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This is the National Perspective. with Carlos Ortiz. How you doing, buddy? Good, good. Another week, another bark.
That's a good idea. Look at the gun show. Look at the gun show. Oh, yeah, the library is that way. I got a lot.
To get off my chest here at the top.
Some housekeeping, some other things. Before I do that, how are you, buddy? I'm good. I've actually I have had a pretty uh late layback easy weekend. I only worked Saturday because uh My internet provider, who will remain nameless because we may or may not get sponsored by them eventually, and I rule out no possibilities, decided to do network upgrades in my area.
So my service was down for eight to 10 hours yesterday.
So They cost me $150. Wow. But other than that, I was chilling. You know, I took the day off and went some run-in. It doesn't hurt to email them and bitch.
I will actually call them when in the conclusion of the stream 'cause I make sure that they don't uh you know turn off the internet in uh you know in uh retribution. I actually, with DirecTV, we don't get our NBC affiliate right now. And it really hasn't affected me quite yet. Yeah, as big of an American Ninja Warrior fan that I am, as I mean, you're missing out on Sunday Night Baseball, no? I am, which I'm missing out on myself.
Huge. Yeah, what a game from the Yankees and Red Sox yesterday, which I didn't watch a single inning. All I saw was people were pissed that they kept the golf on before the game. Yeah.
And like this weekend, I think it's Sunday, every game is on Peacock. That sounds like it makes sense. Anyway, um The last thing I text you before today was: We should be together in Milwaukee right now. You choked. I did not choke.
That series was great, two out of three, with your three best pitchers on the mound and the Cubs having. The worst pitching staff imaginable, where everyone's on the fucking IL. And Bruce Gutters gave up like six hits the whole series. Ridiculous. And still, and still it comes to two of three.
I mean, was it Harrison, Mizurowski, and I'm blanking on the third guy, Barbara? Yeah, the other guy, yeah, Woodruff. Woodruff, yes, Brand Woodruff. That was an entertaining series. I think you and I would have fought multiple times if I went out there.
Uh so it was probably for the better that I didn't. Although Geez, what a time for Jordan Wicks to actually pull through bases loaded. No outs. Yeah, Bruce's base is loaded down 4-3. No outs.
Insane.
Well, it was 4-2. Bowers just like, here you go. Bowers popped up. He's like, take this. I was just like, there's no, I'm like, there is no fucking threat to Gary Sanchez.
I'm like, I'm almost guaranteeing he grounds into a double play.
Now, I thought he was going to ground to second. He wanted to ground into third.
So Alex Bregna started to double play, but I was just like, I'm like, oh my God, they're going to fucking escape with this. And that's what happened. And I don't Tim Shea, friend of show, friend of life, he said we should go to the Brewer game on Sunday. And I said, I can't, I can't, I'm not going to Brewers' Cubs games. And I think the biggest difference is The biggest difference is when Brewers fans go to Wrigley.
And vice versa. And both fans go there like. Ready to cock off. Sure. That's fine.
But Brewers fans go to Wrigley with respect. Like this is Wrigley Field.
Okay. Cubs fans come up here and think it's theirs and they piss everywhere and they fucking litter everywhere and they yell at everyone and they're obnoxious. Yeah, it's the home away from home, Wrigley North. You treat us, you treat us like an Airbnb.
Well, yeah, you guys have cleaned up. We're just there for Robert is in the donation club. Yeah.
Robert, he also says, can't wait for Carlos to find out about the Giannis trade. Giannis got traded? Last, thank you, Robert. The last. Show we did was, is Giannis going to get traded today?
And he eventually did that night. And I'll get into that in a moment. But I do have some other housekeeping things to say. First of all, if you want to come to a Brewers game with non-threatening fans, August 6th. Is the day of the Winkler verse Tailgate?
There is a ticket link up. You have time. Robert, if you thought it was for OnlyFans. I mean, name a part of the body. I'll send you a picture.
There's a lot of guys into armpits I've learned. There's more guys into elbows and toes that I'm comfortable like knowing that I'm part of the male species, like we're disgusting. The fuck are you gonna do with an elbow? Elbow elbows. I like elbow macaroni.
So do I. I don't like female elbows.
So, you know you can't lick your elbow? Yeah, I can. The other side, the other side. Sure I can. No, I don't want to do it now, but I can.
For another $399, Carlos will lick his elbow. For $4.99, I'll lick my own. I'll lick my own. No, that's not the drop I wanted at all. Moments pass.
Did you ever um God, I should not say this. I had a dream once that I did. Don't want to hear anymore.
Okay. How about that Columbia off-sides, huh? I'll get another toe. All that. All right, so the tailgate's on August 6th.
Uh The ticket link is good, I think, until the 29th of next month. It's the 29th today, but it's good for the 29th of next month. I need tickets. Are you coming? Maybe.
If you come, I mean, if you're flying out here, I will buy your ticket.
