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Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse. I'm Bart Winkler. Great to be with you on this Wednesday, April 29th. Of twenty twenty Six.
I am, if you're on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream, what this old thing? I brought my mask back out. I still have.
Well, I still have a bunch of masks, actually. I stocked up on mask. But I'm going to start wearing my mask again. I'm going to start wearing my mask again. Not as a political thing.
Not as um Not as like a Not as like a Hygiene thing. Not not really for any reason other than fuck you. Stop bitching about when I told you to wear a mask six years ago. During COVID. I posted something on my Facebook page yesterday.
By the way, please go ahead and. like the Facebook page. I posted this. I just saw this picture. I thought it was interesting.
How do you grow up listening to punk and hip-hop? and still end up a bootlicker.
So I put that on my Facebook page, and I got coming from the guy who wore a mask in his car.
So here's the why I'm so triggered. By that. First of all, I'm an asshole.
Okay? I'm a dickhead. And When people were yelling at me. for yelling at them to wear a mask. I made funny jokes, like I wear a mask in my car.
But the way that it gets imputed into people's brains. is you guys really think I was driving around Wearing a mask in my car. No. I had two masks on and a shield.
So let's get your facts straight. If you're going to come at me. With that, Harry says, I'm going to start wiping down my Amazon packages again. Yeah, I remember the first time we got We got groceries delivered. It was a bag of uh Doritos.
I never more intently scrubbed anything. in my entire life. Than that bag of Doritos.
Now, I didn't care, health-wise, what kind of shit I was putting in my body. The Doritos, but you know, you still. Wipe it down.
So I'm going to carry on with this bit. I think this the audio still sounds fine. which means the mask might not be doing that good of a job. But I'm wearing a mask for the entire show. And then I'm going to go pick up my kid and I'm going to wear a mask.
You know, I saw somebody wearing a mask at the store yesterday. You know what I thought? Nothing. I thought that's her decision. And I don't know what she's got going on.
Maybe she doesn't want to breathe the same air. As the other people in the store. That makes sense to me. A lot of you people are gross. A lot of you people should be wearing a mask.
Cover up that Dorito breath. All right, got a couple things to talk about regarding sports. I did throw up the link if anybody is interested in jumping in. Want to start with the Brewers. Fun game last night.
Brewers got the. 13-2 win. in what is going to be, I think, affectionately Uh known as Spaghetti Night Credit to those guys that brought in their own spaghetti. And they didn't like half acid. They brought in the spaghetti, they brought in the pasta, they brought in the bread.
That goes along with it. They set up in the four hundreds. And they had a good time.
So credit to those guys. I'm searching online. to see if any Cubs fans or bloggers or whatever have stolen that yet. Or, like, shit on Brewers' fans. Oh, you fucking losers eat spaghetti at the ballpark because.
I don't know what goes on at Wrigley. for 81 games of the year. But somehow these Cubs fans always seem to know. Anything that happens at Ampham, the Ampham Funhouse. You know, I just realized is on the video.
You can uh You can pretty much edit any words over me 'cause my mouth you can't see my mouth. You can see my baggy ass eyes. But you can't see My mouth.
So Brewers won on spaghetti night and they brought the offense. It was an eight-run. Sixth inning. for the crew, and they did it in a very crew Yeah.
So the inning starts. Freelick singles to center. Hamilton Bunt. To the catcher.
Okay, he got on.
So now you got two guys on. Ortiz Bunts. Should be out, but he's on first. Then Mitchell singles, so we turn the clock. And then I suddenly, when I was watching this last night, I suddenly went into, please don't hit a home run.
Because If there's one thing I know about baseball. Home runs are rally killers. They are. The Brewers do not have an eight run inning. If they pop a home run right away and clear the bases.
There is something to be said for that. I would love to. If I ever get back in the uh Press box. That'll be the question that I have for Murphy or whoever. Do you believe?
that home runs are rally killers. Because I think they are. There's a like the home run is like we did it, we cleared the bases. It's a sense of accomplishment. And then it's like, oh, we got to get another guy on base.
