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Couple of agenda notes for this Thursday live edition. On the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. I don't think anybody's contacted Dan in a while. You like your insurance?
Okay, that's cool. Basements are flooding. You got good flood insurance? Dan can help you out. Check him out.
Dan Shaney. Give him a call. Let him know that you heard him on Into the Winklerverse. Um. Yeah, in the in the basement we were okay.
I feel bad for a lot of people that weren't. Hopefully, you've taken care of that situation with the 500,000-year flood. Uh that we had. Man. Uh that is pretty tough.
I'm joined today by myself. Always good to be here. Yeah, the cheeks are a little.
Well, it's about the same. This is from the COVID year. I've got the cutout. That I bought from the brewers and then they stuck it up. Way up high for no reason.
What a What a what a joke. I don't have that hat anymore, actually. Ah, it was a it was a shithead. Tim Shay's here. What's up, bird?
And plastic art? Good to see you. I don't know. Remember when the Bluers stuck this in the 400s? I don't know.
good my reception will be. I'm in Bumblefuck, Illinois.
So Yeah, what are you doing? Goin' to a goin' to a College.
soccer game tonight. Oh, nice. Got the day off? A little vacation. Go, Marquette?
Oh, you don't look natural in that shirt. What? You do not look bright in that shirt. Yeah. I know your niece, right?
Yeah, yeah. First college game tonight. The things you do for family. Exactly, right? Tim Shea in a Marquette shirt.
Go Golden Eagles! I want to talk to some brewers here, so I'm glad you're here. I also, we're going to win, lost the bucks schedule when it comes out.
Okay. Uh that's coming out in like ten minutes. Um you're really gonna go through every game. I don't know, it depends how interesting you are. I just did my win-loss for the Badgers on Twitter.
Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. I want to call each one. I said they're going to go six and six. Hmm. I just broke down some Badgers with Jay Kokorowski of Badger Observer.
Please check out that podcast. Nice. I mean, and apparently I was said that's a stretch for six and six.
So I mean, if they make a bowl game this year, I think I think the state's gonna turn itself upside down celebrating. I don't think we're in for that good of a year. Hey, um, I did not get way ahead of myself. But I was looking at Postseason scheduling. Oh, I'm ready.
October 4th. Here we come. October bypassing that wild card. Bypassing that wild card week at week.
So. Tim? The Badgers remember how the Badgers are coming to Fiserve? To play Oklahoma. Yeah.
That's Night One of the World Series. Isn't that Oklahoma game an exhibition game anyway? Still, the Badgers are in Milwaukee. That's fine. Cancelling that.
I'll be at World Series game. I'm I'm going to by the way I'm going to start picking up, doing a lot more on the weekend. DoorDash. Uber lift because someone's gonna need some more money. To uh Pay for these.
Playoff. Tickets. Oh, I feel ya. I'm trying to get to this one of these games. Um Because my brother's going to be in town.
And we're like, oh, yeah, let's look at the game. And it's Bob Euchre's celebration of life. You know how expensive that's gonna be?
Well yeah, that's Even the night before is Bob Euchre umbrella. Like, it's, I feel like I got the last ship. You know, before the flood, when I got those $60 tickets. Two rows up from the dugout against the Rockies. It's $60 just to get in right now.
Hey, $12 if you just want to go to that Arizona game flash sale until Friday. $12 tickets, terrace level, though. Oh, yeah. Um, maybe I'll go to one of those. Hey, uh Al says saw Tim talking to a hot bartender at the fair last week.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I wonder if he's the one that took the picture with me.
Someone took a picture with me. Did they post it? I don't know. He's someone came up to me. Mm.
Also, there was another person and now I forgot their name, Alex, I think? Maybe Jake is here as put the burgers down haters. Yeah, I'm upset. I'm very upset. Um, I've just taken a lot of mental notes on people that were talking shit after the trade deadline, and now they're all of a sudden the brewers of the thing, and oh, George Webb.
And it's like, you know what? No, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna allow that to happen. What, we can't be mad that they didn't try to get better. Yeah. They did get better.
What are you talking about? At the end of the day, They made trades during the season. Sure, that's Brandon Lockeridge because they were smart enough to make trades earlier and get more value out of those trades than the idiots that wait till the very end when the market for these players go up because everybody's talking trade.
So they're punished because they were smarter than everybody else. I can't hear it. I just I can't. I think I think that's being a little too gatekeepy. I think it's people are talking out of two sides.
That's what I think. No, I think that it's no, you're able to celebrate any time they do anything good. The trade deadline fear is that. Once they get to the playoffs. There'll be like a bat missing or a pitcher missing that they could have gone and gotten, and you're protecting your.
Elite farm system. It's one of the best. One of the best farm systems. I've noticed that I've started like. Yeah, your Trump is good.
