Casual Diehard

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From Jesse: Today would’ve been my mom’s birthday. It’s been a really difficult couple of weeks. Thank you for all the love and support, and something that I enjoy about We Can Pod It Out being at noon every day is that it lines up with the Q104 Beatles Block, fulfilling Scott Muni’s promise to New York… and I for sure grew up with the WNEW (102.7 was then the rock station) calendar in the house, and plenty of Scottso’s gravel voice. I’m glad Roger and Andrew are doing this every day, that little detail makes me happy every time I schedule one of these posts.

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From Jesse: While continuing to find all the reasons not to do various things I want to do here, I have been getting a little more active on Instagram (willets.pen there), and that’ll be a place where (I think, everything is always evolving, isn’t it?) I can mix photography, stuff from our shop, and stuff from right here, like our cover art. I’d been posting that for a while, but fell off, and slowly but surely, we’re figuring things out around here.

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Editor’s note: I had planned to start a thing today to go with We Can Pod It Out because the podcast-only posts feel kind of bare, and I still plan to start it, but I got distracted by making a whole array of images of the incredibly stupid ending of the Cowboys-49ers game last night.

Speaking of football, lots of stuff going up this week at gobirdsgobirds.com, and while life is tough, I’m thrilled to have Willets Pen as an outlet, and so thankful for all of your support. —Jesse

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Editor’s note: This episode was initially posted with “Things We Said Today” as the title and cover art, although the correct episode about “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You” did post. The song and erroneous cover art are staying below because why not.

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By Roger Cormier

I don't know what 2030 is going to look like. Mets owner Steve Cohen made his billions doing his darndest to predict what the stock market would do, so he would like to think he does know something about the future. Today, Cohen is a loser. The Mets were outbid by the Minnesota Twins. If thought of just this way, you would be thinking we must be in the past, the Wilpon era. 

I just know that today there is embarrassment. The Mets had an All-Star, a player proclaimed by Cohen himself to be the "missing piece" for three whole weeks. They let him get away. 

The truth is we don't know how this will ultimately play out. Maybe the Mets are right, and Correa's ankle is made of saltwater taffy, and he'll have an injury-plagued second half of his career. Maybe Correa will regret not taking the deal where he'd have to take a physical every year to keep his contract going. Maybe Brett Baty's ankle is made of Valyrian steel and he'll be a superstar. Maybe Eduardo Escobar will shake off his subpar 2022 and get back to hitting the way we know he can. Maybe the Mets will sign Manny Machado to play third next offseason (pending physical pending physical pending phy —). Maybe Machado will stink. It goes on and on. 

I just know about today. You can't win the World Series in the winter, but that's only true in the literal sense. I'm embarrassed and annoyed right now. It feels like the Mets blew it. The only guarantees we have about the future are that Steve Cohen is going to overreact and try to make another big splash and Gary Cohen will have something funny to say about this whole mishegas during the first Spring Training telecast. 

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Editor’s note: Remember how we were gonna come back with Addy Baird and a Mets vibe check today? Well, looks like Carlos Correa is headed back to Minnesota, so that’s gonna get a refresh and we’ll hit you with it tomorrow. In the meantime, we’ve added some merch to the shop to celebrate Georgia’s second straight national title.

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