Hits Different – Détails, épisodes et analyse

You know that stupendously annoying Optimum commercial that plays 150 times during every single baseball broadcast? The Wi-Fi installation lady is like, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but mostly, times were just okay." That's actually exactly how it feels in Mets world right now: Each week has a true BEST day of our lives, a true WORST day of our lives, the vibes are just okay, nobody around us ever knows what we're talking about, and we're getting a little brain-fried from worry and over-excitement in the dog days of summer. We're like the Wi-Fi installation lady when she then starts talking about Susan B. Anthony and goes, "Susan. Suzy!" as though she is having a stroke. Are we built for this? We don't know!

This week on Hits Different, our guest host Ellen Cushing returns and we once again go WAY over our self-imposed but never self-enforced time limit. We talk about how ladies always be napping and do a tight 15-20 on the misinformation and, perhaps, totally innocent misunderstanding that has resulted in MLB players feeling that a gorgeous old hotel in Milwaukee is haunted even though literally no one outside of baseball has ever reported that. We also have an update on last week's mailbag question about eye black (you CAN get it out of your laundry) and some new information about local delicacies in both Canada and Pennsylvania.

Also, Brett Baty broke his finger. It's a "why don't I just kms" text situation for me.

Thank you Producer Nathan and let's go Mets!!!

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As daughters of fathers, we will defend the right of Mets' star J.D. Martinez to like photos of Sydney Sweeney's butt on Instagram in the days leading up to the birth of his first child, a baby girl. Mets are girl dads!! Mets don't hate women, they support them!!

This week on Hits Different, Kaitlyn and guest host Ellen Cushing discuss the Mets fans on Twitter who believe themselves to be psychics, the Mets fans who are actually psychics (us), and what flavor we would make a Mets-themed breakfast cereal. Also: Luis Severino threw a complete game which almost made Keith Hernandez cry. Pete Alonso hit a home run for us while we were at Citi Field telling John Fisher to SELL THE TEAM. Our Rochester, New York correspondent Sophie Tiffany went to check on Brett Baty and reports that he was weirded out by her. But he's fine!

The most important road trip of our lives is mere days away... and the vibes are much better than the absolute lunatics on the internet would have you believe.

Thank you as always to the beloved Producer Nathan and let's go Mets!

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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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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn have their LAST CONVERSATION about Pete Alonso trade rumors. We're never talking about it again. Most of the rest of the episode is about the Don DeLillo straight-to-DVD movie Game 6 starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr. I think everyone can agree that the actual baseball we watched this week was not worth discussing.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But it is broke—that's why the Mets summoned Mark Vientos and Joey Lucchesi from Syracuse in a four-hour Uber XL. And that's why we're trying out some new segments on this show! First: BDOML/WDOML ("Best Day of My Life"/"Worst Day of My Life"). Second: Mailbag. Send us your questions! kait.tiffany@gmail.com

Thank you to James Rainis for our music, Paul Windle for our logo, and Nathan Marder for putting it all together!! <3

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Disclaimer: This week's episode of Hits Different was recorded PRIOR to the tragic events of Monday night aka "Bark at the Park" night at Citi Field, when the Mets lost to the Phillies due to a series of unpredictable horrors. David and Kaitlyn had no idea that was coming. And that's baseball! [Ellie Goulding voice] Anything can happen!

This week on Hits Different, we are instead talking about a beautiful Sunday night victory over the Evil Atlanta Braves, in which the sinister ESPN broadcasters reminded viewers dozens of times that it is "impossible" for the Mets to catch runners trying to steal and continued to say that even after the Mets picked Ronald Acuña Jr. off at first base two times. Also: What were the Washington Senators? Why does everyone know who "Livvy Dunne" is? When will the rumor mill STOP churning stuff we hate to hear about Pete Alonso?

Thank you for listening and thank you as always to James Rainis for our beautiful theme song!!

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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn are, unavoidably: forlorn, wistful, unmoored, hungover, etc.! We have that in common with the Mets and with the heroine of Nancy Lemann's 1992 sexy baseball novel Sportsman's Paradise, the first book in the Hits Different sexy baseball novel book club. (I recorded myself reading like three pages of it in the middle of this episode for some reason.) You can guess what else there is to say this week after the Mets dropped three games to the not-very-good Tampa Bay Rays. Tropicana Field should be razed. The only cool and funny thing that happened there was Brett Baty's home run ball getting lost in the stupid spaceship ceiling. Florida!!!

Did we talk enough about how much we love Brett? I kind of feel like we didn't. We also forgot to talk about the guy who was unjustly ejected from Citi Field's Dollar Dog Night because he loved hot dogs TOO much and people wouldn't stop throwing their extra hot dogs at him. Sorry to that guy!

Thank you as always to James Rainis for our theme song and Paul Windle for our cover art. This week we also say thank you to Taylor Swift, for giving us an appropriate exclamation to use in dark days such as these. FLORIDA!!!!

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This week on Hits Different, David and Kaitlyn talk "football stickers" and Bend it Like Beckham, two of the best things about these two Americans' childhoods even though both are incredibly British. The episode goes on forever because it's been two weeks and we have much to say to each other.

It's all connected, and here's how: After a four-game set with the Cubs, the Mets will be going to Taylor Swift's "Florida!!!" to play the Rays. Guess who listened to Taylor Swift when he was in high school and she was in her country music era? New York Met left fielder Brandon Nimmo, born in 1993 just like yours truly (Kaitlyn). The both of us were born at exactly the right time and in the right places to be devoted to Taylor's debut single "Tim McGraw," which is relevant because on this week's episode we are talking about Brandon's discomfort during his early days in Brooklyn as a 19-year-old Mets prospect—a feeling he relays by describing the lack of trees and the presence of bars on the windows of the Gowanus Holiday Inn. Sounds an awful lot like the 1997 Tim McGraw song "Where the Green Grass Grows," which is about being lonely and unhappy in a big city:

"But all of this glitter is getting dark

There's concrete growin' in the city park

I don't know who my neighbors are

There's bars on the corners and bars on my heart"

Oh my god... But it's okay! Brandon is rich and happy now and he lives on Long Island! More to the point, it was, of course, Tim McGraw's father Tug McGraw who coined the phrase "You gotta believe!" 51 years ago. And Mr. Quality Start Quintana went eight innings for the Mets this Sunday, then captioned his Instagram post "YOU GOTTA BELIEVE. LGM. [apple emoji] [baseball emoji] @mets." @mets: we love you!!!

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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 people who sit in the outfield seats, and can you claim a foul ball by getting hit by it?

The Mets just lost two games but they also took a series from the "superteam" Dodgers and we still believe. As Alvy so correctly put it: "We continue forward with God LFGM."

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