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Here, new brownie 3 ply is now more absorbent. Wow. Got a clean shirt? Do you wear plaid? Ron.
Summon the strongest. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse. I'm Bart Winkler. It is Monday.
The 16th. Of March. And we've got some lousy smart weather. Here in the state of Wisconsin, buddy, the whole state. other than the northwest corner.
Was under a blizzard warning. That's insane. What the meteorologists were clear to tell us many times as I was watching some of the coverage last night, I think they did a great job. Uh, on air is that a blizzard, hi doggy. A blizzard.
It doesn't matter how many feet of snow there are or inches. It's just the gusty conditions.
So, you don't need a certain amount of inches. To have a blizzard. Just so people know, but we got probably. I mean seven or eight. Here, many other parts of the state, basically outside of Milwaukee, everyone else got two feet of snow.
Wow. Yeah. And the Apple apps, the weather app. Said two feet of snow last Tuesday. And all the meteorologists were like, don't listen to that stupid app.
Uh And then, you know. It kind of happened.
So my perpetual fight with them. Rolls on, I'll be snow blowing. In just a moment. How are you, Carlos? Ortiz joins us on the national perspective each and every Monday here.
In the Winkler verse. Yeah, very weird national perspective considering none of my gear is working the way that I want it to work, but I do have this nifty tripod, and uh I got a guest today.
So, um, I guess that works out. But it's a little rainy over here, but it's in the 50s. But other than that, I am temporarily alive, so that's good. Bill Bobegan says more dog content. Hmm.
Wolf.
Okay, where what's your dog's name? Uh this is PD. P D. Hi, P D. Isn't that Herb Street's dog's name?
I have no idea. I don't like Herb Street. See how it's okay? Carlos is in his dwelling. Yeah, and then his dog came in the screen.
Yeah, Petey's not going when we meet at Iron Bolt, you know? There's a new like commercial for a hotel Where Kirk and the dog are in it. He knows what he's doing. It's not about the dog. It's look at me.
Look at me. I have a dog. Isn't this dog cute? Look how great of a person I am for bringing this dog around. Let me be very clear.
It's more about the dog. It's about the type of guy Kirk Herbstreet is. Yeah, we are not an anti-dog stream. Not at all. Kirk Herbstreet is the type of guy.
That thinks he is deserved. certain ways of life. And then he whines when he doesn't get them. That Part of his personality bleeds through. For him and a lot of the ESPN personalities, when they're precious SEC teams.
aren't getting in the tournament. Kurt's the kind of guy. Who will say? I don't talk politics. But then When McAfee's got Trump on, Kirk's out to say, best episode ever.
Which he did too. And then he's also the kind of these are kind of guys. It's not, you know, it's not about, it's about. He would be like, why is this dog here if it was someone else's dog? If you went to a restaurant, why is your dog here?
But because it's him. He's allowed these this is a type of person It's not just about Kirk. If you're that type of person, I guess I don't like you very much.
So don't be like Kirk Herb Street. Yeah, how dare you bring your dog to the Palmetto Bowl when I'm trying to do a broadcast with my dog? Yeah, you gotta be like me whiny about people who are whiny.
Okay. Be like me. This is the national perspective. We go outside of the Wisconsin. Porsche of the Winkler verse.
Yeah, dare to be different. I think the main story as we talk right now. Is the World Baseball class well, the tournament is out. Yeah, I'll be full transparent. See, I did not look at the bracket whatsoever.
There's one team to beat, and it's Duke. Everybody else is a bunch of Randalls. Although, I will say this. Granted, you want to, this is the nationals' perspective. Wisconsin is a sneaky good team.
I actually do like. Yeah, but they're a five-seed. They've only won once as a five-seed. Sure, no, I get it, but you know, the committee always lower like. Underseeds them.
They don't like Wisconsin for some reason. Yeah, but I wouldn't be floored if Wisconsin went to the Sweet 6 team. I think they're that good. They've been good really all season. But yeah, I haven't checked the bracket because to me, it's Duke and everybody else.
I mean, you know, you saw when they destroyed North Carolina the other day. Duke is just running roughshot in everybody. It's just a matter of can they get out of their own way? And I think they will. They have a talent.
