In the season-three regular-season premiere of Hits Different, Ellen, David, and Kait discuss the glories of opening day and the jumpy, meth-y freak-outs of nearly every day since. If you missed "the discourse" on X Dot Com, don't worry, we're summarizing. Since I said it in the episode I will not use the opportunity here to get into it even more about how the only reason the Mets won games in April of last year was thanks to one Pete Alonso—and where is he now? Like I said, I won't.We're feeling nuts but overall so happy to be back. What is there to do when there's no baseball to watch? We already forgot. We're debuting a new segment called Ellen's Egg Roll Review, in which she tries all the ludicrous themed egg rolls they are serving at Citi Field this year, starting with the Pittsburgh-inspired pierogi egg roll. Yum!Please send us questions at [email protected]. We would really love it if you sent them as a voice note / audio recording of some sort so that we can hear your voices and play them on the show. That would rule!Thank you for being with us. Stay strong... You gotta believe... Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our long national nightmare is nearly over, and the next season of the Mets is almost HERE. Ellen, David, and Kait got together this week to talk a little bit about spring training, but mostly about a cursed video the Mets put out in which almost everyone on the team revealed that they have never seen a movie specifically created for adult viewers. (Exception: Brett!) We're very excited to get back to Citi Field, as you can tell, though that doesn't mean we forgive and that doesn't mean we forget. On that note, thank god that our sweet friend Pete Alonso isn't involved in the World Baseball Classic, am I right? Team USA has not been acquitting itself very well and he's too good for it. You may have seen that they are obsessed with rejecting friendly hand-shakes, talking incessantly about their duty to dominate on the world stage, and reportedly "blaring" a psychotic Toby Keith song about starting a war in the Middle East. Sorry. We didn't actually talk about that in this episode, but I forget what we did talk about!! Thank you Producer Nathan for editing this a mere four days after we recorded it and for correcting the notable error. I got confused because I personally don't intend to be in New York City on September 14, 15, or 16 and will instead be off the grid somewhere, ears and eyes covered. Email suggestions for off-the-grid locations to [email protected]. Also send questions! Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello New York, are you okay? The city is about to go Day After Tomorrow, there's no snow day on Monday according to our NEW MAYOR, our baseball team was completely overhauled in the span of a week and is now staffed by STRANGERS. This week on Hits Different, David, Ellen, and Kait talk about David Stearns's plan to make the Mets as hot as possible and whether we forgive him for what he's done previously (no fucking chance). Yet, we're warming up to some ideas here... like a new season of baseball... sun in the sky over a baseball field... We might almost say... it can't come fast enough. One could even say Let's Go Mets... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The darkest Hits Different day has come. Ellen, David, and Kait are talking about the Mets' horrifying decision to let Pete Alonso leave New York. </3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode starts with a 10-minute discussion of the film Rookie of the Year, which some may call "cope." Alas, the 2025 New York Mets were bad. Isn't that more interesting than them being good? (That's cope.) Ellen, David, and Kait talk about who they would most like to see in the World Series and come to an identical conclusion which is likely to shock you: We don't want the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, or New York Yankees to be in it. Otherwise it's all gravy. (I'm sorry for saying I don't really root for the Cubs—I will because my Aunt Karen likes them so much and this video of Seiya Suzuki's son was so cute.)We distribute one last batch of King of New York awards to some of the most deserving and sweetest. Once again we ask Pete Alonso not to break our hearts. Write to us during the winter! Tell us how to occupy our time! [email protected]!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dom Hamel we hardly knew you!! Hope you clear waivers, bud. You will always be the MLB-record-breaking 46th pitcher the New York Mets were forced to use in a single season due to a series of ailments and flaws. This week on Hits Different, we are just trucking along. We are just doing our best! Poor Ellen was not upright for a lot of this. I showed everyone my heinous and tragic prize from the Mets Memorabilia Store "mystery grab bag" experience. Lest you forget, Pete hit a walk-off home run and went bubble gum bucket to the head. Katia Lindor is the most glamorous woman in New York. 30,000 people got ready to fight a probably nice and normal San Diego pitcher because he hit Francisco Alvarez our ANGEL!!! with a baseball!!! those things are hard!!!!! Brett is on the flag now. Everyone keeps saying "piggy-back." Send questions to [email protected]. Let's go Mets! Stayin' alive! