Joe Posnanski

And, you know, it's one thing to love a Premier League team and never have seen them.

But it's particularly the case at Liverpool, right?

Because Liverpool is such a historic, you know, thing.

You have to go and hear them sing You'll Never Walk Alone and everything else.

So I went with Mike.

It was a miserable day.

I mean, absolutely just spitting ice and people are slipping and sliding and it's muddy and it's so cold.

And we go in and, you know, Mike's really excited.

And we went with a couple of people who were also big Liverpool fans, Brandon McCarthy and our friend Matt.

The pitcher, Brandon McCarthy, who's a huge Liverpool fan.

And we all go, and me, and I'm not a Liverpool fan at all.

And so we all go, and you could just see Mike.

Mike really was.

He was like a kid.

It was like he was vibrating.

He was really, really excited about going.

And we sit there, and I'm like, this is really cool to watch Mike enjoy this.

And then they did You'll Never Walk Alone.

And you're like, I'm at the center of the world.

Yeah, and I think, specifically, talking about the male loneliness thing, a couple of weeks ago, I went to this... Like, it was a group of psychologists talking about various sports things, and one of the themes they were talking about was...