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That's why you rack. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse. I'm Bart Winkler, Grant Bills alongside Paul Emig here as well. Grant, great to see you.
Great to be seen. Better than being viewed, am I right? what are you my father-in-law I heard that a couple months ago and I didn't understand it and I'm like oh now that and then I'm like I need to work that in that's good that's good that is a good one and a good usage of it did everyone have a nice time did you do any firework viewing you didn't see any drone shows I hope that's just woke fireworks no kidding why why i i am annoyed at the idea that fireworks are the coolest thing in the world like i'll sit outside and watch crap explode in the sky but a drone show is just beyond the pale like i don't understand that disconnect i don't really like fireworks so for that reason a drone show really also doesn't interest me but it's the other thing i don't i don't quite get none of it's for me i'm sure you're shocked about that i am not shocked i mean there's there's there's no calculus it's just straight noise like how am i supposed to do math on that there's no rhyme or reason it's just something that happens it's pointless well it's a shocking difference like when i was growing up we used to always go down to the lake and watch fireworks and that was such we would walk and i almost remember walking there you know this was in fondy um more than like putting out a blanket or anything and then we move here and there's so many years that like without a kid the fireworks go down at this lake and we like for 10 minutes on the 4th of july try to see if we can see any from our back window okay and now we're doing you know you walk down there you take the kid he has the time of his life really oh yeah it's got to be like christmas rediscovering the magic of a holiday through the eyes of your children i agree with that but not that's not i mean we are parade people parade family but oh definitely hit up a parade yeah parades are great handy than ever same here yeah that's interesting it's like yeah all right and they actually didn't skip it on shorewood this year last year it was like 30 minutes uh oh really yeah this year was a good 45 50. did you did your did your parade in shorewood have the odyssey um thing like mine did like the oh like the kiss fm was there no it was i mean there's a odyssey app odyssey there's an odyssey truck sorry that was all just made up oh well it's funny you say that because i think i might enter the shorewood parade next year so i mean you you could right i think i want to be in it you very much could we got we always get frankie jupiter he always comes by from 58 um we didn't get a tmj4 person because they're right down the road i don't know what they were dogging us for we got bango that was good oh you did really yeah we always get roscoe I mean, Jesus. For the admirals.
We got the Badger Marching Band.
Okay, I think, yeah, we did too. Or at least... A version of it. Yeah. All only got the woodwinds.
They only sent the clarinets in the euphonia. Euphonia might be brass, but you get my point. It's like when you see the Harlem Globetrotters, you're like, is this the good one? Yeah, which version do we get? Oh, by the way, I've had enough of the Savannah Bananas.
I don't like that take they can go man like them or don't I don't why are they on TV every night because it's fun it's like I don't know Harlem Globetrotters aren't on TV they're not well I was going to say they're not really competing but the Savannah Bananas like they right no I mean they're playing against They're playing games against similar competition, are they not? I'm with you, Paul. It's a fine entertainment product. Take it or leave it. But I don't understand why half the country has taken up a crusade against them.
Well, for me. It's all Bart's listeners. No, for me. That's facts. They were like a band that I discovered when they were in the.
Sure. I get this analogy now. Because I had that t-shirt. I had a Savannah Bananas t-shirt. Because we went to Savannah.
and so i would always wear the shirt and for years everyone's like what's what's yep i get it now i can't go anywhere if i'm wearing that shirt without someone going oh i love those guys and i'm like so i retired the shirt yeah you know when you bring it up like the like discovering the band now it's a little bit closer to home but i did see the clip of the all-american rejects performing amidst the savannah bananas i didn't like that either because i like what they were doing i don't like that they i don't like that they had a chance to be on national tv your band your band needs to take that shot every time i don't know they're about to go on tour with the jonas brothers so who i saw once at tupelo honey i remember that yeah you said nothing because you're weak what am i gonna do you say what do you say to the jones what do you yeah what do what What would you say? Your music saved me. I was in fourth grade when year 3000 came out and it changed my life. No, I think you should have been like, hey, I have a podcast called Into the Wittlerverse. Nope.
Oh, God. First off, I was kidding, Grant.
Okay. I'd rather jump off 794 than do that. I'd rather ask one of them out. I'd rather, would you like to go get drinks and go on a date? I would rather do that than lead with, I have a podcast.
I have a sports podcast. You want to come on? It was, as I was saying it jokingly, it reminded me of when that couple courtside a few years ago was like flagrantly saying things to Kevin Durant. And then he comes over and he's like, you shouldn't say that stuff. Why have a podcast?
I remember that. Do you ever see that video of big cat when he's trying to track down Mark Davis? He's trying to track down Mark Davis and he goes, Hey, can you come on our podcast? And then, and then afterwards he like, mother God, I hate that. I had to do that.
I had to do that. You know, if I went up to the Jonas brothers, I would say, Hey, I know you guys are famous. I feel like I have to come over and take a picture. I mean, you're bothering me for being here. Yes.
