Home Run Applesauce: A New York Mets podcast

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 Sandy Alderson becoming the president of baseball operations after their search did not go as they hoped. We then move on to Robinson Cano’s suspension for PEDs and...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Believe it or not, but Toy Story turns 25 today, so the team takes a look in their toy boxes to see who and what they’ve forgotten about in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, with the completion of the Uni-President Lions, LG Twins, and Yakult Swallows seasons, the team hands out end-of-season awar...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. A bunch of New York sports legends share the same birthday, so the team sorts through them in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopted KBO team, the LG Twins, and our adopted NPB team, the Yakult Swallows. We focus on a...

Welcome to APOTO (The Show), an all-star show hosted by Linda Surovich and Allison McCague from A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue and Brian Salvatore from Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show). This is the first, but hopefully not the last, collaborative show of this kind during the 2020/2021 offseason. First up, we discuss new Mets owner Steve Cohen’s introductory press conferen...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. On this date back in 1519, Moctezuma welcomed Hernán Cortés into Tenochtitlán in what can only be described as a great blunder in history, so the team looks at other massive blunders in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, ou...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. On the heels of Steve’s catastrophic computer problems last week, and ironically on the 32nd anniversary of the first malware released into the internet, the team ranks computer hackers in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions,...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Mickey Lolich was a young, fireballing left-hander who had a notable career with the Detroit Tigers. Lolich had the fortune to shine brightest on MLB’s biggest stage, spinning three complete game victories in winning the World Series MVP in the Tigers’ 1967 triumph over...

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 Steve Cohen’s impending approval by MLB owners and how Bill de Blasio is grandstanding over a technicality. We also referenced a piece that appeared in The New Yorke...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Celebrating the heritage of a certain top pitcher who you’d never guess is Iranian, the team picks between other players who have backgrounds you would not realize at first glimpse in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week, we lament the lack of Mets news, as well as the loss of Mikkeller NYC, which Chris reflected on earlier this week. We talk about Steve Cohen passing the next hurdle in his acquisition of the Mets, the post-season success of Travis d’Arnaud and Justin Turner, a...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. It’s Yoenis Cespedes’ birthday, so we celebrate by looking back at his best moments with the Mets in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopted KBO team, the LG Twins, and our adopted NPB team, the Yakult Swallows. Next...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. Anthony DiComo started at MLB.com as an intern in 2007. He’s been on the Mets beat since 2011, and over that time developed a good relationship with David Wright. Now, just two years after his retirement, Wright and DiComo have writte...

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 free agency and who the Mets should be in on this offseason, especially with the addition of Steve Cohen. We then discuss the news that should Cohen be approved he w...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. On the anniversary of the very first Oktoberfest, the team talks about beer in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopted KBO team, the LG Twins, and our adopted NPB team, the Yakult Swallows. Next, the team discusses i...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Butch Huskey was a promising power prospect in the Mets organization in the mid-90s. With a build to match his name and scouts comparing him to Mark McGwire, there were high hopes that Huskey would unlock that power for the Mets. A player without an obvious position on t...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Celebrating the anniversary of PBS’ first broadcast on this date back in 1970, the team decides between classic PBS children’s shows we (presumably) grew up on in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopted KBO team, the...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  The 2020 season is over, and the Mets managed to end it in the most depressing way possible, with injuries, blowouts, a poor deGrom start, and missing out on the largest pool of playoff teams in history. But not all hope is lost; Steven Cohen has hired Sandy Alderson to...

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 talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly from the 2020 season, including the embarrassment of missing the playoffs in the age of expanded playoffs. We also discuss Sandy A...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With Ted Williams securing his place in history with a .406 batting average on this date in 1941, the team talks about who’d they want to take up from cryonic slumber next to in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopte...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. There are few people in the history of the New York Mets as beloved or important to the team and its fans as David Wright. Wright, who has a new book, The Captain: A Memoir due out on October 13th, joined Chris McShane and Brian S...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With the HMS Olympic colliding with a British warship and almost sinking- barely escaping the fate her sister ships would have- the team talks about the worst possible luck in a baseball context in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-Preside...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  The Mets’ playoff chances are looking less and less likely with each game, but the overall future for the Mets looks a little bright, or a little less Wilponian, with the announcement that Steve Cohen and the Wilpons have agreed on a deal to sell Cohen 95% stake in the M...

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 Wilpons officially selling to Steve Cohen and our complicated feelings on the matter.  Next, we talk about how once again Rob Manfred dropped the ball when it ca...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With the Major League Baseball season having come to a premature end on this date in 1994, the team discusses events that they would’ve liked to have seen in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve gives us an update on our adopted CPBL team, the Uni-President Lions, our adopted KBO team, the LG T...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Bill Denehy was a wild, fireballing young right-handed prospect in a Mets organization suddenly rife with them in the 1960s. Denehy’s fastball was considered second only to Nolan Ryan’s, and the team likely envisioned both of them headlining a rotation with the team’s re...