It's low-key good. I like. When I'm talking, when I'm doing like interviews and I'm talking, I'm like. It comes out. I don't even do it.
I don't even ever do it. But I think we're all just kind of like osmosisly adapting to that style of speech. You bring the hands in and then you bring them out. That's how you do it. It makes you seem smarter.
But no, I look. This team in the last um, I think 30 games is playing at about 130 win paces. The bullpen, not the auto pen, the bullpen. There's a lot of guys they strike out, not so much in Milwaukee. Right here we work the counts.
We s we we work all sides of the field. No, they They're at the last, I think, 30 games, they're playing at like 130 win pace. They're the best team in baseball. If they don't win in the playoffs this year, it's not a talent issue and it's not a payroll issue. And I'm so.
So sick and tired of people that think higher payroll equates to better baseball. That's not how it works. The Brewers are one of the best-run organizations in all of sports. Adenasio is one of the best owners in all of sports. And if you don't see that, you're just too.
Thick-headed. or just too ignorant to understand the economics of the sport. Are you coming to us from Brewers, North Korea? What the fuck? I'm coming to you.
as an educator, okay? I'm here to destroy the casuals that now, all of a sudden, they want to go to Miller Park, they want to get in the tailgate, they want to wear the same shirt as the guy next to them. Because it's the coolest thing to do. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of when the Blackhawks got good, and then all of a sudden, everybody you know that lives in Milwaukee County is a Blackhawks fan.
Yeah. Oh, it's American family. It's Miller Park, Tim. If we're going to talk to the casuals, it's American Family Time. All right.
The one year where the Brewers were playing the Cubs and the Blackhawks were in the Stanley Cup, and like. There were more Blackhawks jerseys than Brewers or Cubs jerseys. That really made me very pissed off. No, and then you know what the same s story is from all those people?
Well, actually, my dad, I grew up, my dad was a big Blackhawks fan, so that's why I'm a Blackhawks fan. They say the same shit about the Cubs too. But funny, it's only when the Cubs are winning that you see the people in Wisconsin that are Cubs fans. Go figure. I need to play for you how I started my show on the Infinity Sports Network last night.
In a second. And I'm mad because Andrew said, I get too whiny, brother.
Now Andrew is a rock solid supporter of the channel. But I I I'm getting mad because I tweeted something like. The Brewers need to win this game so I can stand in line for an hour for a burger I don't even want. I don't think that's negative. Yeah, I think that's an accurate representation of how people feel about George Webb.
Nobody likes George Webb, but we like the chase for free George Webb. And Armin's right. It's not about the burgers. It's about the memories we made along the way. I will say, I don't think it's your strongest tweet.
I think there's a lot of people in the world. I got more likes on that, even though I'm being. whatever shadow ban 'cause I don't have a check mark, which I have been thinking about getting. Oh boy, we're back to this. We are back there.
I was laughing at uh the other or the last podcast that you you're you're never been more available and never more anonymous. Like the That is kind of fun. I've never been more. I've never been in a more like I've never had more exposure, yet I've never been more irrelevant. Yeah.
And I would like to take this opportunity. Because I'm being more outward about it again. The media market in this town is dog shit. It's absolutely terrible. You all know my issues with the game.
Yeah. Preaching the choir there. And minus the Billy and Armin Show and Tim Allen. But I've not really touched ESP in Milwaukee because I don't know. Why would you?
But the way they are all Just aggregating this. Jordan loves injury. Get out of here. First of all, you can't be injury prone. It's a myth.
Injury prone is a myth. Uh Unless you're Garrett Mitchell, then I think there's some legitimate. Oh yeah, Garrett Mitchell. I can tell you what. I'm trying to find how I started the show last night.
I can tell you. But it's better if I dropped it. It was streaming live. Right recording the news as possible. 30 a million people watching this lot, people all day.
Daddy's home. Me, I'm dead. Uh, on the internet, I'm just kind of tired of. I'm just kind of tired how everyone's been acting. I think everybody's been acting poorly.
And I'm going to be every, I'm going to be, I'm going to, look, I'm going to be daddy. We have a daddy complex. I want to be daddy. Daddy's home. Me.
I'm daddy. I want to lay down the law. I'm laying down the law now. Me. Bart Winkler laying down the law.
And that's what I'm doing. Here tonight. All right. Yeah. I got mad at Schefter for like.
Jersey chasing the Travis Kelsey Taylor Street. He's like, I'm watching Jason. He's like, look how many people are watching this, you guys. I'm when the shifters are clocked in. Adam Schefter, who's able to give any interview.
Oh, it's so hard. I don't know my family anymore. His family's probably, his kid's probably in the other room, like, Daddy, come read me a book. I'm watching Jason Kelsey talk to Taylor Swift. Yeah, man.