Now I have to go talk to you. We're going to document this. We're bothering me. Were they good looking in person? Were you like, wow, they are striking or were you like, eh, personal, not give us the load on this.
I would say, however you think they look, they looked like that in real life. Good for them. Are you going to the, are you going to the Jonas brothers, all American reject show in Milwaukee? I will not be, I am not going anywhere. Do you think it's disqualifying when you hear a national sports person who's about to say something about, let's say, the Bucs, and then say, Milwaukee.
Listen closely. Milwaukee. Milwaukee. There's no L. Again, this is like my whole Wolf thing.
I really want people to hit the L. People struggle with Ls. But I really, really, really, genuinely, very much, more than the two of you do, like Bill Simmons. I listen to him. If you've got a new pod about the NFL, about the NBA, I'm listening to it straight through.
but he's like i don't know about milwaukee and i'm like don't we say milwaukee i feel like we say milwaukee but i know that i say milwaukee you you definitely say milwaukee because i would have harassed you about it to get you to say we as in the collective milwaukee and i feel like they say milwaukee milwaukee yeah i'm saying that like i don't know i would find it again there's a difference between you two like people who are on the radio who should know pronunciations and should say things correctly. You hear what a guy said to me last night that I only had to take as a compliment.
Well, I don't know. What was it? He said, you know, he gave me like tremendous praise and then he said, you're just, all these other shows try to be so proper and you're just like. You should take that as a compliment. I do.
The Norm MacDonald approach where it's like you're starting a thought but it kind of sounds like you're stroking until you eventually like you get on the right tracks yeah there was something about how there should be like a sports radio behind the scenes like and i said my whole show is behind the scenes totally 100 it is like we are front behind the scenes we openly say i needed to kill two minutes was that you though that used to do okay you and rami used to have a debate was it i'm trying to remember which role you were in which role rami was in but it was like why'd you just take a drink and then somewhere like you don't have to talk about the drink i just took or what were you yeah was it which role of that were you i'm the guy who um you don't you don't talk about set production okay or stage direction okay like bumper music um yeah but even even that's more allowable than um i had this one guy and i liked the guy but he would always be i'd be like all right hey great to have you this back in the music days and he would just start like well this is crazy bart's not wearing any pants and i'm like we're not doing this we're not i mean now now i have to now i have to now i have to be like i don't know you got to play with it though yeah then if you're like no actually no actually i am wearing pants oh barton nice shoes those are interesting no the shoes they're not you can't see you have to imagine that you are with the person okay they see what they see so if you start talking about where you are and you know sometimes you can you know like sometimes i'll talk about it i guess when we're watching tv and i say i'm on a 95 second delay or whatever but yeah yeah that was me okay and you're correct in that by the way yeah i just couldn't decide if it was contradictory or not um you know what a lot of it doesn't matter nothing matters nothing matters anyone can see saying something like that will just always remind me of the best slash worst interview i ever heard you do which was a topic i don't care about which was when you had the u.s men's soccer coach on and he was like why would you ask me about that Like it, it's just a game. Why are we still talking? We're still, why are we still talking about this? It's just a game. It's just the Bruce arena.
Yeah. He goes, it's just soccer. Maybe I understand him now. You know, maybe, maybe, maybe I do understand him. Maybe as you've gotten older, you're like, you know what?
Bruce arena had a point. Yeah. None of, none of this matters. Could have brought that approach to David Stern once upon a time, David Stearns, but you were a little softer in that interview, I remember. Yeah.
I wasn't as soft as the critics said. You got to play the game. You got to play the game. And listeners either understand that or they pretend not to understand it. Yeah, but okay.
What did playing the game get you from David Stearns after that? Oh, yeah. If I could read, I don't even remember what was the big deal. What did I say? What was the big deal?
I don't know. I would never have remembered this unless Graham brought it up, but now I do remember, and I was like, oh, come on. Come on. What about my interview with Horst where I said, is Brandon Jennings on the team? And then four minutes later.
He said he's not on the Bucs. He did say he's not on the Bucs. Then he signed with the Herd. Like, literally, the moment the interview ended. People still talk to me about my Gary Wolfel interview.
the one where you like went after Gary the one where I like put him on trial Chuck was pissed I remember how mad I remember how mad Chuck was about that Gary why do you do the things you do why are you doing this anyway you got anything for us Paul this is a by the way if whatever we'll start with the one that we were texting about. You just had a real solid episode and a lot of views, a lot of downloads. Let's follow it up strong. Following it up with, nothing matters.
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You know, we bandy about if something hypothetical is a good idea or not.
