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 their best to watch the Hall of Fame ceremonies while a game is on; make sense of the rest of the 2024 never mind 2025 schedule; and invoke a trio of past Mets who share what has suddenly become a highly newsworthy name.

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 going to be an All-Star Game (whether we need one or not) and think about who the Mets might send (whether they deserve to or not).

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 still watching them, too, allowing National League Town to take the club’s pulse and determine if its players continue to have one