Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings. I am Brian

Emhouser. You can find me. And all the things we do here on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,

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Today is a Friday. It is a Friday in the off season, kind of the dog days of the off season.

And today's episode is brought to you by prize picks as we're going to hop into maybe a little bit of some geekiness.

Hopefully you guys have a little geek in you or you wouldn't already be following this show. I mean, as you know,

I kind of come from a tech background and spend a lot of time in that. And that has contributed to,

in a lot of different ways, the way I look at sports and the way I ask questions about things.

And I've been doing some fun, fun by my measure, work the past couple off seasons on some side projects.

Last year, I put a fair amount of time into HB. Ticks, which people should know by now.

HB. Ticks is the place where you can go for free to sell your Seahawks tickets to Seahawks fans or buy Seahawks tickets from Seahawks fans.

And it got pretty popular last year, especially in the playoffs.

That was one of my side projects.

It seems like that has done some good in the world, and I glad people like it.

So I decided like sometime in the middle of last season to start doing some pretty deep analytics work on the side.

And I'm not an analytics expert by any stretch.

I'm not even good at math necessarily.

So there'll be some things I do that are mistakes,

but generally speaking, I'm pretty comfortable with numbers.

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