Joe Posnanski
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Podcast Appearances
It started ironically.
But now he's a lunatic Steelers fan.
And I think that was the feeling...
certainly we had at the darts, but everywhere else, where you go and you're like, this is a laugh, right?
This is a joke.
But then you're like, no, people truly cared and got into it.
And anytime someone would get close to a nine dart or the place would like,
really light up.
And it's funny because I do think, you know, like that old line that in order to be happy, you should smile and then that'll make you feel happier.
I think there's something to that with fandom.
Like it might start ironically, it might start as like a laugh, but then it gets inside you and it becomes something different.
He does that also.
So one of the first things, maybe even the first thing that we said, Mike said, we should each have a dream chapter where we get to do something we've never done that we've always wanted to do.
And Mike really has been a Liverpool fan since 98.
And he talks about his origin story and how he became a Liverpool fan.
And he's like, we need to go.
I need to go.
You know, Mike needs to go.
To Anfield.
He'd never been.