So we're going to get to that. But I do want to start with the thing we are texting about the most, which I know at least Bart and I are unfortunately overly hopeful about. That's never going to happen, which is Bradley Beal. Just as we were coming on, Jake Fisher tweeted and said, Yesterday we reported that the Clippers, Lakers, Bucks, and Wolves were confirmed suited for Bradley Beal, and I'm told that the Warriors are now on that list. Bradley Beal would be a fantastic addition to the Bucks.
but unfortunately it's not happening or well i have never wanted bradley beal on this team until now until he was affordable totally 100 because when we and i never wanted to trade him for middleton that was always the thing because i'm a middleton guy through and through um and did you see the clip of beal an old clip of beal i had that i don't remember having seen which was was him saying one of the reasons he didn't want to, that he felt kind of icky about the box was because that they would have traded Chris Middleton and that Beal found that to be disloyal. Yeah, I don't, that seems like he, he can't really care about that. Right. Seems strange, right? Nice thought.
Okay. Score some points, but shut up. Who's he scoring points with? I don't know. But he, but he is trying to, he's like, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah. Was he interviewing David Stearns? Jesus. Exactly. But the fact that we don't have anyone to do what he does, like play his position.
Yeah. I am open, quote, to Bradley Beal. I just don't think he's going to want to come here. It is interesting.
So that's why it's kind of like a two-part question, right? It's like, in order to say, mm-hmm, you have to say, yes, he would be a great fit. Mm-hmm. And mm-hmm, it's not happening, which is my mm-hmm, by the way, Grant, before we go to you. Like, I even want Chris Paul now, who I think last week I said, he's at the top of my rankings of guys I never want on my team.
Yeah, you did say that. But if you bring in Chris Paul and Bradley Beal, even at their, let's say, advanced ages. Bradley Beal's only 31. You know, even if Milwaukee, you know, because how Miles Turner was this great player and championship pedigree, and now he's on the Bucs and he's worse than Brooke Lopez and what a piece of shit he is because he's in Milwaukee. But if you got Beal and Paul, I think that would force people that are just anti-Milwaukee all the time to be like, well shit those are two guys that we stand for so i think i gotta think the bucks are gonna be good now you know it'd be really fun is if there was a report that beal and chris paul signed with the lakers and then espn and everyone else did their coverage and like this is what they needed this is so and then there was like a rescind or something that happened and then they both go the bucks instead and then they're like you know these two guys i mean chris paul this is his last year in the NBA.
I just don't think it's going to be all. I mean, this is just, you know, he had, his shooting's not going to get better. That'd be so fun to like live in both parallel universes because it's, I hate, I hate bringing that up on the air, but they're like, it is a thing. And I, but there's no, there's no explanation for it. It's a thing.
And I don't understand it either. But yeah, I want Bradley Beal. And well, the, but there is no, but the only, but is, I don't think he's coming. Yeah. Those are the but being, but he's not coming.
I mean, what's your confidence ranking? Like 5%, 2%? How low? Are you curious, confident, or what's the other? Concerned.
Concerned. Yeah. What lane am I in on this?
Well... I think I am... The problem, there's too many other teams. Mm-hmm. Notable teams.
If it was like Bucks or Clippers, He could like sit down and say, L.A., maybe a better team, but I would play a lot more here. And, you know, I could like, what do I value? But there's so many other teams. Like I would just, if I was him, I'd just come off the bench in Denver, I think. I think the only team, though, of those that he would start for, Clippers, Lakers, Bucs, Wolves, Warriors, that he starts for, I think is the Bucs.
Yeah, well, he'd play the most. He'd play the most here. You'd have the biggest role. And again, like I know you kind of coupled Chris Paul and Bradley Beal in the same category of age and veteran status, but they're not like Beal at his age still has a chance to like take a one year deal or a two year with that player option opt out and then go make money next year if he has a good year.
So I think Chris Paul will go to the Lakers or the Clippers, but I'm trying not to get optimistic about Beal. I felt very optimistic like on Sunday. I did too. I'm bummed that I was because, yeah. Like I thought it was happening.
Yeah. And now I'm not. And if he does sign with the Bucs, I will break in and do an emergency pod. Absolutely. Unless it's Friday when I think I'm going to go watch Superman.
Mm.
So that you're okay with betraying the Marvel universe? This is okay? Um, I'm not going to be tribalistic, although I have not really seen any of the DC stuff at all. It's not been good for a while. I haven't seen Justice League.
I haven't seen, but if they're going to set up a, you know i like guardians so i i i think gun will do a good job with this by the way so on that topic i've been refreshing rotten tomatoes all day wanting to see what it would be it just finally i mean i just did it again this moment 87 that's encouraging now these are like your first batch of rotten tomato reviewers which are usually more positive that's a really good start all right here we go well superman is getting some interesting criticism also just like every property does and i just want to remind people that these are just two hour movies and you can either watch it or you don't have to if you don't like that marvel made a movie where they deal with mental health then you do not have to watch it which one is that thunderbolts oh is that really what i haven't seen it yet is that like a it's a big theme of the movie yeah it's very good Thunderbolts asterisk. Iron Heart came out, which was good, but then they leave you on a cliffhanger that you just know will never be addressed again. Or some future director in six years will have to pay it off and say, like, why did they have to put that there? Yeah. Grant Bradley Beal.
