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It is great to be with you here on a. A random Tuesday. That's right. It's a random Tuesday. Normally, we'd have some today that is going to get shifted once again until later in the week.
So we will have that later.
So, I earlier today on this random Tuesday. Recorded some other things. that I was going to include on my podcast for Wednesday. But with the late announcement or the late learning of that had to be postponed. I'm now going to Share my Wednesday stuff as my Tuesday show.
And I've already recorded the video, so I'm going to send it to myself. And the reason I've decided to go live is typically And maybe you care, maybe you don't. I'd be a little interested if I kept it brief, which I am. Is I would just package an audio podcast and then split it all up and you know, the magic of radio. But I'm gonna try the magic of podcasting.
So I'll be live and then I'll throw to a video. And then I'll be live again, and then I'll throw to a video, and then I'll be live again, and I'll be live until I have to pick up my kid from basketball camp. Ooh, a little dribbler, man. He's got it. He won.
They had a trivia contest. And you won a free piece of candy today because they asked all the kids how many championships did Michael Jordan win? And he knew it was six.
So congrats. To my kid for the free piece of candy. This is one of those camps where you give some money and you say, Don't spend too much money. And then, you know, they have no concept of what's going on.
So he bought three. Bags of Skittles yesterday, and I'm going to have to re-up his fund. Oh, you can just re-up the fun, Daddy. No, I can't, son. I can't actually.
That's the money in our budget for you to get $3 bags of MMs. at basketball camp. Speaking of Michael Jordan, speaking of Oh LeBron James. Uh LeBron James is not going to come back to the Lakers. And so the tributes are flooding in, and people are breaking into coverage to talk about this.
I don't think this is surprising to anybody.
Now maybe the Lakers wanted him back. Or would have been okay with him back on a lower salary. I'm not surprised.
So I don't think it's like stop the press's alarm. The stop the press's alarm is going to be where he decides to play.
Now LeBron's a great father. Um I would just I'm guessing. But also just in one Example is he let. Bronnie's contract get guaranteed. The day before, he then said, I'm not going to be here.
So I don't know what else. I think he's a good father. He appears to be one. I don't know the inner workings of the James household. Maybe there's Some positives, maybe there's some negatives.
I don't know, just like with anybody, but when you can lock in your kid $2.3 million. After you let your, you know, he helped him get drafted into the league. That's it's that's a pretty you build up a lot of equity.
Okay. You can you can run out for milk. And then, you know, you come back, but. You built up a lot of equity when you can guarantee your kid $2.3 million. Hope people are leaving some bobbleheads on the streets for LeBron.
Yeah. And if they are, remember, he's not dead.
So if there's anything at the Giannis Mural that you want to protect. Because somebody would have stolen this. The reason I took this Giannis bobblehead is somebody would have stolen it. Don't you get this?
Somebody would have stolen this. And they didn't because I took it. To keep it safe.
So, where's LeBron going to go? I think there's three obvious options: Milwaukee, Indiana, and Portland. Um No, he's not. Come in here. Fun to think about.
I would still, if I would have been LeBron, I would have. Once I won the title with the Lakers. I would have just gone to a different team every year. Collect LeBron jerseys. You know, nobody's done that.
I think it would have been neat if, in these last eight years, he wasn't just a Laker. He spent the year on the Wizards or a year on the Spurs or a year on the Celtics. Just go around kind of like Shaq, get the rainbow of uniforms, but you wouldn't be like Shaq. Shaq was at the end, and while LeBron's near the end, he's still LeBron. I mean, he could still ball at 41 and a half years old.
Unlike some people ever were able to. But he is going to go somewhere new.
Now that doesn't mean he's going to go somewhere different. Cleveland is an option and I think it's the option people want. He started there, he left. He came back, he won, he left.
Now go back. I don't know if you'll win again. But they have a good team. You know, they just maybe need a little bit more. Hardin and Mitchell can only do so much.
Kind of crazy to say you had LeBron there, and I don't think. According to the reports, he doesn't need 40 Ms. He doesn't need $40 million. He's just looking for.
Well, he's just looking to be happy and play.
Now Cleveland. Could be a scenario. I think that is probably number two. I think that's the second likeliest. I think the heat are in play.
To play with Giannis. and go back to Miami. I don't think that's going to happen. I think we're getting the expendables. or the Olden State Warriors.
The California aspect, he can stay close enough to LA. Once you move to LA, you kind of don't move back. Ask Don Draper. Once you move to LA. Uh that that's where you are.
So I think Golden State. is going to be the play for LeBron. And I think Draymond will come back. And whether they get A D or not, you know, they have Butler. But I think Curry and LeBron have always wanted to play together, and this is a great way for them to do that.
There's not going to be any expectations on them. It's not going to be like. Kobe Shaq, Gary Payton, Carl Malone. I mean, Steph and They're not in the prime of their careers, but they're still in the prime. They're still great.
There's still very, very great. What would the season look like? How much do they play? Are they angling for a one seat? Are they going to be stuck in the plane and just hope that they can win?
As LeBron has maybe done with the Lakers in the past. I don't know, but I would say Golden State. is where I think he ends up. I don't think people want. I think.
I think people think they want him to go to Cleveland. Because that would be the most fitting. And I think if he went to Golden State, People would think that that is cheating in some way, or a shame to your legacy, or you battled Steph for four years. And now you're together, but this is like wrestling, you know? Longtime enemies suddenly tag team together.
I think it makes sense. for LeBron to finish his career in Golden State. He's already moved to California. Like I said, he can stay close. The Warriors aren't going to win.
Again, those days are over.
So I think what he wants is. to stay close and then you know to have fun. And I think him with Steph Curry to see: can this work? We're old, but can this work? Can we take on these young guys?
I think we think we want him to go to Cleveland. You know, and legacy, we might look back and say, yeah, it was really great he went to Cleveland. But if he goes to Golden State. I think that would get the most eyeballs. LeBron and Giannis will get some eyeballs, but him in Golden State.
I mean, they'd be on national TV as much as they were in their heyday.
So that's my guess. There's other teams you could throw out. I think those are the real three options. Either return to where you were or go to Golan State. My guess would be LeBron.
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Some World Cup thoughts. You just saw Norway win. Epic day yesterday. Germany going out on penalty kicks, more penalty kicks. At night.
