Baseball hits different here, you might have heard, but how does “Baseball Hits Different Here” hit the ear? Greg and Jeff dissect the Mets’ 2024 marketing theme and try to make sense of how other teams are advertising to their potential customers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The Mets have begun the season as more or less a .500 ballclub. Do they have what it takes to exceed that level? To avoid slipping below it? Greg and Jeff talk about what’s been pretty good and what could be better. Then they attempt to connect with the Mets’ newest uniforms from the perspective of fans who grew up not so much in NYC but very much in the Metropolitan Area. Finally, the next time a fair ball bounces over a fence, a brilliant idea might very well occur to you (38:00). ---...

Jeff gives us his initial opinion of the City Connect uniform and then: wouldn’t it be great to be given something by the Mets team store just because you were wandering through there? That rhetorical question leads to another question with a Met angle: who are you wearing, provided price is no object...which it wouldn’t be if someone was just giving player jerseys away? Listen to this National League Town bonus episode to get in on the hypothetical. --- Send in a voice message:...

Doc Gooden was honored at Citi Field, and National League Town is honored to be to be able to share some insights about what the day was like in Flushing. Greg and Jeff are also glad that the Mets’ wretched start has morphed into a decent run, though that doesn’t mean they don’t question the timing of at least one preseason personnel move. Finally, we remember a catcher who set the defensive standard for all who followed him, and a pitcher who made the best of an undesirable situation...

Opening Day’s arrival has us dreaming a little dream. The 2024 Mets have won the World Series. A platform is set up for the presentation of the Commissioner’s Trophy. Your new world champions make sure one player holds the hardware aloft before anybody else can touch it. Who should that player be? Greg and Jeff aren’t beyond speculating wildly and nominating their Met of Mets to do the honor. Listen in as they clearly get ahead of themselves. --- Send in a voice message:...

It’s a new season, and we’re on board with Tom Boswell’s assertion that time begins on Opening Day. We are excited. We are (cautiously) optimistic. We are building up a thirst for crafty baseball and craft beers. We hope to be dancing in the aisles during innings, while an entity called the Queens Crew dances on the field between innings. The ballpark beckons once more, and it’s got fans like us in its thrall. We also try to decide if we don’t mind the Mets Hall of Fame relocating, and we...

"Great Scott", Scott was great! That's a wrap on Grapefruit League Town. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The Mets won and I had a unique perspective on the game. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The fries were hot, the Mets were not, and one of the people I went with went home happy. Find out in a weirder-than-normal episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

"The Mets scored a run" and "Down in front!" are two things that weren't said at today's game. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

Jose Quintana was great, the Mets offense was not, and the home team played a song that you shouldn't play at night. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

Another 3-1 Mets win, another hot dog to talk about, and free parking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

No matter what side of the aisle you are on we can all agree that Thursday was a great night for the Mets, despite a bad vegan hot dog. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The game was delayed. The game was rained out. We answered listener mail. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

With today's day off, Jeff gives advice about buying tickets during Spring Training and explains why Steve Cohen can buy a dead shark but he won't sign Jordan Montgomery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The Mets lost but Jeff found something that everyone, whether you wear blue or red, can agree on. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

It was a great day at Clover Park as the Mets won... other than my chicken tender and fries. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

The Mets win, Max Kranick and Trayce Thompson stand out, and Jeff hugs it out with Screech. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

Jeff is in Florida for a month for various reasons but let's face it, the Mets are the biggest reason. This is the "Trailer" for this show and Jeff explains what you will hear as he watches the Mets during Spring Training. Music: The Royal Arctic Institute Cover Art: John Newcomer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

“Baseball is back!” says it all, and what it doesn’t say, National League Town’s first episode of 2024 will. Greg and Jeff are ready to turn their attention toward Port St. Lucie, cheering the players who show up early, figuring out who might play where, and wondering whether a Polar Bear can be kept in captivity beyond this year. We also preview a special Spring Training podcast series we think you’ll enjoy and look back lovingly on the life of a true über-Met we lost this winter. ---...

Having passed the 100-episode milestone, National League Town pauses to reflect on two years of podcasting and how these seasons have intertwined with two lifetimes of Mets fandom. Mostly, Greg and Jeff say thank you to all who have accompanied this program on its trip around the bases...and, as always, Let’s Go Mets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message

’Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the pod, hosts Greg and Jeff craved Yamamoto’s nod; free agents, alas, decide on their own time, not paying heed to our recording deadline. All this is our merry way of saying that when National League Town put together this episode, the Mets had yet to sign their main free agent target. Thus, rather than dwelling on the uncertain, we devote the bulk of our holiday episode (28:00) to a replay of our golden-anniversary salute to the 1973 season...

Superstars are landing elsewhere or have yet to decide their destinations. A top prospect is injured. No player acquired to date is what you’d call a “get”. What kind of Mets offseason is this? It’s one that requires a little more waiting and a lot more hoping. In the meantime, Greg and Jeff salute the legacy of Mrs. Joan Payson, without whom there wouldn’t be Mets seasons (17:00), and remember Joe Hicks, one of those Mets who came up from the minors and lit up the majors for an incandescent...

National League Town returns this week to some of Jeff’s Brilliant Ideas, thoughtful concepts and suggestions guaranteed to make baseball better. More doubleheaders and day games? Adjustments to the ghost runner rule and the WBC? Breathing new life into the All-Star Game? Jeff’s mulled these and more over and shares the thinking behind his always intriguing notions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalleaguetown/message