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Securities are offered by Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC member NYSC, SIPC. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse, Monday, the 18th of May. I'm Bart Winkler, Carlos Ortiz. Alongside me.
Hello, buddy. Good. Why did it sound like you needed to take a shit when you were saying? Good morning, everybody. I didn't know if you were cramping, needed a crap, or it was a play on like Macho Man Randy Savage.
Good morning, everybody. Look at me, you're going nowhere. You guys got me for the next 50 minutes. How how long can you do a Macho Man impression without doing the Slim Jin line? I could probably do it for this entire stream.
Yeah, but I don't I think every time anyone Does it? They have to talk Slim Jim. Which we are not brought to you by. We're actually brought to you by Chomps. No, just kidding, but I get free ones sometimes from my coupon apps.
Anyway, we're going to talk Brewers' Cubs. We'll bitch about the NBA or something, maybe talk some Sabres. It's the national perspective, it is our show.
Now in this form, Forrest already says hi, says, I think I'm going to Potawatomi today. I went today because I had $40 in rewards. I walked home with $10, still a profit.
So, thank you. I don't know what that is. Robert wants to know what will Carlos be eating this week. Oh, I had steak and broccoli for breakfast today. Uh, I will have some chili later on today, despite the fact that it's not chili here at all.
It's almost 90 degrees. Uh, I don't know what's on the menu for the rest of the week, but um, you know, I'm trying to. Trying to get these gains in, baby. You see, you see them out here. Let's get the camera out there.
can't be eating crap. This probably isn't a good sign when my arms are so weak, except for somehow my wrist. Maybe a little bit of these. I do a lot of wrist exercises. That's clearly because I'm a big typer.
Yeah, I'm definitely much stronger in my right hand than I am in my left. I don't want to make sure I don't get arthritis. Yeah, my left hand's strong. My right hand's obviously stronger and then My mattress is really what is really the strong. My mattress is beats as shit.
Ottawatomi is our casino here, Carlos. Of course. Yeah. How do you think I look with no hat? Um I don't I mind the hat.
Like, I think we should get the hat back. I can't, I can't. Then I'd have to take another shower. I have somewhere to go. Yeah.
Kind of do this. Yeah. Nag, you can ditch the hat. If you're not going to commit to the hat fully, don't wear the hat.
Well, I was trying to. Your hair's not bad. It's just, you know. It's a five head. I have a huge fucking five.
The size from Eyebrow to forehead ratio is off. Yeah. There's an old um T V rule, the rule of thirds.
So when you are on a screen. Like my head, the line should be Two-thirds of and so I'm I'm in the rule of thirds. And then, if you do an interview, that's why you see either people on this side. Or like on this side where there's A two-thirds of the.
So, okay, now that that's established, my head is a rule of 50%. Yeah. I gotta maybe I'll like this. Maybe I'll s maybe I won't show maybe I won't show head. Up and flow.
Uh I'll play with the camera for no reason. My camera is it is what it is.
Well, I'm trying to get more views, and I think showing more skin is the way to go.
So, I'm going to start with.
Well, I'm already contributing. This is the first time I've gone sleeveless since this stream started. We had a soccer tournament this weekend, and we thought it would be 65 and cool all weekend. Sunday, it ended up being 50 and rainy.
Meanwhile, Saturday it jumped to 81 and hot as fuck. And I understand that heat wave is now with you in New York City, but will be gone most likely by Memorial Day when you actually want it. Oh, yeah. I would have loved the HeatWave to stay until next Monday, but it's out of here come Thursday. And I finished it up to 68 on Memorial Day, guys.
That's roughly where we're going to be at, also. But I would be remiss if I didn't play this dropper earlier. What's some secret? It takes a while to load these drops. I only have eight.
Wells.
Well, then it looks like it's going to be 84 on next Wednesday. Yeah, but it's completely useless where everybody's going back to work. I mean, people who have jobs, not me. Yeah, how are you doing? I'm doing not good.
Yeah, clearly, man. I've had people actually reach out to me about you. Since nothing is sacred, I'll just bring it completely to the forefront. They're like, hey, is Bard okay? And I'm like, nope.
And that's all I had. Who asked you? Gelb asked me. Gelb called me. He's just like, hey, is Bart okay?
And I'm like, nope. Well, I talked to Gelb and he asked me if he's o if I'm okay. I said no. Maybe he was looking for a different answer to clear his conscience. I'm like, Bart is Bart, man.
That's why I asked you if you were good, but. No, dude, it's I understand frustration. I feel the same way.
