Yeah Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse. It's Monday, June 1. I'm here. Carlos Femi is here.
Yeah, I saw one little post about the result of the Brock Lesnar Oba match, which I didn't even know was taking place. And I'm not doing the Oba Femi, I'm doing the Carlos. Carlos. Carlos. That's Carlos Ortiz, Carlos Ortiz.
There was a WWE pay-per-view over the weekend. Was it Classic Italy? Yeah, it was bad. Yeah, again, I saw the result for that one Lesnar and Femi match, and I'm like, why?
Well, they're redoing Bloodline again. What do you mean they're redoing the b bloodline? Roman beat Jacob Fatu, and now Jacob Fatu has to acknowledge Roman today. What? They're doing it again?
Yeah. And Jey Uso, who they gave, I'm really pissed about Jey Uso. Like when my kid and I play Royal Rumbles on 2K. I just beat the shit out of Jey Uso because this motherfucker gets main event, and then he's just back to being one of Roman's bitches. Yeah, it might have just been a very, it could have just been like a Daniel Bryan effect.
Like, all right, we want to see him. We're going to push him. And all right, you guys got it. We're done with this experiment. We just wanted to do it for that mania.
And that's that. No yeet. Welcome into the Winkler versus I'm Bart Winkler. This is Carlos with a K or T's. We took off for the Memorial Day holiday.
Did you get out on the grill, buddy? I did. It actually wound up being a nice day. It was supposed to be raining to forecast the entire day. It did not happen.
Stopped raining. Driest May ever in Milwaukee. That's wild because it was raining a lot. It was raining that entire weekend.
So I took the entire weekend off, did nothing. But I was able to grill that day. Sun wound up coming out.
So it wound up being nice. I hope everybody got rested. And I hope your Memorial Day wasn't as bad because this is less of a stream and more of a welfare check. Are you okay, Bart? What's wrong with me?
I don't know. What the hell's wrong with you? Because of my crash outs online? No, that might do it. Yeah.
I don't know how much you want to talk about this publicly, but. I need to I I need to deassociate myself From everything New York Sports Radio. Yeah. You're going to be mad as hell when I get back on the fan. Because.
I don't like what goes on over there. I think it's a bunch of shit. It really started when Spike was the boss there. And I'll make this no secret. I can't fucking stand Spike Askin.
I think he's fake as fuck. And you know what? I hope gave me my job. I'm not going to say shit about that. Mike did a lot of great things for a lot of good people.
I think he's fake as fuck, and I want him to know it. And he doesn't give a shit. You know, I'm not even a fucking ant to his boot. You know, but screw him. Fake his bug.
Fabricated, you know, programming he tried to do. And he we're not doing, we're not friends without Spike. No, I got that job because of David. Spike did not help me at all. But he got me not Yeah, no, that's fine.
Hey, look, he got you at position, although I think Gelp had something to do with that. He got held me in the door, but then Spike was like, You're the best host that doesn't have a full-time job.
Well, there you go. And listen, and he hooked up my guy Al Cintron, who's now part of the WFN family.
So, listen, he hooked up EJ with the morning job. He's done great things for good people, but he fucked me, so fuck him. Let me say this about the New York media market. And we are going a little early today just because I was up last night watching Milwaukee Panthers baseball get. One on the chin.
They played a day at five. And I will be following that and I'm gonna. Most likely do a post-game for that. Last night. Yeah, last night's post game on YouTube at 1:30 in the morning has 60 views right now.
Woof, delicious. Can we just get nine more?
So I'm skipping my kids' swim. lesson tonight.
So that I can do a post-game. What? Because if they win, I'm going to take you into the locker room. Hmm, yeah. And if they lose, I'm just I'm just not taking you to locker room.
Yeah, but I'm excited. They've been doing great. I will not bore you with the details. There's a separate 60-view YouTube. And podcast for that.
On wherever you get your podcast. But I think my issue. My big issue with Radio from now. The sidelines for six fucking months. And this was my issue at the time when I got laid off the first time.
Is that these jobs are precious? They are. You get you get abused. You get bombarded, right? You get assaulted by listeners, you get low pay.
But a lot of people want them. There's some bit of prestige to it. Yeah, it it's harder to get one of these jobs than it is to You know, I can't believe I'm going to use an analogy as Spike told me. It's easier to theoretically get on a basketball team. like the Knicks because there's 12 spots on the roster.
Whereas on a radio show, There may be three. Robert says, everywhere I go, people are talking about Spike. I listen to you guys to get away from the Spike talk.
Well, it's not the big of a guy nationally. Nationally, he's a prick. A lot of people can't stand them. And this one comes in from StreamYard. It says live viewer comments show up on StreamYard.
This is an example. Click on a comment to show it on screen. Yeah, I don't think you need to click that one. 15th time I've done this joke on the Dan Shaney. YouTube stream.
But I feel like.
Okay. When I got laid off in Milwaukee. A lot of people celebrated my demise. He said, if you want to celebrate my demise, that's fine. But you need to realize.
That your job should not be taken for granted. Do not take your job for granted. And lo and behold, many of the people that I was trying to lecture that to eventually got laid off and were also shell-shocked. This is the business. Every day you have in this business.
You should be thankful for the fact that there's even 60 people that watch my fucking YouTube about Milwaukee Panthers baseball. I'm not like, oh, only 60. I'm like 60. Because it could be fucking zero. It could be.
Nobody needs to listen to any of this. Nobody needs to still latch onto us right now. And I'm going to do it one, because I want, obviously, to continue my career. Two, because I need to emote these things. They're buried in me.