But if you can keep moving, moving, moving. I really believe if there's like top five things I believe in sports. Home runs are rally killers. is on that list.
So Mitchell singles, run comes home, Contreras singles. Run comes home. Terang walks. Then black singles. Run comes home.
Couple rans came home on Contreras. Bauer singles. Two more score. And then, um And then that kind of was the rally killer. They did get Hamilton to get a ground rule double.
But then the outs started coming in that inning.
So a terrific inning, a fun inning. Um a fun night. A fun meme-y game. Mitch, aren't you on the air or is that not until uh noon? Then until noon, jump on.
I threw the link up. Harry says, Vogelbach's walk-off grand slam was a rally killer. The game ended. That's true. That means it's a rally killer.
The rally killer. Game's over. Rally's over. Those Tuesday night games, I wish. I'm excited for when my kid gets a little older.
Because I can't be going to no Tuesday night games and get home at 9:30 and then start bedtime then. But those Tuesday night, Wednesday night games like tonight. You know what? Maybe we will go tonight. Where the fuck not?
Maybe we will. Uh I'll think about that. Maybe I'll go to the brewery at night. It's just, it's fun. I like it when it's not full.
When it's not full, it's a better time. That's why one thing I did like back in these days, mask. was The um The the sparse crowds. You could just like spread out, and you had room, and you didn't have to wait long in line. And now, every time we go to the game, he wants to go and run up to the.
Kids zone. And that's why the exhibition game I went to was so sweet because he just went back in line over and over and over again. Otherwise, you waste half an inning waiting to Roll a couple of you know, balls up a fucking ladder or whatever the game is.
So, I don't know. Maybe we will. I'm talking big. I'm not going to the game, obviously. I'm a loser and broke.
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I think it was good. I mean it's the Wednesday after the draft and I I feel like the draft Conversation has died down.
Now, again, they took a kicker.
So that's going to get you some.
some conversation, but You know, you take a kicker. Everything else seemed fine. They didn't have a first-round pick. They covered needs. They took guys that.
Maybe we're higher on the board or the sheet you saw. Than where the Packers got them.
So it seems like good value, but but how do you know? How do you know? We I don't know. What I would like to know is We don't like we don't see the mock drafts. Or we don't see the big boards of these teams.
We see the mock drafts of reporters and journalists and. You know, Scout, we don't know that our boards match up with the leagues.
Now, I know they call these guys and try to get intel, but there's a lot of smokescreens around the draft. A lot of it is just. I'll say this, and it's not what I mean. I mean, there's teams that. Don't even Talk to the guys that they want to draft because they don't want any sort.
of tip Uh to be given.
So I don't know. I don't know. Oh, what a reach. Was he? Reach from what?
So, I mean, I know it's fun to follow along and be like, wow, that guy's available. And for the most part, you know, if you watch college football, like, what guys are good. But it's a lot of, I know all these guys are good, and then it's 20 linemen on both sides of the ball sprinkled in there. You don't know what you're looking at. I don't know.
Oh, that lineman's good. Here's the tape of him blocking a guy. Oh, sweet.
So I don't know. Uh the draft is Come and gone, and with it has the conversation. I am excited to see the Packers rookies. in camp. I'm excited to see what they look like.
I talked with Grant a little bit at the end of yesterday. Like and subscribe wherever you get your pods. But yeah, I don't I don't Not that I'm super jacked up every time it's April anyway. But I think the season And with the Packers nature. It's like restarting the video game.
I'm going to uh I'm going to have to like. I'm not going to super get into it. Probably when they play the Bears. You know, that'll be a big week 'cause I can't handle the Packers. and Bears or any Chicago-Milwaukee rivalry anymore I've referenced.
Them twice now already.
So I'll probably get into those. But other than that, like I will get into it. I'll watch every game. I'll schedule my whole week around it. But Um You know, what's, I think, I feel like we know what the end result is.
It's the same with the late Rogers years. We knew what the end result was going to be. We knew they weren't going to a Super Bowl again.
