Hits Different

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

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

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

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

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