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Four winners in F1's first eight races
From Jesse: I was starting to get into a little groove writing again, trying some things in this space, and I’m sorry that I’ve been set back with some health woes — nothing that anyone needs to worry about, but enough to knock me off my game and also exact something of a mental toll. Absolutely nothing, however, can dampen my enthusiasm for this podcast, nor for Charles Leclerc’s victory in Monaco, which we celebrated on the podcast.
Vroom Vroom: Outside the Native Habitat of the Grit
On this Vroom Vroom episode, we continue dreaming about Adrian Newey coming to Ferrari, while Imola is coming up with updates on deck for the Scuderia. We're also enjoying the antics of last week's winner Lando Norris, as well as the food reviews that Denver Broncos part owner Sir Lewis Hamilton MBE did for the NFL team's schedule release video… …only for his own team to get cooked by the Chargers.
No Squirrels (But I Like Squirrels)
We’ll be posting episodes on the Substack feed through the end of the year, then just posting our podcasts on our actual podcast feed, which you can find below, or on any of your podcast networks — just find “Casual Diehard” wherever you listen (and also please give us five stars, we love you!) In this episode, our usual “college football” time slot… Britt learns to loathe Shohei Ohtani, Jesse plays punter trivia, Keelin slaps an A&M on England, and Lily copes with Immaculate Grid Syndrome.
Tomato Soup and Beef Carpaccio
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Tomato Soup and Beef Carpaccio F1 Season Review Part 2 In Episode 7 of Casual Diehard, Addy, Britt, and Jesse ask Aaron Rodgers to please send his medical team to help Jasson Dominguez, the latest off-the-track drama shows why Mercedes is the Michigan of F1, and it’s time to look back at our preseason impressions as we review the seasons of the top seven drivers of the year.
Bowl Bingo (with Jason Kirk)
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Casual Diehard 2: A Recipe For Stankification
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Guarantee you'll have the time of your life! Another day, another new episode… it’s good to be rolling.
Himbo Representation in the Quarterback Room
This is the first episode that we’re officially calling the Casual Diehard podcast, as we do a light to moderate rebrand around here. Willets Pen isn’t going anywhere, but it was born as a Mets book project (and still will be one eventually!) and will be our newsletter. The subway station where the Mets play isn’t a great namesake for a podcast where we talk about all kinds of sports and whatever other tangents we go on.
No Context Willets Pod
Playoff-bound Iowa, you heard it here first. Punt to win. Also, we’ve got a new shirt to go with this episode, the Iowa PUNT tee!
The Vibes Were Broken
Aug 31 • 1HR 5M Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Guarantee you'll have the time of your life! For reference, our episode in March was… Arizona Iced Tea Cans In A Microwave: The 2023 New York Mets Season In Review Jesse Spector, Addy Baird, and 1 other · Mar 18 Over before it began. At least we kind of knew all along? Welcome back Colleen to the show, and here is the picture of Mr. and Mrs. Met with the mascots who visited Queens this week.
2332 College Football Preview
Aug 14 • 1HR 41M Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Guarantee you'll have the time of your life! Three hundred years have passed since the El Assico point-shaving scandal, an incident which started a series of revelations that Iowa-Iowa State may not have been disaster football simply because of its nature, but because players like Arland Bruce IV were allegedly betting the under and then falling down, tackled by nobody, a few yards short of touchdowns.
Anthony Bourdain Rise From The Grave And Beat Henry Kissinger To Death With A Fish Challenge on Apple Podcasts
The Crack Team is real and the Crack Team song is real and Mr. Happy Crack is real. Mr. Happy Crack is real and was once photographed with Cardinals reliever Ray King (“The Gerund”) as the lefty wore a Mr. Happy Crack crop top. And you should read Jordan’s piece on Tim Wakefield and knuckleballs. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willetspen.substack.com/subscribe
Situationships with Anthropomorphic Baseballs
Jun 25 • 1HR 16M Or: Nobody Wants Clown Bones Open in playerListen on ); Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Guarantee you'll have the time of your life! In the spirit of the opening of this episode, the Rockies are trailing 23-0 in the fifth inning of a game as these words are written. By the time you read this, you may or may not know the final score. That’s not important. Whats important is that you stay away from , the Astros’ mascot, who is a creep.
Ohtani: The New Name For Sturgeon
Mar 20 • 1HR 21M Jesse Black joins the show to tackle the question of honoring a great Angel, while Jesse Spector baits Jerry Seinfeld, and Britt Huber still loves Zito's hook, Wilson's line, and Romo's sinker Open in playerListen on ); Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Guarantee you'll have the time of your life! This episode sets a Willets Pod record for Jesses, with two. Jesse Black can be found at Sludgefest being serious and on Twitch streaming fish video games.
