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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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 Mets reliever Tyler Jay's underdog story but then we were so inspired. We were shocked and disturbed by the weird behavior of everyone in the Atlanta Braves organization, especially the dreadful mascot Blooper who is reportedly the product of "science run amok." (Have you guys ever thought of just having a man with a baseball head? Oh yeah, you did try that, but it was a FLOP!! Mr. Met is undefeated!!)

After three series wins in a row we are tempted to ask whether the Mets are... good? We'll probably know for sure after they get back from their little trip to California. LFGM!

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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. Nature is so powerful and in comparison we are so small!!

This experience has been humbling. Many mistakes have been made. I'm sorry for not knowing who Max Patkin "the Clown Prince of Baseball" was! I thought he was just a funny guy in Bull Durham, but I Googled afterwards and learned. That's why you should Google before. : ( More importantly, we apologize sincerely for the choppiness of this week's show and the parts where you can hear us breathing. It's the LAST time, because we've actually figured out all of our technical problems!!

Our theme song is by James Rainis and our logo is by Paul Windle and we can't say it enough. LFGM <3

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