And I think now. There's a pattern emerging. With this World Cup here. It's Something happens.
Soccer fans are elated with joy about the competition they just witnessed. And then everyone else. has to put in their two cents.
So there was an off-side call, a couple of them.
Well, why is off sides by the toe and whatever? This is how you should solve it.
Okay, nobody asked you. First of all, Nobody asked you. Then we have The final stage of group play, which probably was a little long. They messed up. They went head-to-head instead of goal differential.
So. The games didn't mean as much, but now we're into the knockouts, and now you're getting penalty kicks. And now people are saying, Well, you should change penalty kicks.
Soccer is what it is. And they'll make tweaks, they've made tweaks to subs, they've added these hydration breaks, which you know nobody likes. They'll make tweaks like everybody else. But this is soccer. This has been a game that's been around for 200 years, mostly unchanged.
I understand that Major League Baseball. has an extra runner in the 10th inning. And the NFL has A different kickoff now, but those are. That's not football and that's not baseball. Those are rules exclusive.
Those are rules exclusive to the sports. To the leagues in which they play. If you're playing football with your buddies, you're still kicking off. And you're not doing the weird zone. If you're playing baseball with your buddies and it's the 10th inning, you're just playing the 10th inning.
Even in the NFL. They're still the only football league that makes you go back 40 yards to kick an extra point.
So you watch the World Cup and you're trying to solve soccer.
Soccer doesn't need solving. The World Cup is totally. Fine. I don't want to see it extended. I don't like that.
Maybe if you did like. Could you do what's 48 divided by six? Could you do eight groups of six instead? But even that, it just. That last round, there wasn't a lot to play for for a lot of teams.
And uh that's just the way that the results shook out, I guess. But That might happen.
Now, don't expand it to 64. That would be too much. It's not that there's been too much soccer. But we still have like Well, we only have about two weeks. I mean, this is almost over.
This is almost over.
So, the three big things people are complaining about are offsides. Offside doesn't need to be changed. What I would agree on is maybe we don't go to VAR for offside. That I would agree on that. Maybe we don't need...
to see Because you know, it wasn't meant for milligrams or milliseconds or milli, whatever millimeters, just like in baseball, if you're Thumb comes off the base for a second. I don't think you should be out.
So if you want to review offsides. Because when you're calling off sides. running the line. Even is on. Even is on.
And That guy, if the toe's off, he's not going to see that, or if his gut's hanging over, or that one guy's ass. You're not going to call that if you go to the minuscule of it, but there is a line. The line moves, but it is a line. Where's the second-to-last defender? Don't go past him.
Do you understand how terrible soccer would be? without offsides. It would be cherry picking. It would be people packing the box. It would basically be just kicking the ball back and forth.
Like from one goal to the other. It would be no fun. What this rule does is it makes you. Have pace and build. It makes you build.
These plays are built. Up When they pass it, when they get close to a shot and they have to pass it back, they're redoing the build. Where are we going to attack? What are we going to do? That's why, see.
I've talked about this with football. I am. I am fluent in soccer. I can speak all these sports languages, but I'm fluent in soccer. And what I mean by that is in football, I'm not fluent because I'm only watching the ball.
I'm not watching the coverage. I'm not watching the line.
So I can speak football, but I'm watching the ball. In basketball, I'm watching the ball. We all do. In soccer, many of you are just watching the ball. I'm watching the whole field.
I can see the whole field because I'm fluent in that language. Just like basketball coaches. Like it's once you get fluent.
So I'm not asking everybody to be fluent in soccer, but I'm Like that's why. Offsides exist. Trust the people that have been in charge of soccer for 200 years. Offside exi offsides.
Sorry, I say offsides. Then I got soccer fans coming at me.
Sorry, football fans.
Sorry, football supporters.
So that's why I say offside. is fine. you would create a whole lot more problems. If you got rid of it. All right.
Um The penalty kicks There's no drama like it. It sucks when it has to come down to it. But you got to come down to something. You played 120 minutes. You played two hours.
Of consecutive soccer plus. And you can't determine a winner. Penalty kicks are fine.
Now I saw one suggestion, do the penalty kicks before extra time. and then award that team half a point. And then those other 30 minutes, there's more stakes on the line because now you can't tie. You have to just add half a point. That's interesting.
But again, with these rules, we don't always need to think outside the box. We don't. And I'm an outside the box, I'm a color outside the lines kind of guy, but we don't always need to do it when it comes to rules. They play for 90 minutes. If it's tied, they play another 30 more.
Okay, now let's do penalty kicks. And if you get to that spot. Don't have gotten to that spot. And you can't find anything more intense. It is unfair, but it's it's deserved.
That's part of it.
Well, in football, it'd be like doing a kickoff contest or a field goal contest.
Well, if you played for two hours without a winner and it was three to three. Sure. I mean, we can't be here forever. They're not, they could take guys off the field and. You know, do like in hockey and just play forever.
This is all, it's all fine. Everything's fine. Nothing needs to be fixed. I'm promising this to you. The other thing is then people gripe that the clock doesn't stop.
Well, the clock doesn't stop because there's added time. And basically, the clock not stopping is. We want 90 minutes of a full game. And it is up to the refs' discretion. To determine how many extra minutes are gonna be played, and then even in extra time.
You might see more time added because, in extra time, there's time stoppages. And the gripe is: oh, you're just going off vibes. You're going to let the other team have one last chance to score, and then you're going to blow the whistle. Yes. Yeah.
You are. That is the sport. That's how it works. We don't need to change any of this. We don't, this is soccer.
This is what it is.
Okay. There's a lot of things that are weird in other spots, too, but this is what it is. Nobody's asking for improvements. Yesterday might have been the greatest World Cup singular day of all time. And the first thing you want to do is ask for improvements.
I don't need to see, and I'm just naming names here. Maybe I'm throwing shrapnel at one, but I don't need to see Albert Brears and Robert Mays and Trey Wingoes and all these guys historically known with football all of a sudden say, you know, soccer could be. No. This is the product. People like this product.
No one is forcing it down your face either. I don't think so. Yeah, it's on Fox all the time. Oh no, are you sad that you couldn't watch Judge Judy today? Were you really hoping for a new episode of Quiz with Balls?
I mean No one's forcing it down your face. Oh, I go on Twitter and I see people from all cultures happy together. Oh, no. Thank you for this comment. Bart, from all Americans that I know you have the most reasonable takes about soccer, keep it going.