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Uploading this AFTER Pete Alonso single-handedly saved the Mets season. Pete Alonso Met for life. Pete Alonso greatest Met of all time. Sorry for the delay. This week on Hits Different, we're talking about what some are calling the most cursed week of baseball in history. After a spectacular NOBLETIGER situation in which Edwin Diaz took his shoes off on the mound and then destroyed the Cincinnati Reds, the Mets went 1-6 in devastating fashion. Dear lord. We're talking about the "extremophiles" living in the Gowanus Canal, Harrison Bader's horrific heel-turn, the President's visit to Yankee Stadium, and whether it's better to watch your team flop so hard that the end of the season is chill and silly or whether it's better to CLING TO HOPE until the bitter end. Official Hits Different ruling: Ya gotta believe! Send questions to [email protected]. We still love the Mets! It's all about the Mets baby, let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David is on vacation, Ellen is back from vacation! She tells us all about her new favorite ballpark (omg) and another ballpark she went to last week that she also liked but not as much. We spent more time than we felt good about trying to figure out when Pete and Haley Alonso are having their baby. Sorry, it was girl talk! This isn't a Larry Stylinson, Babygate situation, we're just excited. Longgggggg episode this week. Girl talk!I'm posting this right after the Mets lost the series to the Reds, so I feel vindicated in having been a bit of a bummer on mic a couple days ago. I had been thinking "that was wrong of me." No. Always right! Producer Nathan and I will be going to Yankee Stadium on 9/11. If any Yankees fans listen to this (eek!!) please let us know what the best snacks are. As you know, I can't have anything with ketchup because your stadium does not provide Heinz.Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francisco Alvarez is sort of like the Joker if he was nice. He wears the craziest suits I've ever seen and after he breaks a bone or tears a ligament in half it's a matter of days until he is back to peak physical performance. Also he kind of growls wordlessly sometimes.This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn discuss the head injury that Kaitlyn suffered last week, compelling her to sleep through podcast recording time and then to yell at Mr. Met in a crowded subway station. That was awful and resulted in the Mets losing two out of three to the Nationals. But now we're ok and the Mets are back! This episode was recorded before the debut of the wonderful Canadian infant Jonah Tong and we also didn't yet know that he was going to select the #21, previously worn by Max Scherzer. Producer Nathan can potentially just have some letters swapped out on the jersey that's been gathering dust in the closet. It's Tong Time!The Phillies are terrified of the Mets? The World Series is back on? When Ellen comes back from California and we can ask her, then we will know for sure. Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, Ellen, David, and Kait catch up on another brutal week of Mets baseball. But for one brief, shining moment there was a Camelot... Pete Alonso broke the Mets all-time homerun record which was one of the greatest moments of many lives. And he beat the Braves' brains in to boot. We are all so happy that Pete received a startlingly large piece of artwork made from baseball trash from his billionaire boss who allegedly knows something about fine art. You could sort of see Pete's face flickering between thinking it was cool and wondering whether it would have to be hung up only in the basement. He is one of the greatest people alive in this country today I don't think that's in question!!! Anyway, after that, Mets kept losing. We support them and it's fine. Whatever they see fit to do, we are behind them. We looked at some baseball cards from 1989 and Ellen broke off four of her teeth on mic. Listener Lance you saved us. Let's go Mets!!!!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry—Kaitlyn and Producer Nathan were on vacation in Maine and had to watch the Mets get walked off from the top of a stunning seaside mountain. This episode is very late and—we assume— depressing! This week on Hits Different, Ellen and David are talking about what the Syracuse Mets should be named. Respectfully, this is the only part of the episode I was able to read a transcription of really fast in between lobster rolls and theatrically long bicycle journeys. I can't wait to learn what else they said! Let's go Mets!!!!!! Pete please wait for us to get back to New York <3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos was NOT traded to the Miami Marlins, Chicago White Sox, or Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday and for that we are so grateful. He celebrated the news with an Instagram photo dump that included a new girlfriend whom he did NOT tag. Producer Nathan tried to figure out who she was by scrolling through all of Mark's Instagram follows and clicking manually onto the profile of each hot young woman. His Instagram feed is now insane.This week on Hits Different we're talking about a weird 3-3 West