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National League Town (a Mets podcast)

National League Town

Mets Fandom, Mets History, Mets Life with Long Island’s Own Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen

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00:45:59

Patience Takes Patience

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/12/14

Superstars are landing elsewhere or have yet to decide their destinations. A top prospect is injured. No player acquired to date is what you’d call a “get”. What kind of Mets offseason is this? It’s one that requires a little more waiting and a lot more hoping. In the meantime, Greg and Jeff salute the legacy of Mrs. Joan Payson, without whom there wouldn’t be Mets seasons (17:00), and remember Joe Hicks, one of those Mets who came up from the minors and lit up the majors for an incandescent moment

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00:21:50

Back in Town: Jeff's Brilliant Ideas

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/12/07

National League Town returns this week to some of Jeff’s Brilliant Ideas, thoughtful concepts and suggestions guaranteed to make baseball better. More doubleheaders and day games? Adjustments to the ghost runner rule and the WBC? Breathing new life into the All-Star Game? Jeff’s mulled these and more over and shares the thinking behind his always intriguing notions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

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00:55:46

Do Wright by David

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/11/30

Our provincial take on the 2024 Hall of Fame election is Vote for David Wright...and maybe some or all of the other nine Mets on the writers’ ballot. The Captain is eligible for consideration for the first time after his fourteen-season career as a Met and only a Met, a span when he earned multiple honors, made multiple All-Star teams and created myriad memories. As far as National League Town is concerned, that’s worthy of serious Cooperstown conversation. We also remember the dozen seasons when

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00:38:11

Thanks a Lot, Mets

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/11/22

Greg and Jeff are happy this Thanksgiving over the presence of a mascot and the absence of a narrative. They’re perfectly fine with the return of a few coaches while they sort out their feelings over the comings and goings of several players. When it comes to the prospective Las Vegas A’s, they have a hard time imagining that team succeeding as a box office attraction in an event-driven market. And if National League Town could turn back time, which World Series trophy would our hosts add to the

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00:42:11

A New Voice

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/11/16

Did you have any idea what Carlos Mendoza sounded like before his introductory press conference? Neither did we, but now we do. That was the primary National League Town takeaway from the introduction of the Mets’ latest manager at the Mets’ latest press conference as he sat alongside the Mets’ latest general manager and told us the Mets’ latest plan is to be competitive. Now that we’ve acquainted ourselves with both Mendoza and David Stearns, Greg and Jeff wonder what the tandem might do in the

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00:31:33

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/11/08

Long Island’s Own Jeff Hysen blows out a few candles and shares his birthday with Ed Kranepool and Edgardo Alfonzo, but the real November celebration could be for the hiring of Carlos Mendoza as new Mets manager. If his tenure turns into a ticker-tape party, Mets fans may be talking about him someday like Greg and Jeff are talking about Davey Johnson this week, as a Hall of Fame candidate on the latest iteration of the veterans committee ballot. National League Town also remembers the baseball life

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00:46:24

Give Us a Few Moments

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/10/26

We know we couldn’t get from the 2023 Mets season what we wanted most, yet we carry away from this baseball year gone by a few moments that really resonated with us. Greg and Jeff each single out five games when they found being a Mets fan took on a little extra special meaning — win, lose or draw. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

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00:34:42

‘Three’ for the Road

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/10/19

The National League Town monthly series “It Happens in Threes” pulls into the garage after zooming ahead one more decade, to remember 2023 (75-87) in a segment short on long-term perspective, but no doubt fortified by recency bias. As could be said of 1963 (51-11), 1983 (68-94), 1993 (59-103), 2003 (66-95) and 2013 (74-88), these were not the best the best of times, but they’re the only times we got to know in Met years that ended in “3” (you gotta believe pennant-winning 1973 remains the exception

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00:28:48

Land of the Free of the Braves

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/10/14

BONUS EPISODE! National League Town pauses from its stare out the window/wait for spring to revel briefly in the ouster of the hated Atlanta Braves from the 2023 postseason, even if it took the hated Philadelphia Phillies to do the ousting. October hat tips are issued as well to the Diamondbacks, Astros and Rangers because, honestly, what else do we have to do other than stare out the window and wait for spring? --- Send in a voice message:

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00:41:40

Who Knew? Not Us!