Don't worry, the Yankees will be fine with Austin Romine behind the plate
There’s never exactly a good time for an injury — players want to play, and putting the best team on the field depends on as much healthy talent available as possible — but there are certainly better times than others. Gary Sanchez’s trip to the DL with a groin strain comes at what can comfortably be called a better time, in large part thanks to Austin Romine.
Huber | Brandon Drury belongs on the Yankees roster
When Brandon Drury was placed on the disabled list just over a week into the season, neither Drury nor the Yankees expected that, over 60 games later, the 27-year-old would still be in Scranton. After finally receiving an explanation for the migraines and vision problems that had plagued him for years, by late April Drury seemed on the mend. When he was optioned to Triple-A Scranton in mid-May, it seemed procedural and nothing more.
How A Madison Bumgarner Trade Could Happen
On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Yankees announced Jordan Montgomery would be undergoing Tommy John surgery. On Tuesday evening, Madison Bumgarner made his return to the mound. According to some Yankees fans and a fair few pot-stirring beat writers, this was the sign needed from the baseball gods that Bumgarner was destined for pinstripes. Except there is an only-slightly-above-zero chance that that happens.
Does It Matter Who Catches Sonny Gray?
At just over a quarter of the way through the season, it’s clear that Sonny Gray is struggling and that Austin Romine is his catcher. Is this simply catering to the whims of a mercurial pitcher, or is there something to the puzzle that is Sonny Gray that Romine has a better chance at solving?
Fun must be always
Most shark attacks are not the result of malice. A bright swimsuit mistaken for a fish, a slick gray wetsuit confused for a seal, an experimental mouthful of unfortunately placed arm — the shark just did what it knows to do, living its life unaware of or unconcerned with the aftermath. In the eighth inning on a comfortable Wednesday night, the Yankees smelled blood. There was no malice, no special desire to victimize Matt Barnes or Craig Kimbrel, who came in try to staunch the wound.
Match Game 2018
Baseball at its core is a simple game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. And sometimes your backup catcher with a career 57 OPS+ hits a two-out double off Dallas Keuchel. Then you realize Austin Romine is a career 3-for-6 with two doubles off Keuchel, a pitcher against whom the Yankees typically look somewhere between lost and hopeless, because baseball might be simple, but it also loves to punch you in the face right about the time you think you know what to expect.
Robertson and Green in the middle of everything for Yankees
Calling David Robertson and Chad Green middle relievers feels a little bit disingenuous, despite it being a perfectly reasonable description of their usage in the new-look Yankee bullpen since late last summer. Middle relievers are, more often than not, fungible, mostly invisible, and the athletes most likely to be successful at one of those “send a player out in street clothes to talk to fans incognito” skits.
Payoff ahead for patience through early struggles
Combine the weight of expectations with small sample sizes and it’s not surprising that in the waning days of April, the questions about this Yankees team abound even as the reasons for preemptive hand wringing subside. Are the Red Sox running away with the division? Will (Giancarlo Stanton/the rotation/the bullpen) be okay? What do you do with all those position players as people get healthy?
The Drury is still out on Brandon
When the Yankees acquired Brandon Drury at the start of spring training, it was tempting to write off the move as another example of pinstriped gluttony, the evil empire stocking up on players they didn’t really need, just because they could. With Miguel Andujar, Gleyber Torres, and Tyler Wade all already in the organization, was Drury, with his seemingly pedestrian big league track record, worth having in the fold?
An unhealthy approach to injuries
In the span of a single series against the Orioles, three different Yankees players provided object lessons in how the last frontier of injury prevention and, in a larger sense, sports performance lies not in biomechanics analysis or next generation dietary strategies, but in a fundamental change in how players and their teams think about their bodies.
Dustin Fowler won't just be a historical footnote
Dustin Fowler’s major league career, all not quite two-thirds of a defensive inning and no at-bats of it, already bears a weight and a narrative. He is a curiosity, a hard luck story, an interesting headline with no relation to his ability on the field. He is a modern day Moonlight Graham in waiting, destined to win some baseball diehard a round of trivia or a beer bet made during one of many interchangeable games in the hazy depths of summer.
Locked On Yankees
Giancarlo Stanton never would have been a Yankee had the team not gone about its rebuild in the smartest way possible. (Photo by Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports) Opening Day approaches, and for the Yankees there’s nary a Stephen Drew nor Vernon Wells in sight; no lineup full of albatross contracts, and the few question marks of age or health or money are buffered by the kind of depth that lets a GM sleep at night.
Locked On Yankees
After his first outing of the spring on March 10, David Robertson made an offhand comment to YES Network’s Jack Curry that he has “kind of become a curveball specialist, the past couple of years.” It’s easy to read too much into this type of comment, made in the course of a longer answer to a question asked on the fly, but at the same time, the words we use without laboring over choices can be the most telling.
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