So how much do you enjoy Uh the journey. But we'll see how that plays out. In due time. Speaking of Rodgers, some Rodgers news. The Steelers have placed a seldom used.
unrestricted free agent tender. On Rodgers.
So, what this does is it gives the Steelers the right to receive. Tim? What this does is, it gives the Steelers the right to receive a compensatory draft pick if Rogers signs somewhere else. And it also limits his ability to sign with another. team.
So they have exclusive negotiating rights for Rodgers. If he doesn't sign with another team sometime in the end of July, either a designated date, the 22nd. Or uh The first day of Pittsburgh's camp. The condition is Rogers can say, okay, I'll come back. He gets a 10% raise.
off last year's salary.
So then he would be getting about, he played for about 13 M's last year.
So he'd be getting uh About 15 M's. This year. for Aaron Rodgers. He's got to come back. He's got to come back.
You cannot have McCarthy and Rodgers a reunion so close. And then Rogers dip out. He's got nowhere to go. I mean, I know he's married. But I don't know what his post-football career is going to be like.
I don't think he does either. I'm going to be pissed. I'll take it. I'll be personally mad. If Rogers doesn't play when he has a chance to team up with Mike McCarthy.
And I know they brought in Drew Aller and They still got what Will Howard? Get Aaron Rodgers in there. Uh you want to see that. Geno Smith wants Russell Wilson with him at the Jets. Wow.
What a team up that would be. Um That's like when me and Chuck get together and do these podcasts. Oh, I remember when those two guys worked together. And we're and we're good. I don't know what I'm looking at now.
I could, I could, with all due respect to Chuck and myself.
Okay. I did want to talk about the NBA draft. Lottery. Thing I don't know what the hell they're doing. This NBA draft lottery.
It's like the playoffs are going on. And the playoffs are Interesting. You have the Thunder that have already moved on. You have the Spurs. that have already moved on.
Those are to be expected. The Sixers I didn't see them winning game five, so that was interesting. Boston's up 3-2 on them. Knicks are back up 3-2 on the Hawks. Kazraptors play tonight.
They're tied to two. Pistons lead the magic. They should wrap that up. That's on Prime Video, so I'm not going to watch it. They're up 3-1.
Nuggets still trying to crawl back against the Wolves, who are decimated with injuries. And then the Lakers and Rockets. Lakers had a chance to close it out the other night. Maybe they do tonight, but the playoffs are interesting. And you're going to have some compelling second-round matchups: Spurs versus.
Timberwolves or Nuggets. Thunder probably versus the Lakers. Pistons against the calves or raptors. Both all geographically close to each other. Could be interesting there.
Maybe the Knicks take on the Celtics. That'd be a big one. If both teams are able to hang on. Buffalo. Ah, the Sabres last night.
I thought they were going to do it. They lost in overtime, but they're up 3-2 against the Bruins.
So you have the playoffs going on. And yet, the NBA discussion is centered around the draft lottery. I think the amount of The amount of conversation and effort They're putting into this NBA draft lottery. I think it's It's a loser mentality. We should be focused.
on the teams that are winning. Right now. Instead. Everyone's talking about what happens for the teams that are losing. I don't think you stretch this out.
I don't even think you need to do anything. Just give everybody who misses the playoffs the same odds. At a pick. You all missed the playoffs. You get the same odds.
Because then it doesn't Matter What? You're doing. You're not going to try to lose harder. You're not going to sit. It doesn't matter.
If you're out of the playoffs, you get a pick. You get the same odds. I don't know why that's so hard. I feel like either these leagues. Get bored?
Or these leagues People, like, why do we always make things more complicated than they are? We always do it. We always do it and the NBA is doing it. In this case.
So let me give you some of the parameters. About what they want to do. They've disclosed to the managers, the general managers. About their new anti-tanking draft reform. I'm going to read this.
They're dubbing it the 3-2-1 lottery.
So, this includes, and I've got the athletic. I subscribe to the athletic. And they've got all their newsletters are awesome. The balance.
