It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Matt Katz, keeping the big seat warm for Brian today.

We'll wrap up today's show with a look at the start of the baseball season for our two home teams as local trees begin to sprout their flowers and temperatures rise.

Sports fans flooded the subways over the weekend to see their favorite team or I guess only the Mets, only the Yankees were in town.

So they flooded the subway to see the Yankees begin a new year of baseball,

and us, Mets fan, and had to watch on TV for the time being.

The Yankees started their season strong, sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in their first three games by huge margins.

The Mets not as successful against the Houston Astros.

Disha Thosar, MLB writer for Fox Sports, who covers the Mets and Yankees, joins us now to talk

about these games, what she's looking forward to this season, and what happened over the

winter.

Hey there, Disha, welcome back to WMYC.

Nice to talk to you again.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me on.

We got a star in the Bronx where the Yankees

had an extraordinary weekend. They broke, I guess on Saturday a franchise record and hit nine

home runs in one game. Aaron Judge had three home runs, including Grand Slam.

But then is there something fishy with their bats?

What's going on?

Can you catch us up?

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