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From Complex to Queens, Episode 42: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 2) Jan 13, 2020

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Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas discuss who they would rather be unfrozen from a cryogenic sleep with in Promote, Extend, Trade.

After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 season: Ryley Gilliam (19), Daison Acosta (18), Tony Dibrell (17), Jaylen Palmer (16), and Freddy Valdez (15).

As always, you can listen or subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts.

Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), Ken (@kenlavin91), and Thomas (@sadmetsszn).

Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets!

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A Pod of Their Own, Episode 35: Bullpens, boars, and binges with Kate Feldman Jan 10, 2020

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Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.

We have returned from our holiday hiatus with special guest host Kate Feldman of the New York Daily News. We kick off 2020 with the Dellin Betances signing and the Metsiest story of all time: the Yoenis Cespedes wild boar incident.

Next, we have a discussion about the ever-growing sign-stealing scandal with a small aside about Domingo German.

Then, we chat with Kate about her favorite TV shows of 2019 and awards season in the world of entertainment.

Finally, we wrap things up with Walk-off Wins, where each of us talks about what’s making us happy this week, baseball-related or otherwise.

You can listen or subscribe to all of our wonderful Amazin’ Avenue Audio podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts.

You can follow A Pod of Their Own on Twitter (@apodoftheirown) and you can also follow all of our co-hosts on Twitter: Allison McCague (@PetitePhD), Maggie Wiggin (@maggie162), and Linda Surovich (@LindaSurovich). You can follow our special guest Kate Feldman (@kateefeldman). You can also email the show at aa.apodoftheirown@gmail.com.

Look for A Pod of Their Own in your feeds every Wednesday and don’t forget: there’s no crying in podcasting!

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From Complex to Queens, Episode 41: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 1) Jan 06, 2020

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Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas decides which butchers to keep to keep and which butchers to send packing in Promote, Extend, Trade.

After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the first six players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 season: Alexander Ramirez, Jake Mangum, Ali Sanchez, Stanley Consuegra, Dedniel Nunez, and Adrian Hernandez.

Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets!

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Amazin' Avenue Audio (The Show), Episode 30: Music of the Decade Recap Jan 03, 2020

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Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.

Every year, Brian and Chris look back on some of their favorite music of the year. But, since the decade has wrapped up, Chris suggested an expanded look back. So, each host picked five records from the past decade to discuss. There is a Spotify playlist, which can be found here, which features 9/10 of the albums. The lone pick not on Spotify, Jim O’Rourke’s Simple Songs, is represented by this YouTube link to its first track, “Friends With Benefits”. For proper placement in the mix, play this between “King Kunta” and “Cold Slope.”

Chris’s Picks:

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Wilco - Star Wars

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Wand - Laughing Matter

Brian’s Picks:

R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now

Jim O’Rourke - Simple Songs

Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia

Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

Jay Som - Anak Ko

If you’ve got questions that you’d like us to discuss on the air, email the show at aaaudiopodcast@gmail.com.

Make sure to follow the site on Twitter (@AmazinAvenue), as Brian (@BrianNeedsaNap). and Chris (@ChrisMcShane).

And, until next time, Let’s Go Mets.

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UnforMETable, Episode 32: Rico Brogna Jan 01, 2020

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Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past.

After some glories in the 80s, the Mets bottomed out in 1992 and 1993, suffering incredibly disappointing seasons. With Generation K still in the minors, there didn’t seem to be much to get excited about an underachieving veteran team.

Then in midseason, the unheralded Rico Brogna came up from the minors for an injured David Segui and started hitting. And kept hitting. Until seemingly only an MLB strike could stop him.

As always, you can listen or subscribe to this and all of our wonderful Amazin’ Avenue Audio podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

If you’ve got an idea for a player to be featured on UnforMETable, let us know in the comments.

Make sure to follow Rob on Twitter (@WolffRR), and you can now follow the show, too (@unformetable). Tune in next week for another tale from the Mets’ past.

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From Complex to Queens, Episode 40: 2020 sleepers Dec 31, 2019

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Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

With the 2020 Top 25 prospects list about to be released, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas share a few of their sleepers for the upcoming season. Steve recommends people get familiar with William Lugo and Nick MacDonald, Lukas sees good things coming from Scott Ota and Stephen Villines, Kenny is excited about Cole Gordon Blaine McIntosh, and Thomas doesn’t think people should sleep on Luis Carpio and Juan Uriarte.

Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets!

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From Complex to Queens, Episode 39: Better late than never Dec 23, 2019

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Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

In a Christmas themed Promote, Extend, Trade, the team decides which Christmas carols to keep and which to get rid of.

After, Steve realizes that, after 38 episodes of this show, numerous appearances on other podcasts, and countless Daily Prospect Reports and other minor league-related features and articles, the Amazin’ Avenue minor league team has never actually introduced ourselves to our readers and listeners. So, we take this time right before the Top 25 Prospects for 2020 list drops to do so. What connection does Steve have to Jerome Williams? Where did Lukas post before Amazin’ Avenue? Who is this enigmatic guy named Kenny? Is young lion Thomas going to go through with his hazing?

Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), and Ken (@kenlavin91).

Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets!

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A Pod of Their Own, Episode 34: Remembering Joan Payson Dec 18, 2019

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This week, we begin by discussing the two newest Mets, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello as well as the Yoenis Cespedes financial settlement.

Next, we talk about the life of the first owner in Mets history. Listener Ellen Linder suggested we discuss Joan Payson when she won our “Choose Our Topic” raffle at our Dollars to Dingers fundraiser in September. This was an absolutely wonderful topic and we loved researching this fascinating lady.

Finally, we wrap things up with Walk-off Wins, where each of us talks about what’s making us happy this week, baseball-related or otherwise. (timestamp)

Our wonderful listener Ellen Lindner is cartoonist and illustrator based in NYC and drew the awesome The Cranklet’s Chronicle, a zine about women in baseball. One of the issues is all about Joan Payson. You can find her work on http://littlewhitebird.com/. Also check out her Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/littlewhitebird

Also you can follow A Pod of Their Own on Twitter (@apodoftheirown) and you can also follow all of our co-hosts on Twitter: Allison McCague (@PetitePhD), Maggie Wiggin (@maggie162), and Linda Surovich (@LindaSurovich). You can also email the show at aa.apodoftheirown@gmail.com.

Look for A Pod of Their Own in your feeds every Wednesday and don’t forget: there’s no crying in podcasting!

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From Complex to Queens, Episode 38: Rob Manfred is a poop emoji Dec 16, 2019

Show notes

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

First, inspired by the Boston Tea Party, the team ranks their favorite and least favorite teas in Promote, Extend, Trade.

After, Steve, Lukas, and Kenny take a look at the newest players in the Mets’ minor league system, acquired via Rule 5 draft and minor league free agency.

Finally, they discuss the fallout from the negotiation between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball during the winter meetings.

Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), and Ken (@kenlavin91).

Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets!

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Amazin’ Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Day Five: Finale Dec 14, 2019

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In the finale of the first (and potentially only?...) ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Rick Porcello signing, and discuss how the starting rotation might play out.

After, they review the Mets moves during the last few days, and discuss the state of the roster as it stands, and the remaining moves they feel need to be made before the season starts.

They wrap up by discussing the Yoenis Cespedes contract settlement, and initial reactions.

If you made it this far, five episodes deep, thanks so much for listening. We may be back in this sort of capacity, we might not. Life is weird like that sometimes.

Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at AAAudiopodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter: Lukas (@lvlahos343), Ken (@kenlavin91).

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