We all root for different teams. Some folks have a favorite sports team. Others loosely root for their home teams. A handful of people don’t watch sports—like me. The only “team” I root for in life is the green marble in marble racing videos on YouTube.
HBO’s John Wilson is like me—he doesn’t watch popular sports. He finds alternative competitions to watch, like pumpkin growing championships. Wilson prefers to watch middle-aged men sing high notes for elongated periods of time (trying to break the world record for longest high note) rather than see them swing bats around or toss balls into nets. But in this week’s How To with John Wilson, the creator conforms to the status quo by going to watch a “big game.”
Wilson tests out several big games, the first being one played by the New York Mets at Citi Field. A rep for the team invited him on Instagram, so he accepted—though he’s not quite sure if they meant to invite him or someone else. “Hey Josh,” the email begins. This is like last week’s HBO Emmys afterparty flub all over again.