Although, I don't know if I like Cam Boozer as a number one overall pick. He's probably a top five for sure, but not number one. In any case, yeah, it's either between Selection Sunday or WBC, and I'm far locked into the WBC than I am March Madness. Ben $4.99 to get Petey some treats. Done.
I will get him some starfish beef jerky that he likes. Ben, appreciate you as always. Thanks for joining last night. And that will go to Starfish Beef Jerky, did you say? Yes.
It's like beef jerky, but there's like cutting stars. I don't know why I said starfish, but I could have just easily said stars. But starfish looks like stars. You know what sucks if you're a dog? Like if you.
If you eat something you're not supposed to, like let's say you bring home a sub-sandwich or something. And then the dog eats it. Like, he's gonna be chasing that high the rest of his life. He doesn't know how it got there.
So, my dog has been ruined from a very early age. Um I but this is what happened to me when I just got him. I've had him for I want to say, like 11 years at this point, basically, as long as I've been in this apartment. And You know, not remembering how dogs act, someone rang my bell, and I had just got a delivery of some fresh. Fettich, not a fetish, tortellini alfredo.
It was delicious. Couldn't wait to eat it. I literally. You're thinking about it. You can hear them.
Yeah, he's just barking at the neighbor. I took a bite.
Someone knocked at the door. I went to go see what was up. By the time I came back, the Tortellini Alfredo was completely gone. Because he scarfed it. It was right here.
On this nightstand, he was on the couch. Full frontal face, all up in there, eating it, the whole thing. I spent 20 bucks on that meal and got one bite. And he'll never, you ate, you found a bite to eat.
Well, it was the first initial bike that got away. You ran in and then went away. Just sat down, then walked away because someone knocked at the door, threw that money away. And I love my dog, but when I say I beat his ass. Man, did I whale on this dog?
I'm kidding, I didn't hit him. I yelled at him though. Fred says, my guys, I miss your daily banter.
So do we. We used to get paid for this. We have week to week. I do see in the comments. Whether it's YouTube or on Twitter, people saying, I'm glad you guys are still doing.
Something we do want to hear from you guys. Where you're from. How you listened. I'd love to know. After the fact, it won't.
Do anything really. But But love to. It's not falling on deaf ears. At least two people are reading it, and it's the two guys that are here. Grubinator says he loves my sabers hat.
He's got those sabers, man. Ready to break that playoff streak. Can you remind me how the playoffs work? Is it the top four in each little cluster, or it's the top three in some wild cards? It's yeah, it's essentially what you said.
It's a top three in a couple of wild cards that'll be divvied up by record. I'm very excited to watch playoff hockey for the first time, I think, in 15 years. Yeah, Buffalo got a good team. Good for you guys. Rangers stink.
So I'll just be watching for vibes. Yeah, well, root on Buffalo with me. It's New York. I got no problem with Buffalo. I don't care.
The World Baseball Classic. Just some bracket thoughts. I'm going to take Houston. They were the runner-up last year. I think they're going to, I think I'm just playing into the gymnant storyline that he's going to be there.
And, you know, we're going to be force-fed gymnants. Oh, it's going to be the gymnast invitation as it was last year, but I because he's a Houston guy. If people don't know, he's a Houston guy. He's called their games, but now that he's not doing the tournament, he can. Check them out into the stands.
The World Baseball Classic. The USA won 2-1 over the Dominican Republic. Yeah. Low scoring affair, which I actually called yesterday on Westwood One Sports, the over-under on runs was eight and a half. And I'm like, you have Skeen starting on one side, and Severino is not a bomb.
All you people chasing runs, you're going to be severely disappointed. And I was right, 2-1 game. Yeah. Very good. Good for you.
The game tonight is Venezuela against Italy. And the USA tomorrow has the winner of that. Correct.
So Italy beat Puerto Rico, your boys. Yeah, Seth Lugo, being the bum that he is, gave up four runs, not even making it two innings. Very predictable. I knew Puerto Rico's pitching was going to be their Achilles heel, and rightfully so. It popped up early.