So I'll show you as I'm talking, again, on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. I'll show you the graphic that I'm essentially lifting from them. But I did credit them. And there it is. And I would write credit the athletic.
Under it, but then it would cover up. Whatever.
So as I'm talking, if you're a visual learner, You can see it if you're on the Audio, I would just pull over to the side of the road and scratch this out on a loose piece of paper.
Okay. You got to kind of see this to understand what the hell. is even going on.
So here's what they would want to do. The 3-2-1 lottery proposal. Named to represent the number of lottery balls per team. Would expand the lottery. From 14 teams to 16 teams.
Teams that do not qualify for the play-in tournament. But stay out of the Relegation zone. You can't use that word. You're not promoting or relegating anybody. That's a shitty word to use.
Those are spots for. Through 10.
So, see what we're looking at here? See what we're looking at. Um They get three balls.
So if you don't qualify for the play-in tournament. And you stay out of spots four through 10, you get three balls. Teams with a bottom three record, the relegation area, would only have two balls. But have a floor of the 10 pick, the 12 pick. I'm just reading this and I don't understand it.
Let me just read it. Let me just read what it says. Yeah. The 3-2-1 lottery proposal, named to represent the number of lottery balls per team, would expand the lottery from 14 to 16 teams. Teams that do not qualify for the playoffs or play in tournament, but stay out of the relegation zone, spots 4 through 10, would receive 3 lottery balls each.
Teams with the bottom three record, the relegation area, would only have two lottery balls but have a floor of the number 12 pick. And the rest of the 13 lottery teams could fall as far as the number 16 pick.
Okay, so they want They're gonna reward You're going to have the most balls if you're 4 through 10.
So, if you lose the playing games, you get one ball. If you make it to the playing tournament, You get one ball. and lose. The ninth and ten seeds in each conference. Then get two balls.
Everybody down to the worst three get three balls.
So they're going to punish you? Oh my God.
So they're going to make you, if you have the three worst records in the NBA. You'll get two balls. Instead of three. But they'll say in there, you can pick no lower than 12.
So you're not going to have the worst record in the league. And pick 16th. They said, no, no, no, that's too extreme. Cut it off at 12. And then the teams that have the best.
Who came up with this? Who came up with this and why was it come up upon? What the fuck? This is really dumb.
So what they're what they're imagining Is that there's going to be games in early April? Who are the teams this year? I'll just say, like, the Jazz and the Wizards. And instead of both trying to lose, They're suddenly going to try really hard to win.
So that they can earn themselves. An extra ball in the draft lottery. I gotta take the mask off for this. Look, this is such bullshit. This is so stupid.
This is so stupid. In the grand scheme of life I understand. This is irrelevant. And 500 years from now. Who cares?
I understand.
So I'm not getting bent out of shape. about one particular thing. I guess I'm half doing that. I'm also half like, this is the way that. This is the way that things are run in this world.
Where It's so Complicated. It's so Stupid. Jesse, I think your message got cut off a little bit. But he says, One skill I have in my back pocket is writing public policy. That was my day job for a few years after college.
One day I was one-on-one with our program manager, the real boss. I told him, don't we have to protect the taxpayer from people trying to abuse the system? He says, of course, we have to try, but we can't let a few bad apples stop us from writing policy to help the most possible. NBA is letting a few bad apples call them to make uh causing to make bad policy. That's uh I don't know if it gets cut off.
I've never had anybody write a message that long before. Thank you. It's very nice. And it helps benefits the show. By the way, if you ever want to leave a voicemail, you can 402-915-B-A-R-T, 402-915-2278.
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They had A meeting. and someone in the meeting said Imagine. Two teams that have lost, suddenly trying to win, playing against each other. It'll be like a mini playoff before the playoffs. The possibility of that happening is so minute.
That The lengths to get That language. put into action Is so stressful and so stupid. This truly is. Like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in sports. This is this is just ridiculous.
It is ridiculous. I do not understand. Adam Silver's done this a lot.