So. You're gonna buy your ticket to your own tailgate? No, ticket to the brewery. Oh, oh, okay. I assume that these are like, yeah, it's that link would like get everybody in one section or whatnot.
Yeah, it's like a write-out field. And I'm going to bring some prizes. To give away. I think I'm going to give everybody, because I bought raffle tickets. I'm going to give everybody three tickets.
And they can put their ticket in a bin of what they want of the shit that I'm bringing. And then I'll do Raffa like 40 minutes before the first pitch. Yeah, I'll auction it off because I'll have no interest in any of these prizes. I assume they're all Wisconsin-based. Yeah.
Yeah, this will not be for sale. This I'm keeping. Safe. The Yannis gnome. Are you going to paint the heat jersey over it or?
I still have a lot of work to do in terms of What food we are? Eating and food. Who is cooking that food? I have a lot to do. And I'm not buying last time, I bought a tailgate space.
I'm not doing that this time. I think.
Okay. I think we're going to go into the Moliter lot. And just get there early.
So works for me. I love the monitor lot. The second thing. We are brought to you by Carl's Place. Carlos exclusively is brought to you by Carl's Place.
So whenever I send you money, you can thank them. Yeah.
I will keep hitting that. At Carlos Carlos pl Carlos's place. Carl's with a C. With the golf simulators and the links in the YouTube. Happy Play Temp, of course.
I will bring some stuff from them. For the tailgate? Uh happy place. And if if we all want to do like A round of gummies? I guess we could.
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Dilemma approaching this weekend. This weekend is the 4th of July. Sure is. I have no idea what I'm doing. America's 250th.
Some people are taking the full week off their show for, for specifically America's 250th. Yeah.
I'm not working for two weeks. Pretty neat. Um, But Well I like to wear. An American shirt. Me too.
Now Last year I wore Gore Lieberman. I went to an Al Gore rally at my high school in 2000. And uh I got a shirt that said Educators for Gore. And it says Gore Lieberman staff. And I wore it.
And I said, I feel safe wearing the shirt because If you're a lib. You can say Hey. Gore. And if you're a not a lib, you can say. He fucking lost, you loser.
So I feel like it can fit.
Now This year. I could pull out. A Harris Waldz shirt. I'm saying you don't got the. You don't got this Kerr shirt?
Who the hell was? No, it was a Carrie. Who was Carrie's running mate? I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty. John Kerry's running mate was.
John Edwards. Carrie Edwards, no wonder that ticket lost. Yeah.
I know. And then and then John Edwards disappeared 'cause he was like a weirdo, I guess. Did I oh, I want to tell you my John Edwards story. He came to lacrosse. All these politicians hit up lacrosse.
So I saw, I went to all of them. I saw Huckabee. I saw McCain. Uh Bill Clinton. And then John Edwards, but.
I was just like on a walk or some shit, or coming back from school, and John Edwards got out of this limo.
Okay. And then a bunch of people started following him.
So I just followed him. And then they took us through the back of this cafeteria, and all of a sudden, I'm on stage with John Edwards as like one of the plants. And my two friends are in the crowd and they're like What the what the what is this? Yeah, my on stage story is much better than this one. Because it's not me and my friend Kelsey.
Um That's funny. Male Kelsey or female Kelsey? Oh, oh, uh female. Just a friend. Yeah.
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So this year. I wanted to wear a shirt. And I bought one. But I I'm worried. That it's a little pouchy.
Oh. 'Cause I bought it when I was a little thinner.
So there's shirts that fit me at 185 that don't fit me at 195. Sure. And this shirt is I voted for Kodos. Don't blame me. Yeah.
You know, I've seen it before, but I bought the shirt. That's what I'm wearing for the 4th of July, along with this hat. Very patriotic. You don't have to question my patriotism here. USA.
USA. Um But so I I need to I need to lose uh I need to lose some weight. Yeah, just do it. Just do like one or two bumps. By Friday.
You'll be right in me.
So I have that dilemma. The other thing. That I want to mention is, and we'll get more into Yannis, but I've been putting out these reels that, like, we need to blame Yannis. What the fuck? I do think retroactively, we also need to be harder Bucks fans on Jimmy Haslam, shit owner.
And Doc Rivers shit coach. And now we're finding out that. Malik Beasley. Tank games. Yeah, he's fucked.
There was a week where they fired. Griff hired Doc, and in that week, Beasley was tanking games and point shaving.
So these last two years of Bucs basketball, already the worst in the history of the franchise. And now Insult added to injury. At least Scott had one ring.
Some station news that maybe I shouldn't comment on. But we're at the 12:50 mark of this podcast, so it makes sense. There's a morning show change happening at my old station. Oh. Um I just want to be, I want to be very clear.
As chief bridge burner. I did not burn that bridge. Oh, so what's up? You're open for business. Hey, program director.
Go ahead and hire my guy Bart. I have recently pointed out a lot that the bridge is burnt. I did not hold the torch. I just want that to be public. The other thing just gonna be rebuilt.
