Yeah Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler versus I'm Bart Winkler. It is April 3rd. Happy Brett, Good Friday to you. I'm back.
We are back from San Diego. A very nice family trip. Got a lot in. In not a lot of time. Want to talk about that?
Got some voicemails to play, and the Brewers off to a very hot start at 5-1. Tim. Um with the Royals coming up this Weekend. I first just want to say thank you to my friends. at Southwest Air.
We hovered around Dubuque for about 45 minutes because we were coming in. on the plane is the storms in Milwaukee. were happening with the tornado warnings and the And the rain and the lightning. And so obviously we couldn't fly through that. It was a bit harrowing, but they did a good job, got us home safe.
Just a little three-day trip. and tried to pack a lot in. To that, I'll put the link in if anybody wants to join live. Otherwise, we got some voicemails that I want to play from the week. That I got and we'll just talk a little brewers.
Here on a Friday, a little shorter episode today, and we'll pick back things up, pick things back up, Tim, Tim, Tim, on Monday. Uh with Carlos coming up. On Tuesday.
So we went to San Diego on Monday. We went to a Padres game. Immediately, the Padres had very little offense. Giants beat them. Giants took two or three in that series.
We're following the Brewers and Rays. I believe that's the night they lost. Otherwise, they picked up a couple of wins and some great Brewer kind of wins. Um they are five and one. They're off to a great start.
It's very exciting. I think Brewers TV, now that I know what channel it's on, is doing a good job. You can tell they've got a lot of new toys. A lot of drone shots, a lot of different shots of. The skyline in Milwaukee that we have not seen, a lot of shots of the crowd.
So, I guess if you go to the game, There's a better chance of you getting on TV if you're at. The Brewer Stadium in the next couple of weeks because they are testing out all these new cameras.
So be very cautious of what you're doing at all times. Plus, They've got pretty insane facial recognition. that I don't think we talk about. enough. But at this point, we're all just being monitored all the time.
I saw one guy yesterday at the airport wearing this uh 250th anniversary hat. And I had not seen the hat before of America. 19 or 1776 to 2026. And I was like, that's an interesting hat. I wonder.
What compelled this guy to buy a hat? I assumed that he had served at one point. He had that like. You know, that look where you're like, oh, you've served. I'm not saying that's a judgment.
I'm just saying, you know, it's like a... Kind of a rounder face, a little blotchy. You know the guy. Maybe it's your dad, maybe it's your father-in-law, but he's wearing this hat. And I thought, that's an interesting hat.
And then I checked my phone, and there's ads for the hat. I didn't say anything about the hat. I didn't talk to anybody about the hat. But there was the hat on my ad.
So maybe, maybe it's a coincidence. But I'm sort of uh playing under the assumption that There's not a lot of coincidences anymore. And so I do think while the phone does listen to you, It also um It also can hijack your brain.
So that's pretty sweet.
So we went to the Padres game on Monday. I'd been to Petco Park before. Last time I went to San Diego, it was 15 years ago. When the Chargers played. This is live, Carl.
This is live. I've been to San Diego when the Chargers played. The Packers back in there. undefeated for a while season. They went 15 and 1.
The Chargers was a tough game. They were up like 45 to 21. Or even better than that. And then Philip Rivers. Had three touchdowns unanswered.
I want to say the final score was 45-38. And that stadium was not great. I get why they wanted a new stadium. I wish they didn't move. I saw maybe one Charger shirt the entire time, a lot of Padres gear.
Throughout the zoo and Legoland, which we also did, a lot of Dodgers gear. Also, obviously Giants gear with the Giants being in town, people making A couple of days out of it. But the stadium, what I liked about Petco in the past, if anybody's ever been there, is. The stadium was connected to a park. The stadium is connected to a park, and the park used to be just a park.
You could go in it at any time. And You could also walk down. And in the outfield, there was like a little sand area with bleachers. And when They weren't playing, you could still like walk in the park and essentially be in the stadium. And I thought that was very cool.
Well, that obviously ended. And they privatize that.
So now to get into that park. With like the Tony Gwynn statue and you know you can buy tickets and sit in the grass out there it's probably much cheaper But you do need a ticket now, from what I understand, to get in.
So I wanted to check that out. I thought that might be the case, but I still thought it's just, it's, you know, it's. I guess they don't want people in the park maybe during the game, but it was cool because you could still go to the park. You could be in the park. You know, you can like go to Miller Park.
And if you want to see the Pro shop, you can see the team store, the clubhouse, you can still like see the stadium. That's kind of cool, but this was an actual park. Which they privatize.
So. Whatever. I think they've done a lot of enhancements to the stadium. I mean, it was 15 years ago, I just saw that part of it. But man It is like It is like It's a maze.