I need to emote them.
So I emote them.
So, this is for me as much as it is for you. But if any single person wants to be a part of it, You shouldn't turn them away at the door. which a lot of radio people do and i feel like in new york There's a lot of people. That just think I'm in New York. I'm the fucking man.
And maybe they deserved it. But New York is treated a different way. We like. We have to always know what's going on at WFAN. Why?
We don't give a shit. But we have to fucking know. Every time, oh, Boomer said this, Geo said this. I don't give a shit. The Knicks are in the finals.
This motherfucking station can't stop talking about how much they love Jackson Dart. Oh yeah, that's the one. Come on from it! Anyway, that's my that's my It's my bitch. Are you hearing what I'm playing?
Yeah. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah, it's looking like I was literally playing the WFA and jingle underneath your rant. W F A N, we love Trump. It really is just two shows that do though.
And of course, it's the most prestigious shows. WFAN, everyone in radio is held to a higher standard except for Boomer. W F A N Fuck Mundani. That's really what they want to say. And by day, I mean Boomer and Craig.
Just say it. Yeah, don't beat around the bush. Like we fucking get it And it's fine because you know, people elected these people, and people also did not vote for these people. You got Olympic athletes. W F A N, shut up and dribble.
Come on, Don't you want a job there? What are you doing? Why are you participating in there? I mean, listen, I want a job there. Do they want me back now?
Just say what we're all thinking. No one's watching this.
Well, that's true too. But, you know, watch the one person that is the one that's going to be hiring me or firing. Yeah, someone keeps bookmarking all my questionable tweets, and I know who it is. Any names? Yeah, we I've we've met him and he blew me off.
Oh, I know exactly who it is, just based on that. Alone.
So the Knicks are in the finals.
So do people even care or is it giant stuff? No, it's a huge story. It's the number one story. Like, listen, boomer, don't care, but the city absolutely does. It is 1000%.
conceivable that the Knicks could win the championship. And if they do, I fear for my life, this city might go up in flames. It might look like a camera. Did you see Paris? They won the Champions League, and that town went up in flames.
Yeah, you know, I feel bad for Arsenal because arsenal doesn't get shit, but um Meow, yeah, yeah, Parasol went to what the Champions League is that what it's called, and yeah, of course, you're nothing says, uh, I'm so happy like destroying uh a part of your hometown so. I was at, are you familiar with the Tom's watch bar? I know of it.
So it's like it's a bar, it's in different places, and they have one in Milwaukee now. And they're going to be doing World Cup parties. And I'm gonna. Listen, everybody. I'm going to have a link.
that you can Use to support the show to reserve seating for some of these parties. And your boy might get a kickback, but doesn't matter. You get like a reserve spot and then a food and beverage credit.
So I went to check it out on Saturday. And I went there for the Champions League final, and Arsenal lost to PSG. And basically, the whole bar was Arsenal fans. Damn brutal. And when I say the whole bar The whole people that were there were Arsenal fans.
Now, I didn't share the video because the bar was not like full. But it's a funny video because there's look at all these Arsenal fans, all four of them.
So anyway. Tom's watch bar is a great place to watch soccer. This World Cup, I'll have a link for you shortly. But I hate watching Arsenal. I saw a guy fist pumping when Arsenal blew a shot, and I went up to him.
I was like, dude, I hate watching. I need someone to latch on to. And I look and he's wearing an Arsenal jersey. And I'm like, oh shit. Why was he pumped that they missed it then?
I must have misread the situation, but. He gave me one of those looks like. I'm going to hear you out. And be respectful, but the sooner you can get out of my fucking personal space, the better it's going to be for all of us. Yeah.
Yeah. So anyway, they lost. That was fine. Um The Knicks, I was talking about the Knicks for some reason. uh yeah you were asking if people actually cared and they do well no i know they care But I do feel like Because remember when the Yankees and the Dodgers were in the World Series, we were on the air for that.
Yeah, we were. I was very interested in it because I thought it would huge, pop a huge number. Which it kind of didn't. No, but it felt like a big problem, not ours. It felt like it.
The thing I said the other day is um If I did a bartometer this week, A topic that I would do is Big market teams that feel like they're not big market teams. Yeah. Number one is the LA Angels. With a bullet.
Okay. You can put the Chicago wife. But I think the Knicks are kind of in there. I so I Um For some reason, like I know all of New York is like. Giants, Jets, you know.
Uh Mets or whatever. What's the other one? Oh, Yankees Mets. But everyone likes the Knicks because, you know, the Nets were in Jersey and who cares? The Nets are so irrelevant.
Yeah. But the Knicks, I'm telling you, the Knicks don't feel like the Lakers. They're not.
Somebody in middle America, the Knicks do not feel like the Lakers, or even the Celtics, or even the Heat, or even the Warriors.
Well, the reason for that is the Knicks don't have the history in the championship that other franchises do. The Celtics and the Lakers, and at one small time, the Heat. And when the Warriors, as well, for four championships, whatever the case may be, they were dominant.
So people got sick of them quickly. They're like, all right, these guys are always winning. We hate the Lakers, we hate the Celtics, so we hate the Heats. And heat culture hasn't been heat culture in like 10 plus years. But people still hate the heat because of what LeBron, Wade, and Bosch were able to do for those four years that he was down there.
So people just get sick of the fact that they're winning championships and he has this thing-long jevity of success. The Knicks have two rings. in their franchise. It's a big market. Yeah, it's certainly a national team, but nothing like any of those other teams.
