Amazin' Starts Here

With a loaded roster of young talent, the St. Lucie Mets are worth a watch every single night. Citi Field may see a lot of these players in the next few years. Luckily for Adam MacDonald, the St. Lucie broadcaster, he watches them play every single night.

Mets Triple-A voice Michael Tricarico prepares fans for upgrades and renovations at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse and talks about the 2021 season to come.

Jacob Wilkins jumps into the booth for his second season with the Rumble Ponies in Binghamton. With prospects like Mark Vientos and Carlos Cortes, Jacob talks about all things Binghamton ahead of the season.

Robert Ford may currently call Houston Astros games on the radio, but he is a New Yorker who grew up rooting for the Mets and worked in the minor league organization. Ford worked with the Queens Kings, the predecessor to the Brooklyn Cyclones, and the Binghamton Mets with a few more stops along the way. He talks about his beginnings and how he is dealing with the difficulties of broadcasting through COVID protocols.

Garrison Bryant won the 2019 New York Penn League Pitcher of the Year Award with the Brooklyn Cyclones, despite not being part of the Mets Top 30 Prospect List. With the kickoff of minor league spring training, Garrison talks with Billy & Keith about life inside the new "bubble" ahead of the MiLB season.

Mets PR legend Jay Horwitz stops by the show on the 36th anniversary of Sidd Finch -- one of the great promotions in sports history in which the Mets were front and center. Jay and Billy reconnect over stories from Mets history and...Keith chimes in from time to time. Enjoy the show!

Mets beat writer Anthony DiComo, of MLB.com, joins Amazin Starts Here to talk about life as a journalist in the pandemic, covering Spring Training, talking prospects, and touching on his David Wright book "The Captain."

Ed Blankmeyer, a St. John's legend of 20-plus years as head coach, is set to manage High-A Brooklyn in 2021, but first he will run the alternate site just as he did last year. Blankmeyer talks with Billy & Keith about five major prospects who were at the alternate site last year, missing baseball, and getting into coaching.

Take an audio trip with us through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum with its President, Bob Kendrick. It's an episode filled with stories and laughs and history that every baseball fan would appreciate. For more information on the Negro Leagues Museum visit nlbm.com.

Billy and Keith talk with Traer Van Allen, the GM in charge of the St. Lucie Mets and the home of New York Mets Spring Training. This episode is a great guide for fans heading to St. Lucie to catch a game, as Van Allen talks about protocols for health and safety.