It's amazing. If you walk out of your seat into the concourse, you don't feel like you're in the concourse of the stadium. You feel like you're in like. the shops like a strip mall, like a nice outdoor Strip mall. It's very confusing.
And if you want to go down a level, Good luck. Finding stairs, finding escalators, it's It's very confusing. It's very nice. It's very nice. It's just very.
Confusing, but great views. We sat in the second level. Great views. Good game. I like the park a lot.
And um My kid and I, we have this like scratch-off thing where we're going to try to go to every stadium. At least that's the intent. And so now we've crossed three off our list, with, of course. Ampham and then Wrigley last year, and now Petco Park.
So we'll kind of base our trips around baseball stadiums. That's basically how I travel. uh just for just for sports. Is that's that I've I would have never been to Boston, I would have never been to Dallas, I would have never been to Jacksonville, I would have never been to Seattle, I would have never been to all these different places. Denver, maybe, but sports take me there for the Packer trips.
And now, hopefully, I can do the same thing with my boy. and my family with um with baseball.
So That was fun. It was a good stadium. It was fun. Um The b The stadium is, you know, it's like right off the highway, it's right downtown. Um Interesting little area.
And we had a good time.
So, Petco Park, very good. Amenity is good. It's just they kind of privatized a lot of what used to be. um sort of a you know kind of more of a park situation. Didn't hit up much of the gas lamp.
That's the district right by it. This time last time got very drunk at the dicks last resort. 15 years ago. I don't know that that's still open. I don't know that I would have taken the...
the boy and the wife. as you say to the To that area.
So we did that. We did the zoo. The zoo was very compelling. We look. The Milwaukee Zoo.
Is nice. They do a good job. But when you go to the Milwaukee Zoo, don't you feel like Oh, we're only going to see like two of the five things we want to see. Oh, there's no animals here today. Or, oh, they're sleeping.
You like, never see. All of it. When we went to the San Diego Zoo, We got We saw a lot of, like, the animals were out, but we also got very lucky in what we did see. Little picture here of the collage I made. We saw the pandas.
Those are pandas, not koalas, which are new. We saw a polar bear. Eat a fish, try to eat it on the rocks. It went into the water. He then dove in after it, was wrestling with the fish to try to eat it.
Very captive. And we saw a tiger eat. We saw a gorilla essentially pose. He was watching us. Who's really at the zoo?
He was watching us. So we like, we timed it well. It was perfect. We saw some fascinating things. at the zoo to see these animals.
I have a hard time with zoos because They are in captivity, and this is their life. It's not what they want. They should be free. but also it's a great learning experience and you know the animals there. Yeah, I don't know.
It's kind of prisony. But I feel like You know, at this prison. At least these guys, you know, they have it. They have they have it they have it nice. You know, I don't think it's like a.
Maybe a white collar kind of person, but we saw a lot of cool stuff. Who's really at the zoo is something I always think about. From Ben. Yeah, exactly. We were being watched.
It was quite weird. We were. being watched. We took a We we tried to spot every logo that we saw. in the zoo I posted that on Facebook and on Twitter.
Obviously, a lot of Padres, a lot of Dodgers, but we saw a lot of random logos as well: Bills, a lot of Bears, actually, a few Chicago people, a couple other Bucks and Brewers. And it's interesting, you see another guy with a Brewer's hat. And I was wearing a Brewer's hat. Oh, Brewer's hat. I'm like, should I talk to this guy?
It's. It's interesting, but the zoo is fun. And we went to Legoland the next day. And then the Children's Museum the next morning. We had a nice hotel with a pool with water slides.
It was a nice trip. It was a little cold actually for San Diego, maybe 68 degrees, a little windy. The last time I was in San Diego, it did rain during the Packers Chargers game.
So I've probably been to San Diego for eight days in my life. And I've gotten Sunshine and 70, maybe for A day and a half of them. Otherwise, cloudy. And not rainy this time, that was good, but windy and it was cold.
So if you sat by the pool and you were not in the pool, Uh which was heated. It was very cold.
So, overall, a very good trip. Glad to be home. Did not see the San Diego chicken. Didn't see the fryer. Didn't see the friar.
Legoland, Legoland's fun. I wanted to spend more time just looking. They have miniature, like New York, miniature San Diego, miniature. San Francisco, miniature Las Vegas, like the collection that went into this was very, very cool.
So, like, I mean, there's this, it was a good time. It was a good trip. Glad we went. Family had a good time. Again, a little turbulence on the way back.
but had a lot of fun. Uh doing so. While I was there, obviously paying attention to the brewers as much as we could, trying to watch some of it at the hotel when we had some downtime. Man, Pacific time zone's weird, though. These brewer games are starting at 4 o'clock.
The game. The game on Wednesday started at 9.40. My time. In San Diego. Obviously, I know that the Pacific time zone is different, but when you're actually there, It's weird.
