Being a sports fan is bad for our collective anxiety (and other observations)

Sports fandom is for the [anxious] birds on today's edition of The Morning Spiel. Tannor Lambert, host of the Mountaineer Sports Insider Podcast, drops by from sunny St. Louis to mostly talk Mountaineer football and the near constant anxiety bubbling under the surface with the fanbase (5:56). Tannor also sticks around just long enough to drop a few takes on Mountaineer men's soccer and a shorthanded men's basketball team. Brian Metzer joins the show to discuss the very real anxiety bubbling very much above the surface for Penguins fans following a 3-6 start to the season that finds Pittsburgh in the Metro Division basement with a date looming with a San Jose team off to a historically bad start (32:41).You want to talk about anxiety? Try the anxiety of thinking your team is going to be the first team to lose to a team that has scored just 10 goals in 10 games (all losses) and punctuated their 10th loss by allowing 10 goals.Ladies and gentlemen, Pittsburgh-San Jose at 10pm this Saturday night takes the early season winner for moribund fanbases looking sad and annoyed.Imagine being the kid whose first Sharks game was Thursday.