I've been getting around to bars for the World Cup. These are just all the things that I need to get off my mind. I've been getting around to bars for the World Cup because I did it back when I. worked with Milwaukee Pro Soccer. In 2022, open wide for some sucker.
Yeah.
The two places I haven't been yet, Moran's. It's on the south side. I think I'm going to go there from Mexico tomorrow. And then I want to go, there's a good soccer bar called the High Berry. Oh yes, of course.
where I believe Canada's coach. Who's from Racine? Uh, Jesse Marsh used to like bounce at. Yeah.
Or work there.
So I was going to go there today. But I was only going to go there today to take a picture. And I feel like I have better use of my time today. Yeah, I mean, if you're going to go, like, go. Don't just go.
I'm not going to go there. I have stuff to do. My kid's at a basketball camp. I need to be close. I don't know.
So I feel bad I haven't gotten there yet, but sooner rather than later the World Cup's going to be over.
Well, you got like another three weeks. Are you as a non-soccer? Fan, are you? Are you? I mean, you have NYCFC season tickets.
Sure. But who doesn't? What is the World Cup? I get into DeBry. What is the World Cup done?
What are you experiencing with the World Cup? You brought up Columbia that was off sides. That's what offsides is.
Sorry. I mean A toe is nuts. But that being said, you can score with a toe. Sure, sure, why not? You know, I have a lot.
So, I have a lot of friends that are fans of teams of this, of the World Cup, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico. That's why tomorrow's game, I think tomorrow will be the first. Fully immersive experience I'm going to get. As an ISO independent soccer observer, because I'm going to go to, I think we're going to go to a Mexican bar. One of my friends that's going is Mexican.
Another one is Ecuadorian. Ooh.
So I believe they're both going to be coming in in regalia. And one of them's going to get their ass beat at the end of the game. It's just a matter of who is it going to be. Probably the Ecuadorian, whether they win or lose. Because either Mexico is going to just, you know.
Fight with glee or fight in rage, uh, but that'll, I think, tomorrow's gonna be the really the first time that I'm gonna be full-blown World Cup all into it. Um But yeah, I've just been kind of watching through everybody else's eyes. Like, you know, Colombians were absolutely pissed. And I'm like, I sort of get it. But, you know, that's the rule.
And also, you guys are advancing anyway.
So who gives a shit? Um I think who are who does Columbia play this next round? I don't know.
I think it's Ghana. I'll pull up the bracket. But yeah, I mean, it seems like a fascinating tournament. I wish I gave a shit. But um You know, to be honest, I kind of don't.
I'm rooting on Mexico for my wife's sake, but. She's not really like locked into it yet.
So. Maybe that'll change tomorrow. We'll see. I'll report back next week. USA has to beat Bosnia and Herzovigonia.
Yeah, and I believe if they win, right now they're slated to face Egypt, should Egypt advance. That would be. Oh, no, they were going to, and then.
So it's Belgium. It's either Belgium or Senegal.
Okay. My hot take is a Senegal upset. I think Senegal is going to beat Belgium.
Okay, and then the U.S. could beat Senegal. Brazil, Japan today, we will be done before that starts. Oh, yeah, I'm going to be locked in on the highlights. Germany, Paraguay today, Netherlands, Morocco tonight.
And I'm probably just going to watch the games from home for another reason because my car battery is on life support. Oh no.
So I have one of these solo jumpers. Which has been good. A little pack, and you kind of clank it. Yeah, I have one of those too. But, um,.
I've been using it a lot.
So I probably just need to go get the battery changed. Probably.
So I don't want to get stuck down in. The Bay View just to take a picture. Again, this is like a 20-minute drive into New York. It's an old thing, but for me, it's like. Going to fucking.
No, it's, you know, it's 20 country minutes, not 20 city minutes. Yeah.
Um And then the other thing I wanted to bring up was. Do you have anything in your house? that you cherish, but you just don't know what to fucking do with. Oh yeah, I got let me see if I could turn this without absolutely destroying the entire apparatus of my uh Uh setup here. Everything on that bookcase is considered crap.
And I love it. I got an Iron Man stuffy, two Final Fantasy character stuffies. There's Cloud and Cameron. I didn't know I'd get a really good answer for this. Um, I have Blu-rays.
Oh, I see Homer and Bart. Yes, Homer and Bart's there. Simpson's Monopoly. Uh no, that's Dragon Ball Z Monopoly, which I also love. I have some.
Old Call of Duty and Final Fantasy music signed by the composer.
So yeah, I got a bunch of shit. But it's all crap. It's all junk. I don't know if anything to do with it. It just sits there collecting dust.
I will never get rid of it, but there's the answer to your question.
So mine, and I posted this, and there's an obvious answer, but then after that. This is a card sheet of the 1990 Packers. It's pretty nice. Everyone is signed. You excuse me.
For Brent Fullwood. Is he still with us? Yes.
