Of course, everyone is saying that it's classic Mets behavior to nearly sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers and then achieve just two narrow victories and one pretty appalling loss against the world-historically bad Chicago White Sox. We're not really of that opinion—we think it's classic Mets behavior to be SO cute and fun—but things do seem a little weird.

I hope you're okay with listening to three people watch and react to a grainy (not that you can see it) internet video of Brett Baty dunking a basketball in high school, because that's what's on the table this week. And speaking of the table, noted foodies Ellen and David report back from an adventure in the heretofore mysterious HYUNDAI CLUB at Citi Field, where the clams and spaghetti are free, the sight lines are stunning, and it's the best day of your life every day of the week. (Though the Mets may, technically, still lose)

We got a great mailbag question this week about stupid-looking on-base celebrations. Send us some more questions, we love them!! hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com

Actually, here are the dunk videos we watched in case you also want to see them:

1) Brett

2) Basketball guy David was talking about (I am pretty sure this is the correct one but I'm moving fast right now—sorry!)

Let's go Mets!!!

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We're back after a one-week forced hiatus—for some reason THEY did not want our episode about Brett Baty's huge week against the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates to reach the airwaves and so THEY destroyed the audio files after recording. Unfortunately there's nothing THEY can do, because this week we're talking about Brett Bonds Baty saving the Mets' season once again!!!! BB7 Brett the Met is unstoppable. He's inevitable! So are we!!!

We're also talking about the New York tabloids and their sick obsession with our 26-year-old friend Juan Soto (STOP LOOKING AT HIM), the Mets' star signs (many Scorpios), David's interesting bedtime ritual (ooh la la), whether baseball is the most cinematic sport, and, if not, then WHAT is??

Will Griffin Canning win the Cy Young? Goodbye! Happy holiday! Let's go Mets!

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This week on Hits Different, we're recapping yet another 3-3 road trip for the New York Mets. Two of the three wins, of course, came after Brett Baty rejoined the team in Arizona. Nobody knows why, but it's the truth: They can't win without him.

Brett is becoming a meme on Mets Twitter, which is another way in which he is very similar to Juan Soto, who was diagnosed as non-binary and autistic by a bizarre person who had no idea they were about to instigate so much hilarity on Baseball Internet. Brett, for his part, was called a middle-aged lesbian. But I'm also calling him a meme in reference to the weird phenomenon by which everybody online is suddenly totally in the tank for him after years of wishing him dead. I genuinely think we at Hits Different may have caused this.

I know I said we were going to stop talking about Brett so much in every episode and we ARE going to. SOON. Maybe NEXT TIME.

Although, we recorded this on Friday morning, so of course we didn't get a chance to talk about Brett's Friday night home run. We'll have to talk about that next week.

Maybe in TWO WEEKS we stop talking about Brett.

Let's go Mets!

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