Well, maybe not as intense as you, but yeah, I'm still stuck in grinded out mode. I might be going back to working like four jobs to hopefully get one of them full time.
So we'll see what happens. You know, I had a little interview with Sirius XM, NBA Radio. If anybody's listening, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Um and uh I'll be talking to WFAN again next week, even though I know you hate them with passion. No, I don't.
Boys got to eat. I don't hate them. I thought you hated them. No, I don't like how they get to do things that I'm not allowed to. Like talk shit.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff. Yeah, it's in Infiniting, it's highly encouraged. Yeah. No, I need me. I think what I've realized Is that When you're wondering if your career is over.
When that coincides with What may be a midlife crisis? Yeah, it's a lot to process at once. That's not a good, that's that's not a good combustion. Oh, I do realize I don't have man boobs anymore. I'm very happy about that.
I'm also though. If we're going to talk about everything, I also feel like I'm having a second puberty. Where I feel like, so, but this is when I was going through puberty. I was the sweat king of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Nobody sweat more than me.
Eighth grade. Opening Like We went to the gym and we heard a presentation or whatever, like first day of school. I wore a green Adidas shirt. That was a certain color of green, say Kelly green.
Well, at the end of the thing, it was pretty much forest green, except for one little river of dryness down the middle of my body. I had sweat so much in my pits that it went like to my belly and up to my shoulders. It was. Pretty insane. I had looked into.
All the different deodorants. Mitchum was one that was popular that I used that people knew that I used. Yeah, I heard of that. I also I also would I had a special prescription that I rubbed on my pits. And then there would be some days where I took like paper towels.
And then with Saran wrap, Saran wrap them around me and then put my t-shirt on. Yeah, wouldn't the the saran wrap cause more sweat. Like, that's the thing. And then I would wear two shirts, and you'd be like, well, isn't that causing more sweat? And it's like, well, You know, it's a catch-22 here.
Um So I thought I had conquered that problem where, okay, yeah, I sweat a little bit, but you know, whatever. It's not that embarrassing.
Now it's coming back. I take a shower. This is already the third shirt I've worn after the shower. Wow, really? The other day, I woke up and was like just flat out fucking leaking.
Like, I could feel the little strands coming down my body. Yeah, hold on. We did look into using Botox. No, we're going to try this. I'm sending you a link of something that I saw that basically is supposed to.
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Now, I have no affiliation with said brand, which is why I'm not saying said brand here, but I hear that this stuff is. Pretty damn good.
So it has now been sent to your text. All right.
Well, that deodorant looks like it's $15 a stick. It probably is more. Hmm. Matter of fact, I can tell you right now, it is. Oh, let's just pick sandalwood.
Why not? It's $16. See, I know my deodorant. Hey, you say no, you say whatever you want about me, but I know my deodorant price ballparks. Shop around, I'm sure it's on Amazon or something like that.
Matter of fact, it is. I'm looking right at it. I know more deodorant price ballparks. All right.
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Yeah, what happened to Detroit? Detroit's been a team that I've been impressed with, and I saw their rise. This series, though, they gave it away to Cleveland. Yeah, they gave it away. They need a reliable second option in terms of scoring.
Like, you know, one game you have like Tobias Harris, another game, you have Jalen Duran, another game, you have Paul Reed. But, like, you're not getting consistent efforts from these guys. And what really hurt Detroit, obviously, was just. Cade Cunningham just can't do it all, and that's what happened yesterday. Donovan Mitchell goes off.
Cade Cunningham was essentially a net zero.
So, uh, while Detroit has a stifling defense, and I think they would have given the Knicks a good run, I still think that the Knicks would have won in six speak of the way that the New York is playing right now. Not a bias, I'm not a Knicks fan. I don't care. Look at my hat. That being said, Detroit offensively was going to be challenged no matter what.
And they were lucky enough to get past Orlando. If it wasn't for Orlando not being able to hit a bucket, You know, to save their lives, like over 25 or whatever the case may be, Orlando would have gotten through that series. Also, Franz Wagner getting hurt was really a detriment to the Magic. But that being said, the Pistons, I think it's still a successful season. Yeah, they were, it seemed to be the only team in the NBA that took the regular season seriously, which is why they got the number one overall seed.
And they were able to keep that lead when Cade went out for those couple of weeks. But I think Detroit. There's really nothing to hang your head down if you're a Mr. Positive. You can be positive about this.
I think they just retool in the offseason.
