Amazin’ Conversations with Jay Horwitz

Bench Coach John Gibbons joins Jay to reflect on what was an incredible 2024 Season, how he was able to support Carlos Mendoza in his first year as a big league manager with the Mets and reflect on his teammates Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden seeing their numbers retired.

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Kevin Burkhardt is a beloved figure for Mets fans after being with the team for 7 seasons starting in 2007 as the sideline reporter for SNY. Kevin talks about getting to call host FOX broadcasts with Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and the other guy as well getting to call Super Bowl Games. He also talks about how fortunate he was. to go from being a Mets fan to being a part of the team for so long and still to this day.

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Jay sits down with Mets legend and friend of 30 years John Olerud to remember the “Greatest Infield of All Time” of the 1999 Mets and Olerud’s journey with the franchise. Olerud discusses the trade that brought him to New York, playing both ways in college and the infamous rumor spread by Rickey Henderson.

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Bobby Parnell was part of some tough Mets teams before the club started to see things turn around more with the rise of pitchers like Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Zack Wheeler. He had a firsthand view of their development as well as being one of the first guys of that Mets era to regularly throw triple digits. Bobby talks about this experience as well as what he thinks helped the Mets turn into a powerhouse in 2015.

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NY Giants legend Howard Cross joins the podcast to not only talk New York Giants football, but his sons exciting college football career at Notre Dame. Howard talks about still giving his son guidance, even at half time as well as memories of playing for Bill Parcells and how their relationship has evolved post-career.

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David Wright joins Jay Horwitz to talk NLCS, a series he went to twice with the Mets, against the Dodgers, a team that he beat twice in the postseason. David gives his perspective from being at Dodger stadium and what he has seen out of Francisco Lindor and Mark Vientos this year as well as the similarities in this team and the 2015 Mets.

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The Mets are bringing the NLDS to Citi Field for the first time since 2015 against the Phillies and Daniel Murphy joins Jay to talk about this Mets team, how resilient they are and break down the great situational hitting the team is doing. Daniel also gives insight on how good Mark Vientos and Brandon Nimmo have been and gives some keys on what the Mets need to do to head to the next round.

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Jay is joined by Noah Syndergaard to talk about what it is like to be on a Mets playoff team based on his experiences rom 2015 and 2016, the 2024 Mets and the 2015 Mets share a lot of similarities, like their records which are only different by one win. Noah also talks about Chase Utley, David Wright, Wilmer Flores and even more moments from his time with the Mets

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Terry Collins and Jay Horwitz consider each other best friends in baseball, in this interview they reflect on moments like Terry's argument with Tom Hallion, his relationship with 2015 Mets David Wright, Noah Syndergaard and Daniel Murphy and talks about how important Carlos Mendoza has been for this Mets team this year!

Terry also talks about this upcoming Sunday, September 29, 2024, where he will join tens of thousands of runners, walkers, first responders, servicemembers, and veterans to retrace FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s final footsteps on September 11, 2001.

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Brandon Nimmo sits down with Jay Horwitz, the two have known each other since Brandon's earliest days with the Mets organization and Jay was the legendary Mets PR guy. In this conversation they not only reflect on Brandon's career thus far and talks about the lessons he learned from David Wright, Curtis Granderson and others. but they also talk about the grit of this 2024 Mets team and how they've answered every call and come back from the bottoms to be the best team in baseball since June! Enjoy the interview and SUBSCRIBE to Amazin' Conversations on Apple and Spotify!

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