Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, an all-women led Home Run Applesauce podcast 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 tenuous hold the Mets have on playoff contention, in part because the Braves cannot be killed. We also discuss Francisco Lindor’s case for NL MVP, whether David Peterson is in fact Good, Francisco Alvarez being ruined by Eric Chavez, Liz Benn leaving the Mets, and more.

Our 2024 Dollars for Dingers campaign is underway and you can make a pledge using this Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n2eZFl_nmzP4C83ccbb61Ggwz2r7m-kapJ6L0SXz4IU/edit?usp=sharing

We also hope to see you on September 21st at EBBS at Citi Field at 1:30pm for our raffle event prior to the Mets game! 

In the second half of the show, we shout out this article from Marisa Ignemi at the San Francisco Chronicle about female athletes suffering from CTE and the research that needs to be done on how CTE affects women. 

Finally, we wrap things up with Walk-off Wins, where each of us talks about what’s making us happy this week, baseball-related or otherwise. 

You can listen or subscribe to all of our wonderful Home Run Applesauce podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts. You can also support our work by subscribing to our Patreon, which will get you bonus episodes, access to our Discord server, livestream experiences, an exclusive monthly playlist, and more!

You can follow A Pod of Their Own on Twitter and Instagram (@apodoftheirown) and you can follow Home Run Applesauce on Twitter and Instagram (@HRApplesauce). You can also follow our co-hosts on Twitter: Allison McCague (@PetitePhD), Maggie Wiggin (@maggie162), and Linda Surovich (@LindaSurovich). You can also email the show at [email protected]. 

Look for A Pod of Their Own in your feeds every week and don’t forget: there’s no crying in podcasting!

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