I told Cone Roller it feels like a cheat code. You get sports earlier. They end earlier. The West Coast games don't start at 9:30. They start at 7:30.
If I lived in the Pacific time zone, I'd probably get two to three more hours of sleep a night. Like this final four coming up this weekend. You know, these games start at 8 o'clock here, 9 o'clock East Coast. There's 6 o'clock, you're in bed by 8:30, or you can go out and then just. You're not tied to a TV or something, or you can go to the game and then still have the rest of your night.
I mean, I like watching a late-night sport game. But also, it's kind of nice when everything's done, and you can say, all right, it's 9:30. Uh, we'll go to bed. I don't know that we're fully adjusted from the time zone. I don't know what it feels like.
I'm recording this at 10 in the morning on Friday. I don't know what it feels like. For me right now, but it is it is trippy. It is very trippy. Anyway, been dancing around the Brewers.
Do want to mention them. They are 5-1. They've got the Royals coming up this weekend. Yes, it's an Apple TV Plus game. Here tonight.
Chad Patrick on the bump for the crew. Brandon Sprout needs a better outing tomorrow afternoon. That game will be on FS1. And also Brewers TV and then Sunday normal start time. When Kyle Harrison, who pitched well that first game.
Will be on the mound, and then the Brewers head out to Boston to take on the Red Sox. Obviously, Caleb Durbin. You've seen that now. He is struggling. Red Sox fans are not happy.
I believe he started 0 for 18. Caleb Durbin, friend of show. Was hoping maybe friend of life. Kind of had an in finally with the Milwaukee Brewer, and then they traded him right away. But I am not giving up on my guy, Caleb.
He's been through a lot of adversity. I think he's a little homesick. I think the trade took him off guard. He's getting acclimated to a new team, new town, new organization. There is a fantasy league I'm in.
I will be trying to make a trade for Caleb Durbin. I'm going to try to buy high or buy low. on Caleb Durbin. But that's only because He signed a Coaster for my son.
So we have to love him forever. In this household, the other brewers thing that I've seen really is just Cubs fans? Yapping about the Brewers? Yeah, we've seen the same clips. We've seen the same arguments.
The elf legs getting discussion again in a history lesson from Obvious Shirts Online about what it means. And at the Brewers holding the L-flag, I get they, you know what? I need to put the L-flag behind me. The Brewers held it up after they beat the Cubs. We fly the L-flag when the Brewers beat the Cubs.
We never. Do anything with the W flag. We only fly the L flag. People have brought it in. We fly it.
There was an L flag hanging up in the 1250 studios for a long time when I was there. It's the L flag. It's the Cubs lose. It's the L flag. They are trying to Take it back.
We held it up because they lost. We beat them. They're trying to say, no, no, no, no, no. When you hold up that flag, that means you lose your losers. And then obviously, we got swept by the Dodgers, so they thought it was some curse.
And then the Bears beat the Packers. That wasn't a curse. That's because Matt LaFleur's a shitty coach. That's why that happened. The Bucs struggled.
That wasn't a curse. That's because Doc Rivers is the Hall of Fame.
Well, the fame coach and they let Jimmy Haslam come aboard. For some fucking reason. Um So, no, that's not the curse. I've seen a lot already on this rivalry. It's annoying me.
I can't handle the rivalry, first of all. I can't. I couldn't handle the Bears game. I couldn't handle the Cubs series. I've, I've.
Openly admitted that I can't do it. I don't want to do it. I don't think the rivalry should be a 365. day of year thing. When I comment on it, people say, Oh, is this your first rivalry?
Is this yours? Rivalry shouldn't be a personality trait. The Cubs and Brewers don't play till May 18th. I think it's fine to like. check the score and be like, aha, they lost.
you know Maybe keep that to yourself or I don't know. I think it's more obnoxious than it needs to be. And I don't enjoy it. And I try to stay out of it, but it seems like people enjoy it. People enjoy.
Brewers fans, we're not absolved from this. Brewers fans enjoy thinking about the Cubs. 365 days a year. Cubs fans enjoy. Thinking about the Brewers 365 days a year.
And we're down to the nitty-gritty of complaining that the Brewers put up a sign that said noise on their scoreboard. And that's what we're arguing about right now. Like, let's just focus on yourself. Doesn't need to always be the case. Ben is here this morning.
Ben, what's up, buddy? Morning, Bart. Glad to have you back. Good to see you live. What's up?
Um Yeah, I like the Cubs Brewers rivalry. I think it's nice to have it. Yeah. I like making sure the Cubs lose. Yeah, there's It's not part of my personality, I think, but Um The playoffs were a heck of a ride last year, and I would love to have that again.
You know, playing your rival in the playoffs is. Peak sports fandom. I I mean I was going to say, I like the rivalry too. I don't. I don't.
I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't. It the problem for me. Isn't even the team.