I don't know how we got here, but it's. I do like the idea of someone hosting a podcast and then playing a clip of their radio show on their podcast. This podcast and my show serve each other. Yeah. They exist in the same universe.
It's just like egotistical inception going on here. No. The show. The show is like The MCU movies. And the podcast is like the Disney Plus show.
You don't have to Watch both Marvels. To enjoy everything, but it really helps. I feel like the podcast is more like the 1992 Fantastic Four movie. The unreleased one? Yeah.
Um, speaking of that, Q burns you very hard. Yeah, that's I mean He's the CRISPR original IP with his cool five years ago clear frames. Wait a minute.
So, Q is going to be the one trying to rip on somebody for their glasses? Come on now. Yeah. Hipster Stanley Tucci? Come on.
Yeah. Well, here he is on queue, right back from his cooking show from Italy. Hello? Yesterday's the TV. I went to Cats America queue.
Whatever nonsense Jake was saying, but I feel like he's talking to me. and my hatred for Marc Antonasio, which like. I was subtweeting a little bit there. Jake, like. I don't know.
I'm pretty sure you used to hate Mark Antonasio.
So I'm not sure where, like, Okay, so do you guys like each other? Do you guys like each other? I'd say we're everybody. We're like frenemies. Fight forever.
Fight forever. No, I feel like we're on the same page with like LaFleur. That's where you might be confused. Yeah, scrappy dude. Fuck LaFleur.
God, I just don't think fuck LaFleur on the show. This is. This has to be his last season. Get him out of here. I I'm I would be shocked if they do anything this season.
And I think Ed Policy's. gonna have a fall man So that's my prediction for this. He's just got too much. Is he older than his brother, Mike? Because he's got real younger brother vibes, and that might just be with McVay and Shanahan.
I mean, unless there's all these reports from the green and gold guzzling beat reporters. Um saying that Like LaFleur's got a new edge. Like, he's bringing the heat this year. He's not a beta anymore. And I, like, I don't believe it.
For a second, I think, like, I'm very excited for the next. Preseason game. I hope we get trounced again. And then, like, I just want to see what these forever optimistic beat reporters say. And I'm going to say, like, beat reporters in quotes because these podcast guys, it's like, just like, Jerking off the organization under the table.
Like they just like. Guzzle it.
So I know you're friends with some of them, but it's like it's ridiculous. They're bino's cue, they're beats in name only. Yeah. But back to Mark Antonasi.
So you could do rhinos, you could still do reporters in name only. Back to back to Mark A. Do any of you think? We would have won 12 games in a row if Mark A was the one having to pay for these free burgers. Oh no.
I think he would have ran on the field and like stolen all the baseballs to make sure he didn't have to pay like let me let me say something positive million bucks for this stuff. I want to say something positive about Mark A. He has nice hair.
Well, as do all Two of four of them. Um I Talked about the twins last night because their owners were setting up to sell, and then they decided not to sell. And the fan base is fine. Fucking pissed. Like they are furious and they should be.
That that family that owns the twins They treat him like it's a you know They just like. Huh? They just sold the entire team. Yeah, they got rid of all their players. They treat it like it's just some podcast they randomly do twice a week, maybe.
They're not training it like it's their main thing. Come on, like it's their main thing. And so, Twins fans are pissed.
So what I talked about was. The Brewers, the reason that I don't think they're ever going to win a World Series, I've always said that. Um the reason that I still Get into them. And get this into them is because. They're not letting baseball structure stop them.
Like baseball, it is rigged against people that are that are. Poor. That have less money. And they're like, okay, well, we're still going to invest internationally. We're still going to try to make trades.
We're still going to try to be creative with our trades. We're still going to try to find diamonds in the rough. We're confident about what we can do as an organization. We're confident in our pitching lab. We're confident in all these things to get the best out of what we can get the best out of.
And then they may get to. Um Like the World Series, and then lose. Because they didn't trade for a bat. And then we can say, well, did you. Was that because you invested too much in your farm system, or was it financially?
You know, are you kind of skewed there? They're going to go as far as they can. Until the system Stops them. That's how I feel about the Brewers. These other teams, like the Twins and the A's and the Pirates, they just look and say, oh, no salary cap.
Fuck this. We're not even going to try. We're still going to make money. For the inherent nature of baseball and sports franchises, and you know, whatever. When Mark Atanasio said, Is it my job to win a World Series?
Or is it my job to bring families a summer of entertainment and passion? That son of a bitch. That son of a bitch has done it. This summer has been full of entertainment. It's been full of passion.
We were one game away from getting free burgers. And then the team, three weeks later, gave us free burgers. From 2 to 6 on Wednesday, you have to start to get your vouchers on Friday. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can't just open the fucking restaurants.