So track him down. I don't know where he is. I've long thought about doing this, even. 15 or 10 years ago when I first started in sports radio around here. Signatures I have include Lindy Infante, Keith Woodside, Chris Jackie, Chuck Cecil, Tony Mandrich, Robert Brown, Scott Stephen, Anthony Dillwig, Mark Murphy, not that one.
Johnny Holland, Sterling Sharp, although of course that's the one that's faded. Mm. Also, the one farve signature I have too is like It's just the F no. Tim Harris, Ed West, Jeff Query, Mark Lee, Rich Moran, Perry Kemp. Brian Noble and the Magic Man Don Makowski.
Yes.
So I had it up here for a while. It was in my garage and then it fell. The shit is just fucked. But this is part of it. Look, I mean, the bottom's part of it.
I don't want to get rid of that. Although, I mean, I could. I just have never known where to put it.
Well, you have to keep it in a place that doesn't have humidity so it doesn't deteriorate any further. And just keep it with the rest of your shit. Also, looking to get rid of this. No, I'm just kidding. Giannis.
What do you think of that trade? Let's get into it. What did you think when you saw it? I think it was fine. Honestly, it was probably the best deal you're going to get.
I mean, I said, was it two weeks ago? I thought the Thunder should have been on that. But the thing with the Thunder is. You know, they had their second apron team, so they would have to get rid of a bunch of salary in order to make that shit work.
So it had a bunch of been a bunch of ancillary moves in order to absorb Yanisp.
So. Yeah, that was kind of wishful thinking. But I was looking out for you guys. I was like, who has a shit ton of young players in draft capital that they could swing for Giannis? I'm like, oh, yeah, Oklahoma City.
Well, yeah, Piper Dream.
So if it came down to Boston and heat, Oh, you got a better package. I mean, I don't know what any of these guys on their rookie deals, like Jaime Jaquez, is going to fucking be in Milwaukee, but. I sure should know that. Jalen Brown would have just wanted out.
So, um I think he did okay. I think the first round picks will be good value because. I really just think that Giannis traded in his situation for the same situation with better weather. I don't think the Miami Heat are up top. No, no, it's not.
It's not. They're a fucking play-in team as pleasant. Heat culture's fake. I mean, yeah, no. Pat Riley, you know, he'll still look like Dr.
Claw with his evil cat, you know, scratching it on his fucking chair because he's a villain. And he finally got another star. But. Your front court is okay. It's Bam and Giannis.
It's a pretty good defensive front court, but Giannis can't stay healthy. You have no backcourt now. You have no depth. And you're gonna lose first round picks. And I don't and I think those first round picks Could be borderline lottery if they're not lottery as presently constructed.
The Celtics are better, the Knicks are better, the Pacers are better, the Magic are better.
So I think that this is a pretty good deal for you guys. I would not have taken the Celtics trade because, again, I don't think Jalen Brown would have played for you guys, but also those first round picks are going to be dog shit. Because the Celtics are always fucking good. Even in a gap year where Tatum was hurt almost the entire year, Jalen Brown goes on to become an MVP candidate.
So those first-round picks would have net you shit.
So I thought. You guys made the best of a bad situation. Again, Giannis probably should have been traded a year ago. According to Shams, it should have been traded seven years ago. But.
It's not a bad deal for you guys. You know, you'll just reload, retool, and hopefully you hit on the picks. There's a lot of us putting our emotions into Giannis and we don't like how it played out and And I think that's fine. I think there's a lot that Giannis did, this emotional journey we went on with him that was. Kind of tough to go on.
I also think that I also think that you know, if I'm him, um, Jimmy Haslam comes in, he has no attachment to you, he's a terrible owner. Doc Rivers is a terrible coach. They're changing. I mean, Doc Rivers didn't even fucking try. I don't know.
And maybe as Bucks fans, we should have been like harder as fire, Doc. And maybe we all did give up and cuck early and say, ah, fuck, it's not going to change.
So whatever. Maybe we should have just, we just accepted that this year was shit. But it was all bad. I think this Doc Rivers era is going to go down to the worst two years in Bucs basketball history, even with Giannis, because you had Giannis and you wasted him. And you used him like he wasn't.
Yanis. I don't know.
And then Giannis was heard, and then he's all everyone. looks bad in this to me. They're all at fault here. Yeah.
Um And maybe, like what I said with the bridge burning about earlier. Giannis, I don't think, was the one that started the fire, but he's the one that gets a lot of the blame also for the fire. Because when the fire was Started and the bridge was burning. He wasn't. But how do you put it out?
I don't know.
It's just. Shitty situation. In some weird way, Bucks fans. We under like, I compared Giannis to Narnia. Or some like We had this 10-year run that we did not.
We didn't earn like we're Bucks fans. We're supposed to be shit. We're supposed to have cheap tickets. We're supposed to have the threat of the team always moving. We're supposed to be miserable, but still optimistic.
