Hi! Welcome to the PosCast Newsletter

Well, you asked for this. And by “You,” we’re referring specifically to “Tom,” who said, “Hey, you guys should create a PosCast newsletter.” It is not impossible that “Tom” is a totally made-up person, and in fact, you did not ask for this, nobody asked for this, but we’re getting away from the point, which is, if we remember correctly, “You asked for this!”

The PosCast is a 49-year-old podcast about nonsense co-hosted by sportswriter Joe Posnanski and television producer Michael Schur and produced by the goons at Meadowlark Media. The nonsense is often baseball related though sometimes Joe and Mike will talk for two hours and never even mention baseball because they don’t do any planning before starting the podcast.

A typical pre-show meeting will go like so.

Joe: “What are we talking about today?”

Mike: “I don’t know. We’ll figure it out.”

Somehow, despite the fact they do not have any idea what they’re doing, the PosCast has raised about $150,000 for charities such as The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Veteran’s Community Project, and the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig AL(C)S Center at Columbia University. Yeah, we know, we’re as surprised as everyone else.

What can you expect to find here? Good question. We go back to the basic PosCast philosophy: We don’t know, we’ll figure it out. Maybe we’ll use it to dive deeper into crucial PosCast discussion points, such as this week’s: “Do we think Mr. Met wanted to become a mascot?” Joe and Mike independently believe that Mr. Met wanted more out of life but having been born with a giant head shaped like a baseball, his options were limited.

Joe also believes that Rick Wetzel of Redondo Beach might very well have had big dreams. Maybe he wanted to be an actor. Maybe he wanted to open up a fancy French restaurant. Maybe he wanted to start a rock band. But his name was Wetzel, and so Wetzel’s Pretzels was his only real option.

See, this newsletter is already offering the same dumb nonsense as The PosCast itself.

This newsletter will be written as if Joe and Mike are co-writing it, though it will likely be Joe doing most of the writing since Mike is a big-time television writer and all that.* There is a chance Mike will come on here individually to write about some sports card he bought because he has become obsessed with sports cards.

*This currently means he spends his days walking around in circles as part of the WGA picket line.

Anyway, thanks for reading and thanks for listening. It’s probably too meaningful to say this, but we have been doing The PosCast all these years because it’s so much fun … we never expected anyone to actually listen (heck, sometimes we forgot to even record ourselves). The fact that you do listen is so cool. We question your sanity, yes. But we appreciate it very much.