Now, they did show some fight. Uh, they were able to tack on four runs late in the game, but they still lost eight to six. The offense was honestly getting dominated by Italian pitching for about six innings, and I guess once they got down to that hole, they were like, I think. We knew that they were going to be tapped out. Also, you know, again, not making excuses because I've been bitching about this since the beginning of the tournament, but.
They need to fix the insurance rules for a lot of these teams because, yeah, even though DR has a bomb squad, Dominican players weren't allowed to play. A couple very few Americans, I think Clay Kershaw couldn't get in the initial round because he had to get clearance. But Puerto Rico had lost a bunch of heavy hitters. Francisco Landor wasn't allowed to play for insurance reasons. Jose Berrios, Carlos Correa, Javi Baez had a stupid marijuana suspension that was supposed to eclipse, like, honestly, like.
probably a couple days from now and they just would not make an exception. To let them play.
So, Puerto Rico got really shafted in this tournament to the point where the president of the Puerto Rican Baseball Federation said, hey, we might pull out. Um but You know, Puerto Rico being one of the hosts. Is that a Puerto Rican thing to do? Pulling out, not really. Usually, we just take the kids and go on welfare.
But. Yeah, they decided to stick to their guns and uh And play on considering Puerto Rico was one of the host countries for pool play. But This is going to be something to monitor. One of the host territories. Yeah, because we're not a country, but that's another fight for another day.
But yeah, I'm not surprised. I think I'm more surprised in who they lost to. Not necessarily in the manner of which they lost. Italy is going on an incredible run. Italy is just like the USA JV team.
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny, there's a Venezuelan guy on Italy. Like, the rules in terms of like, How far your parentage can go in terms of what country you can play for. It's really just like a what if you feel like being British that one year, you can play for Great Britain. It's like they don't ever count anything. It's like, oh, your great-grandparent is like quarter Irish.
Well, Ireland doesn't have a team, but when it does, you can beat their starting pitcher if you want. Oh, your cousins are four removes up. Four moves away from being Kenyan. All right, you can play for Africa, even though you're white as snow.
So, like, it doesn't matter where you're from. They canagle away in order to get you onto a country. But there's a, you know, there's a couple of major leaguers on Italy. It's not like they're a bunch of scrubs, they're not a bunch of plumbers. Yeah, like Vinny Pascatino and John Bertie.
Yeah, and Jack Haglioni, you know, he was raking it when he was in the with Florida in the College World Series. You know, I think this is what going to be his second year with the Royals.
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We miss being on the radio. At least I do. You're still on there. Yeah, I I d I kinda do miss being in a studio, but I just got a Comrex and it's like completely rejuvenated my uh radio career. Hmm.
Okay. The main storyline. That I've seen. Is From a sports radio standpoint. Sure.
Because Now that I have I just I'm taking a I'm I'm I'm more watchful. I'm trying to think what I would talk about. I'm using this year. Too prep 'cause I I want to come back to radio. I want to be a program director.
Oh, can you hire me? Yeah. Thank god, man. No, I don't know any radio station that's going to entrust me. I want to be a suit.
That I rallied against. And I I would love to sell out. An issue that sports radio. has or maybe it doesn't have Or, this is just a personality trait. When we don't have to talk about the games, we won't.
We don't talk about The games. We talk about the peripheral to the games.
So when a game happens. Like last night, USA won 2-1. The last pitch was low. It was called a strike.
So we'll talk about ABS because they don't have that there. And that is about the game, but it's a jumping point. The other thing is. When they ask these players, how much do you care about this thing? And Julio Rodriguez says, I care more about this than winning a World Series.
Aaron Judge said the same thing. Aaron Judge, I know he had some comments about the crowds, and then I saw one of the WFAN guys. It might have been Tommy overnight. 1000%. Yeah, because I just saw that video on my way back home.
So clown tick. He's all pissed that I. The take was like You you it's the Yankees you got to play for the We have to do a better job. Yeah. The Yankee Comparing the Yankees in USA baseball, I mean, I get why you asked the question, but even with like Euro Basket and some of these guys, they would much rather win for their country.
And I don't think it's a sin for Aaron Judge to say. The fans in this tournament. Are more hyped up than the fans that we see 162 days a year. And then, well, if you're like, well, what about the World Series? The fans that are going to this tournament can also afford to go to this tournament because nobody wants to go.