Hey, free burgers. No, no, we gotta all fucking come in here. It's always like Taco Bell, they steal a base, steal a taco. Come between Tuesday, 2 p.m. to 3.
Uh can I take off sir? I need to go get my free taco. Come on. Two to six. Two to six.
You know how long those lines are going to be? Because Half of the George Webb's in this town have closed in the last five years. Also, there's one in Pestico. I might drive up to that one. Hashtag content.
Bart, so it sounds to me like there's kind of a roundabout way of saying that Mark Atanasio is one of the best owners in sports. That's what it sounded like to me. I think can I answer that?
Well, let me quickly. He's the best owner every July in August. Every single July in August, dude looks fucking brilliant. And I'm glad that you're sucking on the Mark A. Like, lies again, because you're just going to be devastated in playoffs.
So, sorry, Bart, it's your show. Go go back to ASCII. That's the Winkler verse. Do you really think that they didn't make a move because Adenasio wouldn't sign off on spending more money? Because that's just categorically false.
That's categorically false. I know, I kind of think they protect the alarm system too much. Did you see what what the the GM said after we made like the most marginal trades ever he literally thanked Mark Antonasio for let allowing him to spend like five thousand dollars more It's ridiculous. He's a penny pincher. I saw Mark Atanasio get interviewed on a brewer's broadcast talking about.
Pretty much. Like putting it out there that he wanted Suarez and that didn't happen. It didn't happen. He can make it happen. He's spending the money.
No, that he puts his faith in Matt Arnold, which is the smart thing to do because Matt Arnold has been brilliant. I think, okay, so without knowing the information. about the inner workings of the front office. I do think there's been a lot of times where Mark has been. He puts the financial aspects of it first.
The longevity of the team. Yeah, I think there's been times like that and then like Oh, well, why'd you spend on Andrew McCutcheon?
Well, it's Andrew McCutcheon. You know, that kind of stuff doesn't look good PR-wise. For the 2025 deadline. It feels to me like they were being more protective of their farm system rather than Mark not signing off on half a season of Eugenio Suarez. And is that an Adanasio call, or is that a Matt Arnold call?
That would be a Matt Arnold call. Unless Atnazio said. I need this guy on my team, which if you're mad the owner wasn't getting more in asserted in that, saying no, I need this guy on my team.
Now, yes, statistically, Suarez has not been that great for Seattle. They're still winning a bunch of games. I don't know that what he does in Seattle means he would have done that in Milwaukee. I don't really like. doing that comparison.
I just think he set us up for the biggest what if again.
So, like, short of winning the World Series this year, there will be a what-if we traded for somebody, just like last year. It depends on how it ends. Like, if they end the season last year like they did, where they didn't have a bat, and then Pete Alonzo did it. But so lat I'm I'm just as frustrated. Like, so don't get me wrong.
The creativity of Matt Ardle and this organization is amazing. Like, we got, I don't know if it's luck or skill that Mark Murphy's like just. An amazing Coach at this level. Like, I feel like it's more luck than skill, but is what it is. But that being said, like...
It's another. We would have had like the top. If we would have traded Freddy Peralta, he would have been. That would have been down.
Well, we we like hardly need him And we could have gotten so much. We have so much pitching. You're a ready for Alta for what?
Okay. Still pulling out whatever hair is left to hand.
Alright, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Jay. Jay, hold on. I got to do a professional reset. Jake's here, Q's here, Tim's here.
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So I can't wait for this. But I'll just finish my point that. Like last year, what if we would have uh if we would have been sellers. Like if you're not going to be buyers, then be sellers. And who did last year were sellers, and they're good this year, but none of the guys they traded for last year are doing jack shit for them.
So it doesn't always work out. I'm just saying. Who's the guy that signed with the Giants? Uh Devers? No, our shortstop Adamas, yeah, we should have traded a damas last year.
Like how much better how much better would we have been this year? If we had another. I don't know. We traded Devin Williams for Caleb Durbin and Nestor Cortez. It's not like.
And driven good. I just feel like every year we're not sellers and we're not buyers. We just kind of like coast and then like. Every year we come up short. I don't know where you're going.
I want to hear from Colin. Colin, go for it.
Well, I really don't know what Q can criticize Mark Antonasio on. I mean, he's coming up with these crazy hypotheticals about Mark Antonasio buying people burgers. You know, Bart, you said it right. He came in the season to provide a summer of entertainment and fun and friendship, really. This team is.
And I'm having one. My kid and I are bonding on levels I didn't even know was possible thanks to this fucking team. And, you know, Mark did spend some more money in that Shelby Miller deal to acquire Jordan Montgomery and do his rehab to protect our prospects.
