Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hockblogger Mornings.

I am Brian M.

Houser.

Yes, even with this mustache, I am still Brian M.Hauser.

Are you really?

Is that really him?

You know, I swear when I'm now looking and seeing myself on this, it's distracting. It's, it's very silly. But my wife hates it, but everyone else seems to be enjoying it. So let's go Maritors, man. Let's go Maritors. You're all in. I love it. Let's go. You're all in. Did you have a favorite? Did you have a, we're talking to my number one draft pick. If I could have had anybody as a guest on this show, it would have been Matt Hasselback here for another episode here on Tuesdays. Matt, did you have a favorite baseball team growing up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah. Diehard Red Sox fan. Okay. you're going to hear yeah i wanted to be roger clemens. I wanted to be Wade Boggs. I wanted to be like all the guys. But Roger Clemens was really my guy. And I was a catcher. And, you know, that was kind of my dream was to, you know, like catch for Roger Clemens someday. Jim Rice was another favorite of mine. But then I came to Seattle and then

I felt like, you know, this would be really weird if I'm rooting for the Red Sox while I'm friends with

all these Mariners. And so I never ever once rooted for the Red Sox like, you know, at a mare,

you know, against the Mariners or whatever. But, uh, what really screwed

it up for me is when all like my mariners, I don't know, buddies, acquaintances, whatever, uh, became Yankees because like they all went to the Yankees at some point. And then it was like really like, man, these are like good dudes, but like I could never root for the Yankee. It was just like a weird you know like i think the final straw was when like raoul la banya's went to the yankees

i was like, I quit. I give up. But no, it was a great thing as a kid. You know, I played many, many different sports and that's what I would encourage a lot of kids to do. I would have chose baseball as my best sport. Baseball didn't choose me back as the best sport. So it's cool. And I think when you play a sport as a kid, it helps with kind of like your fandom as an adult, too. Like you respect like, wow, how hard would that be? Or you just were into it growing up. You understand the history of it and the rivalries and you know all the stuff stadiums

it's fun it's awesome i mean you got to experience pro football and the amazing logistical

event of traveling you know week to week and packing up everything and going on these planes and

doing that and then you go and you have seven days to the next.

Can you imagine being a baseball player and or an NBA player and just going city to city

night after night, you know, for weeks on end and just traveling for months like the,

just the travel logistics of that and the

exhaustion of that i think i don't know if people really get it well i was i was in college in

boston so i would see all the teams come through and so i saw how some of those sports handle it it's

nothing like football i mean nothing uh you'd see those guys out at night. You know, it was nuts.

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