Plus, also, I think. This specific iteration of the Knicks. They're likable. There really isn't a superstar on this team. Jalen Brunson is a superstar in New York, but nationally, people are not.
He's not in the top 10, top 15. He was left off of, you know. A third team NBA ballot by some people. Kevin O'Connor had to apologize for leaving Jalen Brunson off.
So, like, he's definitely not looked at as a superstar.
So, nationally, like, the Knicks almost feel like underdogs slash. They're rootable. It's what New York team has come out in recent history that people actually like. I think the only one that I would say. For, like, a cup of coffee, would have been that Giants team that went against the undefeated Patriots.
But it was more to do with the fact that people didn't want to see a perfect season from the Patriots and Brady and less to do it actually, liking the Giants. The Giants were just the guys getting the rub, everybody hated the Patriots. This one I think people would be fine either way. Wemby gets a championship, cool, but also like if you're like a true basketball fan and you're sick of like sustained success, you probably want the Knicks to win because the Spurs, this will be what, their franchise's fifth or sixth title. Like in the grand scheme of thing, like, oh, fucking Spurs again.
This iteration of the Knicks is totally likable. And it doesn't feel like a big market team, like you said, because. There is no like. Crazy championships that they've had, and there's no arrogant superstar that they have. This feels like a team.
Again, I'm not a Knicks fan. I'm actually rooting on the Knicks in this finals. I'm a Bulls fan. I hate everybody else except the Bulls. This Knicks team, I want them to win for this fan base.
Well, there's a lot of um There's a lot of Wemby backlash. Where's this coming from? I don't know. I thought your boy bring him up again. You know who hates Wemby.
Your boy Spike.
Well, but he also, in the next breath, he says New York Knicks fans are like the worst fans on the planet.
So, like, he can't be trusted in this series. I don't take him seriously. I'm uh rooting for the Knicks. to lose. I give missed version 9, I don't care.
As far as as far as a nine. Knicks don't have the big personalities that people love or hate, which is what you need in this era. Evidently, that's from Bruce. Ben says, I think this is a great NBA finals. You can root for either or cheer against either with good reason.
Yeah, he's right. This really is like a casual NBA fan's dream.
Well, it's funny because this was the finals in 1999 in a strike shortened season. And well, also, the Knicks went into that. They won game one. Great. But OJ Chase shadowed what was going on in game one.
So the Knicks won, but they lost the series. And Ewing got hurt. Like, you knew the Knicks had no shot in that series. This is like. This is a weird, like it feels, it feels fresh, but it feels familiar at the same time.
Yeah, yeah, it's because it's a very interesting finals. The Knicks, they deserve to come out of the East. The East is. Absolute dog shit. Mm-hmm.
Um and the Knicks railroaded through it. Everyone thought the Celtics were going to basically get three bye weeks. I had money on the Celtics. I thought the Celtics were coming out the East, too.
So the Knicks more than deserve it because Boston shit the bad. The Spurs beating the Thunder is interesting because now a lot of people are looking at this as. Like This was the Thunders' last chance before the Spurs really became the Spurs. That's the Spurs are a year ahead of schedule, so I get the sentiment. But to but to go ahead and put dirt on the Thunders dynasty, when we butt, but Holmgren was terrible, Chet was terrible.
It's one game. Let I see all you can't be bad in a game seven. I agree, but you know what? James Harden's made a career of disappearing in the postseason completely. Look how that turned off.
He's still going to be a Hall of Famer. I this is a one-game aberration. Maybe Chet winds up being dog shit in the postseason going forward. But he's got hardware, so it's not like he hasn't done it before. I think if you're okay.
He's going to take two shots. He was completely, he was a Casper-friendly ghost. He was nowhere to be found. I still think that this is just a.
Well, this has to be more of a word on the ass than a premonition of things to come. OKC is going to be just fine. The only reason people are like giving this, oh, Chet Hungren, does the Thunder have a Chet Hunger problem? Is because his extension is about to kick in. If he was making rookie deal money, no one will give a shit.
But because they paid him and he played like that, people are going to be like, oh, OKC, we can't wait to dance on the graves on that. They have one title. And they're still completely young with a shit ton of picks. OKC is going to be fine.
Now Uh there is a lot of speculation. that the OKC Thunder See what happened to them. And they could use a playbook from the Golden State Warriors where they realize they can't get past LeBron, so they need Kevin Durant to do the Thunder. Need I knew that was going to come up. If I'm the Thunder, I don't even.
I don't even entertain it. Why? Because again, it's not like the Thunder haven't won a championship. If they did not have that one ring, the Warriors won. And then LeBron won.
But the Thunderbolts. They realize if we're ever going to win a game, we need to stop. He had been preaching roster building and patience. He's not going to uproot all this shit for Giannis. The Thunder are set up for like the next five to 10 years, just stayed a corpse.
But then the Spurs came all of a sudden. With this new NBA draft lottery, you're not going to see another team like the Spurs. The Spurs were like the last beneficiaries of how the draft works right now because they got Wemby, but then they had Stephanie Castle before that. It's awful because it's impossible to build teams. And then they got Dylan Harper at two, which they shouldn't have had that pick.
So the Spurs never would have been able to have all three of these guys together. You're not going to see another Spurs way to this draft lottery is going to go. I don't know how I know I'm kind of going on a rabbit hole now. But if you're an NBA executive, I fucking quit. How do you build a team?