Now, does that mean Kevin Durant? I don't know if that's the route that they want. You can't go and sink another young team. No, I don't want to get rid of too many young talented guys to get an over-to-hill score. But they do need somebody to come in with some offensive firepower.
So I don't know what the option is going to be. But I think Detroit is going to make a move. I just don't think it's going to be something that's going to be earth-shattering. Like, they're not going to get Jokic or Giannis or anything like that. Just somebody that can help a shoulder to load from Kate.
But good for the pistons. Congratulations to them. You know, we're in this era where some of these guys that we've watched for the last 10, 15 years are. Slowing down or getting older. The Cavs did not win last night because of James Harden.
So when you go acquire James Harden, you're like, he's going to put us over the top. He was two for 10. Yeah, and they were better off three. And he had only one turnover, so that was good. But they got 20-plus points from four guys, and James Harden only.
Only gave him nine.
So if you're, these guys are in this bracket now where it's like, yeah, James Harden would be great on a championship team is. Three, four option. Right. And so Kevin Durant's got to be the same way. But I don't know what team right now would be.
I don't know that there's a team that's a Kevin Durant away from the title because either he's not good enough to get you there or. He's going to pull you back from where you could be. Yeah, I mean, here's a name that I, or here's a team that I think would benefit well from a KD because KD could be your fourth option. And it's Boston. I think the Celtics could use Tatum.
I don't So here's a crazy thing optioning him around. Derek White. Yeah, I think I would have Brown, Tatum, White, and then Durant as is in my points tree here. Uh, but I will be surprised. Contractually, they're never gonna make that work, but yeah, I mean, I listen, smarter people than me will figure it out.
I'm sure Brad Stevens will work it out. You know, do you finally split the tandem that is Tatum and Brown? I mean, you saw what Brown's able to do, he could be basically an MVP without Tatum. Um, he can't tatum, you know, replicate that type of production without Brown. I don't know, but um If I'm Boston, I'm trying to keep on both those guys as long as possible.
But if they think schematically it's a better fit to break them up, then, you know, bringing in somebody like KD, again, not to be your. You know, your secondary option or even tertiary option, just some guy to come out and help in your peripherals, where all you want KD to do is just. Spot up, shoot. Like Don't fucking run. Don't defend anybody.
Maybe. I don't know. I was going to say something stupid, like, come off the bench, but you're not going to have him come off the bench. But certainly manage his workload because the only thing that's going to stop you if you're bossing and you have KD is just him getting hurt again. And it seems to happen all the time.
So you have to limit his workload on the well and do it. If you hear that sound effect, it's 'cause it's time for our new segment. Behind the scenes of Radiolingo. I wasn't aware of this. Carlos said the phrase.
People smarter than me can figure that out. Oh, is that a ban phrase or something? No, I'm just going to tell the people what it means in radiolingo. Oh, yeah. So, I'll give you the example that you used, and then I'll do it in layman's terms.
And people smarter than me can figure that out.
Okay. Ah, ah. What you actually said. What you actually said was I don't know the information and I don't want to look it up.
So I'll just try to actually do a research. And so that was. Behind the scenes Radiolingo. That's the only effect I had. But I do respect that.
Oh no. Made somewhat uh sense. Yeah. What Comment here from Forrest. Did you guys see ESPN show a commercial before the game advertising Cavs versus Knicks?
It's impossible for that to just slip through the cracks. Yeah, so our buddy Mark Ryan in Detroit 97 won the ticket, which I don't even know why I plugged the station. I'm not an Odyssey employee. Fuck Odyssey. Mark Ryan tweeted this out.
Yeah, listen, fuck them. Mark Ryan tweeted out the fact that one of the affiliates in Michigan aired that commercial for Knicks and Cavs before game seven. Here's a behind the scenes for everybody since we're just torching the curtain. Just like Super Bowl t-shirts. There are multiple spots.
given out to affiliates. Ready to roll out as soon as games go final.
So, all those New England Patriots Super Bowl t-shirts, they're now in Kenya. I don't think it's the same thing. All those Pistons Knicks previews are now in their garbage. No, no, no, no. I don't think they're not the affiliates beforehand.
Yeah, yeah, they get them. That was a national feed. That's a national feed.
Well, again, someone effed up. We're not going to go ahead and sit here and the NBA was bringing them in. We'll make them beforehand. I don't think the affiliates get them beforehand.
Well, it it aired. It airs.
