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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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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