Some guy I saw got like third. 15th role last night, home base for 45 bucks in Miami. Tickets are available. That means if Order was in the Miami, I would have done this stream from Miami because I was going to go today. If Puerto Rico would have won?
If Puerto Rico advanced, I would have been there today. How? Why? With what money? I have a credit card that I shouldn't be maxing out, but I would.
But it was affordable and it was right there in reach. But then Italy took care of that.
So Italy was looking out for my bank account. Look, I would have come. Oh, yeah, I bet you would.
Well, I wouldn't have been able to come today. I couldn't get out of the airport. Oh, very true. Yeah, I would have been in sunny Miami. Plus, I have a cousin that lives down there, so I wouldn't have to worry about boarding.
When we go to San Diego, we're flying in and going to a game that night, but I I probably just we probably won't make I I don't know the the the yeah I don't know. I don't know. I'm trusting the travel system to get me there on time. How will I know? Have a fish taco for me.
I will. I have a fish taco in San Diego, California for you. But it's not the same. It's not the same and I don't I think when when people come and try to understand it, I I think it makes them look stupid. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of things to unpack here.
A lot of the people that are clowning and shitting all over the WBC. I don't know how it is so hard to comprehend. Like, you just don't get it, dude. I mean, like. Where's your national pride?
I mean, you're downplaying it because either A, this should be so easy that the U.S. American team should just be able to stonewall all your competition. Therefore, it's not worth your time. Or, two, um, You know, if you're just a curmudgeon and you don't like to see your thing, which is baseball, which is supposed to be the national pastime, you don't want to share your toy with the rest of the world.
So, either way, the onus of you not liking the WBC, if you're one of these curmudgeons, it's totally on you. The WBC is accomplishing exactly what MLB wanted it to do, and that was grow the game internationally. Look at all the countries that are completely locked in. DR locked in. Puerto Rico, you know, again, maybe not a country, locked in.
Italy, you don't think that there's going to be some residual effects from Italians in Italy watching their team go far? I'll be that. I did see somebody from Brazil say. I live in Brazil and I've never seen a baseball here.
So I don't know why Brazil's got a team.
Some of these teams need to kind of be reallocated a little bit. A little Seattle Sonics action. Maybe it's not Brazil. Maybe it's Peru. I don't know.
There has to be some sort of floor where it's not completely. All right. We know six teams are going to advance. The other ones are just here to fill out a bracket. But again, the WBC is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing.
And I understand why people are shitting on it. As far as the whole, oh, you know, let's downplay the WBC. It's not the World Series. Let's put things into perspective. It's never a World Series.
This is an MLB championship. The only time it can even be considered a World Series is if fucking Toronto was in it. Because then you have one country versus another in terms of that. It's always just been major league baseballs. Season champion.
How did it get named the World Series? No clue. No clue. We are no longer the only country in the world that plays baseball. And I think a lot of people have a problem with that.
It's okay to expand the game. NFL has been trying to do it. NBA wants to do it. Baseball seems to be on the cusp of actually getting there in terms of growth for their game to the point that we might actually have the base Olympic baseball in two years, which I think will be pretty fucking cool.
So, share your toys, man. Like, if you love baseball, you should want more people more countries and more people to be invested in the game. The World's Championship Games was a best of nine affair that came about as part of a peace agreement. between the competing leagues. The National League and American League.
The World's Championship Games or World's Championship Series quickly became the World's Series. or the world Series Despite a long-held theory that a sponsorship from the New York World newspaper had something to do with it. The simplest explanation is Marketing Yeah, it should have been called the Intercontinental Series.
Okay. Yeah, I mean there wasn't a team in Toronto till when. Yeah, I took what the 50s? Yeah, 50s, 60s. Yeah.
I do. Understand the criticism that Team USA is getting.
Now we're rooting for USA in this household. Yeah, I don't mind USA. I am American, you know, contrary to popularity. I'm not going to be one of these guys, but. And my kid, he was going nuts last night, dude.
He was going like it was insane. Like he's gone, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a good game. Yeah, and then he stayed up late because no school today, which already's up there playing 2K, I think. I don't know why.
