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 with a chat about what the Mets are doing—or not doing, as the case may be—at the winter meetings. Next, we talk about the day we never thought would come: the Wilpons’ sale of th...

In today’s second installment of the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny, Liam, and Thomas discuss the day’s spate of quotes from Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen at the Winter Meetings, before devolving into a rousing conversation about the knighthood of new Mets bench coach Sir Hensley Meulens. After, they discuss Stephen Strasburg agreeing to sign a 7 year $245 millio...

Welcome to the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special focusing on all of the major events and news that happened on that particular day of Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings. For the next three to four days Kenny, Lukas, and Liam, will be bringing you short episodes covering each day of the Winter Meetings, which are taking place from Sunday, December 8 through Thursday, December 12...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by Odoacer and the fall of the Roman Empire, the team plays Promote, Extend, Trade with a bunch of Mets minor league players of Germanic descent. After, Steve, Lukas, and Kenny review the Mets’ first trade of the winter. Spoiler alert: the give the trade a C-. Finally, they...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  First up this week, Brian and Chris discuss the upcoming change in ownership, and the various aspects of that deal, including some wishful thinking and some, perhaps, some reluctance to acknowledge that the deal might not happen or, at very least, take a long time to wor...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Before Nate Silver borrowed his last name as an acronym for his baseball projection system, Bill Pecota was the quintessential utility player. He moved between AAA and the majors for the Royals so often, his teammates nicknamed him “I-29” after the interstate between Oma...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by Steve’s love of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, the team ranks what 2019 West Virginia Power players they’d want in the Mets minor league system in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve, Lukas, and Kenny look at some of the more interesting names that played in the Dominic...

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 with a look at the surprisingly appealing new additions to the Mets coaching staff and share our thoughts on early Mets trade rumors. Then, we welcome back Friend of the Show Dr....

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by the formation of the Texas Rangers, the team looks at past trades the two teams have had between each other in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, they review the 2019 Syracuse Mets season. It was a long journey getting to Syracuse after a strong, stable relationship with the...

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. Matthew Silverman is the author of Shea Stadium Remembered: The Mets, the Jets, and Beatlemania. This is his fifth .Mets-related book, and his seventh baseball book overall, including Shea Good-Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by the Expanded Universe contributions that the Star Wars Holiday Special gave us, the team discusses what Mets players autocorrect would have a field day with in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, they review the 2019 Binghamton Rumble Ponies season. On paper, it was a solid te...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past. Randy Niemann was a well-regarded prospect who made a sensational debut with the Astros in 1979 before his struggles and some ensuing arm injuries derailed his career. Signed by the Mets in 1985, the lefty made his debut for New York in September of t...

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, Allison and Linda give their live reactions to Jacob deGrom’s second consecutive Cy Young win. Then, we discuss the Astros sign-stealing scandal and Gabe Kapler getting yet another basebal...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, celebrating the original charter of Rutgers University, Steve and Sons-of-New-Jersey Lukas and Ken discuss the greatest baseball alumni the university has produced in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team celebrates the amateur and minor league career of 2019 National League Rooki...

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 welcome the delightful Bradford William Davis of the Daily News to discuss the Carlos Beltran hiring and Jacob deGrom’s Cy Young chances. Next, we talk about Deadspin and sticking to sp...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week, friend of the site Ted Berg sits in for Chris, and he and Brian discuss his thoughts on the 2019 Mets. We then discuss the hiring of Carlos Beltran and a bit about the recent lineage of Mets’ managers. After a quick World Series recap and a game of over under,...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by the elections of JFK and LBJ, Steve and Ken discuss what major leaguers with three-letter abbreviation nicknames they prefer in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, they review the 2019 St. Lucie Mets season. Expectations weren’t high, and lo and behold, the team didn’t perform...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  After a few weeks without a podcast, Brian and Chris discuss how the Mets seem like they’re no closer to having a manager, and how the same people seem to be getting interviewed over and over again. Next up, the World Series is discussed, and how both hosts are reluctant...

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 latest in the Mets’ managerial search—the remaining candidates and the apparent lack of an overall organizational philosophy guiding the Mets’ quest for a new ma...

First, on the eve of Constantine’s victory over Maxentius and the birth of Christendom as the state religion of the Roman Empire, Steve, Lukas, and Ken look at a trio of Hall of Fame catchers noted for their faith in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, they address the conclusion of the Arizona Fall League and review how the players that the Mets sent did. After, they review the Columbia Fireflies 2019...

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. A Louisiana native, Antoine Duplantis enrolled at LSU, where he would go on to become a legend, setting their all-time hits record. In 2019, he was drafted by the Mets and assigned to the Brooklyn Cyclones. He would play an import...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past. Kevin Bass came to the Mets in the summer of 1992, as New York tried to stoke the flaming embers of a near dynastic run and make a desperate playoff push. Bass’s most indelible tie to the franchise, though, was at the apex of the mid 80’s Mets run. As...

Welcome back to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, and Ken honor Lynyrd Skynyrd by looking at the best players in the history of baseball from Alabama in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, with the fifth week of the Arizona Fall League in the books, they review how the players that the Mets sent to the AFL are doing. A...

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.  When last we spoke, the potential firing of Mickey Callaway was merely a twinkle in our eyes - now we unpack the ins and outs of why he’s gone and who’s looking to fill his shoes. Next, we unpack the...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve and Lukas take a look at some of the best draftees to come from the University of North Carolina in Promote, Extend, Trade. Next, they review how the players that the Mets sent to the Arizona Fall League are doing. After, they review the Brooklyn Cyclones 2019 season. It was a...