So, teams are either getting an 8% chance, a 5% chance, or a 2.7% chance. No team could win the top pick in consecutive years or win three consecutive top five picks. The league would have expanded disciplinary authority to regulate tanking by having the option to reduce teams' lottery odds. Or modify draft positions if they still thought you were trying to tank. There's an obvious answer to all of this.
There's an obvious answer to all of this: shorten the season. But they won't do it. They won't do it, and I understand why they won't do it. I understand why they won't do it. Short in the season.
Because What if what are what are you gonna take it? What are you gonna take it down to? 65 games? Adam Silver's favorite number, 65 games. Eric Love you too.
Yeah, it's very dumb. Um You're not NBA doesn't make sense. They make basketball games. The problem is The 82 games that they have are not the same. There's a lot of games when guys are hurt because they're playing a lot faster.
I do believe. But that is a big, big problem is The NBA is no longer these. We keep adding games. Like the way that football is being played now, they should probably only play the 14 games that they used to. You're adding more games as people are getting better at the sport, faster, stronger.
The sports being played quicker. Which means there's going to be more sudden movement. which means there's going to be harder hits when they're allowed to happen, which means Ankles are gonna twist more and Achilles are going to blow out more. Like with Dante. That's the stress of a long season.
You don't you don't need basketball to be October through April. But they're also not going to give away. I mean, think of how much money. comes into Fiserve on a given night. The tickets.
The food. The parking, I don't like paying $50 to park. I feel like the limit to park should be 20, maybe 30 bucks. 30 bucks to park. You gotta pay $50 to park.
If you want to park in that lot. I know. I use a lot of the free parking too. I like to cherry's a good street. to park on Sometimes I'll park next to Red Arrow.
And just huff it a little bit. I have no problem with that, but when I'm with my kid. I'm not dragging them nine blocks. Unless I just drop them off and be like Fend for yourself for a half hour. Daddy's got to save 50 bucks on parking.
And then I always got to buy him a toy. I mean, I don't have to. There are other parents, but I have one kid and I'm a pushover.
So I he. He's got a lot of Bucks-branded shit just in the house. Wow, this is the coolest necklace ever. Yeah, okay, wear it tonight and then never again. You know, the big ones.
Oh, I got this dame squishy. Yeah, well, he's out now. What are you going to do with it? I don't know. Put it in the drawer with all the other fucking squishies.
Got a lot of them. I should show you the squi the squishy collection. I got to show you too, right now we got the. We got the um MLB helmets are on the T V. In standing order of this current moment in time.
For the 2026 season. We've got NFL pennants. that were just spread across the dining room floor. In order of last year's standings. That happened this morning before school.
And then we also have. Making like a T shape, we have the NBA pennants. Going up and down. In order of his 2K franchise, which he plays. On easy.
We've been heavy on the WWE franchise lately, but all he's playing is the Royal Rumble. We don't play anything else. We didn't create a wrestler. We didn't start a. GM, we didn't do anything.
Maybe I'll put him to bed tonight and That's all I'll do. No brewer game tonight. I'll put him to bed. And then I'll do a create a wrestler. Can they let you wear a mask in the game?
I got to keep the bit going. Put the mask back on. Keep the back going. Ah yeah, so that's that. That's that's that.
But this is just another thing. They're envisioning, the NBA is envisioning this crazy scenario where these two teams that are losers are suddenly going to start winning at the end. And playing for this extra ball. The incentive is not great enough, I don't think, for that to even happen. I don't, because then you're not guaranteeing anything.
You're just changing your percentage from 5% to 8%. That's that's that's minuscule. In fact, it's 3% change. And the biggest issue that I always push back with people when we're talking. Draft and tanking.
The NBA doesn't seem to get this either. In most cases. The guys on the team do not care. about the draft position. Like you look at the maths, okay, Cooper Flag might be like, Yeah, I want a number one pick here next year.
Because I'm going to be here for a while. Do you think? But then the veterans like Clay, he doesn't know. He's not going to go out there and try harder. I got a A.
Get another guy on a team I might not be on, or get better odds so that this team can draft a guy who's just going to come and replace me. These players They don't think the same way as fans. Because we are guaranteed. We are guaranteed. To be a fan of our team that we're a fan of right now, you don't change allegiances.
