Hits Different

Feb 09 2025 36 ep. 73 mins 16

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New York's one and only anti-math baseball podcast, with Ellen Cushing, David Sims, and Kaitlyn Tiffany. New episodes Tuesdays. LFGM!
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36. HOME PETE HOME

Feb 09 2025 64 mins

PEEEEEEEEEEETEPete Alonso is a New York Met again. Thank you Pete Alonso! No "thank you" to anyone else involved—you have immiserated us for months on end. Ellen, David, and Kait are back on the mic after a long and mentally perilous winter. We're talking about the insurrection at Citi Field otherwise known as "Amazin' Day" and we're talking about PEEEEEEEEEETE. Let's go Mets and

35. And What About Pete Alonso?

Dec 12 2024 67 mins

This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn are talking about the next 15 years of their lives. Juan Soto is going to be part of our households. We'll be middle-aged when Juan Soto retires from being a Met. Ellen's son Bobby will be driving a car! Dave is away but he has the same next question as the rest of us: What about Pete? When will the Mets say "Pete—Met for life"? Wher

34. Free Agency Fake News Season

Nov 17 2024 86 mins

This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the PowerPoint presentation that's going to convince Juan Soto to sign with the Boston Red Sox and the AI-generated image of him in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform that might change his mind. Every meeting has gone "well" so far—in what way might a meeting between a person hoping to receive $600 million and a group of people hoping to

33. Where in the World Are the Mets?

Nov 01 2024 85 mins

In our first off-season episode, we're talking about the "World Series" which was a "clash of the titans," and we're also Googling and combing the stacks at the library in search of just ONE good baseball ghost story. If you know of any, please email us!! [email protected] and Ellen also meticulously research the current whereabouts of the 2024 New York Mets. We miss

32. Kings of New York

Oct 22 2024 77 mins

We're in "don't cry because it's over" mode ... but we're crying anyway! Our cups runneth over! Some older gents in recent days have compared the 2024 Mets to the 1986 Mets and that's wrong. The 1986 Mets were bad people. Our Mets are heroes and they deserve a rest. The only sad part is we'll miss them so much.This week on Hits Different, we recap the National League Championship S

31. Mets to California

Oct 13 2024 103 mins

It's Sunday morning in the greatest city in the world and the Mets have given us a little time to breathe and take in 40 different angles of every amazing thing that has happened in the past two weeks.This week on Hits Different, we are stretching our legs and cracking our knuckles and going for another nearly-two-hour pod after a week of harried emergency episodes. We're talking a

30. Mark Vientos You Will Always Be Famous

Oct 08 2024 85 mins

Francisco Lindor says Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos is making himself famous by being incredible, to which we say: Fact check PASSED.This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn recap the first two games of that National League Division Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. It's an interesting contrast between two fandoms—one of which regards all of this as

29. So Interesting How Sometimes Faith is Rewarded

Oct 04 2024 38 mins

A quick and chaotic one for posterity! Ellen calls in from a SAT phone at the Hits Different international bureau located inside of a Danish spa. We have nothing to say really except we can't believe it, but you gotta believe it. These guys are MAGIC. That rally gourd is stupid but we LOVE it. Pete rewarded the faith we had in him all year and as you may know it is not really faith

28. Coffee With the Girls, Day After

Oct 01 2024 55 mins

This is obviously the worst episode of Hits Different by far and we had no plan for it and half of it doesn't make sense. Producer Nathan had notes for us, such as, "You can’t scream into the mic like that at the end of the episode ily" and "Or if you do you have to tell me. You’re gonna blow someone’s ears out" We are so tired! We are so happy! Yesterday, we watched an INSTA

27. On the Morning of a Braves Double-Header

Sep 30 2024 72 mins

We snuck this one in during the early hours of what may be one of the longest days of our lives!! This week on Hits Different we're talking about how close the Mets' playoffs hopes came to slipping away and how close they have come to re-snatching them back from the jaws of defeat once again. Forgive that metaphor, it's not my best!! Tylor Megill has a chance to become Mets Ty-LORE