Some poor producers getting fired. Uh, you know, no big deal. Oh, no one's getting fired. I once snapped the satellite off a TV live truck, and I didn't get fired. One of your stories, I do know.
Good talent is hard to find in Wisconsin, even if it's you.
So they're going to, you know. They'll go to the growing pans. I think in retrospect, they would have fired me that day. I was stunned. I was stunned.
I kept my job. I was stunned. The only trap is the only disc type snap.
So I The only time I've ever been fired. For something I did wrong. Was when I served the boat guy, the boat owner. Oh, yeah. Was it the bug in the.
There's a bug in the water. And then I guess I was relieved from my duties as a lifeguard one summer because. We could only take. Two weeks of vacation, or we could only take one week off. But I had a family vacation in a soccer camp, and the guy was like.
The no you're not coming and which didn't make any sense to me, but I've quit more times than I've been fired, so I'm very proud to say that. I once quit because I wouldn't get the Super Bowl off if it was the Buccaneers and the Raiders. I think in 2002. And I asked for that Sunday off because I wanted to watch the game. And my manager, Muhammad, so you could tell where I worked, said no.
I said, no problem. I'll see you tomorrow, bud. I went downstairs to the freezer, took a fucking ton of ice cream cakes and pints. I worked at Dunkin' Donuts slash Baskin Robbins. And I walked out that way.
Well, that's not where my guesses were going.
Well, what was it? I'm not saying.
Well, I'll say it. Yeah, I worked at a Duncan Dunes. In fact, the Duncan Dunes are only a couple blocks away from my house now. He no longer works there. But yeah, I was just like, if you're not giving me a Super Bowl Sunday, I'm about to have a great Super Bowl Sunday.
I never showed up to that shit again in my life. And we had nothing but ice cream cake for our Super Bowl spread. I literally took two sheets, two sheets, and crammed them shits in my bag. Yeah. Welcome to the gun show starring Carlos Ortiz.
Look at that. The beach is that way. Look at these arms. Can you actually I s I saw a line right there. You could sort of see a line.
You don't exactly get the, you know. The little pop, and these are definitely modified. It's only been a year since I've been working out, but I didn't have these last year. If my arms and legs switch spots. I would snap in half while walking.
I think I'd be pretty decent. I did six miles yesterday. My knees are pretty shot. Brian says. Talk more Chicago White Sox base.
What's there to talk about? You assholes can't even save the game properly. What the hell's his name? Sir Anthony Dominguez, who's on my fantasy team because I'm short on closers, comes up with a. A four-run lead.
It's 7-3 going into the ninth, and this asshole serves up a meatball to Michael Confordo. Cubs tie it, and then wind up losing an extras anyway. There's your White Sox recap. Congratulations. You took the series from the Cubs 2-3.
You're still going to be dregs in an AL Central and an American League in general that's completely fucking ass, where only four teams are above 500. Go take a walk. See, the y you grew up in Chicago and now live in New York. Yeah. And so In both spots, there's two baseball teams that reside where you have.
Yeah, the concept of one city having one team is very odd to me. I've always grown up where at multiple teams. At multiple sports, with the exception of, you know, obviously, you know, Chicago is only a Bears town, and you know, it's a Blackhawks town, and you know, the Bulls, you know, reign supreme, but you had Cubs and White Sox. I live in New York, and there's Yankees and Mets, Rangers and Islanders, and Devils, if you're into that kind of shit. Knicks and Nets.
So New York almost exacerbated what I was kind of used to growing up in Chicago. I could not live in a place where there's only like everybody's a behive mine and like we're all Brewers fans or we're all Cardinals fans. Like, that's weird to me. I like options. Yeah, because I do find it.
The closest thing we have to that is. Wisconsin and Marquette. Sure. But Wisconsin, the Madisons The the 60 miles between Madison and Milwaukee might as well be. The fucking uh Gulf of Mexico.
No, no, the um the biofrost. Oh, mid garden. Yeah. It might as well be two different realms.
So And I don't think Milwaukee really cares. Like the city of Milwaukee doesn't really care about any college. We care about The Panthers when they're good. Mm-hmm. Marquette is more like Marquette's basically The little um Consulate of Illinois.
Yeah, no, no, I get it. Like, you know, if you're talking college here in New York, like people become St. John's fans. You know, when St. John's is good.
But, like, Iona, who was in the tournament a couple of years ago with Rick Petino, is 45 minutes away. You don't see Iona Gales fans here.