You can't. The second apron is so, it's too restrictive. You can't fucking draft number one back to back. You can't draft in the top five three years in a row. And free agency is pretty much murked because everything gets slotted in terms of max, super max, mid-level exceptions.
You can't build a fucking team. I quit. If I'm Rob Palinka or anybody else, like I'm done. I'm like, Silver, you can build this shit.
So, what does Silver want? Like, what's his goal? He wants the small markets to have a chance. And you know, but OKC is a small market. San Antonio is a small market.
They just run rough shot through the fucking West. Minnesota was probably your third best team. Does anybody think Minneapolis is fucking Los Angeles? No, they have a chance. He doesn't want the embarrassment of the regular season being completely pointless because, as presently constructed, nobody needs to watch the regular season.
I admittedly have not watched a regular season basketball game and like. Five to d Maybe 10 years. Oh, yeah, because more than half the teams make the playoffs anyway. And we know who's good come Christmas.
So he doesn't want to watch people like completely blow up their franchise and have a fan base that's demoralized with like two months left to go and hopes that they'll get a pick. Because look what Philadelphia did. They stuck, they stuck for years, and all they got out of all those fucking picks. Joel Embiid. Couldn't get past the second round.
That's all Philadelphia had to show for it.
So Adam Silver does not want to have Marcus just completely disappear for a decade and still not fucking win.
So he's like, all right, the tanking doesn't work. I'm going to put the kaibosh in back and now you guys got to figure it out.
Now it actually, it does incentivize people to sort of quote unquote go for it. But you're really going to see people just kind of aim for the play-in game and then hopefully get knocked out to get that extra lottery ball. Jay Lewis says the Knicks are going to Hashtag ampersand. Is that what it's called, Ampersam? I thought it was just and.
Which Yeah, that's the ampersand. Yeah, but that's just and, right? When you don't want to write the word and, you just shorten. The logos call or the symbols call that ampersand. I didn't know that.
The Knicks are going to shit the bet against the Spurs. They have yet to be tested against a complete team. And why? Get ready for a quick. Core and cold.
Crash and burn. I would like to know if Jay Lewis is a Spurs fan or a New York hater. Um Listen, it's not the Knicks' fault of who they played on the schedule. Atlanta gave them a run. They were down two to one in that.
At least in the NBA, you can't get relegated, like my West Ham. United Or like My hairline. Did West Ham get relegated? Yeah, they're in the shitty division next year. Ah.
Well, uh, do better. They actually were in a fight with the Spurs, the Tottenham. I've heard of that. I understood that reference. And they've been.
relegated as such. But I think with Adam Silver. My big thing in sports. And I realize this maybe. Later than I should, but there was one day where I was watching a Packer game with my wife.
Packers. Yeah, who knows very little about football. For she does not care. And she was asking me, she saw a kickoff happen. And then she saw a punt happen.
And on the kickoff. They scramble to get the ball and the on the punt they just like let it sit there. And I and she was like, what what why? I was like, okay, well, I explained it to her. And I think she got it, but I also saw me losing her a little bit.
Yeah. You shouldn't have to over-explain things. The more you have to explain something, the dumber it is. And a lot of us. A lot of us just grow up.
and figure it out as we're kids. Just like the English language. If you were trying to teach somebody the English language right now, there's a lot of weird rules. It doesn't make sense. Why is this?
Why is that? Yeah. But if you're gonna learn it when you're a kid growing up, It just, it happens. If you're going to learn it at 40, it's different. Sports kind of is the same way.
All these quirky little things, why is that not a catch? You know, why is that not a? We figure it out as we go. But if you're trying to get somebody. to start and explain them the rules.
That's really difficult. What's worse is when you have somebody like us. Who has been ingrained with sports? And then you try to introduce a new system. Like, I'm still having a hard time.
figuring out And explaining to my kid what the playing tournament is. Yeah. Like why this happens, why that happens. And now With this new draft lottery.
Somebody tweeted out, like, oh, here's the chart. It's very easy. This chart, this chart is harder than any. Chemistry or geometry or technology or science chart. Any chart I've ever had in high school.
Is easier to figure out than this chart about how you can get. A first overall pick, and it shouldn't be that difficult. And what they keep doing is, I call it. rules on top of rules or a rule tree. Is that then they'll do something like this?
Then one little thing won't work.
So they try to fix it from this thing instead of just going back to the root. The root should be: you're the shittiest team, you get the number one pick. I agree. Which is still socialism.
So, what I do think is all 30 teams should just pull their name out of a hat. That's what should happen, honestly. That's what should happen. Communism. Yeah, well.
Whatever. If it's capitalism, the number one team that wins then gets the number one. Correct. You don't get a Super Bowl trophy, you get the number one pick. Like Seattle would be picking first.
And one of the biggest biggest things that we Still have not figured out as a sports fandom. Because there's like a weird thing in the NBA where I think they're envisioning like Oh, this team could get two balls, or this team could get three.
So, all of a sudden, on April 1st, The third shittiest team is going to try super hard against the fourth shittiest team, and it's going to be like that relegation type thing. Only without the real stakes. Adam Silver keeps trying to take European concepts, which are good. Into the NBA, but he doesn't have the Infrastructure for it, so it's fucking stupid. But People that are on a shitty team.
Do not care about getting a better pick. The athletes do not care. Unless it's like Cooper flag. Or somebody that they're building around. Even then, because it's everybody else is like Mike Cooper flag.
He's like, he's not going to help him. We're going to, I'm going to play harder today so that somebody better can take my spot next year. Exactly. We think the players think like us. Which I don't see any way that that can.