Obviously, I hate counsel. Yeah, I'm there with you on that one. And that's been three years.
So I don't know if it's as white hot rage as it was. Um, but I still don't like them. I don't, you know, I Pete Crowe Armstrong is going to get annoying, and that's you know, that's part of it the same way that. You know, yell it's just probably annoying to them. You see a guy enough times it's going to get annoying.
I just, I wish the, I've said this about the Bears, like. Bears Week is Bears Week, and there's two of them. And you know, there's the draft, and maybe they make a trade or the free agent signing. You know, I've said like you get 21 days to think about the Bears, and the Brewers and Cubs are going to play, you know, 12, 15 times a year. And then there's going to be other stuff.
And maybe, maybe you get 30 days to think about the Cubs. And I like, I'll check the scores every night. And I'll want to see if the Cubs lost the same way I'll want to see if the Cardinals lost, or the Pirates lost, or the Reds lost. But I just What we've seen so far, this, what I've seen so far, and if you're not hyper online like me or, A lot of people that jump in these things, maybe you're like, I don't even thought about the Cubs, but it is. It is taxing.
It is exhausting. And I physically and mentally can't be a part of it. I think for the longest time, what the the Cardinals were our rivals. Right? Yeah.
Yeah, so I mean We were the Braves for a long time. I don't know who our rivals were back then. And then we were in the AL for the longest time, and we lost to the Cardinals in the World Series. White Sox became a rival. You know, they try to make this Twins thing happen.
Yeah, the Twins thing. But I think the Cubs is like, this is a good growing rivalry. And um It it feels like we're I mean Like the Packers have kind of always, not always, but in recent history been on top of the rivalry, right? And I feel like the Cubs are the big market team. And we're the smaller market team and we're on top of the rivalry, so that's kind of exciting.
I have a lot of great things to say about Chicago. I love Chicago. I understand if you're from Chicago. why it would piss you off though if if Milwaukee Is like doing all these things. And then there's that stat, all these guys we trade away, Durbin and Monasterio, they've like done jack shit, and it seems like we're cheating.
I did, you know, Spark Guy has said a lot when he comes on here that Milwaukee is a suburb of Chicago, and it pisses me off when he says that. But there was this book I saw. I saw, we were at the Children's Museum in San Diego. And I opened up, there was like a shelf of books. And I opened up an Atlas.
They had like old atlases. And in the Atlas were maps. And you know, you see the maps of the countries, and you see the maps of the cities. It was like Cleveland, Pittsburgh. You know, San Diego.
And then for Chicago, in any Atlas. It shows Chicago and then it also trickles up to Milwaukee, where it does look like, oh shit, yeah, we are. Oh, like it's a north suburb. Yeah, like it's one hyper city. Sure.
You know, it kind of is. It's one of these mega cities that you see on the East Coast, too. And it kind of is. But I get if you're like, because if you live in Chicago, Chicago's bigger. And you come to Milwaukee to play.
You come here to get drunk at the stadium, make a fucking mess, stay in a hotel, trash the downtown, go to Pado, trash that, which I did go to already this morning, $150. Sportsboard? No, I have I have $25 rewards every week.
Okay.
So I woke up and ran to Pado already today. Unemployed life, I feel yeah.
So I was playing Monopoly and I hit a thing. But you know, it's all progressives now. And I was like, I want this bonus.
So I won 70 and I. Cashed out at 50. I I, you know, I Couldn't press my luck. Grant had a really good take recently, I thought, about with your comment on trading players away. Like these big market teams got to stop playing with the brewers in the In the trade market.
Oh, yeah. It's the same with the Eagles. People are done trading with the Eagles because the Eagles always find a way to. Get a better pick or fleece the team for a little bit.
Now the Brewers. What is it that they know that you don't? Caleb Durbin and Isaac Collins. Both rookie of the year. Candidates, contenders, finalist.
And you have a guy for one year and then you're flipping him already? And the guys you flipped them floor, you know, Harrison pitched well, the Hamilton stealing bases. Who's the Do you know anything about the new contract that was signed for the shortstop for eight years, like 50 million? We have. Do we know how is he coming up for Ortiz or like?
I don't know. They didn't play him at double A the last couple of days, did they? Is he up at triple A yet? I don't know. Try to get some info, some inside info.
Yeah. Well, you know, when you're on vacation, I need that because your sports knowledge is limited. And then on the plane home, Rather than uh cram in all the information I missed. I started watching the show on Apple for all mankind. Yeah, is that good?
It's got a good score on rotten tomatoes. I saw that it had like a 90. It's about if The Soviets landed on the moon first. Oh, that sounds fun. And basically, it starts alternate reality.
Yeah, the Soviets land on the moon. The USA's pissed. Nixon's furious.
So then they are like, well, shit, we gotta go harder. And then they put someone on the moon.