Sure, it happens. Maybe I've changed allegiances. I was a big Cubs fan. Can I say this? I was a big Cubs fan as a kid and I was a big Brewers fan.
because the Brewers were in the American League. And the Cubs were in the National League.
Okay. So I had two teams. They never played each other. The only way was in spring training. or if they did an exhibition beforehand.
Or the World Series. which obviously was never going to happen. And then when they switched, I was what, ten? I mean, that's a long time. I put a lot of my.
Childhood years. Into the Chicago Cubs. I have a lot of Andre Dawson cards. I got a lot of Ryan Sandberg cards. I got a lot of Mark Disgrace cards, Mark Grace cards.
I got a lot of those guys because they were my guys, along with Paul Moliter and Rob Deere. You see behind me and Robin Young and BJ Serhoff and Gary Sheffield and Pat Listash, I loved. Rookie of the Year. Teddy Haguera, a favorite of mine. But the moment It came in conflict.
I abandoned the Cubs. It was It wasn't even a decision for me. It was just, oh, the Brewers and the Cubs now. You have to make a choice. Before I even could think about having to make a choice, the choice was made for me.
I'm not a Cubs guy anymore. I can't like both. And there's a lot of these. People. That grow up in Wisconsin, specifically the southern parts.
Who did that too? They watched a lot of Cubs. And when the Braves left, we know, and then the Cubs filled a hole for people, and they watched games with their grandpa or whatever. But I mean, you know how craziness is? It's like people in Houston.
Still rooting for the Titans. Or no, it's like people in Houston. People in Houston, Texas. Having the Titans move. then becoming cowboy fans to fill the gap.
And then the Texans come and they're saying, No, I'm a cowboy. No, no, you bail. You bail. Sports is about your hometown team.
Okay. Sports is about your hometown team.
You root. Euro geographically. The reason I like the sabers in hockey. The reason I like West Ham in the Premier League. is because I wasn't going to root for any city with my rivals in it.
And also, they were like the most Wisconsin-y kind of team. The Sabre's history is. Kind of lockstep with the brewers a little bit. West Ham, the guy tells me. The guy tells me when I'm trying to pick a team, he goes, Oh, you could like West Ham.
They're my favorite team. They're never that bad, but they're never that good. I go. Wisconsin.
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I think We need to stop allowing people to get away. with being a Cubs and Packers fan. I think that needs to go away. I'm going to take my mask off in case I clip this. The people that like both the Cubs and the Packers.
That grace period needs to be over. You are no longer allowed to do that. If you like the Packers, you like the Brewers. If you like the Cubs, you like the Bears. We've let you go on with this fuckery for far too long.
You're not special. You're not unique. We all watch games with our grandpas. Figure it out. This is 2026.
You have your own life. You have your own free will. Root for the teams that you're forced to root for geographically. The Cubs and Packers shit. is nonsensical.
It's nonsensical. It's nonsensical. Uh I just got a text from somebody. That said, why am I wearing a mask in my basement? I'll respond.
Someone shit on me. On Facebook. About wearing a mask in my car. Six years ago.
So I am leaning. Leaning Int into it, intuit, into it dome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Plus it covers up Whatever I got fucking going on here. COVID COVID. COVID we don't like remember how much people that killed. But don't you think I was. Don't you think I was uh Not a little pleased that I had an excuse to never leave my house and cover up.
Half my face. Don't you think I didn't take advantage or find a silver lining?
So yeah, I don't th I don't think that uh I don't think that Cubson. Packers fans. I don't think we should allow it anymore. And there is going to be a cutoff. Like, there's a specific age.
I'm in that kind of age. And I think that age extends. You know, maybe 28 to 45. You're not going to have kids these days growing up as Cubs and Packers fans, or you might. Because then these people like me are gonna be dads.
And then they're going to have their kids root for. Like My kid instinctually knows. Who to root for? If it's got Milwaukee in front of 'em. He goes, who do we like in hockey?
