New Podcast Schedule & A Trip to Meet the Mets

Yesterday, the schedule for The Rising Apple Report altered for the remainder of the regular season. With so much Mets to talk about now, we will  have a show every Monday and a show every Thursday, each at 6:30PM EST.

Last night, Kevin Baez joined me to help preview the Phillies series, and Matt Silverman, aka Met Silverman, joined us to talk Mets, and his book, Swinging '73:

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Make sure you join us at 6:30PM EST Thursday when we wrap up the Phillies series and preview the the trip to the Twin Cities.


I also put this short film together called "A Trip to Meet the Mets." The concept is to bring out-of-town Met fans an atmospheric look at taking the 7 train to Mets-Willets Point and out into the Citi Field Plaza. Watch it now or bookmark it for later.


Enjoy the game at 7:05 PM EST.

Thanks, and...

LET'S. GO. METS

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An Introduction to Julian's Mets

That's my neighbor, Julian. 

Tomorrow on The Rising Apple Report podcast, he will call into the show to discuss his insane Mets trading card collection, which is only a fraction of the overall amount of baseball cards he has. We've been inventorying all of the Orange and Blue in preparation for the show, and, needless to say, we've been finding many, many gems. 

Each week from here on out, we will feature another one of his cards as a segment I will call "Julian's Met of the Week."

In this introduction to the weekly segment, we will feature two cards from the collection.


Kevin Baez is a fellow Rising Apple staff writer. 

Kevin Baez is also a former Met, and a 1992 Topps Stadium Club Mets Card (represented with 5 duplicates in Julian's set.)

When I sent the card to our Kevin Baez, this was his response:

"HAHA, yeah. My father knew of this guy. Was a shortstop I believe. Last I heard, he was the manager of the Long Island Ducks. My father got the idea of my name from another former Met, Kevin Elster. My favorite tried to convince my mother to agree to give me Elster for my middle name, but that didn't happen, hahahah."

Sure enough, I soon sent "this guy" to him.

LET'S. GO. METS.

There were plenty Kevin Elsters when it was all said and done.

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