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 Kodai Senga acclimating to the closer role (including having cool entrance music), Jorge Polanco’s season-ending surgery, and Nolan McLean and Carson Benge making their Rookie of the Year cases.
In a very hefty baseball segment this week, we cover Jen Ramos Eisen and Frankie de la Cretaz’s reporting on the WPBL, a video detailing baseball’s current revenue structure ahead of the CBA battle this offseason made by our friends at Tipping Pitches in collaboration with More Perfect Union, a Padres coach getting detained by ICE, the financial crimes of Dodgers owner Mark Walter, and reporting by Joon Lee going behind the curtain at FanDuel (our weekly “sports betting is a cancer” segment).
We also encourage our listeners to get their pledges in for Dollars for Dingers 2026!
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.
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