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 hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com. We still love the Mets! It's all about the Mets baby, let's go Mets!

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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!

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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!

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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!!!!!!!!

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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

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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 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!

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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 hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com we love them!!

Let's go Mets!

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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 hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com

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!

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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!

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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!)

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Let's go Mets—please. Please.

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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 hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com 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!!!!!

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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!!

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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!! hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com

Actually, here are the dunk videos we watched in case you also want to see them:

1) Brett

2) 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!!!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Let's go Mets!!!

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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

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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!!

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LGM!!!

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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 hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com

Let's go Mets!!

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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!

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LGM!

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