What a perfect childhood day for him. It is great. But it does seem like The USA, if you take a step back. It seems like you're watching a movie. Where the USA is the villain.
We're cold. We come off like Iceland and Mighty Ducks 2. We're just told the logo sucks. The logo sucks. Yeah.
I just got the USA WBC hat, and it's so. Whatever. It's so blah. We celebrate by being like, yes, good job, sir. Everyone else is like, you And we don't do that.
Dude, look, the the US team, it they're they're being treated like a band of mercenaries they're like all right you're supposed to be here You should be you should be mercy ruling people in your sleep. No fault. We got to find the right sport for Joe Davis because baseball is not it. I don't know what the sport for Jodi is would be. Joe Davis is more like you saw him and John Smoltzer on the broadcast, but he tells the story in a way that it's just not conducive.
It never gets any lower, but it hardly gets any higher. It's still the same. Cadence, like Who's been getting rave reviews lately? I and Eagle. He had a call, Wisconsin, Michigan.
It was a great game. They were crazy for that because there's a range of emotion, and you know when to use it. I don't think that Joe Davis. He just doesn't reach the big moments enough. And he doesn't even like.
Like Kevin Burckhardt. Might not be a big voice for some people still. There's an effort there. To get into that big moment. Joe is just he's I think he feels he would be better suited to call baseball in the.
In the 1920s. Yeah. Like he sounds like a radio guy. He's following Vin Scully. Yeah, he's just tr he's trying to be a pros pro.
Whereas He sounds instead of copying Vince Cully, he sounds like he's trying to be the guy that Vince Scully would learn from. Right. Right. Vin Scali's predecessor. Yeah, they went backwards.
The doctors. I don't know. But I guess, you know, USA go USA, Venezuela. Or Italy. Uh I tell you right now, if uh if Venezuela knocks out the US, You're going to hear every radio shock jock just completely shit on either the US team or this tournament as a whole, and be like, ah, this is a big waste of time.
If they lose the U.S. to Venezuela, and we get like Venezuela versus. Italy or something like that. No one's going to tune into this final. And it's gonna be a shame.
Well, U.S. is in the final. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, 'cause they're they're waiting for Italy and Venezuela's tonight. But yeah, if they lose to one of those guys, forget it.
You're going to be like, okay, all right. You sucker to sin. What a waste of time. We also kidnapped their president earlier this year. Yeah, uh How much of a Cinderella story would it be if Venezuela was to knock off Italy and then beat the U.S.?
And, like, we're doing this for Maduro. But no, you know, you're hearing that. Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic. I'm putting my bottom dollar on Iran. To win the World Cup.
Is Iran even allowed to compete? Like, I thought that there were going to be like shadow banned or something. They gotta come. They got to come. They got to come.
It's the word they qualify for the World Cup. You got to come. I don't know, man. It's our job to protect the shit out of them, but nobody's, we're not going to do anything. You gotta prete you gotta they gotta come.
You can't take that away from them. They qualified for the World Cup and see. I want to get more into this at some point. I won't do it to you. But you saw some F1 races canceled overseas.
Now WWE's got to rethink going back to Saudi. Like.
Well, I can't invest in an area. Like, you can invest in that area. It's fine. I'm not, you can invest anywhere you want, but then. Don't subsequently blow it up.
Right. Don't say, hey, I'm going to give you $100, but I'm probably going to stab you and take 80 of it back. Yeah, man. I don't know. If I was like, I get the World Cup, I get the World Cup.
I wouldn't be like, which of these 47 countries can I bomb? Yeah. I that's that's just me. What do I know? I'm just a dumb fucking idiot.
Yeah, I mean, that's why I'm not in office. Because I I don't think I'd blow people up. At least not left and right. On a stalist stalis Tom. NBA expansion into Las Vegas and Seattle necessary?
Seattle's 1000% necessary. The biggest travesty is that we don't have the Seattle Sonics yet already. Yeah, the report from Shimes. That had anybody going crazy today? Is that the NBA is going to hold a vote?
at the governor's meetings next week. And they're going to try to add Las Vegas and Seattle. would likely be the teams. I think if you live in another city, you could be like, hey, what about us? But the NBA, I think, has been pretty obvious that when we expand.