Well, I'm also I'm I'm calling it soccer too. And I'm not calling it the pitch, and I'm not saying nil-nil. Um I didn't grow up with that. And I think it's okay to call it different things. I think it's, I mean, it's called soccer here.
It's called football there. We have, it's, it's fine.
Soccer comes from association football. And somehow it got abbreviated to soccer over here, a so she, sock, sock foot, soccer. We didn't just make up a word out of nothing to be different like we did with the. Imperialism or imperial system. It's from the thing that it says.
It got lost in translation overseas, man. It's not that big of a deal. Oh, another complaint. Why are we calling it Turkey A instead of turkey. Why do we have to call it?
They don't call it because when they entered the tournament, they said our name is Turkey. They entered it as Turkey A. If they entered it as turkey, we'd call them turkey. Cote d'Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast. That's what they entered as.
They want to be called that. I'd like to enter this tournament under an alias, Brad Silvers. No, your name's Bart Winkler. Enter as that. Why do we have to call you something?
Because that's how I'm entering. Uh It's my choice.
So, just dumb complaints. And I don't believe half of them. A lot of people are just trying to be included in the conversation. I do I do like though when I see like The guys that don't touch soccer every four years. Like Stephen A.
Smith being like. Is it time we benched Ronaldo? Yeah. You can't first takeify this sport. You can't first takeify soccer.
It's not gonna work, man. All right. I will still be here reading comments, interacting. But earlier today, I talked to James Smysak. He's an old friend from La Crosse.
And we are Platforming, partnering with a site called OddsJam.
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But James will go into that after we talk about our kickball tournament that we had representing WKBT lacrosse. Back in 2000. And eight, two thousand eight or two thousand. And nine. little costume change and Here When you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant, you keep production lines moving and quality on track because there is no room for slowdowns.
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But I've known James for a long time. I've interacted. We've interacted on Twitter a boatload. Oh, yeah. And maybe you've seen them.
Add his name backwards. How is there a pronunciation you'd give your Twitter handle? I say iCasms. It's just my last name backwards. Yeah.
Okay, we're in fantasy leagues together. We are.
Okay. So, but I haven't Talked to you. Since 2000 and like a zero. I want to say nine. Yeah, I was going to say nine.
2009. It's been a while. It's been a hot minute. That's a long time. It is.
We're in the same state, Bart. Did you ever get to Milwaukee? Because we knew each other in lacrosse. Yeah, you know, I make it to brewer games all the time. But, you know, I tried to meet up with you on opening day, but this time when I was walking into the stadium, you were still like walking through some wooded area that I had no idea where you were.
Yeah, right across the highway. Yeah, so I was watching. I was there, I was there in support. It's a nice little woods. We've got our Winkler versus Tailgate coming up August 6th.
That's great.
Okay, so I'm not, I'm probably not coming. Yeah, okay, well, you know, I'd love to, but I'm not gonna make if you get off, let me know, I'll get you a ticket. All right, perfect. A combat twenty dollar ticket. You have to drive here and stuff.
All that we worked at the same uh T V station together. back when media still allowed you to work for 'em, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck you.
Um Any, what do you remember about that time? Anything that the people would care about? Not really. It was kind of a haze. I was still a part-time boy back then.
You're You were doing reporting stuff. I was behind the camera setting the shots, making it look pretty. Run that teleprompter for you. Eventually I made the jump to to director there, but uh I don't think I ever got to direct a show.
Okay. With you in front of camera. Do you feel like in a newsroom? Between sales and reporters and master control, like Everyone just takes you guys for granted. Oh, everybody.
Like, when, yeah, like when you're directing a newscast, like, you're the one person who has the power just to absolutely derail absolutely everything that everyone sees. Everyone's hard work leads up to the director not messing up. And if the director botches it, it doesn't matter what you did during the day. You could spend three hours editing a story, and if I press three buttons wrong, doesn't matter what you did, not going on air. No one's going to see it.
Yeah. Um, you got a lot of power, and yet people that are anchoring in market 137. Fresh out of college. We really think that we are someone. I think my biggest lesson in my time as a reporter.
Revenge is never as sweet as you think it's going to be. I say that because The news director. Did not see me as a sports. Guy. At all.
Would never let me fill in. Like They recruited some girl from Madison to fill in instead of going to me. It was, they did say it wasn't going to happen.
So I always thought someday I'm going to get into sports and I'm going to get revenge. on on this news director. And there was a WBA Awards. Yeah, 10 years later. And I have the award that's sitting somewhere here.
Um Best Morning Talk Show. The Bart Winkler Show. And my table was seated right next to the old TV station table. And I walked in front. To get my award, walk back.
She didn't seem to care. Felt nothing. I didn't feel any emotion. I was building for this moment for 10 years. Yeah.
And I felt nothing. I think you said it best when you realize you're in market 137. Kind of just there for, you know. Kind of there for the people. They're for you.
I do Have dreams I'm working there still. I would love to do a week where I just are they nightmares? Are they dreams? They're not even any, they're just, they're not even either. They just exist on a flat plane of reality.
It's a day. I go in, I get my story, I call people from the back room because I'm too shy to call people in front of the other reporters. I deal with that. I use Chuck's phone all the time. I love Chuck.
Um Yeah. Still there. Um And so, yeah, it's uh, but I have some of the old clips I share, and then I've gotten that out of it so. I do try to keep that alive. Look, wake up, babe.
Old Bart content has dropped. is a familiar thing. The big moment that we had together was this kickball tournament. Yeah. And So I don't even know how.
There's so much to like I saw. I was thinking about this the other night. James is here to talk about odds, jam. I want you guys to use my affiliate link to do good at betting. And then We support the podcast.
But the kickball thing has to be discussed, James.
So I was reminiscing about this the other day, and every time I hit a point in my head where I was like, man, that was a crazy day, I remembered another like. Tidbit of the day.
So, first off, I think it's 2008, 2009, right? And it's a charity kickball tournament in Cashton, Wisconsin. Ashton. The first caveat here was that we didn't even know you got to play whoever you brought. If you brought 17, you have to play 17 in the field.
I don't know if you remember this. Oh, yeah. We got eight. We rallied eight people to do this. Of those eight people, three of them are fat and non-athletic.