So then Neil goes up to the moon. And then the Soviets are like, fuck you, we're putting a woman on the moon.
So then the USA is like, oh fuck, we got to put women on the moon. And then it's just like If the Soviets landed first, what they're saying is that there becomes an arms race, a real arms race, rather than. Hey, we're gonna go to the moon one time. Never come back. And then 50 years later, we're going to go do some fucking laps around it and come home.
Did you see the launch? Uh, I didn't like watch it live. Oh. Oh, that's pretty cool. I I mean I'd I saw a lot of people be like.
Wait. We're going back to the moon? We're not landing on the moon. We're not landing on the moon, no. Bart, is there a streaming service I don't subscribe to?
Well, I do get Apple. That was mainly for severance. I have Peacock, which I always fake cancel and get a deal. I signed up for Paramount. But I got a year I got like for $2 a month Um I don't have HBO Max because I use my buddies.
I borrow HBO Max. I have the commercials, which fucking sucks. I like HBO Max, though. I might have to buy it if I stop getting it for free. How about an alternative reality where somebody actually landed on the moon?
That's from ALOL. Nice. Got him. Got me. Do you have Brewers T V?
No, I have direct TV, so I get the chance. Oh, you have direct TV.
Okay, I got Brewer's TV. It's pretty, it's pretty legit. I kind of like it. I stopped my fan duel for the box obviously 'cause that's trash. God, what was the fucking lineup they had the other night?
They're not even sending. Not even sending the capable players on the road anymore. No, but we had six. I think we had six players eligible to play in one game because two people fouled out. Yeah, I saw that one.
Green all note. Epic.
Somebody it's Prince, maybe somebody else. Yeah, they suck. There's some games I would like. I looked at the end of the season. I thought, I could go to one of these Sunday games.
I'm better off just. going to or watching the brewers and stuff. Yeah, I think brewers is the better option. Yeah. Uh, anything else?
I'm going to play some voicemails. No, I'll listen to the voicemails, and thanks for having me on. Always good to see you, Ben. Good to see you too, Bart. Ben.
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four oh two nine one five B A R T You can leave your voicemails. I believe a lot of these are still. I don't think anything's too time-sensitive. Looks like Marcus is discussing the White Sox series, but I think. Enough of it still plays.
This is Marcus. He was in Denver.
Now in Austin, here is the voicemail from. Marcus, call the show. I play you on the show. Hey there, Bart. Marcus and ATX here, formerly known as Marcus in Denver.
Just wanted to check in and say hello, calling in on the heels of the amazing opening day the brewers had. Wait, wait, he's outside. I'm going to pause this. Spark guy's outside. I don't want to leave you hanging there wherever you are.
I paused the voicemail. Where are you? Uh Mm-hmm. Oh. It's crashing out.
Yeah, all right. Thanks for trying.
Okay.
Next time for Sparka. If he hops back on, we'll try to get him. Anyway, here's Marcus. Lesser opponent of the Chicago White Sox, but we'll take it coming off the heels of. The travesty of how our season ended last year.
Wait, wait, wait. Are you good? Are you good? All right, Spark I tried. Let's start Marcus over.
Tim! I'm gonna have to actually pay you dude. Marcus and ATX here. God damn it. Are we good or not?
There we are. All right. Ah. I had the I'm boots on the ground at the Final Four, but I apparently I don't think it's coming through. I hear you.
I hear you. Oh, my God. Tim. All right. We're going to play Marcus.
Then I'll try Spark Eye if he's there. What a moment. Another legendary Winkler verse moment. Hey there, Bart. Marcus is APX here, formerly known as Marcus in Denver.
Just wanted to check in and say hello, calling in on the heels of the amazing opening day the brewers had. It is against a lesser opponent of the Chicago White Sox. We'll take it coming off the heels of The travesty of how our season ended last year. As Chuck Freeman said on X, though, we were these bats last year, you know, in the playoffs. But yeah, that's our opponent.
Get back on track, game. We'll take it. Uh what did I call in? after the tragic news a couple of weeks ago, huge loss for the city of Milwaukee would be Four season skate park closing down. Pretty tragic.
I uh I used to go to the YMCA in Greenfield, off Deloitte. Um And every like uh Tuesday night at like six PM or whatever they'd like roll out a couple of ramps in the gym and people would skate there and I thought it was a best thing in the world and then I went into a fourth season skate park the first time when I was like 10 years old and It was like the Charlie Chocolate Factory for skateboarders, globally known around the world for. Be in a good place and tragic news that it's closing. And I wanted to share my favorite four seasons memory actually happening at the four seasons in Madison, Wisconsin, when I Fell off the ramp about 12 feet when I was 10 years old. It seemed like 12 feet.