So. To say he's cheap is questionable at best. This is the bites at the Apple approach. I don't know why we expect anything different. The organization has come out and said that repeatedly, and it's working.
Let's be real. It's working. This is a great team, probably the best in our lifetime. And we'll see what happens. I just need to respond to one thing real quick.
Mr. I'm Still Dead says Bart needs a safe space with only Brewer fans who agree with him because if you hit him with valid points, he gets so angry about his insecurities with the Brewers, he blocks you LOL. Um Who are you on Twitter? If I will review, unless it's Facebook. I blocked some guy on Facebook who was being an absolute cock.
And then he messaged me like, because he kept saying, oh, brewers, raise your burger banner. And then I blocked him. And then he's like, why'd you block me? I said, you're being an asshole. And he goes, oh, yeah, LOL.
I don't, here's, this is my main, and Cohn will know this.
Okay. I don't block the my main issue with blocking, and my main issue with. People that are fighting me. I believe that I have a thick skin. Uh Did you smirk?
What I don't like is when people criticize me. for things that are objectively not true. This criticism is objectively not true, but it's true in your. Version of who you think I am. And rather than Be like, no, if you fuck you, I'm just kidding.
Yeah, that's. That's why there's so much discourse these days about, you know, my truth. Yeah, that's bullshit. There is the truth and there's not. There's no such thing as your truth.
There's who I am and then there's who people think I am. And what matters more? But people are judging me and getting mad at me based on who they have. Decided that I am when that's not who I am.
Well uh I don't know. I am trying to live my truth. I'd just like to ask you there's your truth and there is the truth from a three-year-old Trader's Joe bag. Yeah, I had to I had to dust this one off under my dresser.
So, Cohn, I gotta ask you. You can show your face online, though. Yeah, but not on the Winkler verse until we win a championship.
So never. Not till Mark A's kids take over. Um So this has already been a successful season for you, Cone? For the verse, I would say it's been a summer of entertainment and fun. I'm asking your definition, not just like Anderson 76 and 44, and Q's talking about selling at the deadline.
Holy shit, LOL. I'm saying that If we lose as the number one seed At all. That we're going to say, what if we would have traded? That's my entire path that only I would do. Because I'm confident in who I am.
That's my truth.
So as I've talked about Uh I do. Talk with A Person Of the therapy.
Okay. And one thing that I'm always worried about. Is The direction the world is headed.
Okay. They're the big pro Some of you may like it. I am a little concerned about where things are going economically, stability. You know, all this stuff, so I keep thinking that something really bad is going to happen. And she says Bart You might think you're alone in that, but a lot of people I talk to, they do this thing called catastrophize.
Catastrophizing, catastrophyizing. They think they're so worried about what's going to happen.
Okay, they're so worried about something bad that may happen. It may not. It may not, but they're so focused and they're like not gonna feel good. Or right or whole until it does happen because they convinced themselves it's going to happen.
So, a lot of what I talk to her about, and I'm being very raw and honest, as I always am, is trying to. Even if this stuff is going to happen that I fear. Enjoy the now. Enjoy the moment. Have your summer of entertainment and passion.
You are catastrophizing. Or that's not how you say it, but that's what you're doing. You are, there are some, and it may end in a disaster. And I've long not been enjoy the ride guy. I have, I have not, I've been that.
But this season is bringing us unprecedented levels of entertainment and passion. The shit that is happening in this town is incredible. And it may come to a scorching end. But I am going to enjoy this. This is unlike anything.
For their 12th game, they score 12 runs on 12 hits. You fucking kidding me, man? I'm enjoying this shit. Breach. I'm really enjoying it too.
I'm just like, the only reason I called in was because.
Okay. wants to sell. What's that? Says the guy who wanted to trade Freddy Peralta.
So, the only reason I called in is because. Jake was calling out Mark A haters, and like, I don't think success in August. Will silence any Mark A. hater once. Here's my and I'm not catastrophizing.
And I'm like, this is so fun. Best brewer season ever. Q.
So table that And then come back in October. And do the I told you so.
Well, yeah, I will. This is the last time I'll say it. Like, I am somebody who has said I don't think they'll ever win a World Series in my life. Yeah. And even was still thinking that this is going to explode in some horrific way.
Like the end result of this is probably going to be a disaster. Like it always is. I can't let myself think about that. Tyler says he's having more conversations With Casual relationships about the Brewers than at any other point. in his life.
This is the best season since Cece Sabathia. I'm not taking that away at all. And it's super fun. What were you like then? Oh, three days' rest.
He's going to be so tired. They should have been like. I mean, that was 15 years ago, right?
So I was like, in my early, like, I was. I don't know. What year was that? I was like Barely 20. Yeah.
So like I hadn't and back then Mark A was wheeling and dealing. And he, like. He traded for Cece. Like, who would ever complain about that? We went for it.