Giannis. Giannis was a journey. We went there, like Minecraft world. We came back. And we'll always cherish going there, but now it's.
This is this is the shit We're home. We we belonging shit.
So Cherish the times. But we're home. The silver line into all of this is shams will not tweet for you until you draft it.
Well, they've already moved on to Anthony Edwards. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know if you saw some of the Anthony Edwards, definitely. They're going to be beating the drum for him to get traded pretty soon. They moved on to Lamello Ball, and he was traded within four hours.
Well, Anthony Edwards is going to hate playing with Lamella Ball. Like, I've that trade doesn't make any fucking sense to me. But you see, Draymond Green, he opted out of his deal.
So he's going to be a free agent.
So now the Warriors look like they're trying to be pivoting to acquiring Anthony Davis. and LeBron James.
So Draymond is opting out of his deal. Go ahead. Fuck him. He cost the Warriors a four P. Draymond will be back.
Where's he signing? Uh you can go to Memphis. He's signing with the Warriors. That's what I think. And they will get Anthony Davis.
Probably 90%. They 100% will get LeBron. LeBron is LeBron and Steph has been an inevitable team up. Yeah.
Now a lot of people are going to say that's bullshit. Yeah, what w what it would be a sign in trade, right? Like what are Warriors giving up to get LeBron? Here's a second. I thought he signed a deal with the Lakers.
No, they remember they didn't work for the last time. You're right. I don't want the Hallist.
So I think LeBron is going to go to the Warriors. And then, as soon as LeBron's there, Draymond's. I mean, Draymond's going to shackle himself to. Yeah.
the chase center. He's not if DeBron's there, he ain't leaving. He won his first media career when Draymond's on the plane. Like LeBron LeBron likes Draymond. And LeBron would say, yeah, Draymond's my friend.
Good friend. But Draymond LeBron is Draymond's best friend. It's like Dreamon, Dreamon. It's always a weird dynamic when Yeah, we're really good friends, but... I'm your best friend.
You're not my best friend. Your best friend. That's kind of weird.
So I think Draymond comes back. I think LeBron goes. I think Anthony Davis goes. They're going to have a starting lineup of. 36-year-old by average, but then what does the season look like for them?
Are they going to play the whole time? Are they going to get hurt? Are they going to rest up? Yeah, they don't play the team that they have at rest. Are they going to be good enough to?
Get even into the sixth seed. I don't know.
It's going to be, but I would, I would. The heat maybe The calves potentially I think LeBron's going to do everything he can to go to Golden State. Second would be the Cavs to me, but I think he wants to play with Steph. I think he wants to play with Steph too. I mean, they can just get the last bit of remaining productivity that they have with each other.
Listen, I would not envy Steve Kerr with all of those guys, not because of personalities or like basketball style, none of that shit. Is you're just going to be load manager the entire fucking season. That's it. These guys will play five to six games in the regular season together. Because like, all right, LeBron, you're sitting this one out.
All right, Steph, take this one off. All right, Draymond, you're going to play these two, but you're going to be off this one.
So Anthony Davis could come in in five spots.
So. Yeah, that that's going to be a nightmare just in terms of personnel and logistics. It'll be entertaining as fuck to watch, though, because we've essentially shoehorned the Thunder and the Spurs into that Western Conference finals.
So it'd be nice to have the Warriors in there as a as a potential third team. Why does why does the gnome look so angry? Because he's mean-mugging. Because that gnome has not been traded yet. I know I have a gnome around here somewhere.
I have a giant gnome that's famous for coming out to tailgates. There's a lot of discussion this weekend about what the Giannis statue should look like. I saw your tweet about that, and I agree with you. I don't think it should be a solo Giannis trade anymore. It should just be now the four guys.
Well, so championship. Holiday. Yeah, holiday, Chris, and Brooke, but then I got a lot of people saying. If Brooke Lopez isn't a fucking statue. Milwaukee's more of a bankrupt town than I thought.
And I do agree with what I do agree.
Now, the picture is so iconic of them lifting him up, and it's Giannis they're lifting up. And we've been like, when you think of the four guys in the championship run, that picture comes to mind. Milwaukee lore. Yeah.
If it's going to be just Giannis, I think it should be the mean mug. And I've got a lot of pushback and I said I may have I may have pre-ejaculated that take. And I may have. I may shot a little sooner. The statue should be Giannis with his two brothers.
Yeah.
One's already signed back in Greece. That's the bullshit. That's the bullshit. You making us have two rosters spots in your family, and the Heat don't have to do shit. The Heat rostered Eudonis Haslam for 10 years, where he averaged 10 minutes a season.
And now you're drawing the line at Alex Adetta Cumpo? Like fuck this. No, you can't waste these roster spots. God, our fucking organization is suckers. A bunch of fucking suckers.
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The lamello ball trade was weird, kind of doesn't make any sense. I mean, if you're Minnesota, you don't know what they're doing. They're so ball-dominant, those two, that they're not going to be able to make it work. Yeah, what are the other big moves that need to happen? Kawhi might go back to the Raptors.
