This week on Hits Different, we addressed a sick and twisted mailbag question we received this week: What's your pettiest baseball grudge? I had so much fun contemplating this even after we stopped recording that I wanted to pose it to the millions of listeners of New York's only anti-math baseball podcast. Which players or fans or stadiums or whatever do you dislike IRRATIONALLY and what are your most firmly held hater opinions? Which grudges will they have to rip out of your COLD DEAD HANDS? Please send to us at hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com and we'll read a few good ones the next time we're on air which will be in TWO WEEKS regrettably. We're busy traveling this great nation to attend more nuptials and sit on Wi-Fi-less lakes.

A petty opinion I have that I forgot to say on mic is that the Dodgers shouldn't get to count Jackie Robinson as part of their lore because he never went to California. And they also should have had to change their name when they moved. There are no trolley-dodgers in Los Angeles! Get your own thing! In the past, when I've said this, a coworker of mine insisted I was being crazy because "it's the same team," but is it? Are the Minnesota Twins the Washington Senators? No, you only think it's the same team because they psychotically clung to a name that didn't in any way apply to them. And they've continued stealing valor to this day...

Grotesque! Btw Clayton Kershaw can go kick rocks what a huge fucking loser.

Happy Pride & Happy Father's Day & a very happy Vote Five Times Per Day for Francisco Lindor.

Let's go Mets!!!!!

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Sorry this episode is so late!!! Producer Nathan and I were in the Hudson Valley at the wedding of the century eating Jake's Gouda (look it up). And then we were busy and forgot. Sorry!!

This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the Mets splitting a series against the Dodgers which they could have swept, not to be one of those guys. I hate when baseball fans (Yankees fans) are all over social media saying "we would have won those games if we had won them." It's tempting, though. We're also talking about the Mets sweeping the Rockies (the first time). The Mets later swept the Rockies a second time after we finished recording but we'll talk about that next week.

How confusing! Let's go Mets!

Btw we got some interesting questions from listeners this week including one from my sister Sophie who asked something so SCURRILOUS, as David put it, about our guys.

Let's go Mets! Happy Pride!!

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Of course, everyone is saying that it's classic Mets behavior to nearly sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers and then achieve just two narrow victories and one pretty appalling loss against the world-historically bad Chicago White Sox. We're not really of that opinion—we think it's classic Mets behavior to be SO cute and fun—but things do seem a little weird.

I hope you're okay with listening to three people watch and react to a grainy (not that you can see it) internet video of Brett Baty dunking a basketball in high school, because that's what's on the table this week. And speaking of the table, noted foodies Ellen and David report back from an adventure in the heretofore mysterious HYUNDAI CLUB at Citi Field, where the clams and spaghetti are free, the sight lines are stunning, and it's the best day of your life every day of the week. (Though the Mets may, technically, still lose)

We got a great mailbag question this week about stupid-looking on-base celebrations. Send us some more questions, we love them!! hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com

Actually, here are the dunk videos we watched in case you also want to see them:

1) Brett

2) Basketball guy David was talking about (I am pretty sure this is the correct one but I'm moving fast right now—sorry!)

Let's go Mets!!!

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