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7. Florida!!! May 07, 2024

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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn are, unavoidably: forlorn, wistful, unmoored, hungover, etc.! We have that in common with the Mets and with the heroine of Nancy Lemann's 1992 sexy baseball novel Sportsman's Paradise, the first book in the Hits Different sexy baseball novel book club. (I recorded myself reading like three pages of it in the middle of this episode for some reason.) You can guess what else there is to say this week after the Mets dropped three games to the not-very-good Tampa Bay Rays. Tropicana Field should be razed. The only cool and funny thing that happened there was Brett Baty's home run ball getting lost in the stupid spaceship ceiling. Florida!!!

Did we talk enough about how much we love Brett? I kind of feel like we didn't. We also forgot to talk about the guy who was unjustly ejected from Citi Field's Dollar Dog Night because he loved hot dogs TOO much and people wouldn't stop throwing their extra hot dogs at him. Sorry to that guy!

Thank you as always to James Rainis for our theme song and Paul Windle for our cover art. This week we also say thank you to Taylor Swift, for giving us an appropriate exclamation to use in dark days such as these. FLORIDA!!!!

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6. Quality Start Quintana is Back Apr 29, 2024

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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn talk "football stickers" and Bend it Like Beckham, two of the best things about these two Americans' childhoods even though both are incredibly British. The episode goes on forever because it's been two weeks and we have much to say to each other.

It's all connected, and here's how: After a four-game set with the Cubs, the Mets will be going to Taylor Swift's "Florida!!!" to play the Rays. Guess who listened to Taylor Swift when he was in high school and she was in her country music era? New York Met left fielder Brandon Nimmo, born in 1993 just like yours truly (Kaitlyn). The both of us were born at exactly the right time and in the right places to be devoted to Taylor's debut single "Tim McGraw," which is relevant because on this week's episode we are talking about Brandon's discomfort during his early days in Brooklyn as a 19-year-old Mets prospect—a feeling he relays by describing the lack of trees and the presence of bars on the windows of the Gowanus Holiday Inn. Sounds an awful lot like the 1997 Tim McGraw song "Where the Green Grass Grows," which is about being lonely and unhappy in a big city:

"But all of this glitter is getting dark

There's concrete growin' in the city park

I don't know who my neighbors are

There's bars on the corners and bars on my heart"

Oh my god... But it's okay! Brandon is rich and happy now and he lives on Long Island! More to the point, it was, of course, Tim McGraw's father Tug McGraw who coined the phrase "You gotta believe!" 51 years ago. And Mr. Quality Start Quintana went eight innings for the Mets this Sunday, then captioned his Instagram post "YOU GOTTA BELIEVE. LGM. [apple emoji] [baseball emoji] @mets." @mets: we love you!!!

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5. Reed Garrett Make Your Instagram Public, Please Apr 23, 2024

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This week on Hits Different, producer Nathan phones in and fills in for David as a guest co-host. Nathan has been watching baseball at 4 in the morning while in Europe—this has not affected his performance on his work trip!! (Please excuse his audio quality) We talk about Reed Garrett, former Rochester Red Wing, current Mets GUY with the most strikeouts for a relief pitcher in the whole MLB. But why is his Instagram private, preventing us from learning more, more, more? Also: What is wrong with people who sit in the outfield seats, and can you claim a foul ball by getting hit by it?

The Mets just lost two games but they also took a series from the "superteam" Dodgers and we still believe. As Alvy so correctly put it: "We continue forward with God LFGM."

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4. The Evil Atlanta Braves Are Shaking Apr 16, 2024

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This week on Hits Different, we are striking an inadvertently ascetic tone—i.e. there's no groovy intro music for this episode because the guy in the booth is on a work trip to Europe and was therefore asleep when I would have liked him to be editing the show. Absence makes the heart grow fonder!!

And we press on, as we always do. We were confused by all of the tweets regarding Nick Castellanos and OJ Simpson, but we got to the bottom of it. We were afraid that we weren't going to be inspired by Mets reliever Tyler Jay's underdog story but then we were so inspired. We were shocked and disturbed by the weird behavior of everyone in the Atlanta Braves organization, especially the dreadful mascot Blooper who is reportedly the product of "science run amok." (Have you guys ever thought of just having a man with a baseball head? Oh yeah, you did try that, but it was a FLOP!! Mr. Met is undefeated!!)

After three series wins in a row we are tempted to ask whether the Mets are... good? We'll probably know for sure after they get back from their little trip to California. LFGM!

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3. Baseball Will Not Kill Anyone Apr 09, 2024

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This week on Hits Different: David was at the office in Manhattan during the rarest of all things, a New York City earthquake. Kaitlyn was in the path of totality of a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse. Yet, we knew nothing, and chattered blithely away about baseball cards and "ham-and-eggers" and whether Taylor Swift should have dated Bryce Harper, totally unaware that the Mets were about to win the first game of a four-game series in Atlanta in a very spectacular and frankly unexpected fashion. Nature is so powerful and in comparison we are so small!!

This experience has been humbling. Many mistakes have been made. I'm sorry for not knowing who Max Patkin "the Clown Prince of Baseball" was! I thought he was just a funny guy in Bull Durham,but I Googled afterwards and learned. That's why you should Google before. : ( More importantly, we apologize sincerely for the choppiness of this week's show and the parts where you can hear us breathing. It's the LAST time, because we've actually figured out all of our technical problems!!

Our theme song is by James Rainis and our logo is by Paul Windle and we can't say it enough. LFGM <3

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2. You Can't Lose 'Em All (Unless You Can) Apr 02, 2024

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We waited all winter for this. Every time we got swaddled up to stumble down the frigid city streets, we said "baseball will come back, baseball will come back, at least one day baseball will come back." And somewhere, a monkey's paw curled...

This week on Hits Different, two fans of the orange and blue New York team talk about a three-game losing streak (which would become four shortly after taping) and exchange groans and bone-deep shudders. The only way things could possibly get worse is if time proceeds in a forward motion and the Mets fly down to Atlanta next week for a four-game series. The first game is the day of an eclipse. Will the Mets look at it? We wouldn't be surprised. Nothing can surprise us now! We also talk about which celebrities should become Mets fans, which should stop, and whether it should be legal to insider trade a little bit.

Thank you to our friend James Rainis for our beautiful theme song and thank you to Paul Windle for our logo which we love.

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1. This is Hits Different! Mar 26, 2024

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On the first episode of our anti-math baseball podcast, we talk about the biggest headlines of the MLB off-season, including the one about Mets pitcher Joey Lucchesi's live-in guru named Francesco. We speculate about what we'll eat at Citi Field this year, and we wonder whether those "strike probability" calculators on Apple TV broadcasts are totally made up.

David's feedback after recording was "we prob did 50 things wrong," and that's right. We will get better and better if you just give us a chance. Don't be mad at us!

The Hits Different theme song is by our brilliant friend James Rainis. Our logo is by the incredible Paul Windle.

LFGM <3

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