So, like, you know. Yeah, I appreciate those people who aren't frauds. Does Wisconsin have a baseball team called the Utter Tuggers? I think the Timber Rattlers Did that one day, the Class A team? Did that one day?
Like it's one of their other, you know, these minor league teams. Yeah. There was a minor league team that I forgot what the hell their name was, but they had cool color schemes in them. I was going to buy one of their tank tops. Andrew Bogish knows what team talking about.
Yeah, I don't know why you're wasting that story here. That's a really dynamite. That's like a hosting an event story, Carlos. You should have hung on to that one. What are you talking about?
You gotta hang on.
So the Cubs lost two of three? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, listen, good showings. They beat the White Sox pretty handedly the first game. Then they got bludged in the second game.
And the third game was a good back and forth for Fair. But Cubs don't have pitching. Jamison Tyone's a fucking terrorist and bullpen arms are running short on productivity. Ben Brown, who was supposed to be your maybe first long arm out of the bullpen, probably going to be your starter now because they're just getting decimated with injuries left and right. But listen.
It's three games out of 162. I want to say it's not a big deal. I'm sure White Sox fans aren't pumping up their chest like Mets fans here because the White Sox know that they're not going to go anywhere. The Mets at least are deluding themselves to think that they have a chance because they took 203 out of Yankees. But I personally like MLB Rivalry Week.
It's a shame we were never able to do a bit around that with Infinity, but I think it's a pretty. A pretty cool weekend despite not really mattering in the grand scheme of things for a season. I still don't know that I love interleague play existing, but if it's going to exist, and I know not every rivalry makes sense, but they've embraced it. Like, yeah, yeah, not every, you know, like doesn't Seattle play San Diego and they made it a one that doesn't make sense. They made it the better cup, they did something with it.
And I think I asked you this before, but like as twins brewers, is there any juice to that? Twins Brewers. Brewers took two of three. Um Brewers fan so The Twins games. Rather than the games in Milwaukee.
You'll have more Brewers fans in the Twins Stadium, I believe, because. The border Between like Wisconsin and the Twin Cities is 45 minutes. Got it.
So a lot of western Wisconsin might not get down to a Brewer game. They're closer to the Twin Cities.
So they're go they'll go there.
So there was a good, there was a lot of let's go brewers chance Friday night and Saturday the one. But the ride it doesn't feel like Every Wisconsin-Minnesota rival, or every Wisconsin, yeah, every Wisconsin-Minnesota thing that exists. Feels like it's more important to Minnesota than it does to Wisconsin. Hmm. They call it the border battle.
You know, they. I think we're so preoccupied most of the time with the Chicago stuff. Yeah. That then You know, Green Bay or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. It's like, yeah, okay.
So there's a lot more of a like. You go to a Twins game. Or you see Twins fans in the parking lot. And Brewer fans are going to be like, hey guys, thanks for coming over. Yeah, thanks for checking out.
Oh, we got the target field last summer. It was great. You go to a Brewers Cubs game, it's like Get the fuck off my property, but that's coming from a guy in a. Fukudomi jersey yelling at a Brewers fan. It's completely different.
What a letdown Fuku Domi was. Yeah, obviously, obviously, yes, more competitive when they were both in the AL. Sure. But even then, I think Brewer's White Sox was more. Than Brewers twins.
Yeah, because you guys hated Chicago. And the first team I grew up hating was the Blue Jays. Because that's who would always be in front of the Brewers. In the standings, and then Paul Molliter went there right away. But now the Blue Jays, I guess, in terms of rivalry week, their rival is the Detroit Tigers, which sort of makes sense because, you know, they're kind of close proximity.
I grew up on rivalries. I think baseball needs more of it. Like, you know, I hate the Cardinals. I don't mind the Pirates too much because, you know, Bob Nutting's a. Complete inept owner, oh, the reds get on my ass every so often, but and then there's the brewers, of course.
They're cool. Oh, Treb says, uh, yeah, PJ Fleck. PJ Flex.
So I would say that. You know, losing to the Vikings sucks. Losing to the gopher's worse. Even losing to the Timberwolves, we're in different divisions.
Now, if they come over, that will change or conferences. But when Minnesota beats Wisconsin in football, that one really bothers me. That one really bothers me. That's the premiere.
Well, I don't want to say premier because you have. Packers, Vikings, but Gophers is the Badgers' main rival, for sure. I don't know. You play him twice. Buckshot Bobby, why do Chicago fans always chant Green Bay sucks at every event now?
Doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it doesn't make a sense. They were doing that at Cubs, White Sox. And then I, of course, say this is stupid. But then the report has been.