Will you count me in that? No, sadly.
So that really paints the picture of how not athletic we were. But, Bart, come on, give yourself some credit. In 2009, you could throw it around a little bit.
So yeah, we have eight. One's a girl. No sh no. No slight to her, but you know, non-athletic girl, me. And then you and a like 16-year-old kid.
And then our good friend Kyle. Who was like, why did we do this, though? Because it was for charity agents. You were doing a story on it, and we figured since you were already doing a story on it, what if we played? What if?
I think I did a story, and they must have said. You should get a team. And we said, and then I said yes. And then I came back to the station and was like, oh, what have I done? On a Sunday morning.
So why did you why did it why did we even get it? Why did people come with me at all? That's the thing that we just were never going to know, but we did. That's the important part. I'm pretty sure three of us were hungover, first off.
Um because mind you, this started early. Oh yeah. And so All right, second point here. I wore an A.J. Hawk jersey.
I'm not talking some cheap knockoff, like a full heavy AJ Hawk jersey. And I mean That was a bad decision from point one. Yeah. But the crazy part here is we won our first two games. We started 2-0.
We did. We did. And then we were like, all right, well, are we done? Do we leave? We all remember, we packed everything up.
There was a big discussion about if we were going to leave or not. I found the picture, by the way. Oh, yeah. Uh so I'll Oh yeah, Branson was in this. Oh, and Greg.
Sorry to Branson and Greg if you listen. I did throw you in the fat on athletic category. Yeah, so those three are the fats. And then Tara was our girl. Mm-hmm.
And then I don't remember the I remember the high school kid's name who lived in Cashton. Yeah. And then he said Kyle. And then Kyle Kutzky. Yep.
Last name.
So we had won a couple games. We didn't know what to do. And then we were going to leave. And here's the squad on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. There's your AJ Hodgers.
Yeah, I'm wearing my Tampa Bay Rays shirt. I also want to point out that I now have to correct myself: we did not even have eight, we had seven.
So we only had seven in the field. But we were going to leave. Because we thought it was done. Yeah, so I'm not afraid of any cash and kickball director listening to this. Very poorly organized.
Yeah. They did not know. Like, you'd play a game on a field, and then they would be like. Just stand around. They wouldn't tell you what to do next.
So we were like out the door. And someone said, you guys have to play in the. Didn't we take second place? Why do we have a trophy for second place?
So they're like, you got to play in a title game. And we were like, oh, all right.
So. Now, again, I feel like I really need to hammer this point home. Not only are we 2-0, we're seven, these seven people. And we've beat teams of 14 to 17 people in the field. I remember one team was just like all seventh and eighth graders who should have absolutely stomped us in kickball.
Yeah. So We play the title game. And here's another crazy point that I remember. We do lose given by the second place trophy. But do you remember this?
Halfway through the game, the kickball pops. And we had to finish the game with a volleyball. Oh, I now remember. Yes. You played center field and this grown-ass man.
Absolutely piss pounds one into center. And to your credit, make this like. over the shoulder. Catch for an hour. I dove.
Yep, but it's a volleyball at this point. It's not even a kickball anymore. We're not even playing kickball. We've created a new game. Like, everything about this is just wrong.
Because really, all I remember is I remember being in the cafeteria. Oh, I remember getting there and being like, what the hell? And I remember we were leaving and then I remember. I did make a catch in center field, which like Either jokingly became a bit of lore, or it really was that anything. I mean, it's lore.
We're talking about it. Was it that good of a catch? I know when I caught it, I felt like. Oh my God, I just caught the ball. Like, did someone get that?
No one got it. I felt amazing. It did happen.
So. I'm like, what's really cool is I think I get to wrap this story up with something you don't even know about. Hmm.
So as you can see that trophy second place cash and kickball tournament Uh about six months after this, WKBT is going through a remodel. They're redoing the newsroom. And they go, you know what would be cool, guys? Let's do a time capsule. Throw a time capsule in the wall.
So on the bottom of that trophy is a big note card. with all details surrounding this tournament. Date, time, everyone who played in it, second place. And that bad boy just lives in the walls of WKBT.
Now, in a time capsule. Are we ever going to get it? I don't know. That's not the point of a time capsule, Bart. Like, it's supposed to be for the generations.
Time capsules, you're supposed to be, we're going to open the time capsule at a certain date. Yeah, like 50 to 100 years. Not like in 10.
So there is some acknowledgement that I worked in that building. If I remember to write your name down. I've got a weird thing where. Wherever I work, people really seem to like me. And then as soon as I leave.
Yeah. Let's make sure there's no memory or acknowledgement that he ever worked here. Every place. Anyway, I am looking for jobs. Hire this man.
People can. Hire me. You're with Odds Jam. I am. Um so I have This is why I need uh You guys, and this is why I'm interested in this product, is I do enjoy.
Um betting. I do enjoy the daily fantasy. I think Have told people this, and I'm not. Ashamed to say it. And if you don't know, I don't like it.
There's a second part of the story. I once had a big win on DraftKings. All right. I had a win where I had a. It was LeBron's the night he beat the scoring record.
I played him. I played Russell Westbrook. Cam Thomas was in my lineup on the Nets. And then I did not know, it was a $4 entry. I did not know which Jalen Williams to take.
So I took both. All right. And they both went off. And I did a $4 entry and a. $1 entry.
And I went to bed. I thought I took second, which would have net me $7,500. I woke up. I actually took first.
So I won 15 grand. Isn't it funny about a DFS lineup like that, too? If you win money, like those players are forever, like you just name the lineup off the top of your head. McDonovich. Yep.
So I had a big win. It was NBA All-Star Weekend in like 2019. 2018 maybe. And I took first in a $20 contest, like big first place prize. And Like, yeah, I could recite the team top to bottom.
And it was the all-star game. Like, I shouldn't be betting on this. I mean, maybe that's going to paint me in the picture of who I am. Like, I'm out here, you know, throwing $20 lineups on DraftKings for, you know, the NBA All-Star game in 2018. But maybe this will actually trigger a memory.
It was the one where Damian Lillard hit three threes to close out the game. And I was short half court. Those three threes single-handedly won me like 25 grand.
So like forever, like people will be like, oh, yeah, Lillard is a time on the no, Damian Lillard was forever one of my favorite players for a very specific reason. I bring the story up because I did win that 17 grand. And now, if I look at my lifetime DraftKings tab. I'm still up. Yeah, that's all that matters.