Mm-hmm. Or mm-hmm.
So mm-hmm, because it'll be free if he comes here. Yeah. I just don't understand why you guys are so convinced that he will help them win. The Suns sucked last year. Yeah.
Why did they suck? In your estimation, why did the Suns suck last year? Apparently chemistry was just brutal. Bradley Beal.
Okay, so I'm not trying to be obtuse. Here, I'll give you a parallel. I am now listening to people talk about Damian Lillard and his availability to join a contender for very cheap, the same way we were discussing with Bradley Beal. And it's like, this is a guy who's big shots and doesn't have to carry the load anymore and he can hit threes and I'm like, you guys just saw him try to do exactly what you're describing when he was younger with a good Achilles and it sucked shit through the balls of a duck. Like it sucked.
That never worked.
So now you think he's going to step into that role even better at age 36.
So I, I just don't understand how we can watch something not work and then be like, but you know, on the box, like if he's free, yeah, it might work for us, but it might work for us. I guess that's where I'm getting hung up. Beal might be my Tobias Fuenke. It's possible. Do you know what the best ability is, guys?
Durability. No, it's actually Mobility, who plays cornerback for the Rice Owls. Are you guys aware of this? I am aware of this, yeah. Mobility.
Yeah, you see his shot there on the Dan Shaney YouTube, and then a giant ad for Bitcoin. That was just so well executed. I tip my cap. Thank you. That's your, by the way, that's probably your specialized ad, which means what have you been reading in regard to Bitcoin?
Yes. It's, look at this. It's for I Trust Capital because I was following a link there to get a free hundred bucks. But you have to put $1,000 in, so I didn't do it. That makes sense.
Yeah. All right. I do want to ask you one more. What if it would have just been like, you know, the worst? Like, didn't that happen to, who'd that happen to?
Some guy at ESPN. Shared his screen. It was like, yeah, it was like porn. It's like, no, I look at that on my phone. But are the computer and the phone not internetarily connected?
What are you, Bill Gates now too, on top of being the calculus teacher of the group chat, Paul? You know, it's interesting. I use Google Chrome on my laptop and I use Safari on my phone. Interesting. Keep them separate.
Yeah. Last but other bucks topic. One more. Kaminga, RJ Barrett, Trey Murphy, Herb Jones, Andrew Wiggins. One of these five, Kaminga, Barrett, Trey Murphy, Herb Jones, Andrew Wiggins, is worth the 2031 first round pick in addition to kuzma so to set the stage right they have kuzma he's matching salary for all these guys especially if you add an andre jackson jr who might just get cut it sounds like if the bucks need the roster spot are any of these one of these guys or more than one at least one is good enough to include that 2031 first or i said no what i said no for will be on the Bucs.
I don't think they're going to find a way to maneuver any of this. If you threw in that unprotected 2031 first, you can get your Cam Johnson, like what the Nuggets did where they turned Porter Jr. plus their 2031 unprotected first in a post-Jokic world, presumably for Denver. Which they have to wait for their trade with the Kings to go through before they can do that trade because the NBA is stupid. fine but you can't get any of these guys in exchange for kuzma you'd have to throw in that 2031 first my question is our is jonathan kamanga rj barrett trey murphy herb jones or andrew wiggins worth the 2031 first being included in a kuzma deal or let me answer your question with a question oh sure what do you what do you think of that pick what what what organizationally do you look at it as we have put our chips in we found a way to stretch this dame thing to try to stay viable with Giannis now we are trying to win now or do you keep it in the back pocket and say by the time 2031 eventually comes around by the time it comes around which you don't think is going to happen which is why I don't think there It will be a 2031.
By the time it comes around, do you say that Dame thing's cleared so now we can start a new, you know, Giannis at that point is going to be 36?
So it's a good question. It is the right question to ask. And when you're planning as a sports team, do you plan six years in the future?
Well, so this is – let me answer your question because, like I said, it's the right question to ask. I will restate what I've said. I think the right thing for the long-term health of the Bucks is to trade Giannis this offseason prior to the Miles Turner thing and the Dame thing. The can has been kicked. It's official, right?
But prior to that, I think the right prudent move, the non-emotional, the very robotic move is to have traded Giannis for the long-term health of the franchise.
Now that you're committed to not doing that, which I'm also excited about, and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a little bit, about why I'm more excited about it than I would have been two weeks ago.
Now that you've done it, you're in. You have to do what Denver did. 2031, you are so screwed. You're screwed. You're screwed.
Doing the 2031 pick doesn't make you any less screwed.