The big problem that I have with sports fans. Is that they don't see sports the way that I do a smart. I'm a smart. I'm illogical. All logical, not illogical.
I'm a good thinker. A lot of sports fans just see it in a just very. Oh, the Packers, they want to lose 'cause 'cause then we get number one pick. No, they don't. They want to try hard.
The Texans want to try hard. They're going to give the Bears the number one pick. They don't give a fuck. About who their quarterback's going to be. They want to win this fucking game.
The Giants have been victims of that many times in late December, where it looks like they're going to get the number one pick, and then they win three games in a fucking hour. No, let's take the Colts out of the playoffs instead. Greg says, Mr. Positive is everywhere. Mark Ryan supposedly said, boom shakalaka.
Who gives a fuck? Who cares? All right. This is if Adam Silver wants to take a page out of European soccer This is what we're going to do. There are 30 teams in the NBA, right?
Yeah. Two relegation spots in each conference. Mm. The last two teams in the East and the West. for that in the following season.
They go to the G League. You're still the same franchise. It won't work though. It won't work. I just played for the Greek minutes on this and lost a bunch of subscribers because no one cared.
I just did 30 minutes about. What sports could have promotion relegation? And do you know what sport I think it could work the best in? I'm in her. Yeah.
But baseball. Yeah, but What would be interesting is if the NFL and college football And we could finally end that debate. Oh, Alabama could beat, I don't know, the Arizona Cardinals. There's going to be a day where college football programs. They're already in the leagues.
We're keeping it. We're going to be the Alabama Crimson Tide. But we're not giving any money to the university. And we don't need to take any money from you. We're our own entity.
Yeah. We'll keep your. NIL, I guess. Yeah. The university, but we don't need you.
And we're not going to give you money anymore.
So, if you will separate, you already like you already have. I'm wearing a Tennessee shirt right now that I got out of a. Thrift bin 25 years ago for $2. And it's one of these shirts that fit me no matter my fat, which is getting. Back up there.
But Tennessee volunteers. Have a more passionate fan base than the Tennessee Titans. Yeah. It's already there. And that's what is happening in England with soccer is like.
There's these towns that are so small. London's got like eight teams. You don't need just one London team. You don't need one New York team. You could have nine New York teams.
Because it's just the little areas and then you get bigger. The concept of promotion relegation is so fucking cool. It is. But we gave it up a long time ago. If I could go back in time and change the course of history.
I would go back into like 1912. And make sure that the people that got sent on the Titanic that were sent for murder. Look it up. didn't die. Just look it up because then the Rockefellers took over the banking system.
Ah, yes. But a lot of, like, a lot of. This corporate greed that we live in is the result of what happened 100 years ago. I see. We have murdered our.
Do you ever look at what a city used to look like in 1915? I think so. Do you ever look at a city now? Every city looks the fucking exact same. Yeah, it does.
Toledo looks like, you know, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Yeah. Everything looks the fucking same. Just like Chipotle's. That grave $5.
Yeah. Uh 18 if you want to put guacamole in it. Is OBJ working out with the Giants? Yes, and the Giants also signed Braxton Berrio, so I appreciate you asking and bringing that up. Braxton Berrios?
Well, he's going to be the replacement for Gunner, who went down with an Achilles injury. He's probably done for the year. We needed a kicker returner.
So I would have Deontay Banks if you force him onto this fucking roster to have him kick return kicks. But if they're going to just cut Deontay Banks, then that makes me even happier. I don't give a fuck who's back there. Just Catch the ball. Don't be Richie James.
Another story we'd probably talk about tonight is the Bears were trying to figure out where the stadium is going to be, and they have adjourned until the Indiana. I I don't think they played Indiana.
Well, so what? Is Arlington Heights back on the menu here? If you're the Bears, and that's a neighborhood just slightly out of Chicago. If you're the Bears and the choices are. Arlington Heights or Hammond, you have to play in Arlington Heights.
Yeah, it's not that far from Chicago. One, you can't play in fucking Indiana. Indiana.
Well, I mean, the Giants and Jets do in Jersey, but I know, but that is different. You know, the commanders play in Maryland. The Jersey, the whole Jersey New York thing, it is different than. There's like a river, and then you can Jersey City isn't it's very quick to get over there. It's probably North Jersey, I consider more of a real place than like.
Long Island. What's that weird little island there? Staten Island? No. Like in between.
In between where? Uh I think Jersey and New York. Oh, there's Governor's Island. No, but that's in the city. I was just reading about it.
Governor's Island. I don't know. No, no, no. It's. Ah, what the fuck is it?
Is he? No, it's just like this little weird ass island. It's not even an island. It's just like this little weird. Yeah, it is an island.
Highland. What the fuck am I thinking of? Looi dark. No, no, no. It's like it's not Governor's Island.
There's people that live there and shit. I think it's in Jersey. All right, it says Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Staten Island. But I just said all of those places. Oh no no no no no no no no Roosevelt Island.
Oh, that's not between Jersey. That's I got it the wrong way. Yeah, that's between Queens and Manhattan. I know Roosevelt Island. I went I I visited a abandoned mental hospital there.
It was fucking shit.
So this is right between this is on the East River, between Queens and Manhattan. Yeah, you could drive a bridge, get there. It's very small. But yeah, no, I've been there. Does anyone live there?
Yeah, people live there. It actually, it's weird. It almost looks like going to like a Scottish town. Like the architecture, it's kind of odd, but it's extremely small, but technically it's Queens. The first building I look at looks exactly like Charles Xavier Mansion for the gifted.
