Okay, so we learned an important lesson during the recording of the first episode of Willets Pod, featuring hosts Allison Robicelli, Jesse Spector, and Colleen Sullivan: don’t try to keep up with the Mets game during the show.
For one thing, while we’re writing a Mets ebook, our podcast is not really about the Mets. Allison lives with a Mets fan and observes the unique experience that such a lifestyle brings (she hasn’t written anything here yet, but she will, and we can’t wait — check her bio on our about page, and check out some of her writing), while Colleen and Jesse have other baseball interests, too, even if they’re live-chatting Mets games on our Discord (come through!) and have followed the Mets for decades.
Our ebook is about the Mets, and our Substack (as you’re starting to see with the launch of The Flushing Review) is some of the folks from there, in a space where the Mets are a jumping off point. On Willets Pod, in particular, we’ll talk about Mets stuff because the Mets are so incredibly Mets… it’s the weirdness and psychological drama that we’re about, but also, in this premiere episode (and no show’s premiere is that good — watch the Seinfeld pilot), you’ll see (hear) that we really started to find our footing after the Mets blew that stupid game in Philadelphia (after Jesse had said they were on their way to 4-1 — he should know better) and we could talk more freely about the most important thing in baseball during our recording: Sean Murphy’s butt.
The Mets were already in a place where it would make sense for them to trade for Murphy (apologies to James McCann and his nice start), and now the Mets really need to trade for this man and put him in some of those blue pinstriped pants.
Listen to the whole thing because it’s only half an hour and we had a good time throughout, and quite honestly we’re delightful people, but if you really want a preview of where we think this nonsense is going (especially once we add Steph Driver as another host and start getting guests in here — another reason to help us get to $15,000), there’s one part where Allison talks about dipping balls in yogurt, and the last eight minutes — after Colleen recovered from some technical difficulty, in fact — are a window in to what delights are to come, such as Colleen’s trip to the White Sox home opener.
So, preorder the Willets Pen ebook today and support butt-positive baseball media. You’ll get a free month (at least) tacked on to your Substack subscription, and that means bonus episodes of the podcast when we start having bonus episodes of the podcast, and that’s when the edibles kick in, were we to do that right before the show, which at least 33% of us definitely did not do for the premiere, but possibly should.
Willets Pod, Episode 1