I don't know. I was only 10. Everything seemed bigger at the time, but I fell at least eight feet. Straight to my bottom. as the ramp was getting crowded and everybody was shu shuffling around and I just took one step too far back and and fell to my bottom and uh sat on the ice pack for two hours while my mom came and waited for my mom to come pick me up and ate a Arby's roast beef sandwich.
So That's my favorite forest season's memory, and I was curious if you had one too. Thanks, Bart. Have a good day. My my so growing up in Fond du Lac, my skate park memories were spectrum. That's where we we did we it was a place called the spectrum I could tell you that in sixth grade, I did pay a quarter to put on the sign.
Um For a girl to date me. I asked, would she be my girlfriend? She said, no. I bought her a $1 rose also. And then I remember that.
Place, as I said. I like you so much. I'll prove it. And I said, I'll do this for you. And I took a bunch of soap out of a dispenser and rubbed it all over my tongue.
And then I ate it. I ate soap for this girl. She didn't ask me to. She didn't like that I did it? I don't know what compelled me to do it.
I guess I've never eaten soap for anyone else, but I mean, if my wife wanted me to, I'd sure. I'll fill up my stomach with soap if need be. But I ate soap for a girl. At my skate park. I saw Seth McClung, former brewer.
He says, I go on these podcasts. I wonder if I. Should I get paid or not? A lot of times people jump on podcasts as favors. Ben jumps on the podcast and then gives money to the show.
This wants to go the other way around, but we appreciate it. That's for gas to get the potto. Thanks for having me on. Ben always a pleasure. to see you.
We are going to try. For an unprecedented Fourth time. To get Spark Guy. Uh if this does not work We are going to have to. Abort.
I do not think it's going to work as is. Images currently frozen. And there he is not is.
So we'll try that. Again, is there no public Wi-Fi in the city? Of Indianapolis. Oh no, my coffee brany Here, new Bronny 3 ply is now more absorbent. Wow.
Got a clean shirt? Do you wear plaid? Ron. Summon the strongest. I did see that they have a giant bracket.
On the uh One hotel next to Lucas Oil. That was kind of cool. I don't know if you can see out of the window if you're in one of those rooms. Was rooting for Duke very hard. I think I talked about that the other day.
My kid had Duke in the bracket. Did not win. That was quite a bummer. Rooting heavily against UConn. A lot of times, when teams do beat UConn, They are beat Duke, they do lose the next game.
I would like to see that.
So, yes, I am rooting for Illinois. I am rooting for Illinois. Michigan plays Arizona. I I don't know. I don't like it.
Uh I don't I don't have Big Ten pride. Like when growing up, I would be like, oh, I want to see Michigan versus Illinois, Big Ten Pride. We had that Big Ten pride because, for whatever reason, you thought it like trickled down to Wisconsin. There's no trickle-down fandom here. But I do like that the Big Ten is kind of dominating since NIL happened.
Big Ten is just kicking ass in football. And now they're kicking ass in basketball. And I hate the SEC.
So yeah, I guess, yeah, I guess I'm going to root. For an all-big 10. Final. I don't have any of the other teams in a pool. I did have Michigan in one.
But I didn't enter it anywhere. Stupid. Um But yeah, I guess I'm going to root for Illinois, Michigan. I don't really care. I just want Dan Hurley to lose.
All I want is Dan Hurley to lose. I bitched about him online, and then of course UConn people. Found that. That was enthralling. Really, the Least.
Least Annoying fan base. They're like chirping at you. I'm like, I don't give a shit. Bart always with the girl crush stories. Yeah, a lot of heartbreak.
A lot of heartbreak. The road to get here, married with a kid. was a long one. Certainly was.
Alright, I'm gonna try another voicemail. Thanks again to Marcus. This one is from David In Buffalo, David, a frequenter of the line. We appreciate that. Here's David.
In Buffalo. Hey Bart, what's going on? This is David from Buffalo. You know, I really haven't felt compelled to call in about the whole Tiger Woods thing. Um, because at this point, the guy's an arrogant jerk and he's never gonna go get a driver, go get help, because let's face it, golf was the one thing that came easy to him, and he look, this is a guy who changed his swing.
I want to say probably five or six times, I mean, you know, who's really counting how many other teaching pros he went to over the years? And see, he figures he can do that in life. He can get away with all these crazy things.
Well, life is a little tougher than golf, Tiger. And I'll say this too. If he's getting all these surgeries, he's doing it because he still wants to be competitive on Proud of the Champions tour. Or maybe if he catches lightning in a bottle at Augusta, he still thinks he could be relevant there. I mean, the sad thing is the guy just doesn't understand that he's got a bigger battle to fight than golf at this point.
It's all this other shit. And here's the reality, too, Bart. He's not going to pass Nicholas's record of majors one. And Jack's record in the major is going to stand forever for a lot of reasons. Jack's got 18 majors he won, 19 runners up, numerous top 10 finishes.