At this point, $2,200. Yeah. So I would like to. be able to, you know, win. And it's not just.
I don't want to hurt your heart too much here, but the Osjam software isn't going to help you a ton with the DFS lineup on draft gangs. That's fine. That's fine. I'm going to do my own stupid. I've even gone to letting my kid pick.
He picks heads. See, this is a good segue because I think, like, with sports betting, A lot of people have differing views on sports betting.
Some are for it as a casual thing, some are against it for whatever reasons. There's so many ways to sports bet nowadays. And obviously, this goes without saying, like, do it responsibly and Um, you know, if you can't afford to do it, don't do it. Um For the people who can afford to do it and they want to try to make money. It's not always just, oh, I think X is going to happen, so I'm going to do X, you know.
So many people are like, oh, I think the Brewers are gonna win today. I'm gonna bet the Brewers. No, there's like, you can do as much analysis as you want into a bet. Everything you already know. The people who set the odds for the Brewers, they know that already.
Like if the Brewers are minus 150 favorites tonight. That's because everything you know, they know and more. They know who's pitching. They know it's a home game. They know the last 10, the last 20.
They know the metrics. They know everything. And the same goes for football. They know the weather. They know the wind.
People try to, this isn't saying you don't know ball or you're not smart. But like sports betting is important to not. Place a bias on something twice. Like, oh, the The under is going to hit in the Packer game because it's raining. No, the under is already set with the rain.
Taken into account. You know, and I think just sometimes simplifying it that much can be a good starting point for people. Um And then, like, you know, like you said, I work for oddsjam.com. We're a set of sports betting tools that Just help you make smarter bets just strictly based off of math. and data.
No gut feelings, nothing, you know, no one telling you, oh, I think this is gonna win tonight. You need to tell me, you know, you see it all the time on Twitter. Oh, yeah, tail me, bro. This is gonna hit. This is a lock.
No, nothing's a lock. Like, no such thing. Like, Germany lost yesterday. I lost money on Germany. Thousands of people, millions of people would have told you Germany was a lock.
Were they a lock bart? No, I know they lost. They lost.
So, I mean. Um So I JM is a suite of tools. And a bunch of different betting strategies. I'm pulling up on the video here. Perfect.
One important thing that I think needs to be discussed right away is you can sports bet in the state of Wisconsin.
Now You can't. Place a sports bet on DraftKings or FanDuel or Bet MGM or Caesars. These are the popular sports books that people think about when they think sports betting. Those are domestic sports books that are legal in Specific states. Sports betting is still a state-by-state.
uh legality thing. But there's plenty of sports books that you can bet on in Wisconsin. You just kind of got to get around the gray area. And you hear gray area and it sounds illegal. It's not.
These are perfectly legal sites to sign up for. You can do it right now. Say the big two that are taking off, and I'm sure most people have at least heard of them in some way, shape, or form, are Kalshi and Polymarket. Yeah. Both of them have a negative reputation because it's not just sports betting, you can bet on if a bomb is dropped tomorrow.
Like, obviously, from any humanitarian standpoint, I'm not really cool with that either. Like, I get it. But what you can also do is you can also place bets on those sites. And the way it's legal in the state of Wisconsin and other states that don't have sports betting is you're not betting against the house, you're betting against other people. Yeah.
And you're, you know, what's not legal in Wisconsin is you can't place a bet against the house. You know, if DraftKings is offering you minus $150 on the Brewers, you can't say, okay, I'm going to bet $100 on this. If I win, I get DraftKings money. If DraftKings wins, they get my money. Can't do that here.
What you can do is you could bet on things called exchanges. which you're now betting against other people.
So let's say you bet $100 on the brewers to money line tonight minus $150. That means someone else needs to take the reds money line plus 150. for the amount that you would be paid out. Once that's finished, you are now just betting against someone else. Perfectly fine to do.
You know, it's just. It's not the act of sports betting that you can't do in Wisconsin. It's the act of betting against a house.
So then odds jams odd jam odds jam. I just, I just switched the plurals. Jam on the worst, the worst day of my entire career. This is totally different, but I had to do this. Ad read for Jimmy Johns.
And it was Jimmy wants Jimmy's Johns. Doesn't sound like to come, Jimmy. And it was like, and I kept saying it wrong, and then the plural kept messing me up. Then I read it exactly how the lady put copy, and then that was wrong. I just wanted them.
Anyway, hello, Dawn. Fucking A Dawn, dude. I do miss Dawn, actually. Odds Jam.
So, where Odds Jam comes into play is it kind of like looks at all of these exchanges. Correct. And then what you're looking at is.
Well, this place might have the over under at four. But this might have the over-under on like rebounds or something at three and a half. Correct. So you're not betting. Which of those you like?
Because if you bet one, You could be right, you could be wrong. Correct. But if you find... Where the odds are jammed. You know, I never even thought about it that way.
Yeah, sure. You bet both. Correct. So the strategy you're talking about is the page you have up now. That's arbitrage betting.
Arbitrage betting is a betting style that produces a risk-free profit. Um Now Maybe a poor time to look for examples right now. It's 11:30 on a Tuesday morning in the middle of summer. You know, we're not going to find a plethora of plays, but you know, you can see right now we have at least one up here.
So, just using this top example here that you're showing, you know, this is a tennis match. X out of that pop-up for me in the upper right. Yeah, that's where we go. Um so what this is telling you is it's showing you a tennis match. Uh I'm not even going to try to pronounce that top guy's name.
I can note.
Well, that's Kataro Machizuki. I'm pretty confident I can nail Ethan Quinn. But essentially, what this has done is it's found a bet where two sports books are pricing. Odds for far enough apart where if you bet both outcomes, you're going to win a profit no matter what.
So This is showing that if you bet $100 on Top guy, still not going there. Shintaro. Shintaro. If you bet $100 on Shintaro and $55 on Quinn, if Shintaro wins, you're going to make three bucks. And if Quinn wins, you're going to make $10.
Um This solely is because these sports books set their, you know. Odds are independent per site. You know, odds aren't exactly the same everywhere you look.
So, this has created a gap large enough where, if you bet both sides of the bet, the odds are. Far enough apart where no matter the outcome, you're going to either make three or $10.