I'm just, there's been such a disconnect. And then we should have gone for it. We should have traded Freddy Peralta away. I'm not saying that. My point is I just...
I wish we would have some conviction. Like, either let's be all in or all out. It doesn't make sense to have one foot in each pool. But, like, I don't want to come in and shit on the parade, which I already did. Like, Like, I'm just excited.
I've got diarrhea all over anybody's good feelings. What I only called in because Jake was calling me out. Hey, stop using Jake as a crutch. You got to be responsible for your own words. I mean, I I can I see both sides of the coin.
So, and I hope I'm wrong. I hope we win a place. No, no, don't do that. Don't do the oh shit, shit, shit. And then I hope I'm wrong.
No, so here, here's what I'll say: I'll answer the question that Cone, like, Cone doesn't like to be pinned down ever for anything, he just likes to quote random men.
So we'll just let him quote his random men. That's his version of having a take, quoting people. But. A successful season for me will be winning. Are you calling me a real life aggregator?
Yeah, I don't think you have a real take, except for like maybe about Badgers basketball, but you're like the only person that cares about it.
So, um, But uh well to the level that he does I don't know but A successful Brewer season for me will be winning a single playoff series. Because we have not done it in nearly a decade. Look where we're going for tomorrow, boys. Look what we're going for tomorrow. 13 and all.
13 straight. That's awesome. Let's go. George Webb. Do can you imagine if they rolled through the weekend and then they've got the double header on Monday?
Oh, that'd be great. Oh, Cubs, by the way. Um I saw this argument down on my friends at the score the other day. They were going with the. Is Jed Hoyer the one at the plate missing?
Is Craig Council the one that's making? Once you go to that argument, you know you're fucking torched.
Well, and that's the actual best part about this. It's not the Brewers' success. It's that it's coming at the expense of Craig and the Cubs.
So Timoth. What would be a successful brewer season for you this year? Like, what? Oh, we've already had it. They're making no.
I mean, you know what? Winning a playoff series.
Well, yeah, but it's pretty simple. But but but Look.
Okay. I've said again that maybe this team never wins a World Series. Maybe you don't win maybe you never win the big one. It's hard. Fondly, okay?
2018, we remember fondly. 1987, this fucking team didn't even make the playoffs. You start 13-0, you don't even make the playoffs. 1992. Was fun.
That was, oh, it was like my favorite team ever. I don't I am championship. I've long been championship or bus guy. I do think. Seeing this happen.
I'll tell you, I'm a changed man as a father. Boy dad, so only half a dad. But yeah. This kid's having the time of his fucking life. Watching these games.
And this will be your first game. What am I supposed to tell him when he's excited watching the game in bed when they have a tag out to walk off? And he's like, Yeah, am I supposed to be. Sign. No, you haven't won anything yet.
You're doing what you need to do. And this is like your first true brewer season with your son.
So, I'm glad it's one of the best ever.
So All right, I'm gonna win loss. That's the box schedule now. Oh Jesus, really? You're really gonna do that? I haven't even pulled up the schedule yet.
Yeah, I can eat it. The Bucks have a New Year's Eve game. Gone go the Globetrotters. How about that? What?
At home? Is it during the day? They can do both. They do Market and Bucks in the same day. Yeah, but not they're Globetrotter says at night, we win last year, and then they did fireworks after.
I've been during the day, too. Maybe they do double header. All right, anyway, back to the Brewers. Forget the Bucs. You can talk about them in October and November after the World Series.
They're doing a day game? Wait, what?
Now that I have reception, I'm back. What do you want to say about the Brewers? I I have a lot to say. I want to say, I want to congratulate Isaac Collins, who currently now is the leader in odds for rookie of the year. Yeah.
How about that? Colin, take your bag off. You've already been... And Tim Tims Tims thing. That was that was for Tim Allen though.
Yeah, and the world saw it. Um Is nobody gonna comment on my West Ham hat, by the way? Oh nice hands. Wait, home openers against uh Chris Middleton. Really?
Yeah. October twenty second. He probably won't play. He'll have back problems or something. Oh, I love this from Tyler also.
I can't wait for our kids to bitch about the constant celebrating of the 25 brewers like we do the 82 brewers. That's yeah. A hundred percent. I ordered this hat, by the way, from London. And they said, you can have this hat, but you are going to get an additional bill.
From customs. Is that the tariff that Is it?
Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna get tariffed on this hat. How the fuck the sorry, never mind, never mind. Not getting anyway.
Yeah, Cohen, how do you feel about tariffs? They brought in $20 billion. Yeah, it's making my life better. I'm selling stuff that's international, so it hits my revenue, so I'm happy. Where's this fucking schedule here?