That's probably the abandoned hospital that I. That I've I've visited. How do you even get off on this bridge?
Well, the bridge that you're looking at, that's the Queensborough Bridge or the 59th Street Bridge. You don't get off, you don't use that bridge.
So how do you get there? Um so there's like a fairy From Queens that you can get there. The easiest way is just take the F train, get off of Roosevelt Island. Ah, and you can walk up there, but you could also drive there too. There's there is a apps, there's an actual bridge, but it's not the one that you're looking at.
I got to get back to New York. I've been to New York for six hours in my life, and four of them were spent at the. 9-11 Memorial. Yeah, that was a waste of time.
Well, I'm glad I went. Yeah, that was a waste of time.
I didn't know what else to do. Oh, I mean, for that short of time, I get it. A guide to visiting Roseville Island. When you think of this slender island floating between Manhattan and Queens, riding the suspended red cable car across the East River probably comes to mind. I'm not reading this in the article.
This island talk is why I tune in. You're not going to get it anywhere else. Because nobody else is dumb enough to kill their career twice. Um, look at this island. I didn't even know it existed until like three weeks ago.
I live in Queens and forget that this place uh existed. Oh, the smallpox hospital, that's where I broke into. You brought it What? I thought it was a mental hospital, but yeah, it looked like it was an actual hospital. Smallpox Memorial Hospital.
Yeah. Who fucking goes and hangs out here? Uh well, it was like we did it for like Halloween. The FDR statue? That's there.
The room? It looks like a nice place. It really does. Like, I'm not kidding. Like, I've been there twice and it's cool.
It's a nice little how much do you go to Central Park? Fucking never. Why would I go to Sunny Park? Why would I go there?
Well, it seems sweet as fuck, and there's a pigeon lady walking around.
Well, I mean, that was fictional. Home Alone 2. It is, it's a park. It's a park in the middle of the city. If you've seen one park, you've seen them all.
It just happened to be. Central Park. It's a massive park, but it's a fucking park. There's nothing magical about that place. There's still bugs.
Like horses and old guys playing chess. And no, fuck those horses. Not the horse themselves. Fuck the people that are profiting off those horses. They need to burn down those stables, make it illegal.
You got horses getting running into traffic or dying of heat exhaustion. I hate that whole horse carriage scam. Fuck them all. Hmm. Mandani should do something about it.
Forget about free MTA, outlawed horses. I'm just reading my Twitter mentions. I retweeted something about A lot of people are mad that I am. retweeting Pride Month things. Uh Okay.
I don't care if you're gay. Anyone has the same right to go get married. If you want to get married, Yeah, you're lost, right, Carlos? I am bottom. See ya, like, you know.
You want to marry your boyfriend to your guy? Go! Go for it! You can be miserable like us, you know, straight people. Love my wife.
I would never get married to her again. What Carlos over Barbart. Oh, it's Brent. In South Carolina, right? Board.
Yeah, I miss I do miss talking to people on the phone. Yeah, man, what a crutch that was. We got nothing to talk about. Let's blow the phone number up. Hell Bardo, it's the guy from Michigan with the crazy voice and the boom shakalaka from the 90s.
Oh my god. Wait, what are you guys firing council? God willing, hopefully soon, man. Listen, I'm down a tank this entire fucking season as long as we fire him at the end of the year. But don't stop there.
I want Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins out the fucking door, too. Absolute shit showed his franchise. But Tom Ricketts won't do it. He doesn't have the fucking stones.
Well, yeah, he's paying him $8 million a year. He can't fire him. No, he can. You just got to eat the money. Brewers, by the way, everyone in the NL Central still has a winning record, but the Brewers.
But they also haven't played each other that much. The Cardinals just finished beating the Cubs. you know I think there's what? Two divisional series between everybody so far. Like, nobody's played each other yet.
Did you watch the game last night on NBC? No, I had no intention of watching it because uh I was uh volunteering at this um Fitness event that I will be racing in on Wednesday. uh the only reason i did it was for the perks including uh free access to um a future race of my choice within the States in the next year. But I was exhausted by the time I got home. I was like, I'm good, man.
I just need to sleep. I was wondering if you saw me in the opening credits. No, I did not see the 1.2 seconds of your white hat. Yeah, remember, I'm in the opening credits of the NBC Sunday Night Baseball intro. I think you should put that on your resume.
I don't understand how you're still, you know, not on the air right now. Like, I would have ran if I'm a program director. to you and be like, you must be a part of my lineup. because of the audience that we can get from the Sunday Night Baseball. I made $149.99 from doing that.
That's great. They tell me 200. And then they're like and then they're like, well, we have a fee. And then they're like, and also, also, also the taxes. Yeah.
When I used to work at a smaller station. I would do remotes and I do play by play. And they'd say We're paying you lower than we want. But eventually we're going to make it up.
So, what you need to do is for a remote, you put $50.
Okay, on your time sheet. You cross it out. And then you write 35. And we'll pay you the 35. And eventually we're going to reimburse you the $15.
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Tap the banner to learn more and get a quote at USAA.com/slash bundle. Restrictions apply. Mm-hmm. I also think, could I back sue? I only took two weeks of paternity leave.
When I was given four? That's on you. But I did it to impress a new boss. That's on you. These companies don't care about you.
Nobody cares. Bronx Tail. Nobody cares, kid. Nobody cares. Yeah, nobody cares about here's here's some words for wisdom Nobody cares about you.