Now, I understand. $3 doesn't seem like a lot when you're betting $155. You're betting $155 to guarantee $3 across two sites. And you might be thinking, oh, I mean, that's not a lot. But I mean, this is one example of a process that you can do.
You want to say influence. Yeah, it's a great process, just the time of me talking. Yeah, you know, now think if you're doing this during a full MLB slate and a full NBA slate, a full NFL slate, and these are just things that are happening pre-match. These aren't even things that are happening live, you know.
So, yeah, we offer a bunch of filters. You can choose all the sports books that you use. It goes state by state. It will show you every sports book that's available in your state. If you don't have an account on Kalshi, you can unselect Kalshi and it won't show you any data for them.
We have a deep suite of filters where you can set anything that you want. In the end, we're a professional sports betting service. We cater to Large volume shark betters, you know, but we also cater to the casual user who is just. trying to make a few bucks.
So that's arbitrage betting. I would say the caveat to arbitrage: the thing that prevents people from getting started, and it's just being realistic and direct with people, is you're going to need to have. Yeah. Yeah. two to five hundred plus dollars across Three to ten sports books.
You know, you don't, you never know where the opportunity is going to pop up. It could pop up on, you know, that one on top is Profit X and Sport Zeno. Like, yeah, here's Sports Xeno, and you think, I've never had an account on a sports, you know, I've never heard of that.
Well, I mean, they're, you know, we only show sports books that are verified and trusted. And, you know, um, If you can make money there, you might be thinking, well, I don't want accounts on 20 different sports books. It's kind of the day and age where if you're going to look for the best price and you're trying to make money, you know. Having an account with Sports Xeno might be the place you need to place the bet today. And then the other strategy besides arbitrage is plus EV betting.
I think this one's a little bit easier to explain. Plus EV betting just looks at Data from as many sports books as humanly possible and just tells you where to place the bet.
So if you're hell-bent on betting the Brewers today. And let's see, like right now the brewers are Minus 172 money line favorites on FanDuel. They're minus 175 on DraftKings. They're minus 170 on Caesars. But they're minus 156 on a sportsbook called Novig, which is the sportsbook that I use the absolute most.
In In Wisconsin.
So, if you're hell-bent on betting the Brewers. Why would you not? Bet the brewers on Novig, you're getting the best price. there today. Um A real world example of this is you're trying to buy a new car.
Do you want to buy a 2000. 10 Toyota Corolla. And Car dealership one selling it for 10K. Car dealership two is selling for 9.5K. And car dealership three is selling it for 9K.
You're going to go, you know, all three cars are exactly the same. You're going to buy it at car dealership three for $9K. Why would you pay extra just to get the same thing you want? Um And then the other is how is this profitable? And The example I'd use for that is Blackjack.
You can go to a casino and play blackjack, and you can obviously win. But if you keep playing blackjack, the house is going to win because the house has the mathematical edge in their favor.
So yes, in your small sample. Yeah, you might walk out of there and you might think, yeah, I did it. I'm going to play blackjack all the time, win money. It's the same as sports betting. You might throw a bet from your gut and it wins, but if you just keep throwing bets from your gut over time, you're going to lose.
It's just the mathematics of it.
Well, what plus EV betting does is by getting any price that is mathematically beating the house average or the house in general. Over time, you know, if you have the math in your favor. Once your sample becomes long enough, you're going to profit.
Now, if you keep beating the house at a 10% edge, you know, if the odds of a bet are minus 140 and you consistently are getting it at like minus 110 or even plus odds in your favor, you know. Over time, over a thousand bets, you're going to see returns. Um And it's just a smarter way to You know, you don't need to. You know, I said it earlier, people are so. hell-bent on thinking they know ball.
Yeah. And like, we're, we, we suffer from the same. We, you know, we have our opinions on our favorite teams, and to an extent, we do know ball, but like, there's always going to be that percentage of stuff you don't know. And without, you know, there's no way to do this yourself. You know, you can't open 20 tabs of 20 sportsbooks, search the brewer game, and check what the odds are at all 20.
Sure, you can, it's going to take you way longer than it needs to. And we're just talking about one bet. Yeah. For people who do this professionally or daily, you know, they're entering 100 plus bets a day. With every single bet in their favor on whichever sports books they're able to find the edge on.
And over time, they're just letting that compound. Um So really it's just a way to get better and see the data for what it is. You know, try to have a helping hand in doing it. Certainly check out the site. Oddsjam.com.
You can browse through it. James will be available to help you if you have questions. Hit up that customer support button. You'll see one of three smiling faces and one of those three will be mine. Or if you have any questions, ask me the link.
on where you can go to support the show. Is through my YouTube and happy to have Bart on board the affiliate team now. Yeah, and the website and Twitter and stuff, or just ask me, just like a lot of different things we do, where we have affiliate links. My Twitter handle is in my name. Can ask me anything.
Hi, yeah. I K E Z I M S. That's it. Last name backwards. And I'll tweet it.
Any hot takes you have regarding sports before I say adieu? Yeah. Tweeted yesterday and I got a lot of shit for it. I tweeted. Has a team like the Brewers ever needed a closed door meeting worse?
It wasn't that verbatim, but the point was. The point was: no matter how well a team is playing or what their record is, when you go through a week-long stretch as bad as the Brewers did.
Now, I know some of you are going to say, Well, they went, they were four and two over that stretch. I don't care, it does not matter the record. They were six for 56 in the Russian scoring position, and they're six for their last 23 in ABS challenges. No matter how good it is. Yeah, it's that big.
20, like 28%. They're horrible. Contreras and Sanchez are. I'm not going to say the word I want to say. They I said it on my Twitter.
So I tweeted. I tweeted out. I said, this team needs a closed-door meeting with Murph. And the tweet got like 400,000 impro, or like it got like a thousand likes, like a hundred comments, some retweets. And everyone, not everyone, there were some cool people.
Everyone was like, this is the biggest overreaction ever. You're overreacting. You must not watch baseball. No, I watch too much fucking baseball. I trust you, I watch too much baseball.
And then, after the win last night, it came out that what happened this morning or yesterday morning before the Reds game, Pat Murphy held a closed-door meeting.
So to everyone who gave me chip for that tweet. No, I wasn't overreacting. They were playing bad. And here's a little retweet for you. I'll get you some more.
