National League Town
Mets Fandom, Mets History, Mets Life with Long Island’s Own Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen
Episodes
Greg and Jeff put on the Champagne goggles and toast the 2024 postseason-bound New York Mets.
Backs and other anatomy up against the wall, the Mets had to win their final game in Milwaukee to have a reason to go to Atlanta with their heads held high and their playoff chances better than slim, and they did it. Greg and Jeff revel in the revival of Met fortunes, featuring much love for Francisco Lindor, Francisco Alvarez, David Peterson and J.D. Martinez. Not so much love for Rob Manfred, but what else is new?
On a show where parallels to 1969 are invoked repeatedly, Greg and Jeff conclude it’s quite possible the 2024 Mets aren’t miraculous so much as they are good. Whatever they are, they have entered the final week of their season positioned to do Amazin’ things, and when set against how this season began, we can understand why we just brought the word “miracle” into the conversation.
National League Town remembers Ed Kranepool, a Met presence like no other. We also look ahead to the next steps of a playoff chase that couldn’t be much tighter; share a few things we learned from an afternoon at the library; and toast a very happy couple
We’re in the month that matters with games that matter, assuming you’re the kind of person who aligns your shirts or your thoughts to bring your team luck. The Mets are making September matter deeply thanks to, among other things, airtight defense, which Greg and Jeff salute...as they do Francisco Lindor (something that’s become a habit). The question ultimately permeating National League Town’s discourse most this week is less “ho...
August encompassed a heckuva schedule, yet the Mets survived it quite well. After two West Coast road trips, the club finds itself in the thick of a September playoff race, which means Greg and Jeff find themselves on the edge of their seats rather than nodding off on the couch.
After a month of running in place, do the Mets have what it takes to get it in gear and go after a postseason berth in earnest? That, as they say, is why they play the games. Greg and Jeff try to sort through the particulars of a team that wins one, loses one, rinses, and repeats a little too often. National League Town also pauses to remember a coach who served five Mets managers and ran the show himself for a week when one season...
The Mets hit the road and, by the time they got through in Seattle, the road hit back. Fortunately, three losses 3,000 miles away, no matter how offensively inept, count only as three losses, and the Wild Card is still very much within reach. Mets fans will never retrieve the sleep they lost staying awake across time zones, but that’s how following baseball works. Greg and Jeff attempt to sort it all out. Plus the problem with the ...
Greg and Jeff call the Francisco Lindor Appreciation Society to order, but first clear away other business, namely how much fun tracking the Mets through a playoff race has become and how much better the Mets might be as a result of their trade-deadline machinations. As for our superstar shortstop, how much more can one Met do? Lucky for us, we’ll have a bunch of years to find out.
Virtually unstoppable team gets stopped by the only two National League opponents who aren’t trying to make the playoffs. High-charged offense wins only when it scores one run. A roster we’ve come to serenade (“OMG”) is simultaneously a group we’re anxious to see change somewhat in the coming days. Yes, the New York Mets are a hard team to figure out, but Greg and Jeff do their best as the trade deadline approaches. They also do th...
Jeff tuned into Peacock so Greg didn’t have to watch a baseball documentary he probably wouldn’t have enjoyed as much as he did the 1990 Mets. In honor of the AM start the Nats schedule every year on the Fourth of July, Greg gets clockwise with Jeff. And Jeff pulls three vintage Mets from a stack of baseball cards so Greg can articulate what made them at least a little memorable.
With the Mets in town, Jeff availed himself of Nationals Park for a trio of games, inspiring Greg to ask how he survived the onslaught of Screech and utter immersion into Washington’s baseball scene, particularly a couple of different star turns he (Jeff, not the Nats’ mascot) took on camera.
When did these Mets, dismal in May, get so freaking good? June. How did these Mets get so freaking good? We’re not sure and we’re not that worried about it. Will they stay this good? That’s for July and the other months to figure out. In the meantime, following a Subway Series sweep, Greg and Jeff welcome their favorite baseball team back into National League Town’s good graces. Mighty magnanimous of us, don’t you think?
Baseball fans everywhere are better off for having experienced the career and life of Willie Mays, however they experienced it, whenever they experienced. We remember the greatest player who ever lived.
The Mets finished their series in London with a victory they didn’t turn into defeat, leaving Greg and Jeff tolerant of the whole idea of uprooting the baseball season, flying it across an ocean and depositing it in a soccer stadium for a routine-disrupting weekend. We delve into the 1-1 split with the Phillies, the national broadcasts that didn’t captivate us and the bullpen that continues to need patching. We also realize there’s...
Darryl Strawberry always did know how to knock a pitch out of a park, and on Saturday at Citi Field, he metaphorically did exactly that on the occasion of his number retirement, coming through with a grand slam of a gratitude-laden acceptance speech. Greg and Jeff were on hand and in awe over the thrill of watching No. 18 go deep yet again. Less scintillating for them have been the Mets of the present day, but our co-hosts are stil...
The Mets sent out a survey, so National League Town tries to answer it, with Greg and Jeff realizing no matter how down they might be on the Mets of the moment, their emotional bond with the team is stronger than oak. Our co-hosts also think about what it takes for them to want to read a baseball book that has little or nothing to do with the Mets.
Spring is still in full swing, yet Greg and Jeff are already feeling the summertime blues where the 2024 Mets are concerned. Our National League Town co-hosts probe each other’s case of the orange and blue blahs, then (yet again) try to make sense of the nonsensical rules that put a runner on second with nobody out to start extra innings. In between things, there’s a couple of nice things to be said about the people we’re trusting ...
The Mets went to St. Petersburg and St. Louis. If you were planning on making a trip to see them in one of the Saint cities, and you wanted to see them win, St. Louis was the right choice...and the one Jeff made. Fortunately, he brought some good National League Town karma to “the Lou” and reports back on the ballpark and its environs, including a Hall of Fame that includes seven Mets. Can Greg name them? Find out in an episode in ...
Baseball hits different here, you might have heard, but how does “Baseball Hits Different Here” hit the ear? Greg and Jeff dissect the Mets’ 2024 marketing theme and try to make sense of how other teams are advertising to their potential customers.
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