Raptors, yeah. Harden opted out, but he'll probably extend. He's gonna yeah, I saw that they're uh looking on a in a deal because uh Harden's so clutch in the playoffs, I can't see why Cleveland wouldn't let him go. The John Morant odds, I think Miami's right now in the lead on that. I don't know what they're gonna give him.
Peanuts. Yeah.
There's a lot of games we'll not fucking play anymore. There's a lot of good NBA. Ben Simmons, that was Ben Simmons' eye in a comeback. He listed the Heat and the Sixers as his preferred destinations. I'm like, I wonder if Miami and Philadelphia are.
They win a yachting title or some shit?
Something like that. But like. I'm like, brother, like, how are you listing preferred destinations? Like, Teams should be saying. Do we want you?
Not the other way around. Um Then Simmons will be lucky to get a deal with fucking Sacramento. All right, I'm going to share a video here. If you don't mind. Is it a doomsday trailer?
Because that's all I care about now. No, they're still not out. I know. I'm very upset about that. I did see Supergirl yesterday, by the way.
It's up you did? Yeah.
Okay, I was going to ask you about that. I heard the music at the end was stupid. Yeah.
It wasn't for me. I think James Gunn is. You can tell he has his fingerprints all over. This is a little too. Guardians of the galaxy for me.
He's a one-note wonder dude. In terms of the music selection. This whole DCU is going to be Guardians. Basically. Basically, now I will say.
And my wife getting leads. F I will say, obviously, going into this, I thought it was going to be his trans. I thought this was like. The coldest take ever. Like, you would think that Lobo was going to steal the movie.
Lobo stole the movie. Oh, like Mr. Terrific did. Yeah.
Well, Mr.
So here's the thing: when Mr. Triffick, you went into Superman thinking, okay, let's see what happens. And Mr. Triffick said, holy shit, like that scene was crazy. Like, oh, I came out of left field.
You knew. Lobo was going to be a big part of this movie. And he stole basically every scene that he was in.
So, good job to Jason Momoa. I can never pronounce his last name, but he did a great job as Lobo. Were there any cameos besides Superman? No. No, no, no, not really.
How long was he in it? Couple times. But He's uh I don't want to give too much away No one here is going to go watch. He's not an integral part of the story. Oh, it's just like, hey, my cousin's calling me.
Literally, that's actually within the first five minutes of the movie. It's the opening scene. They make sure Superman's in right away so you don't walk out. Correct. He's in right away, and he's in periodically through the movie.
But he's not involved with the main story at all. I'm like soft. into what's happening there, but I I'm not gonna watch it till it's on until I can watch it from home. Yeah, I mean, I have one of these AMC scams where you can like watch movies, you know. like four months.
I got a cough.
Okay. See, I have a golf button now. Um that was a weird law. If you like Nah, I had a cough. It was a very animated cough.
It was a bad cough. Let's see. We're going to do this live. Pete Bilatti offered me a trade in our fantasy baseball league. It is a dynasty league.
He has offered me Aaron Judge and what the fuck is this guy? Jose de Paula from the Dodgers, which I don't know who that is. He is offering me two shit draft picks at 26 and 27 round, that is. Uh for Corbin Carroll. But I would also be giving him A second and a fifth round draft pick.
Does this sound like anything I entertain whatsoever? Why does he want Corbin Carroll so bad? I don't know and I don't want to give up that draft capital. And Corbyn Carroll His numbers aren't that far off from Aaron Judge, believe it or not. And Aaron Judges hurt.
And the Yankees are scuffling. But this if this is a dynasty league. Yeah, so why would I take Aaron Judge, who's older? than Corbin Carroll. And I got to give up.
Too early for a picks. I think this is a this is an easy reject. Do you want to put it through the trade calculator? Do you have it in front of you? I do.
All right, so yeah, so let's go Aaron Judge.
Okay, Aaron. You receive Aaron Judge. I'll receive Aaron Judge. Jose de Paula. Which he has to be a prospect.
How do you spell De Paula? Uh D E Space Paula. Yeah, that guy right there.
Okay. Round 26, round 27 draft picks. Round 26? Yeah.
So these, and our drafts league is like up to like 28 rounds.
So this is like. Oh, well, there's not going to be any value there.
Okay. What are you giving back? Corbin Carroll.
Okay. And then draft picks in round two and round five. Uh, yeah, that's probably too much. Way too much. I I I lose, but just uh on the players alone, like.
I think I'd rather keep Corbin Carroll. All right, I'm now going to share. Ben says, Fuck the draft picks. Take Judge. He's hurt.
Mike says no doubt do it. I'm not giving up a round two and a round five. The Brewer's Tailgate is August 6th. It's my pinned tweet. Ed Bart Winkler show, and I probably should share it on Facebook.
I don't know if I do it. Probably.