We are going to. Go to Las Vegas and come back to Seattle. Yeah, they've been pretty obvious, especially with the Seattle part, because I think people realize. All right, the just the passionate fan base and like I think what did it for me. Was a couple of years ago when it was Kevin Owens and Elias.
And they were in Seattle. And they were, and they drew nuclear heat because they talked about how the Sonics left the city, and it was just. The loudest booze you've heard for five to six minutes straight, where they could not even get their promo out. One of the greatest moments in WWE, if you want to go check it out, Vegas was definitely obvious, too. What about when the Lakers fought the Nuggets?
Do you remember that, Rob? Main event? Oh yeah, how about that? It was a very random fight as well. And then Halliburton versus Brunson.
They would be at. To answer Ben's question, they would be adding teams. Yes, they would add two teams.
Now, one of the teams have to move from the west to the east, right? Yeah, Memphis or That's what I was thinking as well. Memphis would make the obvious sense because they're in Tennessee. It's not necessarily a West Coast. Memphis is this side of the Mississippi.
Minnesota, though, you could have a. Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago. Wisconsin division like you do in the NSC. Yeah, I don't mind that at all either. But yeah, Minnesota or Memphis, one of those obviously makes the most sense.
And they were testing Vegas for the last couple of years. I mean, having. Having their summer league championships there and all that stuff, like they've Pretty much told everybody where the two teams are going to go. Like, I'd be shocked if it was like. I don't know.
Give me a random look. Idaho got a team, like it was always going to be Seattle and Vegas. Jake says happy 316 day. To a couple of fellow marks. And that's the bottom line.
He says he's not showing up tonight at Raw.
Okay, so fully expect them to show up. It's Chris says, I cannot tune into any sports radio show without hearing Mr. Positive call in. Yeah, he called in yesterday to the show that I was working in, and we didn't take him. I texted the board up and like, uh, lose the number.
I'm going to send him a link and I'll have him on as a guest one day.
Well yeah, I'm making a Monday. I'm not here. You want to talk to him next week? Absolutely not. Agent Google.
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Justin Fields to the Chiefs. Any comments there? Kyler Murray to the Vikings. Any comments there? Kyler Murdy, the Vikings, is actually pretty intriguing.
If he can't put it together here with Kevin O'Connell, it's never going to work for him. Is it a great fit? In terms of Kyler's play style and what Kevin O'Connell calls as an offense, not really, but this just further cements why Quesi Odolfo Mensa got fired because JJ McCarthy will never be a starter in this league. When you go and you get Kyler, you've given up on JJ. Geez.
Who would have seen that coming? Drafting a QB from that won a national title. On the backs of their defense and their running game. Yeah, maybe not spend a top 10 pick on that kid.
So, I mean, I feel kind of bad for JJ McCarthy, but I am not surprised whatsoever. I do like it for Kyler in terms of the landing spots. I mean, you. Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson. All you got to do is just throw the ball.
We'll let those guys go. He couldn't even do that to Marvin Harrison, Trey McBride. I don't know if Marvin Harrison is that guy quite yet. He's not. He's a name.
I think he's going to be a good receiver, but he's never going to be a Justin Jefferson. What about the Arch Manning, Marvin Harrison Jr., possibly? Manning to Harrison could be back if Arch gets drafted there next year? I mean, it'd be a great storyline. I don't know if Arizona is going to be.
That bad were their number one overall pick again. Or, yeah, number one overall pick. But, you know, it would be interesting. As far as Justin Fields going to the Chiefs, I actually think that this makes great sense for Kansas City because they lost Gardner Minshew.
So they need somebody because I don't think Patrick Mahomes is going to be ready for week one. Um, Patrick Mahomes, I will say this about him: whether you think that he's a herb because he sounds like Kermit the Frog and whatnot, and he does some goofy-ass things. The dude is a competitor, man. He will. He will play hurt, and you have to kind of protect him against yourself, against himself if you're Kansas City.
So I like Justin Fields to come in there, kind of run training camp, run OTAs, get familiar with the offense. You know, he can't possibly get worse with Andy Reid. Um so yeah, it makes sense on both sides. The Jets had to get rid of him once they got Geno Smith. All right, I need to tell you my story.