So you're in, you really went in. I mean, you traded, you waved and stretched a guy that you're going to be paying 22 and a half million dollars per year in the three years after the two years of Dame's contract that would have just normally been up. You did this Miles Turner thing, like you've moved every chess piece you can move to hang on to this.
Now you don't want to throw it away. You don't want to be like, well, I guess this guy's a nominal upgrade over Kuzma, so let's do it. I guess because it's a small upgrade might as well but if you can find the right guy and I will posit that like my opinion if you can get Trey Murphy from the Pelicans and I know like not sure how much Pelicans you guys have watched or Trey Murphy but like the guy is like the perfect perfect perfect perfect wing fit for this team you throw in that 2031 first without thinking about it I would um there's some other names on there that I'm less excited about I would not do it for RJ Barrett. I would not do it for Kaminga because they're like 33, 35% three-point shooters, kind of volume guys that need the ball. Trey Murphy's not that.
Herb Jones would be a great defensive addition, but he's not going to help you with your floor spacing offensively. And then I don know Wiggins I don think Wiggins moves the needle enough to do the 2031 first So my answer to my own question is but Trey Murphy from the Pelicans is who I would do it for but i do think that should be what they do if you all in on this yannis thing which clearly they are they were hashtag reckless in their wave and stretch of dame and the signing of turner so so you're asking the right question but that's bullshit one other scout for another team said reckless yep and then so the title headline says reckless the lead store i sent the screenshot to you guys on espn.com by the way clutch points is saying beal and the clippers hold mutual interest many teams are preparing for him to sign immediately with them that was from brett siegel yeah i've seen a lot of siegel stuff here and also um evan Siddery is the Dov Kleiman of MLF football. How do you just be a guy? You just you wake up one day and you're like, I'm just going to fucking report what everyone else is already reporting. I'm not going to add anything.
I'm just going to do it. And then people will take me seriously. And then it works.
So dumb. I don't think I'd trade that 2031 for any of those guys. Maybe Murphy, if you're telling me that he's great. but Wiggins or Herb Jones. Does he start with the Clippers if they got rid of Powell?
Does Beal start there? I mean, I don't want a James Harden, Bradley Beal backcourt. Like, it just, that doesn't work.
Well, maybe. Who plays defense? Like, who can do even a, you know, I mean, it just, they probably would start next to each other, and if that was like your playoff backcourt, you're toast. You just can't. You can't.
It doesn't mean they shouldn't do it. The Clippers should do the same. They should. If Bradley Beal's like, hey, I'll come for $4 million, the Clippers should do that. Yeah.
I think I need that 31 pick. I think I draw a line there. I think I need to draw a line there. Because in the back of my mind, I'm like, well, if the next couple of years go just terribly, well, at the very least, 2031, we own our own pick. you can tank and start over this might this might be a silly thing to say but we should not forget that the bucks do have their 2030 2030 pick their 2032 pick their 2028 pick because you can only trade the one every other year so not to you know say something that's whatever but it's like when people say oh well the bucks don't have everything they don't have any of their picks actually they have those are swaps well sure but then you're still you're swapping with the pelicans like okay or your swap who's the other swap with with the Blazers uh so what I'm okay with you know I mean so in so next year the Bucks have a first round pick there's nothing they can do about that they're not allowed to trade it but in 2026 the Milwaukee Bucks will make a first round pick will they trade that guy like they did AJ Johnson four months later maybe but in 2026 2028 2030 the Bucks will make a first round pick because they're forced to uh by the league parameters but uh Bart any thoughts on those five names and whether or not they're worth the 2031 first i'm having a hard time making that decision if i want to save that pick or not what are you saving it for if you save it a light at the end of the tunnel that's kind of how i feel like you are you are going all in here but you still have a parachute or you still have like, if this fails, we know we can start a brand new day.
We can respond and have this asset all these years down the road, but you've also gone so far in now. Yeah. You're so far in that you, I, so I, I don't know. I wouldn't be, I would be excited. I wouldn't be excited if we got Barrett.
You know, Murphy, Herb Jones we've liked for a long time. I feel like I still would want a tier higher than any of that group of guys you just said. I agree. It's close, though. It's close.
For some of those guys. Yeah. By the way, I asked you guys this in our chat, But going back to Beal, if they got Beal, how high are the Bucs on your East Power rankings going into the season? If they get Beal for free, essentially.
Well, who are they behind? Start there.
So I said, I mean, for me, it's the Cavs, Nick, Magic, Pistons, Sixers. See, I'm putting the Beal Bucs ahead of the Sixers and Pistons. I'll put the bucks. I'll put the bucks. I'm not.
I probably would as well. What? Like fourth.
Somewhere. Yeah. Maybe a little better. Maybe a little worse. I guess I'd have to see it.
What if, what if Dame and Giannis just could never figure it out. And then Beal and Giannis are like yin and yang. And it's like the perfect fucking matchup. That would be awesome. But I don't think we're going to know.