Are we really doing the box schedule? Because I'm leaving. We're not really going to win-loss it, but I want to look at Marky Dave. Do you want me to just read it to you, Bart? All right, peace out.
All right, Colin, love you. Mark A is the best owner in the state of Wisconsin.
Well, no, that's not true. I am. No, you aren't. I am. Once again, I want to thank our friends at Happy Place Hemp.
Promo code is BART, 25% off each and every order. I was going to stop in there last week for you, Tim, and then I got, because I worked afternoons and I thought I had all this time. Man, working afternoons, working days is hard. How do you people do it? Jesus.
I couldn't keep anything coming or going. My new favorite phrase. But I will get in there because I need some more seltzers. Can you hear me at all? I feel like I'm talking to no I can't remember.
Um From now on, when Sparky takes his show off, can you do the show, please? Why Rami did it? I thought Rami did great. I was on with them. Yeah, it was fun te it was a fun segment.
Oh, not Tim Froves. He's uh he's he's from the score. No, I mean, I think Rami's earned a ability to talk about Wisconsin sports. I celebrated with him shirtless in the courtyard when they won the box. Uh he's got my stamp of approval.
And isn't that all you need? just rather have So Our two games against the Celtics are until like rather happily. The last month of the season.
So, wouldn't it be funny if Tatum's back and they're like making a playoff push? Oh god. They're not going to play him, are they? There was a rumor this week that they're not ruling him out. But don't Globetrotters normally play on the first, not the 31st?
Oh. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I went I went last year. Does this happen for you? You gotta go.
Yeah, I gotta go, unless you wanna do this fast. Charlotte, when no, I'm just kidding. I mean, the second game of the year isn't it. Uh So it's the last Two weeks are of October is the beginning of the regular season. Oh, here's the preseason.
Okay. I want to look at games. Ooh, Bucks, Knicks, NBC.
So last year we had 17 nationally broadcast games. I can't read this PDF, it's too small. Can you count them quick? I think it should say in the uh release Chante. I don't know.
Um So we got one Uh it doesn't say. Two Three Do you come peacock as nationally broadcast? Justin said yes. He said to Count Peacock and Prime.
So, because we count them for football. By the way, I want to let people know how that's happening. Just real quick, just real quick, Ty. I mean I gotta look at the schedule. It's in the title of the YouTube.
Um The NBC games, when the Bucs are on those or whoever, The Eastern and Central time zones are going to get one game. And then the Western and Mountain time zones are going to get the other game.
So it's not going to be the double header that TNT was. It will be if you then stream that additional game on Peacock.
Okay. If that made sense.
So, ooh. I only counted 10. Oh no, I guess there's more.
So it's 10 through January. Warriors at Bucks. I'm texting my brother. For Halloween. Can you scroll down a page?
I'll count the other ones. No, you could do that on your own time.
Well, then we'll have the I was almost there. I got 10. We can tell the people what it is. What do you mean? February and 14th: 11, 12, 13, 14.
Mm-hmm. I think it's it's like Exactly what it was last year. All right, let me just look quickly at some highlights. October, there is a Knicks game Tuesday night, the 28th on NBC. Two days later, Golden State's in town.
December, There's the NBA Cup. We are the defending champions. And we have a little bit of a road trip. I think that's the longest road trip of the year over the Christmas break. Oh, I skipped November.
November they play On the road around Thanksgiving, but they do come home for a Brooklyn game that night on Saturday. Ooh, Saturday, November 1, 4 o'clock game, Sacramento. I'm trying to look for those games to maybe take the boy. Uh January. We've got Golden State on the road, ESPN, Minnesota at home, NBC, a lot of national games.
In January. A couple of NBC affairs. There A west coast trip at Sacramento at Golden State at Lakers at Denver. And then the longest home stretch, we got February.
Okay, Toronto 230. February, March. We got a long home stretch there, first week of March.
So I'm going to dig into that a little bit more. We will win-loss that. as Q just flat out disappeared. Oh, I thought I was actually talking to somebody. Interesting.
And also Tim's gone. Huh. And Where did Congo. Uh this brewer talk really torpedoed because of one man's irrational hate for an owner. Catastrophizing, catastrophizing, catastrophizing, catastro, catastrophe.
I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. You don't want to You don't you don't wanna you don't want to You don't want to get your hopes up.
It's Wisconsin Sports. And you know what? The same thing I told Mike Wickett in February of 2020. He goes, What's going to stop this Bucs team from winning? I go, I don't know.
I'm worried about this coronavirus. Maybe something happens out of our control. I am really. Really trying very hard. This is a this is a new thing for me.
I am trying to enjoy the moment. I am trying to enjoy the ride. We don't got a lot of time left here. Um Probably. Past halfway of living.