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/10/12

One week after they framed Billy Eppler’s forthcoming role in the Mets’ decision-making hierarchy; railed against Major League Baseball for endless indecisiveness regarding the outcome of a suspended game; and wished the Miami Marlins ill in their postseason endeavors, Greg and Jeff return to square some circles (Eppler’s out; the suspended game was resolved; and the Marlins swam off to sea with nary a playoff peep), and then pick over some of the scabs of a 2023 campaign that left all family

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00:49:42

Bye Buck, Hi David

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/10/05

The Mets showed their manager the door and welcomed aboard a new president of baseball operations. National League Town therefore wishes Buck Showalter a fond (if ultimately necessary) adieu while hoping their fellow Mets fan David Stearns will know what he’s doing for a long time to come. Greg and Jeff also try to figure out how a person could have snuck into Shea Stadium and wonder whatever became of that Mets-Marlins game whose final outcome apparently got washed away in the rain. --- Send in

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00:42:18

And Now, the End is Near

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/09/28

The 2023 Mets did it their way, and ain’t that a shame? Greg and Jeff pull up a mic and discuss not so much what went wrong, but what it was like to live through all of it going wrong. You know what they say, though: whatever lousy Mets season doesn’t kill you makes you strongly aggravated you just sat through so much dismal baseball. On the other hand, what else were we gonna do? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

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00:48:14

Days of Hope, Days of Harvey

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/09/21

Expectations were raised, expectations were dashed. In a nutshell, that’s been 2023 for the Mets. Still, hope springs eternal, even in the last days of a season about to end with no sign our most recent spasm of hope transformed into the success we dared expect. We can’t control what the players accomplish, yet we’ll be back to look forward to a collection of them next year doing better than they did this year. One decade ago, we had only one day in five to really look forward to, and we rode that

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01:21:59

How We Lived With the Other Half

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/09/14

In 2023, everybody played everybody in the major leagues, which meant the Mets spent 46 games involved with opponents from the American League. Greg and Jeff delve into what it was like for National League fans like them to divert their focus more than ever from what they were used to. And what do the hosts of National League Town think about when they think about American League teams? We relive the entire Interleague journey of the past six months, from Oakland to Minneapolis, and everywhere in

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00:52:16

Up Where They Belong

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/09/07

Darryl Strawberry’s 18 and Dwight Gooden’s 16 will rise to Citi Field’s rafters in 2024, rafters being one of those terms we can’t necessarily define, yet we know what it means. It means two of the players whose pictures you see in the proverbial dictionary when you look up the greatest era in New York Mets history are getting the recognition they’ve long deserved, and National League Town couldn’t be more delighted. Well, maybe we could be if we knew perennial 40-plus home run man Pete Alonso will

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00:18:27

Something in the Orange & Blue

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/08/31

Jeff is solo this week and he explains how he is dealing with this season, looks at the schedule for next season, gives his opinion of Rob Manfred’s job status, tells everybody to stop clapping their hands, and brings back one of Greg’s finest moments. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

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00:49:39

Buck Without Buzz

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/08/24

Of every angle that tends to entangle a team that has fallen short of great expectations, you can usually count on the future of the manager to generate a din of discourse. Yet since the trade deadline clarified that the Mets were not going to make a playoff run, all’s been quiet on the Showalter front. National League Town attempts to penetrate the silence while withstanding the stiff breeze generated by a surfeit of draft position speculation. Then Greg and Jeff open the ol’ mailbag and try to

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00:51:07

Embracing the Less Embraceable

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/08/17

Ever have your team sign an accomplished quarterback, a pedigreed coach, a dazzling shooter or a reliable lefty reliever and you weren’t thrilled because, quite frankly, you didn’t like the idea of rooting for that particular person? Funny we should ask, as Greg and Jeff are talking about the kind of adjustment a fan sometimes makes in the name of hoping your team wins more games. In 2003, the Mets constituted something of a test case in this regard, and didn’t win many games, but they left behind

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00:47:50

From Coma to Catharsis

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/08/10

The Mets have played dead, and National League Town can’t bring them back to life, but Greg and Jeff are more than happy to talk each other (and their siblings) through the dog days of this most brutal summer. Are we having any seller’s remorse? Are we rewriting history on the fly to suggest that if only we’d stood pat, we’d be coming on strong in the Wild Card scramble? Are we still going to the ballpark? And are we not entertained? We have few definitive answers, but we’re always willing to pose a

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00:58:58

Swap Meet

National League Town (a Mets podcast) ·

2023/08/02

Greg and Jeff get together in the post-trade deadline world and exchange ideas over where the Mets are going now that they’ve made deal after deal after deal. What legacy does Max Scherzer leave behind? What was Justin Verlander even doing here? How successful will the Steve Cohen Draft turn out to be? And how many euphemisms do baseball people throw around? National League Town puzzles out some answers that might prove right, might prove wrong, and will definitely take a while to prove either

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