We needed to just talk about it. Just talk about it. Guys, you, you, you're not. It's not even that they weren't even putting the ball in play with Resident Square position. We're like, there were multiple occasions in that Cubs game where they had a runner on third with less than one, one out or less, and the next two bears just struck out on three pitches straight.
Like we all saw it, it happened. But it's not acceptable at any level of baseball.
So, yeah, closed door meetings don't have to be everyone screams the word. Talk about what you're doing wrong and try to change your approach. Fuck it out. Like, we got Dan Vogelbach as our lead hitting coach right now. And I love Danny Beef.
Don't get me wrong. I love the man. Seeing him on the rail brings me joy still. But you know. Got to talk it out, boys.
You can't strike out on three pitches and not get a runner home from third consistently over a seven-game stretch. And, you know, last night they weren't good again. to be honest. But you know, Joey came up clutch, and it's good to see a moment for him. I still have some strong feelings about Joey Ortiz.
And if you want to see more strong feelings, feel free to follow me on Twitter because I tweet a lot of strong brewers' feelings. I care way too much about baseball on this team, and you will hear about it. Last hot take is: I'm glad Giannis got traded. Love the guy, will forever love his legacy. It was just time, and sometimes it's just time, and that's all.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I got my Funko right here, and he's my boy. This is the nil mystery. I love that, dude. That was so good. Like, in my hand, it's just there.
Yeah, you kept it safe.
Someone else probably would have done way worse to that. Do you think That our kickball team could have used a closed-door meeting and we'd be Champion trophies in that one. We should be legends. Like what we did with what we had. Like that, there's like a story about that on the news.
Did we even give ourselves a pat on the back? Like, by the way, the local WKBT here is in Cashton today.
Well, I mean, yeah, I guess to go back, that's one other thing we didn't touch on: was between every game after playing, Ben Branson was holding a camera, and you were like. You know, recording things like you were doing stand-ups. We were getting B-roll.
So we'd play a game, we'd go get B-roll, play a game, we'd go get B-roll. Did I do story in it? Yeah. So not only did we take second place in a tournament against all odds with only seven people, three fat. Three hung over.
One in high school with half a brain. He was not good. BELLY! Like, he, I remember he was. He was like a huge listener to the show.
I don't even remember his name, but if he was, dude, he would kick a ball that would get past the pitcher mount and he would try to stretch it into a triple. Like, the dude just had his sight set on. Top row, second from oh, yeah. That guy was a maniac. How did he get there?
He was floor crew. He was a part-timer. He was one of the only high school kids that we employed. And he went to cash in, so I think he told us how to get there. Oh yeah.
Yeah, because we had to go there in the day. Whenever I'd go to a small town for football games, I just. Drive on the highway and see the lights. But for a a day game, I didn't know what that field was. Yeah.
All right, James, thanks for the time. Appreciate it, Bart. Thanks for watching. Follow the links to check out OddsJam. Let's make ourselves some money here in this Winklerverse.
And I thank you. For stopping by, we'll have you back to bitch about the brewers when it's appreciated. I always want to say this too: first time, long time.
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Selection varies by location. Hi, that was my buddy James. Thanks to James for stopping by, talking a little bit about Odds Jam and some other stuff.
So, kind of hiding a little sponsor nugget there in part of a bigger show. But if it's something that you're into, then check it out. You look, we're finding gummies, we're finding betting, we're finding insurance. Whatever we can do to help out around here. Oh, and that makes me remind myself.
that I want to inform you. about Tom teacher Tom in the summer is Tom the Painter.
So I'll talk more about this. I'll give them. Front billing on that, but Tom's GG painting. At Tom's GG Painting one. He's painted a couple of guys here in the Winklerverse.
I believe he'll be at the tailgate. About a painting. We can help you out with painting. as well. I don't think he did Mike the Painter's house.
Remember Mike the Painter? Oh God. He was the best. I went outside. It's hot as fuck.
Holy fuck, it's hot. See? And I was outside, I just broke down four boxes outside. And it's super hot. There's a trade in the NBA.
So, LeBron, we talked about that earlier. Where is he going to go? Kawhi Leonard is going back to Toronto.
So we talked about maybe LeBron goes back to one of his spots. Kawhi's going back to Toronto. The Clippers are nearing a deal, according to our boy Shams. That they're going to send Kawhi. And then the Clippers get Brandon Ingram, Grady Dick, two first-round picks, a pick swap, and two second-rounders.
So, is this almost a better deal than we got for Rihanna's? I mean the first two yeah, that's a lot of picks. I don't know. But Kawhi is going back to Toronto, where imagine if he would have stayed. Thank goodness he didn't.
They would have been impossible to get through. Especially since Nick Nurse did the box and one greatest, greatest thing ever, and he put up the wall. Nick Nurse, fucking legend.
So Kauai is going back to Toronto.
So the East is going to be more competitive. which I think if you're a Bucks fan, I don't know what you're doing with Giannis or not, but. I don't It's not that I don't want to see Giannis ever win again. I don't want to see the Heat win with Giannis.
So the more teams in the East that are better. Shit. Uh That's fine. I mean, that's a good haul. That's a good haul there.
The other thing I recorded earlier in the day. That I'll probably post separate once we get closer to the shareholders meeting is: I got my shareholders. envelope in the mail today. And they make you vote. During the process, if you want to, who you want to keep on the board or not.
I don't like the process.
So, um I recorded myself putting up a stink. Once again, folks. Here's Bart Winkler. Welcome into the Winklerverse. It's time for my annual filling out of the Packers shareholder.
Form. Included in this envelope is a Shareholder form that I have to fill out and send back. And I think there should be also four tickets in here. For the shareholders meeting. I am a shareholder.
Owner, but I am a shareholder. I have one stock. I have been to the shareholders meeting. You gotta go. It's something you got to do.
one time and then never go again. There are things in life. that are good Okay. They're not like something you would look forward to. And even in the moment, you're like, I don't know if I like this.
But you look back and you're glad you did it. I'm glad I went to a Savannah Bananas game. Yeah. I'm glad I went to a Packers shareholder meeting. Would I do it again?
Vote now to keep your shareholder account active. That's new. That they've never done before.
Okay, so they they must not get a lot of these back. I do fill it out. Here's my tickets. July 27, 1 p.m., the shareholders meeting, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Uh I have never Well, I previously didn't, and then I started to.