41. I'm probably less than that. Don't clip this if I like randomly die tonight. You know, sometimes people die, and they're like, look at his last tweet. It was like, oh, my.
So I hate to say it, but I'm just trying to enjoy what I have. I got a nice family. I got a basement that did not flood. I got the sweet fucking sign back here. I got a sweet hat I'm gonna get tariffed on.
I get to talk to you guys and get the interaction and You know, have fun. We got the little carved out section of The Milwaukee media, we're like the basement. Literal basement of Milwaukee Media. You walk in and the front shelves are all like you know the big the big stations and Everyone's like, oh, that's kind of shit. You got a secret club.
Just knock on the door, say Winkler verse, and you come on in. That's where the real conversation happens. That's where the should have traded Freddy Peralta with 76 wins conversation happens. But I'm enjoying this Brewer team. I mean, if you can't enjoy this Brewers team.
We can't enjoy this Brewers team. What can you enjoy? If you can't enjoy this Brewers team, Tim, what can you enjoy? You can't enjoy anything then, because I'm even gonna admit now. that I am having one hell of a time.
With this team. I feel like every night. I'm talking about the birds and being like, did you see that? Can you believe that? I might need you to edit and post.
Maybe just chop off like five to ten minutes of cue. He made his point, it went on a little long. That was some crazy stuff. That's a that's he's he's a bigger Bucks fan. That's a casual brewer fan Just trying to make this point.
I still haven't pegged down Q though in that manner because when it comes to the Bucks. If this was the Bucs, it's just he's narrow-minded with his teams. He'd be defending them to the end for the Bucs. Yeah. Or Jake might be sitting on him.
Yeah. Now let's all talk about the real problem. Is that Donald Ken LaFleur is not going to get Jordan Love to a Super Bowl? Easy. Backers go Twelve and five this year.
Where are they this weekend? Are they in Indianapolis? Indianapolis. Yeah, open their joint practice. Today.
These joint practices are really pissing me off.
Well, apparently they get better You can tell more in these joint practices than in a preseason game. Yeah, cause it's a controlled environment. The other day I was talking about um Oh, Bucks made a signing. Oh, there it is. Bucks made a signing with the spot we thought would go for Nassis.
Yeah. So if that's not going into NASA's, does that mean Giannis is out? Finassus will be on his courtside seat. Don't worry. Amir Coffee, one year deal with the Bucks.
Okay. Can we go back to the brewers real quick? Yeah. I still don't like Mark Antoncio. I probably will never like him.
But He's also kind of not the reason why this team is playing this well. It is Pat Murphy. Gotta give him his props. Probably gonna be back-to-back managers. Back-to-back manager of the year, only joining Bobby Cox.
as the only ones to go back to back. With two different managers? No, no, no. Back-to-back managers of the year. Bobby Cox done it back to back.
He did win it last year. I don't fucking remember. I don't think there should be NL and AL Managers of the Year. I've talked about that.
So just be one. Sure. It prob probably would still be Murphy. I want to go back to 1993 and be like National League, American League actually fucking matter. And the umpires too, like you had National League umpires and American League umpires.
There's different types of people. I think I already said it. I think I already said it. Mark Could easily be. Bob Nutting.
He could easily be John Fisher. He could easily be. Jerry Rheinsdorf. He could easily be the Polad family. He could easily suck.
Way worse than any of us think. He does. He's investing into this team. We may wish you would do more. And maybe he can do more.
And and maybe Maybe at some point I'll say, like, Mark fucked over 2025. But the evidence is not there right now. Yeah. The point that Cohn made about Montgomery, yeah, they they took on salary to not give up a prospect. I mean, look at the cubs.
They didn't do a single thing. Yeah. at what they needed.
Well, that's the best ballpen Craig Council's ever had. Fuck that. Why are you holding your phone up like this? Are you recording me? This is a microphone.
Oh, okay.
Okay, sorry. I thought that was a phone call. Oh, yeah, I guess it does look like my phone. From here, it looks like a phone, yeah. See, I have this case, I have a charging case.
But the top came off. And I lost it and they won't give me a new one even though it's under warranty.
Alright, I gotta go. I gotta get my steps in before my haircut.
Alright, alright. Um we still have. Maybe we should do let's talk about doing like Postgame, pregame show spark. Do you want to go get George Webb next week with me? Yeah, if you want to go, do you want to meet me in West Dallas?
I live by two. George What?
Okay. Yeah, we gotta do we want to do a podcast in line? 92nd and Beloit, and then like 73rd and Greenfield. I look like that guy that's on those like alien shows. Yeah, I'll meet you after work.
Let's definitely get a burger.
Alright, I'll get in line for us. All right, thank you everyone for stopping into the Winklerverse.
Sorry, I didn't have the best reception. I'm in Genoa, Illinois.