Please.
So I was an extra in a commercial. Very nice.
So I saw this thing on Twitter. Where some guy tagged a bunch of Some guys some guy take a bunch of guys in at my old station. That there's going to be this thing. And so I saw one of the guys. He showed up.
And You you wanna you wanna come on? You wanna come on? Does Asian Guru want to come on? Let me hit let me hit the board. I can send the link out at the end, but.
Okay. Um oh Bobby says you're you look like you lost some weight. Thank you. I'm down 34 pounds. Nice.
Mm. Yeah, I got it. I'm like halfway to where I want to go. I am doing this stupid high rocks in three months, so I better lose weight.
So, they don't talk about me at my old station like they can't say my name, I guess. Yeah, you're Voldemort.
So, this guy was telling a story, and he kept saying, Oh, yeah. People people I talk to at the thing. Board?
Well there's me.
So I was an extra. NBC Sunday Night Baseball is going to have an opening. Where there's a baseball song. Similar to Carrie Underwood.
Okay. And it's a baseball song. I've been waiting all day for Sunday night. Exactly the same lyrics as the football one. There's got to be a little bit of like take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd.
Like we had to sit out on Sunday night. Uh what's my em oh okay, what's my email? Email into the Winklerverse at gmail.com.
Okay. I'm just waiting for that Sunday night football theme. And it's the Giants and the A's going hard on Sunday night. Chris wants to know where your drops are. Carlos is on his phone because he couldn't hear me on his computer for something.
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So there is a band. That A lot of people know. And they walked on stage. We were at Miller Park on Thursday night. I showed up at 4.30.
I didn't leave till 1 a.m. Jesus. I showed up. I'd brought my brother along. We filled out our forms.
We're getting $200. Minus a $30 talent fee.
So $170. They're mailing us a check.
Okay. But we did this. As extras.
So there was a band set up on the Visiting dugout. They set up a stage. The band came out and everyone's like I think the band thought we'd be like, oh my God, it's them. But it no one did that. Yeah.
And so there were like 10 rows of people and they would take shots of the band. And a drone would come overhead.
So you might see the top of my head. They also did take some crowd shots.
So you might see me. Like you might see the back of the singer's head and then me and my brother there. We're going to have to parse this Sunday Night Baseball Open like the Zaruda film. Like, just go frame by frame. Why it took so long at the end was.
We were all sitting in the 10 rows. And they're like, okay, we're going to do this film trick where we're going to fill in the stadium.
So I think they're going to zoom out. Because then he went to do some stuff. He went to do some stuff on home plate.
So I think they're going to zoom out, and the stadium is going to be full. Or whatever AI stadium they use, but they're taking our real people. And they moved us around so that it would look like a different crowd. Like it would look like there's 40,000 people when it's really just 150.
So we had to keep going down seven steps. And like fake dance for like an hour and a half. That was the worst part. But there were a lot of career extras there. A lot of people there were from Chicago that drove up.
Did this, went back to Chicago. I overheard some say they had a Chicago fire or Chicago PD shoot. That they had a 12-hour day for. Wow. So I think it back to like two in the morning.
And then went to be an extra on Chicago Med or whatever. But it was might not be wrong saying any of those because it is Chicago PD, Fire, and Med. There are three Chicago shows, which is so dumb. And I'm from Chicago.
So being in the radio. With Infinity, I had to be under the SEG after a union. And then after that's when I got my first real acting work. But I don't know if I was able to because I was I supposed to be union? You're asking me the wrong question.
By the time I was about to pay, it's the non-union job. This extra thing is a non-union job. Yeah. But can I do non-union jobs as a union? I think a lot of people there were probably in Seg Ave.
I think they probably were. All right. But it's just a weird, it's a weird, it's a weird good for you. I like I would even, as a grown man, now shadow other people's jobs. I got like seven friends.
I have more friends than that, but I have like seven friends who are project managers. I don't know what the fuck they do. I don't know what that is. Yeah. But I'll manage a project sure.
Dude, I'm 40 years old. I applied to be an intern for the Yankees last week. I have no fucking shame. We need jobs. We got to get one quick because they're all going away.