Let's just be honest about this right now, Bart. Tiger Woods lost to Trevor Imbleman, Y.E. Yang, and Rich Beam in major championships. Francesco Malinari got hit at the British Open in 2018. Nicholas never lost any of those people.
And I know all you Tiger people are going to say, the game is a lot deeper now.
Well, you know what? Jack had a lot of people that were really, really high-end players. that they either had to play their A-plus game to beat him, or he beat them like a Tom Watson or a Trevino or a Gary player, guys that were really relevant. Tiger, and here's the other thing too, Tiger, now his obsession is passing Bobby Jones' record of all-time USGA wins. Tiger's obsessed with these records.
And I still think, too, he's trying to show his kid that he can still be relevant when he's not.
So the fact of the matter is, Bart, Tiger needs to get his life in order before he can even think about playing golf at any kind of competitive level. I love Tiger, big Tiger guy. Yeah, he's not going to catch Jack. Obviously. It looked like he could, though.
And then that's why this is so disappointing. And then when he came back and won again, it was like, wow, this is amazing. There's a lot going on there. He doesn't want a driver. To drive him around for privacy reasons, he says.
I don't know what he's doing. I mean, we all find it out anyway. I still don't know how the car flipped. I saw somebody say, how did the car even flip? But for him to walk away unscathed Like 20 years from now.
Maybe even like three years from now. The the images coming out of that crash With him kneeling. Looking like a softball coach. with him in the backseat of the car looking like E.T. thing that I'm trying to better like understand is How I view the world is not how kids view the world.
If you're growing up, like you're going to learn about Tiger through memes. Like, who is this guy? He's just a fucking meme. There's a lot of guys that. Even we see like The office made a bunch of memes.
A lot of people see the office memes. No, no, no. It's happening. It's happening. Before they ever even watch The Office, you just see them as the memes.
Then, when you see a meme or a GIF and then you watch the show, you're like, what the fuck? Or like even I've never seen Dexter. But that guy that's like, I know what you're up to. I d I I only know him from that. The Antonio Bandeires when he's like On the computer.
I don't even know what that's from. I use that all the time. The Robert Redford that everyone thinks is Zach Galifanakis. Or not the thumbs up, but he's like, you know. I don't even know what that's from either.
But yeah, Tiger's going to be a meme. These memes, Crying Jordan. A meme. Although kids are gonna know Jordan from being like a NASCAR boss. Rather than Top basketball player.
It's just, it's just one event made so many memes. When he first crashed. I didn't I didn't think that he was dead.
Some people are like, ah, I I think, oh, Tiger crashed again. Even like. TV stations were using the wrong file footage of what crash to use. I feel for him, dude. I feel for him.
Addiction's tough. You get on painkillers. It's the only thing that makes you feel good. Addiction's a monster. I struggle with addiction.
It's a monster. It's a monster. I can't. I can't help to make fun of them, but these memes are too fucking good.
So I still remember the good times with Tiger, and I hope he gets help, but. I mean, when are you ever going to see him competitive? Can he be competitive for four days in a tournament? Those days seem long gone. And that's sad.
You see guys at the peak. Even every time we drive out to soccer, we're by the brown deer golf course. And I'm like, I think of Tiger every time. That's for Tiger. Tiger, Tiger, Tiger.
Sucks. It's a meme. All right. It is not the summary yet, so not painter time. This would be teacher.
Tom. Teacher Town. Hey bud, it's Peter Tom.
So I'm listening to the Grant Bills show, but calling into the Winkloo show or the Winkloo booth. because of how grants topic. I want to see what Paul would think about Grant's topic. And kind of an example it reminded me of.
So Monday, March 30th, Grant is talking about ADS and how he doesn't like it. Mistakes are okay, let's just play the game. Yeah. But reminded me of my days that I used to umpire a lot of adult rec sports. And in softball, if one team was up 10, 15 runs.
Can I look to bat? Pretty much everything is a straight consoling app.
So I, you know, a pitch misses, but it's relatively close. I call it a strike. And the guy would look at me in surprise, and I'd say, ah, you're up by 10, swing the bat. And usually, almost every guy just kind of shrugs his shoulders and says, okay. They understand the situation.
They're not trying to draw walks when they're up by 10 out of 15.
So what would Paul the robot think about that? Is he upset because I'm changing the strike zone in that situation?
Okay, Kind of understand that.
Okay.
It's not a big deal. I'll swing the bat. We're not trying to gain one extra run against a bad team. Bye. I could use that for.
That's a good one, Tom. I'll keep that one because I think from what I understand about what Imig's take would be. Obviously, on Tuesdays with Grant and Paul. Uh Paul wants everything to be perfect every time. That's what he wants.
And a lot of people do. I don't mind human error. I don't think. I don't think you should strive for perfection. I think that will consume you.
