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 or of the fact that Kaitlyn would end up having to call a young Yankees fan a virgin in only the second inning. 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 didn't see 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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