Coast trip, the idea of brothers, the idea of twins, and of course Mark's job-saving (his) and life-saving (mine) grand slam. We received a wonderful question from a listener who wanted to know which celebrity we would sell the Mets to. I mistakenly said that Jose Iglesias is making his return to Citi Field this week, I guess because I was just assuming we were playing series that went Giants-Padres-Giant-Padres, due to the whole schedule being stupid like that up to this point. Candelita will be here in September.Thanks and sorry!LGM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All the Mets are getting married! We should rename them the New York Bridegrooms!We're back after another horrible experience with a technology gremlin who crazily and unfairly entered our devices and ruined an episode of the show during which we discussed Brett Baty's engagement for upwards of 10 minutes. This week we're talking about the looming trade deadline, but not in the way where guys who have no experience in baseball management draw up their "mock proposals" and then ask for approval on them from internet strangers. We're only talking about our feelings, really. Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos—this is not a man who should be in Minneapolis or Cleveland, with all due respect to those possibly lovely American cities (wouldn't know). Incidentally, I'm sorry I sound so New York elitist this week and that I didn't know how to say "Wilkes-Barre." Edwin Diaz almost killed someone two times this week which was interesting. We answered a mailbag question about whether pitchers feel bad when they do this and why they basically never apologize. Send us more questions at [email protected] we love them!! Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I don't think this episode title is click-bait at all, actually. Actually!! This week on Hits Different, we're recording at a super random hour because of our travel schedules. Sorry! Because of the timing, we're recapping the Subway Series and the first game of Mets vs. Orioles, which I assume is the only one you want to hear about anyway. PLEASE stick around for the entire episode even if you are put off by some of our more extreme statements in the first half, as we got an amazing email this week from a Citi Field WHISTLEBLOWER and have much secret knowledge to share. This is a huge evolution for our program—we are now anti-math and Pro-Publica. Haha! I believe Ellen has a Proton mail account if anybody would like to communicate with us more securely. For correspondence with lesser stakes (although all of this is pretty high-stakes to us), don't forget to write to [email protected] If you know what happened to the 15,000 pairs of Max Scherzer inspired two-toned sunglasses that the Mets were supposed to give away in 2023 but canceled after he was traded you HAVE to tell us. You have to. Congratulations to us on 50 episodes of our baseball podcast? Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're alone in the studio without David or Producer Nathan and we're not very well-prepared to speak about another bizarre week of New York Mets baseball. Sorry! We've been busy and it hasn't been nice. We recorded this episode on the morning of the Fourth of July and therefore without the knowledge of Jeff McNeil's late-inning heroics. More on that next time!Instead, we're speaking on the Mets being outscored 30-4 in three games by the PITTSBURGH PIRATES and Griffin Canning's Achilles tendon exploding right in front of our eyes. We're also speaking on Night Swim, a 2024 film about a fake former Milwaukee Brewer who tries to drown his daughter to appease a blood-thirsty water daemon. This movie is bad but far less disturbing than Mets baseball has been of late. (Writing, for the purposes of this episode summary, as though I haven't yet seen Jeff McNeil's late-inning heroics, etc.)LFGM!Email us at [email protected], we love to get notes and inquiries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Mets simply will not stop losing, and nobody knows who is to blame. Is it David and Ellen, for assuring Kaitlyn that Kodai Senga's injury was only sad and unfortunate and not the literal end of the world? Is it Brandon Nimmo, for wearing a Jesus T-shirt on Pride Night in an act of weirdness that may have jostled free an ancient curse? Is it God? Does God hate the Mets? Well, we couldn't answer any of these questions, so instead we dwelled on some others. For instance, will Zohran Mamdani throw out a first pitch at Citi Field? Will Steve Cohen re-locate Citi Field to Westchester to prevent this from happening? Did any of the Mets vote? We also talked about some other non-controversial topics such as Pete Rose, Jose Reyes, and whether modern ballplayers are dressing correctly. Obviously recorded before what happened to Griffin Canning. What the hell!!!!!!!!!! Like, what the hell!!!!!!!! (From my fancy seat I could see Pete Alonso supportively and calmly walk behind Griff to the dugout with the face of a sweet martyr, then turn around and say, "FUCK!" to himself. Yeah, agree!) Send us questions and more petty baseball grudges at [email protected]'s go Mets—please. Please. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we addressed a sick and twisted mailbag question we received: What's your pettiest baseball grudge? I had so much fun contemplating this even after we stopped recording that I wanted to pose it to the millions of listeners of New York's only anti-math baseball podcast. Which players or fans or stadiums or whatever do you dislike IRRATIONALLY and what are your most firmly held hater opinions? Which grudges will they have to rip out of your COLD DEAD HANDS? Please send to us at [email protected] and we'll read a few good ones the next time we're on air which will be in TWO WEEKS regrettably. We're busy traveling this great nation to attend more nuptials and sit on Wi-Fi-less lakes.A petty opinion I have that I forgot to say on mic is that the Dodgers shouldn't get to count Jackie Robinson as part of their lore because he never went to California. And they also should have had to change their name when they moved. There are no trolley-dodgers in Los Angeles! Get your own thing! In the past, when I've said this, a coworker of mine insisted I was being crazy because "it's the same team," but is it? Are the Minnesota Twins the Washington Senators? No, you only think it's the same team because they psychotically clung to a name that didn't in any way apply to them. And they've continued stealing valor to this day...Grotesque! Btw Clayton Kershaw can go kick rocks what a huge fucking loser.Happy Pride & Happy Father's Day & a very happy Vote Five Times Per Day for Francisco Lindor.Let's go Mets!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sorry this episode is so late!!! Producer Nathan and I were in the Hudson Valley at the wedding of the century eating Jake's Gouda (look it up). And then we were busy and forgot. Sorry!!This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the Mets splitting a series against the Dodgers which they could have swept, not to be one of those guys. I hate when baseball fans (Yankees fans) are all over social media saying "we would have won those games if we had won them." It's tempting, though. We're also talking about the Mets sweeping the Rockies (the first time). The Mets later swept the Rockies a second time after we finished recording but we'll talk about that next week.How confusing! Let's go Mets!Btw we got some interesting questions from listeners this week including one from my sister Sophie who asked something so SCURRILOUS, as David put it, about our guys.Let's go Mets! Happy Pride!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Of course, everyone is saying that it's classic Mets behavior to nearly sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers and then achieve just two narrow victories and one pretty appalling loss against the world-historically bad Chicago White Sox. We're not really of that opinion—we think it's classic Mets behavior to be SO cute and fun—but things do seem a little weird.I hope you're okay with listening to three people watch and react to a grainy (not that you can see it) internet video of Brett Baty dunking a basketball in high school, because that's what's on the table this week. And speaking of the table, noted foodies Ellen and David report back from an adventure in the heretofore mysterious HYUNDAI CLUB at Citi Field, where the clams and spaghetti are free, the sight lines are stunning, and it's the best day of your life every day of the week. (Though the Mets may, technically, still lose)We got a great mailbag question this week about stupid-looking on-base celebrations. Send us some more questions, we love them!! [email protected], here are the dunk videos we watched in case you also want to see them:1) Brett2) Basketball guy David was talking about (I am pretty sure this is the correct one but I'm moving fast right now—sorry!)Let's go Mets!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back after a one-week forced hiatus—for some reason THEY did not want our episode about Brett Baty's huge week against the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates to reach the airwaves and so THEY destroyed the audio files after recording. Unfortunately there's nothing THEY can do, because this week we're talking about Brett Bonds Baty saving the Mets' season once again!!!! BB7 Brett the Met is unstoppable. He's inevitable! So are we!!! We're also talking about the New York tabloids and their sick obsession with our 26-year-old friend Juan Soto (STOP LOOKING AT HIM), the Mets' star signs (many Scorpios), David's interesting bedtime ritual (ooh la la), whether baseball is the most cinematic sport, and, if not, then WHAT is??Will Griffin Canning win the Cy Young? Goodbye! Happy holiday! Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're recapping yet another 3-3 road trip for the New York Mets. Two of the three wins, of course, came after Brett Baty rejoined the team in Arizona. Nobody knows why, but it's the truth: They can't win without him. Brett is becoming a meme on Mets Twitter, which is another way in which he is very similar to Juan Soto, who was diagnosed as non-binary and autistic by a bizarre person who had no idea they were about to instigate so much hilarity on Baseball Internet. Brett, for his part, was called a middle-aged lesbian. But I'm also calling him a meme in reference to the weird phenomenon by which everybody online is suddenly totally in the tank for him after years of wishing him dead. I genuinely think we at Hits Different may have caused this. I know I said we were going to stop talking about Brett so much in every episode and we ARE going to. SOON. Maybe NEXT TIME. Although, we recorded this on Friday morning, so of course we didn't get a chance to talk about Brett's Friday night home run. We'll have to talk about that next week. Maybe in TWO WEEKS we stop talking about Brett. Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apologies for the profound delay in uploading this episode—Producer Nathan was out of the state over the weekend doing something really important. Producer's Assistant Kaitlyn was in the heart of darkness (Philadelphia) attending a wedding and worrying over whether Brett Baty would be traded. He was disappeared for about four days. The girls online hunted him like a sasquatch. This episode was recorded BEFORE we learned that Brett only had a sore toe and, of course, before the Monday lunchtime alert that he was actually FINE and rejoining the Big Mets IMMEDIATELY, after a mere 10 at-bats in Lovely But Dreaded Syracuse. Thank god. Maybe now we can talk about him an amount that is proportional to his importance to the team (respectfully), rather than for 45 minutes to an hour every week.Anyway, last time you heard from us, we did name the Washington Nationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks among the teams with the scariest mascots. Figures! The rest of what happened between April 25 and May 1, we could not have foretold. And also, honestly, as I type this? I cannot really remember. Why did the Nationals hit the Mets with so many pitches? That's one part I remember. That was so fucked up. We lost a game at the hands of franchise icon Jorge Lopez... I'm remembering that now, too. Enjoy! Send questions to [email protected] and make them easy.Let's go Mets!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's get this out of the way: Yes, the Mets spoiled their perfect week at home by telling Brett Baty—the very same who hit a two-run home run off of perennial Cy Young favorite Zach Wheeler, the only reason that the Mets were able to walk off the Phillies and complete the sweep—to get lost back to Syracuse. This decision was reported on David's birthday, which in my opinion was fucking insane. We were having the BEST time!!! The following day, the Mets re-signed noted homophobe Brooks Raley.Also in this episode, we're talking about whether the Mets are Havana Syndrome-ing visiting teams and which baseball mascots are the scariest. Honestly, talking about Brett Baty for half an hour during every episode started out as a bit but now it's just the show. I'm looking up Amtrak tickets to go see the REAL Mets play in beautiful Upstate New York. The silver lining here is that Baty's extended time in the forgotten Eastern half of the Rust Belt can only improve his knowledge of and insight into the discography of one Bruce Springsteen, perhaps inspiring a change in walk-up song to something more appropriate and less depressing than his current baffling choice of "Glory Days."One random person on X/Twitter changed their bio to "boycotting the **** until Brett Baty comes back." Could be something.Let's go Mets! (Said with slightly less sincere feeling than usual—not even Francisco Lindor mentioned Baty's homerun in the Wednesday post-game! What the hell!)Let's go METS <3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please note this podcast episode was recorded early in the day on THURSDAY APRIL 17 and we had no idea what was coming (Brett Baty five-game hit streak, Keith saying "cue the music," Francisco Lindor first-ever walk-off homerun as a New York Met ahahahahahahaha). If you're still willing to think about last week's hugely mid and chilly road trip, have we got a show for you.The Mets had another 3-3 stint during which they sometimes looked like they had completely forgotten how to play baseball. But it's okay, because nobody saw it, as they were playing in almost empty ballparks every day. And now they're home! Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over. "N-Y-C! Just got here this morning! Three bucks, two bags, one me!" (That's the Mets getting off their luxury coach in the Citi Field parking lot.)Before a 7-game home stand, David, Ellen, and Kait talk about a generally cursed week in Major League Baseball, starting with the Blue Jays' cotton candy french fries and the Phillies' obsession with doing gender reveals. We also saw Tyrone Taylor almost kill a man and we learned that Brent Rooker is using "Hotel California" as his walk-up song. Save him!!We've been THRILLED by the mailbag questions, please send us some more: [email protected]!