Home Run Applesauce: A New York Mets podcast

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First up this week, Steve reviews the Mets’ Arizona Fall League contingent and how they did in this second week of the AFL season. After, the guys share their thoughts about the 2022 Syracuse Mets season. Expectations were not particularly high coming into the season, but the team somehow manag...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. The Mets started off the weekend as the favorite in the Wild Card series, but ended in a very, very different place. Brian and Chris talk about the end of the season, the emotions around it, and who we are pulling for in the rest of the playoffs. Chris’s Music Pick: Viagr...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Steve isn’t here and there’s nothing really going on on the minor league side right now (we’ll dissect the AFL next week). With our usual guide rails not present, Ken, Thomas, and Lukas simply complain about Buck’s bad managing, lament the health status of the Mets’ top two arms, pontificate on...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. A lot has happened since the last episode that Chris and Brian hosted together, but there’s no time to waste! The playoffs are here, the Mets are the fourth seed in the bracket, and games start [checks calendar] today! Hear the boys discuss possible roster moves, how the...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing The Events of Last Weekend when the Mets were swept by the Braves. We also unpack potential postseason matchups for the Mets and try to maintain hope for a deep post...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the team past. George Stone was a two-sport star in college, ultimately choosing baseball over basketball. A promising young left-handed pitcher, he made his MLB debut at the age of 21 with Atlanta, and was a key cog in the rotation of the 1969 Braves, who would fall to the Mets i...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. The Mets and the Braves depress the guys too much for a Promote, Extend, Trade topic this week, so they talk about the end of the 2022 minor league season and some of the standouts. After, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas review their pre-season predictions for the 2022 season made back in last Ma...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. The Mets head to Atlanta this weekend for their final regular season meet up with the Atlanta Braves. In anticipation of the series, Brian welcomes Battery Power’s Daniel Hutchinson-Kausch to the show to discuss the pitching matchups, some key players, and how neither tea...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the state of the Mets heading into this weekend’s pivotal (and likely division-deciding) series against the Braves—that is, if the games don’t get washed out by the...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the team past. Mike Bruhert grew up approximately six miles from Shea Stadium, but his journey to play there was incredibly unlikely. He went 1-16 at his high school, but was discovered by a Mets’ scout in a sandlot all-star game. Early in his Mets tenure, Bruhert met—and eventual...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With Star Wars: Andor just released, Steve, Lukas, and Thomas rank some of the other more notable scoundrels in the Star Wars universe. After, they review how the Mets’ minor league affiliates did this past week, with a focus on St. Lucie’s playoff run. As always, you can listen or subscribe to...

Welcome to APOTO (The Show), an all-star show hosted by Linda Surovich and Maggie Wiggin from A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue and Brian Salvatore from Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show). First up, we discuss this past weekend’s Dollars For Dingers event which, by just about every possible metric, was an incredible success. Next up, the Mets’ sweep of the Pirates and clinchin...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the team past. A first round draft pick out of Fordham University by tge Baltimore Orioles, Pete Harnisch made his MLB debut before he turned 22. Harnisch blossomed in Houston, turning into an All Star after Baltimore included him in an historically bad trade. It thus seemed a joy...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. On this date all the way back in 1796, George Washington’s farewell address to the nation was published, so Steve, Lukas, and Ken discuss some emotional and shocking baseball farewells in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, they review how the Mets’ minor league affiliates did this past week, with a...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. The Mets had an absolutely terrible series against the Cubs, but somehow are still a game up on the Braves in the standings. Both the Braves and Mets are playing the Pennsylvania teams this weekend, and luckily the Mets drew the western club. Brian and Chris discuss the u...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the Mets and how they can’t seem to take advantage of their easy September schedule. We talk about Starling Marte’s absence and what the Mets are going to do about t...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the team past. Lenny Harris was a speedy, versatile player who ultimately appeared at every position on the diamond except for catcher over his 18-year career. Harris was useful utility player early in his career for the Reds and the Dodgers. Over the latter half of his career, Ha...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Tampa native Doc Gooden set the Major League Baseball record for most strikeouts on this date in 1984, ending the season with 276, breaking prior record set by Herb Score in 1954. The guys discuss other players from the baseball hot spot of Tampa in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, they review ho...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. The Mets have gone 3-3 since the last podcast, and while some may have felt the sky was falling, according to Chris Bassitt, the Mets didn’t think it was a huge deal. Also discussed is Jerry Seinfeld, for whom Brian has some strong words. Chris’s Music Pick: Dinosaur Jr....

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the woeful state of the Mets offense. But, we read some happy emails from listeners and look at Starling Marte’s Instagram to cheer us up. Next, we talk about the ne...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the team past. Once described by the MLB Network as baseball’s Forrest Gump, Lenny Randle did have an uncanny knack for appearing at randomly notable baseball moments—including two of the five contests to end in forfeit since 1971. Randle was a seeming fixture with the Texas Range...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is finally out, so Steve, Lukas, and Thomas discuss other magical rings in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, they review how the Mets’ minor league affiliates did this past week. Following that, the guys discuss some major league call-ups and guys who appa...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. The Mets had a week to remember, winning five of their last seven games while increasing their division lead to 3 games over the Braves. That doesn’t even account for the first Old Timer’s Day in nearly 30 years, the retirement of Willie Mays’s #24, and the Timmy Trumpet...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the current state of the Mets, as they sit three games up on the Atlanta Braves as they play a tough series with the Dodgers before the schedule gets much easier. Bu...

Ahead of the Mets/Dodgers series that begins this evening, True Blue LA site manager/podcaster Eric Stephen and Amazin’ Avenue deputy site manager/podcaster Brian Salvatore got together to discuss the upcoming series, their teams respective 2022s thus far, the way that both franchises handle their history and, of course, the imminent arrival of Timmy Trumpet. Plus, Eric takes a joke that Brian sai...