I don't get speaking of top four in the East. I don't get the Bill Simmons. Like I'm not doing it. If I'm not top four in the East, I'm just not, I would trade Giannis. It's like, so, so if they were fifth, no-go, but if they're the three-seed, I just don't understand.
The cutout needs to be six because you're at least ahead of the plan. And also, something that I've brought up is you might have to start factoring in that in the playoffs, dudes are going to break their Achilles. Yeah. People are going to get hurt. We don't wish for it in this house.
No. We don't wish for it. Not publicly, for sure. It is a fact. And if we do inadvertently wish for it, we scrub that podcast.
We take it off. You don't have to talk about it. Yeah. Do you hear that? Yeah, that I heard.
Squeaky chair or you have a cat now? Come here, pickles. No, I, like, if they're the fourth seed, this season will be great. I'm excited about this. Here's my last thing I was going to say that I mentioned a few minutes ago.
I wanted them to trade Giannis.
Okay, whatever. I'm not the most, like, nostalgic guy. I'm just like, oh, let's just keep the train moving. All right, fine.
Now they're on this path. And I am very much feeling like there's been so much blowback. I've never been one of those, like, Milwaukee versus everyone people. That's not me. It is now.
It is now. now i'm in buy that shirt portis sells that shirt is that really his shirt i bought one for my brother from like a portis store like he owns like bobbyportis.com oh interesting i didn't i didn't realize that was like his his thing um but anyway that the all of the national blowback has been so extreme and stupid that now i'm so in on like the yannis miles turner led championship 2026 bucks so there you go so now people do forget damon uh janice did win a title in milwaukee people do forget that against the thunder uh and by the way that is also why i probably find myself as i'm saying this out loud leaning toward trading the 20 20 31 pick which is also sort of against my typical approach because now i really want to win this season because i'm so annoyed by the national narratives. We can talk some brewers here in a second. Yes. I do just want to show the folks.
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Whoa, that's like three games. Yeah. But I watched him. But last summer, I had a hard time feeling connected to the team. I see.
You know, doing the night show, having other stuff on. And now I make it a point. I'm in. Mizorowski's great. Andrew Vaughn homering his first half back.
Vaughn's Valley is back, folks. We're one bad away. Speaking of one bad away, here, I'll transition that. ESPN had trades for Paul Skeens today. They had trades for Ronald Acuna Jr.
today. And the Brewers were on this list with a very interesting trade package.
So I'm going to tell you what it was, and then you're going to say mm-hmm or mm-mm that you would do this as the Milwaukee Brewers. Notice I said Mill Milwaukee Brewers. Jesus Made, I think, right? Jesus Made. Luis Pina, Sal Freelich, Logan Henderson, Abner Uribe for Ronald Acuna Jr.
The Brewers should say mm-hmm to that trade offer from the Braves. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm.
Well. Let me start. Absolutely mm-mm. Go ahead. Oh, you like prospects.
I'm a prospect guy. that's where were you on the sabathia trade i was younger and a sabathia guy and so yeah but they gave up matt laporta i i did not know as much about prospects and zach jackson in 2008 well they gave up rob bryson and a player to be named later remember when the brewers bar was named that that was dumb with all due respect what was it called now they've really tightened it up it's the j lining kugel's barrel yard which is that rolls off the tongue much better they this is the problem oh you go in there it's just too like the the whole part that made fridays fridays was that it was just shit it was a wall you've there were like no like lines were recreated there was never the same lines when you'd go in there you know the floor was sticky it was just like shit now they try to make it all nice you know one of the one of the downfalls of society is when you look at these restaurants fast food how they used to be and they were so distinctive and now everything looks the exact same but you know what another downfall of society is when you ever eat at a fast food restaurant i don't you go to a drive-thru or you get the burrito taxi to send it to your house the burrito taxi yeah that's what the internet calls like uh delivery services the line i was thinking about this the other day i went to chipotle the the line of a restaurant i will go sit down and eat my food in, in normal circumstances has moved 30 feet higher than where it used to be. You know what I mean I mean it sounds terrible doesn it To go sit in a restaurant and eat with other people Yeah I won be comfortable No And then when I done eating what am I going to want to do Lie down Yeah go dry Go get in your car Fatty. Like, no, I want the immediate reprieve of getting on my couch. Oh, that's such a great thing.
Well, what about if it's like a great restaurant? Like in Shorewood, there's this place called the Foxhole, and we like to dine there maybe once a week. I'll look it up. It needs to be like a restaurant. Like, this is the thing we're going out to.
Yeah, they have an X-Men machine. that is free so my kid just plays that with his buddy the whole time i think i'm out i think i'm out based on that game from like 1992 yeah i have that one in my basement yeah well they got the metal stools with respect fuck out of here great game by the way great i think that i think that was older i think they've updated the stools they have a nice patio space it looks like a u.s like a national park building on the outside. Yeah, well.