Well, you guys said it at the NFL draft. Which first of all, no, we didn't. Clay Matthews did. You can't be lumping in players with fans.
Okay. First of all. Plus I didn't say it. And I don't say it.
So I'm only speaking for myself. Yeah, it's kind of you guys or their version of Trae Young sucks from Knicks fans when Trey Young's not even on the Hawks anymore. There's still F Trey Young chance to this day. He's in Washington. Liberty Mutual customizes your car and home insurance, and now we're customizing this rush hour ad to keep you calm, which could help your driving.
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My son, I had to break him down and tell him that Pete Crowe Armstrong is an asshole. after what he told a young woman to do to him. in the outfield. She had it coming. What the fuck?
Listen, PCA can do no wrong. If anything, he stopped short. He should have thrown a helmet or something. What did he just say? S my D?
That's right.
Okay. And she would. 'Cause it's PCA. Wasn't that a White Sox fan? She would.
I wasn't a Cubs fan yelling at her, was it?
So, are you? This is the first time they're meeting, right? Since the. Since the infamous Elf Lag series, as I think we're calling it now. Yeah, yeah.
This is the first time we'll see each other since you guys took us out of the. out of the playoffs.
So um I am excited for it, sort of. Again, still, you know, a couple games of 162, but I'm going to try to drag myself up there to Milwaukee when we go. When we go to Milwaukee, you will you know, this first uh round will be going down to Wrigley.
So we'll see what happens. Is Miserowski pitching in this? Because I haven't looked at the matchups at all. Your matchups, Monday night, Brandon Sprout. The sprout goat.
Yeah, we can club. We can club him. Takes on Shota Imanaga. You guys are in no shot.
Okay, game one here. Uh you're looking at a five seven five ERA versus two three two. Yeah. Game two will be Jacob Mizarowski. Oh, I wish I had that ship drop.
Jacob Mizikowski. Against Cubs. Phenom in waiting, five years running Ben Brown. Advantage brewers. And then Wednesday.
Will be a night game, rare night game on a Wednesday between these two. That will feature Kyle Harrison, who is pitching very well for the Brewers. Yeah. Against the guy who I have already cut and picked up in my fantasy league three times, Edward Cabrera. Advantage cops.
You're going EC over KH? No. All right.
Cabrera's got better stuff. He just has you know, Harrison has better control. I will say that um This Brewers' Cub series comes at a bad time for me. Yeah. Well, tonight I'm watching the Sabres in game seven.
Yeah, have the Sabres decided who's going to be a starting net for them? Because they've been yanking goalies left and right.
Well, they give up like seven goals a night. Fair enough. I mean, they gave up, what, three on three shots in game six? And I'm like, I'm like, all right, well, Buffalo's done.
So I didn't watch the game. And then I turned it on. I'm like, what the fuck? It's 6-3 Buffalo. Every time you turn on a game, if you're five minutes late turning on a game, it's 3-2.
One way or the other. They scored eight the other night. Yikes. Tomorrow night I have soccer practice.
So You could reschedule that one. And then on Wednesday night. Wednesday, I think I can settle settle in and watch. Kyle Harrison, I think. I can settle in on a Wednesday night and watch some.
Yeah, I somehow have the Marquis Network app for free. Don't know why, and I'm getting my Cups games, so I'm watching all of them. I will be at the gym, though, for tonight's contest. Mm.
Okay. Fair enough. What what else? Ah I don't know. Spurs Thunder.
Anybody give a shit? It's a series we've been waiting for for like a month, but I guess no one cares. Oh, yeah. All right, so put myself into my head of planning a four-hour show tonight. We're coming on the air and Spurs Thunder's play.
Spurs Thunder. Okay. We're coming on the air.
Okay, coming on the air. When did we come on the air in Detroit? We weren't on until 9 and 10. Day to you. We would get on Detroit at 10 local time.
Down, down.
Okay, so I'd probably start with the pistons. And calves. And then hope that Greg called in to get. Two segments out of one. And then we do the blitz.
Then, in an hour or two, we could start with Spurs Thunder, which would just be wrapping up at that time. Sure. And talk Sabre's Canadiens. Maybe I'll get sound, maybe I won't. Oh, tonight tonight would have been an easy one with the Sabres.
I would have I not a lot of shows ever say this, but I would have rode Sabre's calls. Yeah. All night. Yeah, the two of them that we would get. I mean, one of 'em would be David from Buffalo.