I said, well, we don't really have a hockey team here. I like the Sabres. I said, well, we have the Admirals, though. They're in the AHL. He goes, I love the Admirals.
He doesn't know anything about him. He won't go to a game. Did the Wave win the championship or did they lose? Uh I don't even know. MASL winner Wave San Diego.
Who won? I hope it's the wave. I'm going to find out live. Oh, the soccer's one.
Son of a biscuit. Mm. How many titles? Have wave. Milwaukee.
One. They've won seven league championships. Wow. The last one was in 2019. I was at that game in 2019.
I was at that game. My son is going to be a Bears and Brewers fan. Yeah. I'll take it as a joke, but... How many of those Exist.
How many Bears and Brewers fans exist? None! Because it's ridiculous. And it's stupid. And uh You're like Why is why would that be a thing?
But somehow cubs and Packers, there's this whole lineage of why it works, and it all makes sense and. Ricky ticky ticky, and blue, blue, ble, and blow, blow, blow. I'm trying to find the video. of when I went to see the wave. Win a championship.
Um I'm going to find that for you and then I'm going to. signed off 2019. Man. That was May 5th.
Okay, May 5th, 2019. I probably came down to Milwaukee living in Fond du Lac to go to more wave games than I did Brewers' games. Isn't that crazy? All right, here's when they won. I got it.
The exact moment that they won. In uh twenty I just gotta put it on my desktop. This is not worth the payoff if you've dipped and are like, I'll come back later and see if that was worth it. I'm sorry that it was not. I do have my deepest apologies.
But if you're a Wave fan. I can post this video for you and You can enjoy it. Here's the moment the f- 2019. I don't know. I just, I remember I did.
I know there's confetti and stuff, and the players seem into it, but I thought, like, the fans, I just. Because it was really, really weird. Um It was really weird. It was really weird because. There I think half the fans were there in like My capacity.
My capacity. Half the fans were there in my capacity, where it was like, oh, the waiver and the title. I used to see them back in the day. Let's go. It just doesn't feel like this is a championship celebrating crowd.
People are waving to come. That guy's really Not the main keeper of Max? Oh, the back of the Yeah. Breaking Bucks news. The Bucs are going to The California Classics Summer League in Sacramento.
Or they play the kings, warriors, and nets. On July 4th, 5th, and 6th. The Chase Center is also going to host California Classic Games. But not the Bucks. Wow.
Bucks, Summerlee, California Classic. July fourth. What a way. To celebrate America 250. Yeah.
No fireworks. Maybe it should Winkler verse trip. Link reverse trip? All right, we're breaking down uh Bucks preseason schedule. I think it's time to get on with.
My day, your day as well. Always great to be with you. Into the Winklerverse. Thanks to everybody for participating in whatever way you chose to do so. Just a Bart episode today.
Just a part episode. It's good to do that every now and then to make you remember that I'm the fucking main event. And also it's good exercise, you know? It's good exercise. Expect a video of me wearing this in my car shortly.
That's what I'm going to work on next. This is the life I leave. Or lead folks. This is the life I lead. And I'm so happy you're along for the ride.
Thanks as always for stopping into. Though oh, my title says NCAA tournament expansion. Yeah, it looks like they're going to go to 76 teams. I will have an answer to this very soon, the tailgate. I will have an answer to this very soon.
The date I had, I don't think we're going to do any more. It's probably gonna be a weekday. I'll have an answer to that very soon. When the tailgate will be. The NCAA is going to expand to 76.
You can't have people fill out halfy brackets.
So I guess you're going to have to get your bracket in by Tuesday. That's the way I would run it. They come out Sunday. You do it right away anyway. I need my bracket by Tuesday.
You're not having one of these. You got to pick those games now. You got to start picking those games. That's too much. We'll keep adding to shit that is better when it's not.
You know. Shit. All right. We got all these perfect little families. You keep adding one more kid.
And the whole thing gets thrown apart. All right. Thanks for stopping into the Winklerverse. Normally I smile here, but Can you see with my eyes I am doing it?
