Pete Alonso came back to Citi Field in an Orioles uniform sitting on 299 career home runs, and in the ninth inning he hit number 300 to tie the game against the team that let him go. Mets fans called him out for a curtain call, and the fans who caught the ball handed it right back. Dan Patrick says that was a new low for Mets fans. Covino and Rich disagree. Rich has watched David Stearns let the heart of this team walk, and in a lost season he thinks fans can cheer for whoever they want. Callers from Tempe and Queens back him up, including a Niners fan who cheered Jerry Rice when he came back as a Raider. The show opens with Rich sweating his son’s first time pitching in kid pitch.
Josh Allen getting spooked by a spider at the podium turns into a conversation about irrational fears, and Rich goes on record that motion sickness isn’t real. That doesn’t sit well with Big Mike, who got sick in a canoe. Mike Who Runs This Take gets more personal this week. He’s had a rough month with his health, and he explains how gratitude pulled him out of it.
Midweek Major opens with the major pro leagues and their players’ unions asking state gaming regulators for lifetime bans on bettors who harass athletes and their families. Sam also brings Robert Kraft keeping Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s show at Gillette Stadium, plus Cowboys vs. Giants drawing the biggest Sunday Night Football audience since 2015. The show wraps with a report that Jaylen Waddle called Bo Nix “Tua” in the huddle, which reminds Covino of the message he left on a girl’s answering machine the first time he called her.

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