The Metsian Podcast with Sam, Rich & Mike

Happy Father's Day everyone! The Metsian Podcast welcomes Jeff Cohen of Baseball & BBQ back to the program for a holiday Metsian chat. The Mets have finally sputtered, losing 3 of 4 to the Nationals in Washington after dropping the last game against the Cubs. The big hits have started to dwindle, and other than an impressive first bill of the doubleheader for Francisco Lindor, the offense...

Happy Father's Day everyone! LIVE at 8pm ET, The Metsian Podcast welcomes Jeff Cohen of Baseball & BBQ back to the program for a holiday Metsian chat. The Mets have finally sputtered, losing 3 of 4 to the Nationals in Washington after dropping the last game against the Cubs. The big hits have started to dwindle, and other than an impressive first bill of the doubleheader for Francisco Lin...

LIVE at 8pm ET, The Metsian Podcast welcomes Faith and Fear in Flushing's Greg Prince to discuss this 1st place squad. We'll talk the McKinneys, the Williams' and the Drurys of the world, the emergence of Lindor and McCann, deGrom's deGrominance, the sour spot at the back-end of the rotation, and much more! We'll also discuss the 1978 New York Mets. So, join us at 8pm ET f...

LIVE at 9pm ET, the Metsian team gets together for a June briefing of your Metropolitans. The Mets have weathered the injury bug to have the most commanding division lead in the Majors currently. While Alonso and Pillar return to immediately contribute, Conforto, Davis and Nimmo may be ways away. Along with Syndergaard's setback and Carrasco being pushed back, the Mets can't seem to get...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.  Just ask Kevin Pillar.  That said, here's to a full and speedy recovery.  In the meantime, adversity continues taking up residence in the Mets clubhouse, but the players do not seem to mind.  They just keep pushing forward.  Despite a bumpy road trip, the Mets are still flourishing in May.  Helping the podcast distinguish between the positives a...

Calling all fans!  Be on the lookout for players involved with elevating the Mets into first place.  Several of the conspirators are known members of the notorious Bench Mob.  The rest of the team is believed to be armed with effective pitching and an increasingly dangerous lineup.  They are reported to have come away with series victories against the Diamondbacks and Orioles at Citi Field and are...

LIVE at 8pm ET, we once more welcome author David Krell to The Metsian Podcast, this time to discuss his new book, "1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK." In addition to Casey Stengel and the Amazin’ Mets in their first season, David covers:The first season for the Houston Colt .45sBo Belinsky throwing a no-hitter as a rookie for the AngelsDodgers-Giants NL playoffMaury Wills se...

LIVE at 8pm ET, New York Newsday Columnist David Lennon helps us break down the recent firings and the Mets play through the first month and change. Sandy Alderson's front office: his handling of the situation; a report by David says Alderson committed to this decision during the Boston series (and why not, they struck out in nearly half their at-bats).  Scuttlebutt says Alderson didn't...

LIVE at 8pm ET, we welcome Mets reporter Justin Toscano to the progam! Justin Toscano is the Mets beat writer for The Record and NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY Network. He grew up in San Diego and graduated from Arizona State. You can follow him on Twitter @JustinCToscano. We'll get into the weeds on what the Mets season has looked like so far; the pitching, the defense, the offense a...

LIVE at 8pm ET, Faith and Fear in Flushing's Greg Prince discusses the Rockies series with us, the upcoming Cubs series and the season so far. We'll also discuss the 1976 Mets. Join us LIVE at 8pm ET for the latest edition of The Metsian Podcast!

Mother Nature says no baseball for you.  One of the wackiest starts to a season continues, or not.  Out of fourteen scheduled games, the Mets have played just eight yet find themselves atop the N.L. East standings.  Helping The Metsian Podcast make sense of it will be The Media Goon, Keith Blacknick, of the Queens Baseball Convention.  Tonight's show goes LIVE at 8:00 pm (EST).  Tell your fri...

LIVE at 8pm ET, The Metsian Podcast braintrust gets together for the first time this season to discuss the Mets games so far, today's controversial walk-off, fans back in the stands and much, much more. Joining us also is Mets fan Noelle Gold. She shares her experience being at the first Citi Field game with fans since 2019. Join us LIVE at 8!