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're processing a glorious 5-1 home stand in which it was way too chilly and Jesse Winker's hair looked way too good. We're also talking about the schism dividing the Mets fandom—is it okay to boo Brett Baty, a 25-year-old who never did anything to you and tries really hard? On mic, we forgot to address the actual insanity of Brett choosing "Glory Days"—a song about being excellent at something in high school and then terrible at it as an adult—for his walk-up song. That's for the best. We need to lay off, just like everyone else. Mets are winning, so what's the problem?In other news, Pete Alonso is unstoppable. He will break the all-time RBI record if our calculations are correct (and obviously we love math). David converted a Brit to full-time Mets fandom, Listener Kerry hosted a divine birthday party in the Citi Field parking lot, and we're so bought-in on Brett at this point that we've even got Producer Nathan positing some conspiracy theories about Baty haters. If you know anything about the infamous ketchup culprit at Citi Field, please let us know. Send tips as well as your questions, comments, corrections, and Mets trivia to [email protected] Let's go Mets!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WINTER IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT As ever, we return to the question, "How many people can Pete Alonso carry out of a burning building?" NOW WE KNOW. The answer is: "At least 25 full-grown, professional athlete-sized men."PETE has the Mets on his back, yet they do not seem to be wearing heavy on him. In fact, he loves it!!! And so do we here at Hits Different. In this week's episode, we're talking about Pete Alonso's reverse-apology tour (he tours, everyone says sorry to him), our plans for the first home stand of the season at Citi Field (Jell-O shots, humidity), and some old freak who David really likes and wanted to tell us about. We love and support him in his nerdy little interests. We're also laugh laugh laughing at the Evil Atlanta Braves 0-7 at the time of recording hahahahahahahaha and NO, you can't jinx anybody or invite karmic backlash by laughing at the Evil Atlanta Braves because they are EVIL. And they really deserve it.Let us know if you own a movie theater and would like to screen Field of Dreams for Ellen. This is very important!Please send us mailbag questions at [email protected]—you can also send corrections but just keep in mind that we do get a little snotty about it.LGM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different: David, Ellen, and Kaitlyn prepare for the 2025 MLB season by talking about almost everything else they can think of for 90 minutes! Almost certainly the words "Dakota Fanning" are uttered more times than the words "New York Mets." Sorry! We're not going to examine this too closely. We're nervous, but definitely not about Brett Baty. We're anxious, but not because AJ Minter is a Braves sleeper agent who has murdered countless ducks. We're agitated, but not so much by our fellow fans who went RETVRN mode over the first two games of the season being in Japan. We're just antsy!!!! We can't wait to get going!!! (Does anybody else always hear that phrase in Carlos Mendoza's voice now?)LGM!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PEEEEEEEEEEETEPete Alonso is a New York Met again. Thank you Pete Alonso! No "thank you" to anyone else involved—you have immiserated us for months on end. Ellen, David, and Kait are back on the mic after a long and mentally perilous winter. We're talking about the insurrection at Citi Field otherwise known as "Amazin' Day" and we're talking about PEEEEEEEEEETE. Let's go Mets and please send us your pre-Opening Day questions at [email protected]!!!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn are talking about the next 15 years of their lives. Juan Soto is going to be part of our households. We'll be middle-aged when Juan Soto retires from being a Met. Ellen's son Bobby will be driving a car! Dave is away but he has the same next question as the rest of us: What about Pete? When will the Mets say "Pete—Met for life"? Where is Pete? Why is Pete posting on Instagram about "chlorophyll water"? Pete?This episode was recorded BEFORE we learned that Juan Soto got the use of the uniform number 22 guaranteed in his contract. Kind of messed up, no? He should have to text Brett Baty and send him an Uber Eats gift card at the very least, no? Brett is so abused. It's actually crazy.Nevertheless... a big Hits Different welcome to our new guy Juan and LGM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the PowerPoint presentation that's going to convince Juan Soto to sign with the Boston Red Sox and the AI-generated image of him in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform that might change his mind. Every meeting has gone "well" so far—in what way might a meeting between a person hoping to receive $600 million and a group of people hoping to give it to him go poorly? Long story short, every piece of alleged news we saw this week was made up entirely.Except for the true, breaking, and incredible news that DAVID SIMS has rejoined the pod. He's back, he's better than ever, he's read 2,000 pages worth of Roger Angell essays since you last heard from him. And you KNOW he has a photographic memory, so you can ask him anything about it.At the end of this episode, a little something new...Let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our first off-season episode, we're talking about the "World Series" which was a "clash of the titans," and we're also Googling and combing the stacks at the library in search of just ONE good baseball ghost story. If you know of any, please email