Yeah. Ben's in the donation club. You just give me $3.99 a month and you get no perks out of it. Thank you. Shut up, Ben.
Um SPA winning MVP could be a good controversial topic. Is it really controversial? I think you have to lean another way. And I'm going to steal this from Lynell Willingham, who I worked with yesterday. Do we see another American win an MVP anytime soon?
Because between SGA Jokic and possibly Luca. Europe's got a Wemby, Europe's gonna have a stranglehold on the MVP for like the next 10 years.
Well, at least until when would my kid be NBA eligible? 2038? Uh y you you've already penciled in uh your your son into the league? I guess if Bronny Jr. can make it, you know, then anybody's possible to answer Buckshot Bobby's question: 215.
That's two plates. You can bench. 215. That's my one rep max. I'll be very up.
One rep. I think I could hit 225, but I don't have a spotter.
So I don't want to attempt it.
So I'm riding the 190 train up and down pretty ferociously. You could lift me up. I won't, but yes, you know, statistically, I could. Could you dirty dancing me? I don't know, probably not because I'll be on like push presses, like my overhead, not as great as like my actual chest press.
Like I'm trying to work on it, but I think I think I can strict press. 130 and like and I'm and I'm fucking struggling sometimes to get that up. Also, if you Dirty dancing me, you'd have to get your arms under my Well no, you'd hold my hips, right? You don't have to actually touch my armpits, right? Uh no shot in Hill.
I would drop you. I would just use me more in my In the waist region, because hips make me uncomfortable. Yeah, you'd be more in my flab zone. In my cortisol. Cave.
Yeah, I have kid m knead my fingers right in that cake. Yeah. Would we kiss? No. Perfect.
No, I'd I'd I'd I'd immediately try to fight you. We could also talk about Shams released the MVP early. Yeah, and the the Amazon Prime crew was like ribbing at him. I'm like, I'm sorry. This is the one rare time that I'll defend Shems.
His job is just to, you know. Be a disseminator of information. He's literally a conduit. Yeah. What do you want them to do?
Hold on to the fact that As Jade won the MVP, which is not a fucking surprise. I think it would have been more of a surprise if Wemby would have gotten the award. That would have had more juice. Bye. No, SGA.
Oh, David would have called in with a PGA update. That would have. Oh, yeah, somebody won. I got the alert. I literally got the alert, and I'm like, all right, who gives a fuck?
Uh Uh Nashville's hosting the Super Bowl. Yeah, and uh Oh, speaking speaking of Minnesota, uh, Minneapolis might get the draft.
So that's what's going to be expected for next year. I would probably talk a lot about Hillary Duff's photos. Oh, she's such a smoke. The comeback that Hillary Duff and Lindsey Loenhan have made. needs to be studied.
Lindsey Lohan is an absolute smoke, and Hillary Duff is right there. I'm s I'm studying it. Oh yeah, I'm putting in manpower for sure. I'm studying it. Should I go to Minneapolis for the draft?
Yeah, why not? It's closer to you. It's closer to you than Pittsburgh was closer to me, which is why I didn't go to the draft this year. Also, because I don't have any gainful employers to send me. But yeah, I mean, if it's not that far of a drive, I'd do it.
I honestly think the Packers are going to take it in the first round. I think the biggest sports news around here. Yeah, no shit. was that Luke Combs played two nights at Lambeau Field. How about that?
I don't know, but I saw like 300. Different people. tweet about it and Matt LaFleur chugged a beer or some shit. Oh, because he's cool. I don't fucking care.
I don't, my NFL head coach is already being a. A bad example of how to be a leader. I don't need him to. get on stage and use alcohol irresponsibly. That's for the fans.
So he could walk into the Badgers' locker room and try to pump them up, and these guys are looking at each other like, who the fuck is this guy? That that uh that that's for the fans to do. You know? It's for the fans. Yeah.
All right.
Well, that's really all I have. Good thing I don't have a four-hour show tonight. Uh Still got drops. You know what sucks though? Can I tell you what sucks?
Everything? I'm not as invested in sports right now. Oh, I'm I should you're not, I'm watching sports maybe twice a week. I used to watch 4 or 5.
Now I'm like if it's on. But it's the NBA playoffs, it's the NHL playoffs, and so obviously I'm watching that every single night. And I don't know if it's because of the streamers. Or if I'm watching other shit, but... Or if I'm busy with like kids stuff, but Man, Daredevil and Punisher had a chokehold on me, so I was watching that on Tuesdays.
