Matthew Callan gripes about the New York Mets for Amazin’ Avenue and has griped on other topics for The Awl, Vice, and The Classical, among others. His fiction has achieved bridesmaid status for prizes from Zoetrope:All Story, Bomb Magazine, and Nimrod International Journal, and has also appeared in Dave Eggers' Best American Nonrequired Reading series. He hosts Replacement Players, a podcast in which he forces guests to rewatch and discuss old sports broadcasts. He lives in Queens and once “caught” a Mike Piazza foul ball by fishing it out of a Shea Stadium garbage can.