us!! [email protected] and Ellen also meticulously research the current whereabouts of the 2024 New York Mets. We miss them all the time! Where are they?? Regrettably, it did not occur to us that if we only waited a little later into Halloween evening we would surely see some of those guys as they revealed their Halloween costumes and family outings on the 'gram. Unknown to us at the time of recording: Brett Baty was in Texas and dressed as a pirate as we spoke. Also unknown at time of recording: Tomas Nido dressed his son up as a baseball!!!!!!!!! I can't link because it's on his wife's private Instagram but he reposted it to his Stories and you can go see it if you are fast. It rules.Happy Halloween and let's go Mets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're in "don't cry because it's over" mode ... but we're crying anyway! Our cups runneth over! Some older gents in recent days have compared the 2024 Mets to the 1986 Mets and that's wrong. The 1986 Mets were bad people. Our Mets are heroes and they deserve a rest. The only sad part is we'll miss them so much.This week on Hits Different, we recap the National League Championship Series, in which Francisco Lindor ruined the Dodgers pitching staff's little scoreless inning streak, Sean Manaea struck out Shohei Ohtani three times, and Mark Vientos broke the Mets post-season RBI record in his sparkly, sparkly shoes. The home crowd said give us one last thing to scream about and Pete Alonso and David Peterson said okay we will. Starling Marte said I love and believe in you Francisco Alvarez, and Francisco Alvarez said that works for me! Jeff McNeil said [tongue out]. Brandon Nimmo said this has been fun, now get me to the hospital.After this, we're taking a little bit of leisure time ourselves. Then we'll be back with some titillating off-season investigations and interviews... Maybe a yarn or two... Maybe a breaking news event like when the Mets re-sign everyone all at the same time.Thank you as always to Producer Nathan for your work in the booth. Thank you again to James Rainis for our music and Paul Windle for our art. MVPs of our first season!Thank you for listening!LGM forever!!Don't break our hearts, Pete!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Sunday morning in the greatest city in the world and the Mets have given us a little time to breathe and take in 40 different angles of every amazing thing that has happened in the past two weeks.This week on Hits Different, we are stretching our legs and cracking our knuckles and going for another nearly-two-hour pod after a week of harried emergency episodes. We're talking about Garth Brooks's early aughts effort to play Major League Baseball, as well as Ellen's plans for the Grimace tattoo she swore she would get if the 2024 Mets win the World Series. We're talking about the spread at Keith Hernandez's cat's 22nd birthday party. We've got a LOT to say about a political dynasty on Long Island.Thank you to Producer Nathan as always, and happy birthday week to Starling Marte. You've never looked better, king. After we finished recording, I (KT) let Ellen know that if the 2024 Mets win the World Series I will also get an under-boob tattoo and mine will be of the beautiful text message she sent to me and David when Pete hit a home run on Tuesday night.Send us mail: [email protected] Write to us about whatever you want! LGM!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francisco Lindor says Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos is making himself famous by being incredible, to which we say: Fact check PASSED.This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn recap the first two games of that National League Division Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. It's an interesting contrast between two fandoms—one of which regards all of this as gravy after an improbably fun year and one of which is maintaining arms caches and vowing to commit mass violence if they don't get their big trophy.Live, laugh, love, and baseball in our opinion. Hakuna matata. Let's go Mets!!!!!Huge thank you to Producer Nathan for chopping this one up early in the morning. Write to us at [email protected]. Let's go Mets!!!!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A quick and chaotic one for posterity! Ellen calls in from a SAT phone at the Hits Different international bureau located inside of a Danish spa. We have nothing to say really except we can't believe it, but you gotta believe it. These guys are MAGIC. That rally gourd is stupid but we LOVE it. Pete rewarded the faith we had in him all year and as you may know it is not really faith if it depends on rewards but THANK YOU PETE ALONSO. We love you so much.We forgot to do some media criticism on mic about the New York Times's sports homepage this morning which featured stories about college football and the Baltimore Orioles (notably no longer playing baseball this year). We'll drop it here in the notes: Get it together paper of record. Is this a city paper or is this a city paper?Thank you Producer Nathan for handling our third episode of the week! Thank you Producer Nathan for forcing me to watch the greatest swing of all time!Let's go Mets!!!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.