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39. Would You Boo Our Friend Brett Baty?
54:31|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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38. TGWGTCF, Thank God We're Going to Citi Field!!
57:22|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!Please send us mailbag questions at hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com—you can also send corrections but just keep in mind that we do get a little snotty about it.LGM!37. [Brandon Nimmo Tongue-Out Emoji] Mets Are Back!
01:32:53|This week on Hits Different: David, Ellen, and Kaitlyn prepare for the 2025 MLB season by talking about almost everything else they can think of for 90 minutes! Almost certainly the words "Dakota Fanning" are uttered more times than the words "New York Mets." Sorry! We're not going to examine this too closely. We're nervous, but definitely not about Brett Baty. We're anxious, but not because AJ Minter is a Braves sleeper agent who has murdered countless ducks. We're agitated, but not so much by our fellow fans who went RETVRN mode over the first two games of the season being in Japan. We're just antsy!!!! We can't wait to get going!!! (Does anybody else always hear that phrase in Carlos Mendoza's voice now?)LGM!!!!!36. HOME PETE HOME
01:04:26|PEEEEEEEEEEETEPete Alonso is a New York Met again. Thank you Pete Alonso! No "thank you" to anyone else involved—you have immiserated us for months on end. Ellen, David, and Kait are back on the mic after a long and mentally perilous winter. We're talking about the insurrection at Citi Field otherwise known as "Amazin' Day" and we're talking about PEEEEEEEEEETE. Let's go Mets and please send us your pre-Opening Day questions at hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.comPEEEEEEEETE!!!!!!!35. And What About Pete Alonso?
01:07:19|This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn are talking about the next 15 years of their lives. Juan Soto is going to be part of our households. We'll be middle-aged when Juan Soto retires from being a Met. Ellen's son Bobby will be driving a car! Dave is away but he has the same next question as the rest of us: What about Pete? When will the Mets say "Pete—Met for life"? Where is Pete? Why is Pete posting on Instagram about "chlorophyll water"? Pete?This episode was recorded BEFORE we learned that Juan Soto got the use of the uniform number 22 guaranteed in his contract. Kind of messed up, no? He should have to text Brett Baty and send him an Uber Eats gift card at the very least, no? Brett is so abused. It's actually crazy.Nevertheless... a big Hits Different welcome to our new guy Juan and LGM!34. Free Agency Fake News Season
01:26:14|This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the PowerPoint presentation that's going to convince Juan Soto to sign with the Boston Red Sox and the AI-generated image of him in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform that might change his mind. Every meeting has gone "well" so far—in what way might a meeting between a person hoping to receive $600 million and a group of people hoping to give it to him go poorly? Long story short, every piece of alleged news we saw this week was made up entirely.Except for the true, breaking, and incredible news that DAVID SIMS has rejoined the pod. He's back, he's better than ever, he's read 2,000 pages worth of Roger Angell essays since you last heard from him. And you KNOW he has a photographic memory, so you can ask him anything about it.At the end of this episode, a little something new...Let's go Mets!33. Where in the World Are the Mets?
01:25:39|In our first off-season episode, we're talking about the "World Series" which was a "clash of the titans," and we're also Googling and combing the stacks at the library in search of just ONE good baseball ghost story. If you know of any, please email us!! hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.comKaitlyn and Ellen also meticulously research the current whereabouts of the 2024 New York Mets. We miss them all the time! Where are they?? Regrettably, it did not occur to us that if we only waited a little later into Halloween evening we would surely see some of those guys as they revealed their Halloween costumes and family outings on the 'gram. Unknown to us at the time of recording: Brett Baty was in Texas and dressed as a pirate as we spoke. Also unknown at time of recording: Tomas Nido dressed his son up as a baseball!!!!!!!!! I can't link because it's on his wife's private Instagram but he reposted it to his Stories and you can go see it if you are fast. It rules.Happy Halloween and let's go Mets!