S1 Ep35: The Port St. Lucie Diaries, Days 2-3 with Doc and Gare
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  A few days late, Chris arrives in Port St. Lucie, so he and Brian decamped to the Vine and Barley to record a live podcast. We were joined in person, and very occasionally on the mic, by Amazin’ Avenue alum Tim Finnegan to discuss what we saw and heard around Mets cam...
35m Feb 29, 2020
35m
S1 Ep34: The Port St. Lucie Diaries, Day 1
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week on the podcast, Chris is sick, so Brian is in Port St. Lucie alone. This mini-episode features audio from Luis Rojas’s post-game remarks, as well as some discussion of the first day of this trip, including the news about Brandon Nimmo needing more cardiac te...
20m Feb 27, 2020
20m
S1 Ep39: Baseball Maverick
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 the show with excitement because baseball is back! We talk about our bold predictions for the Mets in 2020 and the biggest story lines heading into spring training, including t...
1hr 31m Feb 26, 2020
1hr 31m
S1 Ep48: The Inaugural Way-Too-Early Draft Special!
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. Since the actual Battle of Los Angeles in 1942, numerous things have been given the same moniker and Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas Promote, Extend, Trade a handful of them. After, team follows up on the recent news regarding minor league players appearing in the upcoming MLB The Show 20...
1hr 4m Feb 24, 2020
1hr 4m
S1 Ep33: St. Lucie Awaits
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week on the podcast, Chris and Brian discuss their looming trip to Port St. Lucie and talk about where their expectations are for the team going into Spring Training. Other topics discussed include: players in the best shape of their lives, core strength, the off...
56m Feb 20, 2020
56m
S1 Ep47: A little respect (just a little bit)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. A-Rod has been in the news recently, so Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas Promote, Extend, Trade the best players from Washington Heights. After, the team talks about the St. Lucie clubhouse and why this was yet another LOLMets moment that didn’t have to be. Next, they talk about the pay ra...
36m Feb 17, 2020
36m
S1 Ep38: A conversation with D.B. Firstman
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 taking a look at Baseball Prospectus’s surprisingly Mets-friendly PECOTA projections and ask ourselves the eternal question: are the Mets good? Next, we call out the Mets fo...
1hr 11m Feb 12, 2020
1hr 11m
S1 Ep46: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. The Abbasid Caliphate effectively fell on this date back in 1258, as Baghdad was surrendered to the Mongols, and Steve, Ken, and Thomas try to decide what desserts are preferable from the regions it controlled in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team talks about the different things t...
47m Feb 10, 2020
47m
S1 Ep32: Everything Falls Apart
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week on the show, Chris is sick, so Allison McCague of A Pod of Their Own sits in. First up, Allison and Brian discuss the failed sale of the Mets to Steve Cohen, the Carlos Beltran mess, and just how this Mets’ off-season has been even Metsier than normal. Then,...
47m Feb 07, 2020
47m
S1 Ep37: A sports quadrangle
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 Wilpons outdoing themselves and torpedoing another potential sale of the team. (timestamp) Next, we talk about a mish mash of topics that we felt were all wor...
1hr 11m Feb 05, 2020
1hr 11m
S1 Ep45: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 5)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With his son playing in the Super Bowl, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas reminisce about 1999, Pat Mahomes’ best season in a Mets uniform, and Promote, Extend, or Trade various things that were present in the world in 1999 (and it was a really good year). After, the team start discussing, ...
1hr Feb 03, 2020
1hr
S1 Ep34: Pat Mahomes
Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Long before he would be known primarily as the father of the reigning National Football League MVP, Pat Mahomes had a long, winding baseball career. His days as a top prospect for the Twins long past, Mahomes was an unheralded acquisition for the Mets prior to the 199...
29m Jan 31, 2020
29m
S1 Ep44: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 4)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, in honor of the Seikan Tunnel connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas play Promote, Extend, Trade involving various Japanese mascots. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazi...
59m Jan 27, 2020
59m
S1 Ep33: Brian Schneider
Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Coming off of a painful end to the 2007 season and with Paul LoDuca aging, Mets General Manager Omar Minaya made the decision to trade his former top prospect Lastings Milledge to bring in Brian Schneider and Ryan Church from the Washington Nationals. Considered a def...
23m Jan 23, 2020
23m
S1 Ep36: A Conversation with Sheryl Ring
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.  We kick things off by bidding farewell to Carlos Beltran - we really, actually hardly knew ye - and look at a few possible replacements. We also take a look at how this week illustrated Jessica Me...
1hr 43m Jan 22, 2020
1hr 43m
S1 Ep43: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 3)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas Promote, Extend, Trade things associated with Atlantic City in honor of the birth of Enoch “Nucky” Johnson on this date in 1883. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 ...
1hr 10m Jan 20, 2020
1hr 10m
S1 Ep31: Fare Thee Welltran
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  First up, Chris and Brian say “this sucks” a bunch of times as we try to make sense of the Carlos Beltran situation, the Astros sign-stealing scandal, and what exactly this means for Beltran as a future baseball official. We then look at some of the frontrunners for t...
1hr 9m Jan 17, 2020
1hr 9m
S1 Ep42: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 2)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas discuss who they would rather be unfrozen from a cryogenic sleep with in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 seas...
49m Jan 13, 2020
49m
S1 Ep35: Bullpens, boars, and binges with Kate Feldman
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.  We have returned from our holiday hiatus with special guest host Kate Feldman of the New York Daily News. We kick off 2020 with the Dellin Betances signing and the Metsiest story of all time: the ...
1hr 30m Jan 10, 2020
1hr 30m
S1 Ep41: Top 25 prospects 2020 (Part 1)
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas decides which butchers to keep to keep and which butchers to send packing in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the first six players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 ...