So Bart, not only do you go there weekly, but you enjoy or what? Enjoy or tolerate eating inside a restaurant? Craft beer. As opposed to like on your couch. I also know people who run it.
They're probably great. But just generally speaking. Generally speaking, you're not...
Next time you're around, Grant, I'll take you.
Alright. The Cubano is really good. Cubano? What? Nothing.
A restaurant? Cubano? Stop, stop, stop. We already did the pronunciation corner. Green Bay?
The lights need to be dimmed. If I'm going to dinner, it needs to be dimly lit. I can't sit under. I can't feel like I'm in an office. It needs to be.
There's a table. We're going to dinner. I will sit and eat in that space and just about nowhere. else so you wasn't like road tripping and you know you stop at a mcdonald's or whatever but you're saying if you're gonna if you're gonna eat inside a restaurant grant you want it to be very formal yes okay yes this is what we're doing tonight it's not just that we're we need to eat it's that we are it needs to be a supper club basically i don't know i don't like to dress up to eat to dress up we're going out get a nice shirt and i want to wear st louis battle hawks rock the dome yeah and that's why and i don't want to eat around people with st louis battle hawks shirts on i don't want to see or hear that or i don't i want that's not where i want to eat well i like the communal aspect of the restaurants in shorewood yeah that's specifically what i'm looking to avoid not the shorewood part the communal aspect part wow great i'm generally all red's very good but it was way sweeter when it was village pub what a dive that was god i went to a bar i ate at the bar on sunday and these two women of a certain build sat next to us and all they did was you ever you ever buy the people who laugh at 10 out of 10 volume and they don't stop it's like i was eating next to lunch ladies like it ruined it and the sandwich is really good it's delicious that seems terrible anywho you know i I would normally be bothered by that too, but you got to find moments of happiness where you can. I would not do that move because Acuna has bad knees.
If his knees were pristine and his health was not a concern with his control and his costs, it's not that high. I'd do it. I'd try to, I'd try to retain one of those players. Like, all right, you can have Henderson, but we keep Uribe or you can have Mate, but we keep the, you know what I mean? Like that's everything.
I would like to not give up everything, but if he was like a from a health perspective a perfect player then i would do that yeah two acls for acuna jr different scales too yeah not great um and obviously like freelick's okay i i'm a big freelick guy i know grant you're having to force yourself to adapt to being a freelick guy after being an anti-freelick guy but of course if you know if you get acuna jr then freelick's okay to be in there because that position on the field defensively has been taken um i would feel like it's like when you put that many eggs in one basket it's a yeah you think of oh what a cunha could be he could be the bat we're missing and then and then he's like unhappy or misses his kids or Damian Lillard. Yeah, I knew what you were doing there. You know, it's a lot to put even like the return on Devers right now I don't think has been as good as they've wanted. They didn't give up anything other than they paid the contract basically. That's different.
I will say that I hope I think baseball needs an active trade deadline. I agree. I think that's a good take. Yeah. They can capitalize on the summer if they can kind of make it exciting.
Well, okay. Are the Milwaukee Brewers a Ronald Acuna away from what? See, I think if you're going to do it, you have to at least be a top four team in the East. And then you're giving away some of your pitching. They're a couple players away from being a couple players away.
That's where they are. Like Passon went on Wildey and Tausch yesterday. They're one player away from being a World Series team. Pass and went on another show in this town, not on our station. Yeah.
Afternoon, same market. We were joking earlier.
Well, you're in the group chat, I guess. I know what you're referring to.
Some people will talk about other shows, but we'll never. Do you still want to trade, Freddie? No, I haven't been wanting to trade him for like a month. Oh. Is this still the least fun team of your lifetime?
Why? What are you? What are you? What are you, the National Archives over there? just banking every single one of my takes, which by the way, you, you, there was no one who supported that take from the opening weekend of the season more than you.
Yeah. That fucking weekend sucked. Yeah. That was some of the worst baseball I've ever watched. And then the home opener on Monday or Tuesday or whatever that was, it was even worse.
I thought we'd still be talking about torpedo bats. How did that just go away? I don't know. Cause then the Yankees beat up the Brewers bad pitching, but I mean it's not even it's it's not mentioned at all no does anybody the brewers a couple brewers players tested it are they it's gone no one used it I don't know no one seems to care Bart Acuna for that package or I don't know. I just don't think that.
I don't know what. I don't know if the juice is worth the squeeze. Oh, yeah. Good lean in. I mean, if I saw that on my phone, I'd be like.
Okay. I don't know. I wouldn't be like running through the streets of Boston where I was when we got Zach Greinke. Wait, you were in Boston at the time? Oh, yeah.
Did you want to know more about that? I know your Lorenzo Cain Christian Yelich story. I don't think I know yours. Yes, I was working a show called The Huddle. For the Cain Yelich one.
