Eno Sarris of Fangraphs talked Mets and the trade deadline, baseball writing, the art of interviewing Michael Conforto and Lucas Duda.

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On the 50th episode spectacular, Brian and Roger celebrated with special guest Eno Sarris (Fangraphs, October). Sarris talked about how he got his start writing about Kevin Maas and his female fans (24:36), his advice to aspiring baseball writers (26:40), if a hot dog is a sandwich (27:30), which MLB players have been and are currently mad at him (29:20); interviewing the one and only Michael Conforto (39:00), Matt Harvey’s pitching troubles (46:00), his many baseball fandoms (50:10), the challenge of interviewing Lucas Duda (54:00), the change in the Mets clubhouse over the years (55:15), the Warthen slider (57:20), his new website about beer and beer culture (01:07:00), if the Mets will be able to move anybody before the trading deadline (01:19:00), and plenty of more fun and interesting stuff.

The Fundies boys also did what has become natural to them: rate their stress levels about the Mets in the METCON segment (03:52), talk about Amed Rosario’s whereabouts (13:25), and open up the mailbag, where they answered if they’d agree to be traded from the Mets to ensure a Mets championship (01:31:00),if Noah Syndergaard and Mr. Met were responsible for the phallic bobblehead hammer (01:35:00), if they cared about Yoenis Cespedes’ comments about the A’s recently (01:38:10),which Met they would go on a date with (01:44:00), and if they’re still contenders for the wild card spot (01:47:20). Also Brian complained about Game of Thrones (01:50:00).