Oh, you know, we never did our little Marvel Corner. Or I don't know what you want to call this segment, Marvel, Marvelous. What were your thoughts on Punisher? I thought. I was severely underwhelmed.
And my worst fear was to confirm that there was going to be no bridge between Daredevil and Spider-Man with this. What what the hell is one last kill which is a complete bullshit name for the uh thing because He's gonna kill somebody. Read this one first. Amazing that these guys used to entertain and inform 15 to 20 hours each week, and now they struggle through a single hour. That being said, I'm strangely intrigued each week.
Joe R-T71. We used to do something called prep. And we used to do that because it was. uh important for something called our jobs. And our jobs are kind of I don't get paid for this.
I do this out of the kindness out of my heart. Also, Sometimes out of sheer boredom.
So I put zero to negative prep work when it comes to this. This is all natural talent. The fact that I'm able to spit out facts and takes. With no no notepad. Nope, no paper.
You know, my phone's. Black tells you I need to be fucking hired ASAP. Imagine what I could do if I prepped. True. We've been talking 40 minutes without a break.
Typically We could get 40 minutes of content in two hours. With the commercials and the updates. And you know, coming back from break. And letting calls kill the hour. And, you know, how long I used to make my imagings, like, you know, all that specialty bells and whistles, and we don't have any of that.
I used to purposely make that shit just to be like, okay, we got 45 seconds here, we don't have to talk. Our jobs was just get to the finish line. As creatively but as easily as possible. Ah, somebody hire these guys. Listen to Jeff McCasky.
Casey, Jeff, Mac. That might be easier when you're not your own worst enemy. Like, I Oh, I'm nobody's enemy. Hire me. Oh, how about the Rousey fight?
Did anybody watch it? I mean, honestly. Gina Carano at this point is literally just eye candy. If she wasn't, you know. You know, if she wasn't a shitbag in some people's eyes, she'd still be on the Mandalorian.
So I'm not surprised that they took this fight. You know, it'd been like one last payday, but. Come on, it was a complete job. Rousey's not tapping around in like 15 seconds unless they agree to it. First of all, I love Ronda Rousey.
She should go back to WWE. Like in a Hillary Duff way. Uh She's not ugly. But I don't find her attractive. I do.
Yeah. I'll take Gina Crono.
So there's that. You can have the winner, I'll take the loser. But that fight, like...
So every time Netflix has these events. Which I forgot it was on Netflix. Everyone shits on him. Nobody goes. The product's terrible, but If you are in front of a Netflix device, You watched the big fight.
Yeah, it's there. I watched Jake Paul. And this is what boxing or whatever, all of this has been. Resorted to now round uh That was so stunningly like... There's never been an event more in history where you're like, oh, this was.
They weren't even going to do this. They weren't even Didn't. They weren't they like laugh she was laugh that was like John Cena tapping out. I mean, Rhonda's just, I guess she couldn't end her career with, you know, getting smashed in by Holly Holmes. Like, all right, I got to come out on time.
They ask her, and she's like, look, I made my money, I promoted this. I got in shape. I'm going house hunting in Hawaii now. Good for her. Go live your best life, honestly.
I mean, she can go raise her kids and do whatever she wants to do because that's, I know that's one thing I commend her for. She wanted to be a mom.
So go have at it. But what if you go to like That's like I've never gone to an event like that, like boxing or Uh mixed martial arts. Because imagine if you go to like a baseball game. And they give you a pre-card, okay?
So you watch a few innings of people you don't care about. And then the fifth inning starts. And it's just over after three outs. You're like, oh, fuck, they won. And then you got to go home.
Yeah. I don't understand why people would go to these things. It's like Dontrell Willis's, you know, no-hitter. Five and a third. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why unless you get like comped or they need people there? I understand why you go to these things. Yeah, I mean, unless the ticket is just so cheap and it's something to do, but. I don't know. You listen to us talk, and then like 30 minutes in, you're looking at, you're thinking, Bart's little rundown here sounds exactly like the ESPN.com headlines that are listed at 12:30 on a Monday.
What do you think is open in my tab? For all I shit on ESPN, like I use so much ESPN. That's literally How I make a rundown every weekend. And I listen to ESBN, and I watch ESPN. Who's still watching ESPN?
Me. Hire me. I'd love to work there, even though I shit on them constantly. All right.
Thank you all. Carlos has next week off. Uh Can you have off from a job you don't have? And then I have offered my actual job too. You think I was gonna work a lick?
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