You should share it on all soul shows. In fact, you should have a banner. with the date. Go scrolling right underneath us just the whole time, just say, okay. It's okay.
Okay. I'd like to share this video of a certain WWE superstar driving around town. Here we go. Uh I can't play music. How surprising is that?
Also How not surprising was that considering with the venue and where it was? If it was any other country, I don't think that that happens.
So, Sami Zayn's your new WWE champ. Congrats to him. They've been doing five years of uh This underdog story.
Well, really, 10. He should have, the hottest time he could have won is beating Roman. Correct. In Montreal, should have done it then. Yeah.
And I thought, and they wasted a lot of those moments. Drew. Should have beat him overseas. Jay had a small window to beat him there when he was actually main event, Jay. Jose says, Bart, you should get something going with baseball cards.
I'll provide some free packs. From AJ Collectibles. Or even WWE cards. Oh, WWE cards. That's a space you want to get into.
I'm looking for giveaways for my Tailgate if you want to send me some. Jose, if you want to Message me or show up with a bunch of uh shit and We'll work it out. When I say we, I mean does AJ Collectibles have like a. A couple hundred dollars a month. Budget to sponsor the show.
What's their advertising budget? Yeah, but I know I'll I'll do some stuff. We are open for business here in the Winklerverse. Yeah, me too. Listen, I need more work.
I went to a barbecue looking for work. All right, back to the uh Oh, I have some Batman Forever cards. Back to the. Back to the tailgate. There's a link to get tickets.
I don't have the tickets. You could buy them through the FIVO, through Brewers. They're all in the same section. But use the link. Yeah.
And I know how many people are coming. Yeah.
Or there's some people that are going to be there that day and just show up. That's fine too. But no guarantee you'll be sitting in that section. They asked me how many people I said. I go, I'll get 25.
I'm looking for 50. There's a chance I get 100. I mean, when that's newer, I'm thoroughly impressed.
Okay. All right, so Sammy, I was shocked. Um I actually had it spoiled because we watched the beginning of Night of Champions. Kid at a baseball game, we came back. And someone texts me, but I had also just seen it online.
I don't think I would have believed it if I watched live. And I was, so I knew I was taping my kid watching it. And they go one, two, three, and he's just like. He couldn't believe it. That's why wrestling is the best.
So let me tell you this thing with wrestling. And this is not the ins and outs, but. I talk to a lot of people that my kid loves wrestling and they say, oh, I liked wrestling as a kid too. And I've been clear to him. That wrestling is A story And they're acting out of the story.
But he also He gets it, but he also doesn't, but he doesn't. I don't want to just come out and say. Sammy winning was a surprise because, you know, the way we would talk about it. I want him to believe Sammy won that match. Yeah.
And so now we've been watching Old Royal Rumbles, but we've gotten to a point where he knows less than he knows more.
So now he wants to watch old money in the banks. And he asked me some really good pay-per-views. He asked me, he goes. Because one thing he has trouble with too is Dom and Liv are together in the show, but I said Dom is a different wife. Yeah.
So he's always he's always interested whose people's wives are. And husbands. And he goes. Dad, how come in the money in the bank? They're on the ladder.
And then everyone else is just standing there waiting for him to fall on top of him instead of getting out of the way. He's asking grown-man questions. And I'm like. It's called a spot, son. You could skip the Damian Sandow.
money in a bank because that lets at fucking nothing. Oh, and then we watch, um I'm excited for him to watch the one where they do it in the Then the towers. Where they throw Rey Mysterio off the build. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one.
And then Otis wins, and then they just hands it to the major for some reason. He's just like, hey, take it. This last one we watched has been Austin Theory one. And then challenge for the U.S. title against Seth because he knew he'd get interfered with by the bloodline.
So stupid. They're like, we can't have you be in the world title picture. The funniest thing about watching wrestling as an adult. I get into, like, I sure get into all the stories, but even just watching stories from two, three years ago, still as an adult. You're like...
That made no fucking sense. How did I? Why was I marking out for that? At the time, I was like, well, yeah, Austin shouldn't challenge for the title because of the bloodline. That makes sense.
That makes sense. He channeled for the fucking U. You won the money in the bank? You channeled for the fucking US title. And then didn't he lose anyway?
Yeah, because then Bobby Lashley showed up and kicked the shit out of him. And nobody loses to Seth fucking Hogan. And he beat Braun Breaker. He shouldn't have fucking beat Braun Breaker. I don't get that.
I don't get that at all. Seth has maybe like fucking a year or two left with his knees. There was a TNA big show this weekend. There was an AEW big show. There was an NXT big show.
Yeah, big weekend for wrestling. Lot of wrestling going on these parts. That'll be quiet until SummerSlam, though. Yeah, so USA on Wednesday. Yeah.
Excited for that? Sure. I'm going to wear this hat until they lose and then I'll never wear it again.
Well, yeah, well, uh, and this will come down. Strike. It'll definitely be your fault because. They were winning. Although they did lose, they lost to Turkey, but gives a shit.
