We're back after a one-week forced hiatus—for some reason THEY did not want our episode about Brett Baty's huge week against the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates to reach the airwaves and so THEY destroyed the audio files after recording. Unfortunately there's nothing THEY can do, because this week we're talking about Brett Bonds Baty saving the Mets' season once again!!!! BB7 Brett the Met is unstoppable. He's inevitable! So are we!!!

We're also talking about the New York tabloids and their sick obsession with our 26-year-old friend Juan Soto (STOP LOOKING AT HIM), the Mets' star signs (many Scorpios), David's interesting bedtime ritual (ooh la la), whether baseball is the most cinematic sport, and, if not, then WHAT is??

Will Griffin Canning win the Cy Young? Goodbye! Happy holiday! Let's go Mets!

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This week on Hits Different, we're recapping yet another 3-3 road trip for the New York Mets. Two of the three wins, of course, came after Brett Baty rejoined the team in Arizona. Nobody knows why, but it's the truth: They can't win without him.

Brett is becoming a meme on Mets Twitter, which is another way in which he is very similar to Juan Soto, who was diagnosed as non-binary and autistic by a bizarre person who had no idea they were about to instigate so much hilarity on Baseball Internet. Brett, for his part, was called a middle-aged lesbian. But I'm also calling him a meme in reference to the weird phenomenon by which everybody online is suddenly totally in the tank for him after years of wishing him dead. I genuinely think we at Hits Different may have caused this.

I know I said we were going to stop talking about Brett so much in every episode and we ARE going to. SOON. Maybe NEXT TIME.

Although, we recorded this on Friday morning, so of course we didn't get a chance to talk about Brett's Friday night home run. We'll have to talk about that next week.

Maybe in TWO WEEKS we stop talking about Brett.

Let's go Mets!

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Apologies for the profound delay in uploading this episode—Producer Nathan was out of the state over the weekend doing something really important. Producer's Assistant Kaitlyn was in the heart of darkness (Philadelphia) attending a wedding and worrying over whether Brett Baty would be traded. He was disappeared for about four days. The girls online hunted him like a sasquatch. This episode was recorded BEFORE we learned that Brett only had a sore toe and, of course, before the Monday lunchtime alert that he was actually FINE and rejoining the Big Mets IMMEDIATELY, after a mere 10 at-bats in Lovely But Dreaded Syracuse. Thank god. Maybe now we can talk about him an amount that is proportional to his importance to the team (respectfully), rather than for 45 minutes to an hour every week.

Anyway, last time you heard from us, we did name the Washington Nationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks among the teams with the scariest mascots. Figures! The rest of what happened between April 25 and May 1, we could not have foretold. And also, honestly, as I type this? I cannot really remember.

Why did the Nationals hit the Mets with so many pitches? That's one part I remember. That was so fucked up. We lost a game at the hands of franchise icon Jorge Lopez... I'm remembering that now, too. Enjoy!

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Let's go Mets!!!

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