Even Carlos and I look like buddies, and we are. I love Bart, but I'll shank him for 50 bucks right now. Right on this stream. Put it right in his fucking neck. Why?
Because I need 50 bucks. If I heard that Carlos died later tonight, I'd be sad for a minute. And then I'd go on living my life. Yeah, what are you going to do? you know, end your life.
No one can no one cares. No one. No one cares about you. Your loved ones will survive when you're feeding worms. My wife will remarry.
before the calendar year is up. You think? Oh, she tells me all the time, she might be the one who killed me. Would you remarry? Probably.
There's way too many smoke shows to, like, you know, cry over a, you know, a corpse. I would remarry, but I don't want her to remarry. I would remarry. Out of choice, or because like you couldn't find a willing partner. No, I would just find a lady of the night once a year on my birthday.
Once a year. I'd be like, I don't want to, I don't want to. It'd be like ordering pizza for me once a week. No, I don't want pineapple this week. I don't want to I don't want to spoil it.
No, that's a regular thing. God forbid something happened to my wife. I would be absolutely miserable, but I am laying down some pipe at the time. Mitch says, I come here to feel good about life. Wrong string.
Well, you know what? Unless it'd be like, damn. At least I'm not these guys. Then miss it accomplished. If that's the service we can provide.
That's an invaluable service. Yeah. I will send invoices, sir. You always need somebody in your life. That you can look down upon, whether it's a friend or just some lowly basement podcaster.
Yeah. You always need someone that you can be like, at least I'm not that guy. Correct. And I have, and as bad as it is for me, man, I got a long list of people. I'm like, ooh, shit.
Glad I'm not this asshole. Uh where is your excitement level for The World Cup. Uh What's the what's the soccer and and tennis term, nil? Like I don't care. Don't care at all.
I am Very excited. Good. And I hope there are a bunch of Soccer/slash football fans that are very excited about that. I know a bunch of people that, you know, can't wait to go to games and. You know, are they sold out there?
Are they not? I saw Mom Donnie's giving away tickets. Yeah, you got a better chance of winning the real lottery. But they're $50 World Cup tickets, but there's only like a thousand of them. That's a PR stunt.
You know, nobody real is actually going to get these tickets, but. Whatever. They're not sold out. Y'all, his mom's movie star friends, fucking Nepal baby. Yeah, we don't like Neppa babies around here.
Mexico, South Africa is the first game.
Next Thursday. Yeah, we got a lot of Mexicans in that game. Unless they're afraid to buy still, then probably not. Because that's another thing. Why are we hosting the World Cup?
It's the most fucking ignorant country I know. We're going to expect all these nations to come over here. Is the USA going to even get out of group stage? I yield my time to the. Representative from Milwaukee.
Well, they have Paraguay. They then have uh they're not playing you are gay. Simpsons. Who do they have else? They have Tarky.
Breaking news, Odell Beckham Jr. Going to the Giants. Resigning complete. Yep. Fucking happy dance.
Why am I happy? Because this wipes away the stain of Dave Gettleman fucking my franchise for 10 years. Fuck you, Gettleman. You can suck my pic. That was the TED song.
Um He never should have been traded. We did get Dexter Lawrence from that, but then we just turned Dexter Lawrence into a pick.
So. I feel like Karmically. Things are back. Who cares that Jackson Dart introduced Trump and then Abdul Carter had a problem with that? We got Odell back, baby.
Now the fan base is back to be united. We're friends again. He's only 33. He's not going to be a prominent fixture in this offense. Dude, just go be a veteran presence and talk to young guys.
Maybe teach Darius Slayton how to hold onto the fucking ball. He doesn't even have a hundred catches since COVID. Yeah, dude, he's broken. And he played for Offenses that were never going to use him. No, he's got a hundred.
Since COVID, he's got one hundred and one catches. Baltimore, he would have won the Super Bowl MVP if he didn't rip up his leg. He was torching his ankles. He was torching them. Darius Slayton's older than Odell Beckham.
Good. Cut him. Maybe he could take a fucking Slayton spot. Thank you for that, Ben, because I had no idea. What's he been doing the last year?
Just rehabbing? Just rehabbing. Remember, he was on Miami for a little bit for a cup of coffee, and he's just bouncing around looking for things to do. But I'd rather have. But You know, I'd rather have Odell than like half the receivers on my roster.
Which again, just show Malachi Fields how it's done. He's like, brother, this is the psychology of being a receiver. This is how you're going to catch the 50-50 ball. This is what you're going to do. Oh, I got a question for you.
I will dig route. Teach them all that shit. I have some shitty Giants wide receivers on my dynasty teams. Uh-huh. Bo Collins You no, he he might he actually still might make the team.
Go ahead. Jalen Hyatt. Oh high is done. Hi, it's done. The the fact that he's still on the roster is impressive.
But he's done.
So they have neighbors Slayton Mooney. Yep. OBJ Kelvin Austin. Yep. Isaiah Hodgins.
Hodges just got a new deal, yep. And that kicking ball, man.
So, I could probably cut Collins and Hyatt. Probably. Hyatt's the safe bet. Bo Collins was just more of a debt piece. He'll probably.
Maybe he was a practice squad guy, but in terms of like fantasy impact, no fucking way are you getting anything from Bo Collins. He's a nice player, but. He's not making it. There's this guy on the Packers. Um That's never going to be anything, but I guess Watson.
Jesus. No, Isaiah Nayer. Isaiah Nair. Is 6'4, 218. Matt Golden?