They were already advancing. Oh, I was fucking hot that night because I hate that goalie. Oh yeah? Yeah, Matt Turner sucks. I like Matt Freeze, he's our goalie.
He's good. He's a New York goalie. Yeah, yeah, I know. He should have played last week to get him reps. Instead, they let Siv Turner in there.
Let's just everybody be healthy. and uh get ready to go. On Wednesday. I think I'm gonna go up for that game too. I mean, you got to be a part of it.
I have to. Have you seen any of these throngs of fans or no? Cause they're all like in Times Square and shit. They're not walking around. They're not in Queens.
Yeah, they're not here whatsoever. They might be in Brooklyn. Um, you know, I'll figure but I'll figure like where do you The uppity parts of Brooklyn are like Williamsburg. How far do you live from where Spider-Man lives? Spider-Man?
Uh, well, which Spider-Man are we talking? We're talking about Sam Raimi Spider-Man, or we talking. Tom Holland, he's in Forest Hills. That's about 15 minutes away. Sam Raimi, Spider-Man, that's Rockaway, and that one's fucking far.
That one's Minimum half an hour. But if you're in, if you get in traffic. 45 to an hour. What about Garfield? I don't really know.
Where do they put him? Where did Aunt May live? In that one? I don't think. Actually, good fucking question.
I don't remember. I've only seen those ones once during the rewatch or when I watched everything. And I. They weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be. Who thought Paul Giamatti was as Rhino was a good fucking idea, though?
And then he goes, he goes, I fought a Russian in a rhino costume in No Way Home. Yeah.
My kid won't watch these movies, but then I was watching the end of No Way Home for some reason. Yeah.
And his big, his big complaint, his biggest complain, my kids. My kid's got a charmed little life, okay? He's an only child. He's spoiled to death. He lives in a really nice community here.
And his biggest complaint is. You know, when something's on the TV, I have to watch it. He's right, though. You don't just come in, you know, 45 minutes into Shawshank Redemption and be like, all right, fuck, I'm going to turn change the channel. You sit down and you watch it.
Speaking of TV, Brazil. Japan.
So Coming up. In five minutes, so we're going to go watch that. This has been the National Perspective with Carlos Ortiz. Congrats on your series win this weekend, you fuck. Go, comes, go.
When are the Mets firing Stearns? I thought Mendoza was going to wear it for the rest of the season. How wrong was I on that one? The Angels fired their GM and no one cares because they don't remember. Fucking Angels.
You know, and I watched baseball my entire life. I can't tell you who the general manager for the Angels was. I think Stearns gets fired at the end of the year. Hold on, I have the article. Uh I deleted the article.
I have to tell you right now. Hold on. Angels GM. I have the last name in my head. Oh, yes.
Yeah, Perry. Oh yeah. That's why I've never said it because I'm not sure how to say it. Yeah, it yeah, it's minute mines. I can't pronounce it.
Do people even remember Shohei was in the Angels for seven years? With Mike Trout. I don't remember. Because they went to the I don't actually know. I don't think they went to the playoffs together.
And if they did, they lost. Trout went and got swept. Show haters.
So they had both those guys and couldn't do shit. They had some bad contract signings. I mean, your boy Rendone. One of the, not my boy, one of the worst contract signs you ever fucking had. He was actually my boy.
Me and my buddy were big on him on a dynasty league we had. New Angels GM has not met the owner yet. Artie Moreno needs to be forced to sell. I mean, that is a fucking disgusting franchise. Interesting.
Yeah, the interim general manager, if anybody gives a shit, is John Moseliak. Your guess is as good as mine. Oh, Johnny Moves? Sure. If you're the angels, just sell everybody.
You can get Package or Joel Adell. Jose Soriano's got some pop, you know, get rid of him for something. Brewers need a fucking bat, dude. We can't. I mean, Tarek Scubal would be fucking nice, but we need a bat.
Yeah, you guys need a bat for sure. Why don't you trade for Jose Soriana? Or not Nasoriana, I'm sorry, Jorge Soler. Go get Solayer. You can be your DH.
Sure. No, we got to put Yelich there because he can't move. And Solair could at least play the offfield a little bit. Yeah.
All right. Brazil, Japan. I'm going to watch that. I know you'll be doing the same. Sure.
Or play video games. Probably the latter. All right. I guess we're doing this next week. Thanks, everybody.
We're there's no end in sight right now.
Sorry. Not until I get a job. And at the rate that I'm getting the cl decline for jobs. I will be doing this all year. That's my I don't get declined for anything because I don't apply anywhere.
Yeah.
I mean, that's next level thinking. You can't get rejected if you don't apply. Because last time I was doing this, I was getting declined by like batteries plus and shit. Not at least I'm still getting declined by sports jobs. Oh, that's good.
Thank you to Carlos. Thank you to all of you for stopping into the Winklerverse. Snoring? Gasping during sleep? Feeling fatigued?
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