The first half of the Mets' season is over and they're now in a Wild Card spot, leading to rampant speculation by sports writers who may in fact be chatbots that Pete Alonso will NOT be traded at the deadline. Duh!! We never even worried about it. What are we worried about? Hardly anything. Just Gunnar Henderson's Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-Django-Unchained cosplay and the future of Joey "Fuego" Lucchesi who was designated for assignment by the Mets last week and has since cleared waivers. So, he's still a Met for now but the President of Baseball Operations already came out in public and described Joey as someone who has "pitched well at times." Not exactly what you want to hear from your boss's boss's boss about yourself. Maybe Francesco, the guru who was living in Joey's house all winter, was not the correct guru for him.

This week on Hits Different, we're recapping a 5-1 home stand by your New York Mets and we're conducting the first ever Hits Different Draft Based on Names Only. The coolest baseball names on the list—those are the guys we want.

Let's go Mets!

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How many hot dogs did you have on the Fourth of July? Sadly, I (Kaitlyn) only had three. But! One of them was the best hot dog ever made. We discuss this and much else on this week's spicy mid-summer episode of Hits Different.

Kodai Senga looked fit as a fiddle playing for the Coney Island Franks (special promotional version of the Brooklyn Cyclones) and on Friday, July 5th (legally still part of July 4th), Jeff McNeil homered off of Paul Skenes??? Nothing else happened in that game as far as anyone can recall. Francisco Lindor won a baseball game on Sunday afternoon and was snubbed by his peers and his employers on Sunday evening. That doesn't matter to him. He doesn't do it for them, he does it for us. What does he need the All-Star Game for when he will be playing in the World Series?

Let's go Mets!

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How long can this "vibes" thing last? At least until the Mets win the World Series! This week, downtown Buffalo was lit up in Grimace purple and the Seattle Mariners were bumping Mets' star Jose Iglesias' new single "OMG" in their clubhouse. The Mets are worldwide, luv.

David and Kaitlyn could not let the wild events of the tail end of Pride Month go unremarked upon, so they struggled through absolutely demonic recording and production issues caused by Kaitlyn's decision to be in Salt Lake City, Utah instead of New York where she belongs. Thank you Jim Tiffany (Kaitlyn's dad) for coming through and granting Hits Different access to the incredible emergency technology known as VERIZON HOTSPOT ON ANDROID PHONE. We love you Jim Tiffany!!!

Actually, the REAL struggle this week was endured by Producer Nathan, who had to tangle with a heap of misfit and mismatched MP3 files just after drinking one or two Ford vs. Ferrari themed cocktails somewhere in Japan. We love you Producer Nathan!!!!

We love you Mets!!!!

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It's hot!! It's sweaty! It's sexy! In Syracuse, they cut their sleeves off! In Arlington, the Gay Mets crushed the Texas Rangers, famously the only team in Major League Baseball that doesn't celebrate Pride Month in any way (God said: "losers"). Then Bryce Harper took out his fist and gave it the old "Hawk Tuah" on national television. Boys!! We're blushing!!

This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn discuss the dank parking garage that the New York Yankees play in for some reason and we learn that the Washington Nationals didn't want to be "the Senators" anymore because people who live in D.C. aren't represented in Congress. Okay! The people of Pittsburgh don't know any pirates either (I assume), but whatever you say. It's your uninspired baseball team and you can call it what you like.

Thank you to our friend James Rainis for our new musical moment this week, and thank you as always to Producer Nathan, this time editing us while on government business in [UNDISCLOSED ASIAN COUNTRY]. Love you! Let's go Mets!

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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn are tired but wired. Since the beginning of Pride Month, the Mets have been terrorizing the National League and there's NOTHING anybody can do about it. Mets are undefeated since Grimace threw out the first pitch and Harrison Bader warmed up in a pink crop-top. Mets are undefeated since J.D. Martinez hit his first-ever walk-off home run and Jose Iglesias gave him a big smooch on the cheek. Mets are dressed like fancy cowboys getting on their plane to Dallas.

This is the best team in the history of baseball! LGM!

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This week on Hits Different, we're talking about our favorite boy band the New York Mets traveling to London for a two-game series! It was, as the MLB put it, a Carnival of Americana. The Mets won the second game in spectacular fashion but please don't let that distract from the fact that Philadelphia Philly Garrett Stubbs must face consequences for his despicable actions.

Meanwhile, Kaitlyn traveled to Dallas and saw a different type of Carnival of Americana (7/11 "Lone Star Slice" pizza, JFK murder tour). David stayed back in New York and watched the boys on his phone while doing dad duty. The worst day of his life was June 8, 2024. The best day of his life was June 9, 2024. When I (Kaitlyn) lived in Texas for three months in 2013, I worked at a coffee shop run by a woman who would always say "life is ever-changing, mama." So true. Life is ever-changing David!

Thank you to producer Nathan Marder for cleaning this one up back in the replay room in New York! We love you!

Let's go Mets!

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Everybody is talking about the Mets! But it's not an "all publicity is good publicity" situation, necessarily. In the words of Pete Alonso, we really don't necessarily know what to think.

This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn apologize to their listeners for declaring Harrison Bader the King of New York. He actually isn't King of New York and he's unable to count. We also give our review of the rainbow cookie egg roll at Citi Field. I forgot to mention that immediately upon purchase, a drunk man will approach you and ask if he can get a bite. If that happens you just say, "Sir, this is a family environment!" And keep it moving.

The Mets are going to London next week and Kaitlyn is going to Texas and David is staying right here and Brett Baty is staying in Syracuse. We love and miss him and think about him every day. Let's go Mets!

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At the end of Mets' fifth-straight loss, SNY's Gary Cohen said "the sun will come up tomorrow, as difficult as that may be to realize." And the sun did come up, but we weren't surprised because we never stopped believing. This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn talk about one of the worst, weirdest weeks in the history of baseball—we are an anti-math podcast but this superlative is mathematically PROVEN. Then, of course, we talk about what came at the end of the week: A comeback victory for your New York Metropolitans, brought to you by hometown hero Harrison Bader who we should not trade no matter how many sociopathic armchair GMs suggest as much on social media. We should, actually, sign him and his college friend Pete Alonso to matching "Met for life" deals.

In this week's mailbag, we have two great questions from Hits Different listeners. If you'd like to hear YOUR burning baseball question answered on the show, please send it in, we can't wait to hear it!! We are also once again asking Reed Garrett to let Kaitlyn follow him on Instagram. I would never say anything mean in the comments and in fact would like to say something nice. Such as: Let's go Mets!

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