They have uh Jerry Rice's kid in camp. What the hell is his name again? Yeah, was didn't didn't Seattle draft him? Um I don't know. I thought he was a Seahawk.
We're probably going to be without Josh Jacobs for a while. Yeah, maybe you don't go choking your girl. Allegedly. Right, right. We don't know if that's actually true.
Probably is though. I don't want to speculate, but it definitely happened. That being said. Brendan Rice, two years at Colorado, two years at USC.
Sorry, he was drafted by the Chargers, not the Seahawks. But he Did go to the Patriots practice squad. when the Chargers waived him. And then he did make it to Seattle, Seattle Seahawks, on their practice squad. He was released in December.
Sign with the Raiders practice squad. Uh he was waived in on May. by the Raiders and then on May 13th he was claimed by the Green Bay Packers.
So Brendan Rice. is practice squad slash NFL career. continues, maybe he can finally flourish in Matt LaFleur's high octane offense.
Okay. I'm just going to retweet every Pride Month thing just to make people mad. And by high-octane offense, I mean Matt LaFloor. You know, oh, here's another piece of NFL news: Russell Wilson is going to join CBS. Good.
That means the Jeffs didn't want him. He is not retired. He Pseudo-retired, there's not a team that's going to want him, barring an injury. Yeah. But if Russell Wilson says anything bad about South Carolina basketball, Don Staley is going to make it be the Infinity Sports Network pregame show.
Yeah. Yeah. He's like, that linebacker moves like with that big Brazilian chicken in South Carolina. It was Camila Cardoza, I believe, was who he was talking about. Yeah, Don Staley and uh Don Staley with uh skin as thick as paper.
Why is every team cutting my girl Haley Van Liff? I don't know. The fuck's going on? She just threw out for the Cubs like two months ago. Why is she on the scrap heap?
How come every time I see WNBA news, it's... First round pick cut. Yeah, they're really by the way. Uh, she did find a new uh team already. She signed a development contract with the Connecticut Sun, so.
I think they just cut her too. That not possible. They literally just signed her yesterday. Oh. How the fuck do you know that?
Because I have something called Google, so I was able to take a look. Yeah, May 30th, Haley Van Liff makes a surprising contract decision after being waived by the son. Oh, no, you're right. She got cut? The Connecticut Sun brought back Haley Van Lyft on the developmental contract Saturday, according to these two people that I refuse to say the names because I can't pronounce it.
The Sun.
Okay, so the Sun cut her on Thursday, waived her on Thursday. But they brought her back on Saturday. Who's this? I just typed beautiful girl into Google. Who is that?
Is this Haley Van Lith? That's Haley Van Lith. Wow. There's a smoke. Crazy.
Oh, yeah, that's her from the 2025 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Hilary Duff Oh, Hillary Duff. All day. The comeback that this girl is having should be studied. Hilary Duff, man, the bakery is open.
Massive man is here to file unemployment. Duffman, can't breathe! Oh no. Duffman hasn't seen his kids in three weeks. Last one, Mug, you don't want to chug.
Hey, how do you like a sticker on your face? Did you see there's three new Simpsons coming out this summer only on Disney Plus? What? No, come on. Duffman is here to collect.
Alimony Pay. Knock it off, Sid. Quiet. Carlos, good to see you. Oh, that's it?
Oh, all right. I thought we were just getting started. Fine, I guess I'll go watch the NBA Finals on Wednesday and, you know, tweet about that. Uh or maybe uh go glaze over uh And oh, they'll catch or something. If you'd like to join my Milwaukee Panthers post-game show, probably not.
I mean, I can't wait. But I probably won't be able to do that due to prior engagements and commitments, of course. Other live shows you can join include my World Cup preview show, the Day of the World Cup. Yeah. Uh stand by.
Port of Sanca. That's all I got. My USA Paraguay post-game show. Perugay. My NBA draft live show.
That one. I actually could, you know, realistically join. The Bulls had the number four pick.
So, oh, you should join. Yeah, maybe we'll uh hopefully uh You know, one of the big three will drop, but they won't, so we'll probably get like, you know, Darius Acuff or. Geet and Waggler or something. I'd be fine with that. What other lives do I have coming up?
I don't know, you got nothing but time. Ouch. I'll be here all week, people, because I also have nothing but time. Try to be hopeful. Hi, Karamba!
I thought being unemployed would be more glamorous than this. Nope, I've been unemployed before, this is pretty much it. You have more time than you know what to do with. As soon as I get off this stream, I could do that pile of laundry that I'm looking at, but more. Likely is I'm going to go into the kitchen and grab those last two chocolate chip cookies and some milk.
and watch um old episodes of X-Men.
so I can go ahead and watch X-Men 97. Did you watch Spider Noor yet? No, but I heard it's fantastic. And I actually am going to do it. That's what I do.
I started the first episode, but the big debate is: do you watch it in black and white or color? I'm going to watch it in color because I don't need that black and white bullshit. I'm watching it in color, man. Yeah. Come on.
What are we doing here? That being said. Just me being the MCU snob. If this isn't going to tie in at all. I don't know if I want to watch it because I'm like, what's the point?
Well fucking secret invasion is not even going to tie in. The girl that runs through multiverses isn't even going to fucking tie in, Carlos. Spider Noir is not going to fucking tie in. I demand to see an America Chavez cameo. Otherwise, I'm out.
Seriously. All right. I forgot she existed. Thank you all for stopping into the Winklerverse. See ya.
