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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