50m Jan 06, 2020
50m
S1 Ep30: Music of the Decade Recap
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  Every year, Brian and Chris look back on some of their favorite music of the year. But, since the decade has wrapped up, Chris suggested an expanded look back. So, each host picked five records from the past decade to discuss. There is a Spotify playlist, which can be...
1hr 2m Jan 03, 2020
1hr 2m
S1 Ep32: Rico Brogna
Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. After some glories in the 80s, the Mets bottomed out in 1992 and 1993, suffering incredibly disappointing seasons. With Generation K still in the minors, there didn’t seem to be much to get excited about an underachieving veteran team. Then in midseason, the unheralde...
23m Jan 01, 2020
23m
S1 Ep40: 2020 sleepers
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With the 2020 Top 25 prospects list about to be released, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas share a few of their sleepers for the upcoming season. Steve recommends people get familiar with William Lugo and Nick MacDonald, Lukas sees good things coming from Scott Ota and Stephen Villines, Ke...
54m Dec 31, 2019
54m
S1 Ep39: Better late than never
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. In a Christmas themed Promote, Extend, Trade, the team decides which Christmas carols to keep and which to get rid of. After, Steve realizes that, after 38 episodes of this show, numerous appearances on other podcasts, and countless Daily Prospect Reports and other minor league-related ...
54m Dec 23, 2019
54m
S1 Ep34: Remembering Joan Payson
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 two newest Mets, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello as well as the Yoenis Cespedes financial settlement. Next, we talk about the life of the first owner in Mets ...
1hr 18m Dec 18, 2019
1hr 18m
S1 Ep38: Rob Manfred is a poop emoji
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by the Boston Tea Party, the team ranks their favorite and least favorite teas in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve, Lukas, and Kenny take a look at the newest players in the Mets’ minor league system, acquired via Rule 5 draft and minor league free agency. Finally, t...
47m Dec 16, 2019
47m
S1 Ep5: Finale
In the finale of the first (and potentially only?...) ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Rick Porcello signing, and discuss how the starting rotation might play out. After, they review the Mets moves during the last few days, and discuss the state of the roster as it stands, and the remaining moves they feel need to be made before the season starts. They wra...
48m Dec 14, 2019
48m
S1 Ep29: The Wacha and Porcello Hype Train
Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  First up, Chris and Brian discuss the two newest Mets, Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha. While neither is very excited about either, Chris has a stronger reaction against one of the new pitchers. Next up, we discuss the inane plan to possibly now trade a starter, as we...
41m Dec 13, 2019
41m
S1 Ep4: Led Jowrie
In today’s fourth installment of the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Gerrit Cole and Michael Wacha signings, as well as other free agent signings from around the league. After, they talk about all of the trade rumors surrounding the Mets, including rumors involving Dom Smith, Brandon Nimmo (an annual tradition), Carlos Correa (again), Starling Marte...
37m Dec 12, 2019
37m
S1 Ep3: COME BACK PLEASE
In today’s third installment of the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Zach Cosart trade, in which the Angels traded Zach Cosart and Will Wilson to the Giants in exchange for cash and a player to be named later, as well as the one year, $9 million contract that the Giants offered to Kevin Gausman. After, they discuss Didi Gregorious signing with the Ph...
28m Dec 11, 2019
28m
S1 Ep33: When the Mets can’t even afford a backup catcher (but maybe they will someday)
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...
1hr 11m Dec 11, 2019
1hr 11m
S1 Ep2: BUSINESS AS USUAL
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 mil...
52m Dec 10, 2019
52m
S1 Ep1: SLAPDICK PROSPECT
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...
43m Dec 09, 2019
43m
S1 Ep37: Rule 5 Draft Primer
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, t...
1hr 4m Dec 09, 2019
1hr 4m
S1 Ep28: Wilpons, Wheeler, and Other Former Mets
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 ...
1hr 23m Dec 06, 2019
1hr 23m
S1 Ep31: Bill Pecota
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 ...
25m Dec 05, 2019
25m
S1 Ep36: Baby Yoda Mets
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 Domi...
1hr 21m Dec 02, 2019
1hr 21m
S1 Ep32: Weird Balls
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 D...
1hr 48m Nov 27, 2019
1hr 48m
S1 Ep35: An ode to the 2019 Syracuse Mets
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 t...
54m Nov 25, 2019
54m
S1 Ep11: Matthew Silverman
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 t...
28m Nov 24, 2019
28m
S1 Ep34: An ode to the 2019 Binghamton Rumble Ponies
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...
1hr 7m Nov 18, 2019
1hr 7m
S1 Ep30: Randy Niemann
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 o...
25m Nov 15, 2019
25m
S1 Ep31: deCy, Part II
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 base...
1hr 7m Nov 14, 2019
1hr 7m
S1 Ep33: Pete Alonso, Rookie of the Year
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 Ro...
50m Nov 12, 2019
50m
S1 Ep30: Trigger Warning, Mets
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...
1hr 33m Nov 08, 2019
1hr 33m
S1 Ep27: #15 Returns with special guest Ted Berg
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 und...
1hr 6m Nov 06, 2019
1hr 6m
S1 Ep31: An ode to the 2019 St. Lucie Mets
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 perf...
39m Nov 05, 2019
39m
S1 Ep26: Pulling for Beltran
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 reluct...
52m Oct 31, 2019
52m
S1 Ep29: Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining
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...
1hr 22m Oct 30, 2019
1hr 22m
S1 Ep31: An ode to the 2019 Columbia Fireflies
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 20...
1hr 14m Oct 29, 2019
1hr 14m