Yeah, on a different network. I was playing Call of Duty on the floor of my college living room. I'll never forget it. The Brewers signed Kane and traded for Yelich, and everyone's like, another move's coming. I don't like that phrase or line of thinking.
Because a lot of times another move doesn't count. And that was two moves. Yeah. Oh, the Bucs, they signed Turner. Another move must be coming.
Yeah, what's that move? Gary Harris? What's the next move? That's a pretty big move.
So why Turner just be like, yeah, Pacers, let's talk. And then the Bucs made a call and said, come here. And he's like, fuck it, I'm out. He just deuced out. Why?
My bet would be the Pacers now are saying they were willing to go into the luxury tax, but that was after a long negotiation where Miles Turner got sick of them getting to that point. The Demonte Adams thing. It's like, yeah, the Packers technically had, you know, offered him more than anything, but it took him too long. It would be my guess. adding to my whole thing of milwaukee versus everyone yeah i loved that pritchard press conference for me was like oh yeah because honestly like 90 i don't think i'm being exaggerative and like that 90 of the national conversation about the nba team that was one win away from winning the finals only got 10 of the coverage for letting a guy walk because they undershot their initial offer.
And meanwhile, it's like, what are the Bucs being reckless and whatever other words were used. And meanwhile, the team was a win away from being the NBA champions. They're like, let's get to that on day three. That'll be our day three story is about how the team that won the East, that was one win away from winning the finals and let a guy walk over. But before we do that, we need to revisit just what kind of city Memphis is.
Players want to go there or not. That is clearly a more pressing topic. you got anything else no that was fast nope should we land the plane a little softer nope nope should we just end it right now yep um there's got to be something else we can just say our piece on no i don't know pat murphy yelling at joey ortiz did we like that loved the quote awesome great quote amazing audio too a lot of kids in that auditorium i oh yeah that's right i forgot i don't know that they all need to be there every time but it's standing room only anyway okay well i'll i'll end on this if you're at 52 minutes here and you're like oh these these guys are gonna come up with something still. We gotta give him something. Hang out for 90 more seconds so Bart can make an extra 8 cents on this pod.
I gotta buy Grant's lunch. Bart, your... Where are we going again? Foxhole. Bart, your guess what they said segment on the national show is either your worst or your best segment, and I'm not sure which.
I think most of Bart's best segments also suck. I think it's like both tied into one, which is why... Guess what they said is ingenious. it's a great idea it's a great concept but it's so combative when you guys get upset about the rulings of the judge and it's it's interesting to listen but i can i know you well enough to know that you are sitting there all on your own at midnight fuming in hills corner wisconsin well carlos didn't even listen to the clip the other night this is the part that i heard and this is why I'm bringing it up. And then, and then you still didn't get the point.
And you, and you, after you admitted that you had cheated because you had already heard the cut. Yeah. That's a tough look part. What am I supposed to do? I didn't cheat on purpose.
Yeah. You just, you just, you just knew what was, yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it can, it can be your best segment and it can be your worst in the sense that in the sense that sometimes it's just like, it's, it's very combative. There was not one night he was giving out half points and I'm like, this should not be aired.
There probably should be a second judge at all times or a tie breaking judge, but we don't, we were a one man. He's one man banding back there. I know we've got either Belletti or somebody else at times though. I like when people are always like, Hey, can I talk to Marco? I'm like, Marco comes in this room for two minutes an hour.
Because he does updates on the fan at the bottom, or the top, and then at the bottom he does infinity, and then he's in the newsroom the rest of the time.
So he's not just sitting there. I see. Well, interesting, you thought I actually told Carlos last night after that segment, I said, we really got some chemistry here. I'm really digging it. The three of us.
I think it's hard. I think it's, you probably, you would know better in the sense like how angry you actually are, but I can't tell if it's more of like distracting because it's so vitriolic or if that's nothing like the Freeman days at its peak. Because that was pure actual, like, like you two in the height of it. We're going to fight. Yeah.
Like I said, I kicked down his door and I said, today's the day. granted you you were listening during the prime of that of that arc right yeah it was a good run i listened to my walked class every day uwl 16 2017 you did a segment in the hallway on like facebook live or something while chuck was doing the show do you remember this well that was because i wanted that was a bit i wanted to do the brewers show it was a monday you you did a show while your show was going on yeah because i was doing a brewer's show and he was doing a packer's show that was more of a bit that wasn't because i was like mad at him okay okay anyway i'll free you guys thank you as always for stopping into the winkler verse going to the gym can be discouraging especially if you're putting in the work but barely seeing changes. But with Tonal, you can actually see your progress with every workout. Tonal provides the convenience of a full gym and the expertise of a personal trainer anytime at home with one sleek system designed to reduce your mental load. Tonal is the ultimate strength training system, helping you focus less on workout planning and more on getting results.
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