LIVE at 4:30pm ET, The Metsian Podcast revs up our regular season engines with a pregame celebration of the holiday that is baseball's Opening Day. To help us ring in the new year, we welcome the braintrust of the Baseball & BBQ podcast, Jeff Cohen and Len Aberman. We'll discuss the Francisco Lindor extension, what the opening day roster looks like, look back on the decade that was i...

Spring is here!  Anticipation grows.  Opening Day at Washington is just ten days and a wake-up away!  While the projected starting lineup appears to be chomping at the bit, the Mets are still waiting on several of their off-season pitching acquisitions to firmly plant their respective flags in the starting rotation.  In the meantime, the front office welcomed a new member to the Board of Directors...

Take me out to the podcast, virtually watch with the crowd.  Grab your peanuts and crackerjack, and please join A Metsian Podcast for afternoon baseball, and chat.  Hosts Mike Lecolant and Sam Maxwell welcome back baseball author Brian Wright, to root, root, root for the home team, and discuss Spring Training developments along the way.  So, grab a refreshment and settle in for an afternoon of Met...

LIVE at 8pm ET, A Metsian Podcast welcomes back one of our favorites, Faith and Fear in Flushing's Greg Prince, for the 74th official edition! With a few days of games in the books we'll talk about anything we have noticed so far...the good, the bad and the ugly. We'll also discuss the 1974 Mets. So, join us LIVE at 8pm ET for the latest edition of A Metsian Podcast!

We bid the month of February adieu.  This means the Grapefruit League - if we're still allowed to call it that in MLB's new world order - is open for business.  How will the Mets shoehorn eight players into three positions?  We're about to find out as the Mets exhibition season kicks off on Monday.  Joining A Metsian Podcast to discuss and help settle the several positional battles ...

Northeast weather remains frightful, but down in Port St. Lucie, it's far more delightful.  For everything, you want to know, baseball writer and analyst Ernest Dove joins this evening's show.  In the spirit of Pitchers & Catchers, the starting rotation and bullpen are up for discussion.  Also on the docket are front office maneuverings and/or lack thereof, this year's non-roste...

Pitchers and Catchers in 6 days! LIVE tonight, however, A Metsian Podcast welcomes MSR2KTWENTY'S Brian Testa to the program! Brian Testa grew up in Suffolk County. His love for the Mets stems from his older brother, Ed, who was just about the biggest Seaver fan there was. Brian manifested his destiny in 1998 and drove out to California, working in the film and television industry for over 20...

LIVE at 8pm ET, The Metsian Podcast Crew huddles together this Hot Stove evening with special guest, author Erik Sherman! Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and author or co-author of seven books on baseball, including two New York Times Bestsellers—After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the ’69 Mets (Simon and Schuster) and Mookie: Life Beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets (Berkley/Penguin)...

The Metsian Podcast is honored and humbled to welcome to the show New York City native and radio broadcaster of the Mets, Mr. Howie Rose.  Please lend an ear to Sam, Rich and Mike in what should prove to be an extraordinary conversation with a foremost authority in all things Flushing by the Bay.  We hope this will be one for the books.

LIVE at 8pm ET, Mets fan and Jersey native Anna Brice joins A Metsian Podcast's 71st official episode. We'll discuss the Jared Porter sexual misconduct that led to his immediate termination, how the Mets will go about renewing the GM search, where the Mets go next in the outfield following George Springer signing with the Blue Jays & what's next overall on the Metsian hot stove ...

LIVE at 8pm ET, A Metsian Podcast welcomes once more to its 70th official episode director and Mets fan Phil Maillard. Phil has worked in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. His credits include directing music videos for the likes of Queen Latifah and De La Soul. In 2013, he co-founded Tumaro Media with Rodd Houston, which you can find here. We'll discuss his take on Steve Cohen so...

Happy New Year, everybody!  A happy new year indeed - the New York Mets in a blockbuster trade acquired from the Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor.  Joining Mike Lecolant this evening will be Mike Silva from Talkin' Mets podcast.  Mike and Mike and podcast to podcast come together as one to bring in the new year with today's news out of Flushing.  The show goes live at 8:00 pm...

Jingle bells; Wilpon sells; Cohen saves the day.  Oh, what fun it will be if COVID is gone by opening day.  Of course, that remains to be seen.  Baseball, in both action and word, clearly took a back seat to our national election, protests against social injustice, and the ongoing global pandemic, and while the year 2020 was illuminating and an awakening for some, it proved devasting for others. ...