And I would do this segment on the radio, and I always thought that it would play better than it does. And it probably doesn't play here, but I'm filling it out. I'm desperate for content. You guys like the Packers. We'll see what it does.
Now. There are People That I would like to vote against. Last year, I voted against. Last year I voted against The Chancellor of UW Green Bay. because I didn't like that they hired Doug Gottlieb as a coach.
Okay. Now, I don't know who saw this information. He's still on the board. Clearly my vote wasn't good enough. Please cast your vote.
It is critical to the organization. Vote your shares prior to the meeting. Whether you plan to attend in person. We ask you to vote online if possible to save resources.
Well, then why though? Did you send me this? Uh Um So the purpose of the meeting. Is to Elect directors named in the proxy statement. Any other business as properly may come up before the meeting.
All right. I got a huge packet here.
Okay, so these are all the people. that are up for nominees.
So there's people that are continuing their tenure. I think the Chancellor of Green Bay is probably there. Yeah, Michael Alexander, I voted against you last time. But you're still on.
So there's people that their terms end in 2028 and there's terms end in 2027.
So these terms are ending in 2026. Unless they are voted back in.
So let's go through the nominees and see who I want to vote for. Marsha Anderson, retired general, U.S. Army, and retired clerk of court. Western District of Wisconsin bankruptcy court. Um I can vote for her.
Look at this. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for all nominees.
So basically They're going to give you all these names, and you just have to say, yes, all or no. I don't want to vote for some of these people.
So what I'm figuring out is do I think anyone should not be on the board? Leroy Butler, obvious on the board. Valerie Daniels Carter, CEO, VJ Holding Companies, 15 years on the board. Mm, she hasn't seen a Super Bowl yet. I will keep her on.
Andrew Farah from AFI Wealth Strategy. Yeah. Um Andrew Farah, I just read his name, Mark Casper from Amerhart. George Koontz, former player, friend of show. Marion University.
Dexter McNabb, Principal, Green Bay, fine. Diane Roundy, executive recruiter, Truity Partners, fine. The president and CEO of Schneider, Mark Rourke. This is where I get a little iffy on some of these guys. Basically, the Green Bay Board of Directors is just.
People that own a big business in the Green Bay area. And so the Packers, you know. You want to advertise with us? Be on our board. And then the people that are on the board are like, I'm on the Packers board.
You think I'm obnoxious for being a shareholder? Imagine if I was on the board of directors. We could let him slide. John Schmidt. Chairman of the board, U.S.
Venture. What's the Uh Sakin Shivaram. CEO Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry. John Zakowski, Circuit Court Judge Brown County. Kurt Voss, CEO, Amerilux Companies.
Mark Scogan, retired CEO of Festival Foods. And first time would be Harry Sidney. Former Packer, now with my brothers keeper. And then there's a couple of other guys that would not get a three-year term. It would be Robert Wyers, co-owner, Wyers Group.
And Glenn Tellock, retired president and CEO of Lakeside Foods.
So, this is an important decision. I just read you all these names. Are you still with me? I just read you all these names and I get to vote. Either yes.
That they all can be on. No. That none of them get to be on, or I vote for all except.
So, I think if you're going to send me this. I'm going to withhold all.
Okay. I'm going to withhold all.
Withhold all. I vote for no one, not even my friend Leroy. I vote for no one. And it's not for you. It's not because of Leroy.
It's because. Oh, I'm coming to this meeting. I'm bringing three people. I'm not. Yeah, I'll say I'll sign my fucking name.
And I'm writing. This Process Two equals. Easy. On board. Members I am voting.
Four. Change. This process is too easy for board members. I am voting for change.
So I'm not voting against any of these people. I read their qualifications. It's all fine. I'm not voting against them. What I'm voting against.
is the process. I don't like, I want to vote, I always want to pick three names. I don't like that you're making me. You're assuming everyone's just rubber stamping this. We need more dialogue.
The shareholders meeting is an hour long. Stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp. Here's how much money we made. Here's. Ned policy, yeah, everybody.
If I'm going to be a shareholder, I need monthly meetings. I need quarterly reports. I want to change how this is done. This is blasphemy. Signature Bart Winkler.
Today's date. Which is of course Today. Yeah. All right. Comments.
I want more Meetings. I want more meetings. All right, folks. I'm going to walk on over to the mailbox. What does your $300 pay for when you're a Packers shareholder?
Well, it pays for this to be self- Return. Look at that. Here's my tickets. Oh, I'm going to be at that meeting. I'm gonna be loud.
I'm going to object. Abstain! Object! I'll see you soon, Lambo. You let the wrong person on that board.
Ha ha ha ha.
Well, they didn't let me on the board. That's the problem. I want to be on the board, but I don't own a multi- million dollar industry that I have a corner office and People are scared of me, so. I'm working on the big CEO fat guy gut, though. You know?
Or it's just like Two tires. Because the guy golfs all the time and Probably eat steak and lobster every night. Off the backs of his employees. For minimum wage. I got myself all riled up here.
Jeez.
So that's the show. Thanks to James, and thanks to you guys. for coming on. I did some World Cup talk earlier. The gist of my world talk was, uh, World Cup talk was.
Everything about soccer is fine. Stop trying to change it. Everyone's got to have their opinions about what to change. Offside is fine. The no clock thing is fine.
Uh it's all it's all fine. Who did who dump me? Did who dump me? Carl's place? No.
He will, if one of you doesn't get a golf simulator up in your garage. I got the Carl's Place logo all over the place. An any other Q ⁇ A here? I gotta go pick up my kid now. at basketball camp.
Hope he didn't spend too much on candy. That little rascal. Oh, and he's really eager that when he gets home, he wants to play basketball outside. Um I don't know if he's aware, but it's a hundred degrees. Mm-hmm.
TJ Ford back in Milwaukee. That's what we're talking about there. That's the extent. Should be on Thursday. I think.
We had something pop up. Oh, Carl's Place is when I do. See? Carl's place. Maybe it didn't show up.
Oh, yeah, because I'm I'm solo. Fair question.
Now, what did I do to my face? What am I what? Oh god. Oh geez. Oh boy.
All right. Should be on Thursday, I believe. And enjoy US soccer tomorrow. Big, big, big, big night. Big, big, big, big night.
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