Very, very quickly. We're all going to AI. We might be AI right now. You haven't seen me. I was stupid.
What? You haven't seen me and AI in the same room? Did I get in any arguments with Cubs fans? Not there. No, I was able to return to the scene of the crime.
When my brother and I. Nobody told you to sit down. When my brother and I were being heckled by other Brewers fans to sit down. And lightly escorted out of the building towards the end. Little did we know that in just three months' time we'd be back as extras for the NBC Sunday Night Baseball Open.
So when that starts, that's starting in a couple weeks. We'll be able to see if I was in or not, but probably at the end of March. I will be recording it and again. like the jfk assassination Frame by frame. Oh, that might be Bart.
No, that's actually somebody more attractive. Yeah, we'll go through it frame by frame on the show here and see if we can figure out. Where exactly I am. And that is the national perspective. That's all I'm coming to the table with today.
Anything else on your end? I got to go snowblow. Oh, my snowblower works. Oh yeah, I remember you told this story. Do you know how I fixed it?
No, that part I could use the resolution. Otherwise, I can't go on with the rest of my week. Yeah, I I put gas in it. That's it? My snow blower was broke all winter.
I checked everything. Head to toe. It was the gas. I was out of gas. What a letdown.
I was out. I'll guess. Great story. I like the end. Oh, this guy says he sent the email.
I've been waiting all day for Asian email. Like you said, but Hold on. It's time for Sunday night baseball with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Taking on the Cleveland Guardians. There's Barts.
Mic Torico gonna bore us more than usual? That was a strike, except ABS called it a ball. I'm just killing time until you can get the email up. Yeah, he's got a YouTube. With us on it, I want credit.
Oh, Asian guru. Yeah, he's got 11,000 subscribers. Yeah, I need royalties. Make it happen. I was going to say sales get on it, but we are sales.
We are management. or the custodians we are um We're pretty freaking low on the totem poll and high on the totem poll as well. In fact, we are the totem poll. Thanks for stalling there. It looks like he put...
30 minutes of phone recording on YouTube. Along with Carlos and Marco on Infinity Sports Network. How many likes did it get? I only see one. He just shared it.
It has two views. All right. I love the skulls and games you guys are great. I'm calling dibs on that one. Oh, you're so lucky.
I was gonna I was eyeing it too. No, I love, love. Honest. Love the Chiefs in that game. Oh, is this a six-pack segment?
Yeah, you like the cults, I assume.
So it looks like Asian Guru clips some of our worst audio and put it together as a low light reel. All right. I will listen to that later. I'll listen to what you did later. If I can.
Um I'm very fascinated to know what you have collected. But I'm not going to do that now. For I have to shovel. But if you want to. Uh Bart Winkler Show along with Carlos and Marco on Infinity Sport Network.
It is on YouTube. Yeah, that's a piece of history right there because it no longer exists. The show or the network. It's been about three months. People have moved on.
Can I was thinking about I was thinking about laying bare, like. My side of the story regarding my career. But I feel like I can't keep beating the drum of: hey, remember when I signed off? But then I see these articles like Howard Eskin hates radio. Joe, whatever his name, radio sucks.
Joe Beningo. Yeah, but those guys are literally old men yelling at clouds. Literally, Spike was like, My dad is so out of fucking touch, or whatever he said. Yeah, psychask. Like Howard Eskin is shitting on the station where he was bro, where he was a broadcaster for like 20, 30 years, and his son does currently afternoon drive.
talking about my dad was on here yesterday and he's talking about his sub stack But imagine if the sub stack was like Yeah, I was listening to my son's shitty fucking podcast. It's like, I can't believe myself. Then I had to go on Twitter. Fuck you, dad, you asshole dad. I can't wait for Craig Carton's son to like give him the fucking shank.
Yeah. All right. I got to make sure that it was just the gas. I'll report back next week. Carlos, always good to see you.
No, pleasure is mine. And I'll talk to you soon.
So, check out Asian Gurus YouTube. We'll be back with mm-hmm mm-mm tomorrow. Thank you as always for stopping into the Winklerverse. Ever notice how life's best stories don't happen in your living room? They happen on the open road, out on the water, or parked under the stars.
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