Met-aphorically we sit at the Woodside station, with Mets-Willets Point as our destination. After a rousing road trip to start the season, the Mets are indeed coming home. Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen welcome them back to town by sharing a few thoughts regarding Citi Field, a ballpark that’s suddenly entering its 14th summer as the place we call our own.

One ace’s troublesome scapula notwithstanding, we brim with measured excitement for the season at hand. Take a trip around the diamond with Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen as they persuade one another every Met who wasn’t here last year is an upgrade over every Met who was; every Met who’s still here from last year will only get better; and if too much doesn’t go wrong, plenty is bound to go right in 2022.

We’re looking forward to Mets baseball because we love the Mets and we love baseball. What exactly do we love about our team and the game they play? In an episode conspicuously devoid of gripes, Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen swap reason after reason they keep coming back season after season.

The Mets were born in a National League Town. Does that place still exist? As a podcast, absolutely. As a state of mind, eternally. As an identity that speaks to our baseball DNA, evocatively. As an operative phrase describing New York in the present day...that may be another story. Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen delve into what exactly is in a name.

As Julie Andrews might put it, St. Lucie's alive with the sound of baseball, the game they have played for a thousand years...or 60 in the Mets' case. The sport and the team we missed are indeed back, and National League Town dives right into picking both of them apart. Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen grudgingly contemplate some new rules; cautiously welcome a couple of new arms; and wish a longtime reliever as well as they can considering he’ll be wearing a Phillies uniform, thus how well can he be wished? Our hosts also take credit for bringing the lockout to an end. (Better us than Rob Manfred.)

Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen were eager to be assaulted by the annual onslaught of reassuring Spring Training rituals, routines, and clichés. Rob Manfred had other ideas. St. Lucie stays eerily quiet, but our hosts make plenty of noise regarding what Mets fans are missing in March of 2022. In search of solace, we close with a refreshing constitutional through the first-ever National League Town Mailbag.

Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen discuss Buck Showalter, the new Mets manager, and then celebrate the election of Gil Hodges to the Baseball Hall of Fame. (This episode was recorded prior to the cancellation of Spring Training and the first week of the regular season.)

Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen celebrate the announcement that the Mets will retire "17" in honor of Keith Hernandez and then discuss whether "8", "24", and "5" should also be retired. Jeff even manages to make a reference to Great Neck.

Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen talk about six more players worthy of the Mets Hall of Fame: Jose Reyes, Al Leiter, Donn Clendenon, Ray Knight, David Cone, and R.A. Dickey.

Greg Prince and Jeff Hysen continue their discussion of possibilities for the Mets Hall of Fame as they talk about Tim McCarver, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Carlos Beltran, John Olerud, Daniel Murphy, Howard Johnson, Benny Agbayani, and Lee Mazzilli. Plus, Greg remembers Jeff Innis and the show ends with Jeff mentioning a Met that no one wants to talk about.