I think sometimes you need to let Things Go. Don't let perfection be the enemy of good or great, or don't let great be the enemy of good. There's a lot of times that I'll tell you this, I put a lot of stuff together like Editing. Wise. And I would edit these little compilations.
For the shows I would do I did a lot of Packer highlight editing opens the next day, or like fun with audio. And It was always good, but I was never like I would it could always be better. But if I if I need it to be better Who am I? I'm trying to get it perfect in my head. I'm not sending a man to the moon.
The calculations don't need to be perfect. Or the cameras used in the studio don't need to be white-balanced perfectly. But I put it out there and it's still good. It's still really good. And people think that it's just, I don't.
I, you know, if I don't want to do things poorly. But I like the phrase, always be happy, never satisfied. Be happy, never satisfied. Always strive for more, but don't. Mm-hmm.
You can't chase perfection. There should be some human element in the game. And I think that we've gotten this far now. Is Why do we even have umpires? Why do we even have them?
Just just make a guy, make a guy. Make a guy just. Say, oh, that was a ball, that was a strike. System says it was a ball, system says it was a strike. Are we sure the system is perfect?
And when it cuts the corner evenly. Does that need to be a strike? You see some of these reviews, it's like the ball is out of the strike zone. But the littlest tiny inch. I hate b I hate breaking down.
Like Chris says, my Sabre's hat doesn't need to be perfectly on straight either. It's close enough to straight. Thank you. Yeah. That's my sick look.
You know what I really wanted was a Padre's hat. I wanted a Padres hat so bad. And if I If I would have found it. I would have bought it. Um But the Padres, can you believe?
Because you go to the Brewers game. I love the first game of the year. I try not to wear a hat because I always buy a new hat every year for the Brewers. But I went to the uh You know, I went to Petco. I wanted a hat with this 90s logo of Padres.
I wanted this on a hat. They did not have that on the stadium. At the stadium at all. They did not have it. I would have bought it immediately, even if it was like 45 bucks.
I wanted that hat. I'm not going to buy it now. I don't want it that bad. But if it was at the stadium, I was absolutely going to buy it. All they had was like S D.
I don't know. Maybe they ran from this logo. Like, I don't like the MB logo. Maybe. Maybe other people like uh the MB logo.
For the Brewers, the Diamond logo, Motor Bame. I hate it. But maybe if I wasn't a Brewers fan, I lived in San Diego, came to Milwaukee, and be like, I want a logo with that. Because you don't see this anymore. It's a Tony Gwynn logo.
It says Padre San Diego Baseball Club. It's actually a shitty logo because it's like a circle. You know, all these logos are like stupid circles now. If you look at the NBA logos, they're all like circles. But I I wanted a hat with this logo.
Could not find it. Could not find it anywhere. Ben in the 414. 19 box. Thanks.
$19.99. Thanks, Ben. Enjoyed meeting you at opening day. You're a good man, Bart just misunderstood. Thanks for the entertaining shows.
Keep up the good work. I'll tell you one like petty thing I'm having is watching. Brandon Tierney, who was also laid off around the same time I was at WFAN, like everything he does is celebrated.
Now he's had huge interviews after, and he's in a war with WFAN guys and. Whatever, but. He's going to speak at this. Barrett conference for what's it like to do a YouTube show after your radio career. And I I told the guys I'd come and speak.
But I'm not in the club. It's a big club. I ain't in it. I don't know if it's a New York thing. I don't know if it's a Syracuse thing.
I don't know. I just always felt like other people get to say what I can't say. Like Pat McAfee can bitch all he wants about everything. What's he do? Gets promoted.
Pat Mac, if he can bitch about something, he'll get his way. He's betching that he's not at the Masters. I think that's Pat, you have more experiences. Your life is golden. None of us get to go to the masters.
So they won't let you do your show with your 19 friends at the masters. Big deal.
Someday he'll be broadcasting at the Masters. Yeah. But if I'm like, oh, the peggers didn't credential me for a shareholders meeting, people are like, shut the fuck up, you fucking loser. Maybe I'm wrong. That's I for you.
Anyway, good Friday morning to you. Like, literally, Brett, good Friday. I will probably jump back on with Carlos on Monday. I kind of miss my guy, Carlos. We haven't really talked Daredevil either.
I got a lot to watch for all mankind. I'm caught up on Daredevil. That's pretty good.
So, enjoy your Easter Sunday. Enjoy your Brewers baseball. I've got the Royals again this weekend. We'll talk throughout the weekend, either here or online. Thank you to everyone, as always.
including Ben and most importantly, including SparkGuy. He tried. You give it the old college effort. Hello, Lisa. He gave it the old college effort.
Illinois is having, he must be there for that. Illinois is having practice this morning, open practice, and the lines are huge. To get in, so that's pretty neat.
So I hope he has a good time with the family. Until then. Thank you for stopping into the Winklerverse.
