The Goth Star's Catch

Jake Mercer is a four-time All-Star catcher, a World Series champion, and one half of the biggest baseball podcast in America. He drinks light beer, watches college football, and has been devoted to gothic rock icon Gwendolyn Rook since he was nineteen years old.

When she plays his stadium on her world tour and he tries to meet her afterward, she's already gone. His polite heartbreak goes viral. Weeks of on-air pining turn him into the internet's favorite sad boy while his brother asks on camera if she's "even that good" just to watch him explode. The rant gets nine million views. Her account reposts it without comment.

Then she calls the podcast.

She has conditions. He has to fly to London, dress appropriately, and enter her world on her terms. She has to approve his outfit before he leaves the hotel.

He dyes his hair in his team colors. She tells him to be a good boy.

He's never followed instructions so well in his life.