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Welcome into the Winklerverse. I'm Bart Winkler, Friday, July 3rd. Many of you may be on your way to whatever you're doing this weekend: the parades, the fireworks, the good times, the backyard parties, all that kind of stuff.
So, do be safe. This holiday weekend, of course. I need to take my own advice on that. I really just need to jump on here for a proof of life more than anything. Because the last time that I had uh Broadcasted in any way, shape, or form was live at Nomad.
for six, seven minutes. before um the USA game. And I did not do a post game that night. That was never going to happen. But then uh Thursday I also Slept right through our scheduled mm-hmm.
for the week as the amount of fun I had on Wednesday. basically made my Thursday non-existent. And we're still dealing with that on Friday. I don't say this to brag. I'm forty-two years old.
I don't think I'm cool. I don't think I acted cool. I'm not a cool guy. I'm a piece of shit. And I'm wearing it right now.
So that's fine. I did. I don't think it's that bad. It was worse. We just got, you know, just some little.
Yeah, that's not that bad.
Some little bruises up and down the leg. Fucked up my knee.
So I. Fell. off of a lime scooter. These things should not be legal, okay?
So I took. The the scooters stop in Milwaukee city limits.
So I walked three blocks to the city limit. And then I. And then, yeah, I got a little boo-boo. That was right. And then I got on the scooter.
And I never used one of these things before. But I downloaded everything and got the payment in there. And I was like, okay. And I got on it and it wasn't moving, whatever. And then it was fine.
I finally figured it out. And I'm like, how is this legal? And this is at five in the afternoon before any of the USA festivities. And I'm like, I got to Nomad and I thought I am never. Ever.
Getting on one of those again. There's just, there's just no way. There's just no way. Um Okay, the game, they won. I was excited, and I thought, I'm going to scooter home.
Stupid. I fell. I should be dead. Yeah. Those are so unsafe.
And you get distracted because I've never, I have not ever gotten behind the wheel. After alcohol. That is a red line for me. But the scooter. I know it's just like a golf cart.
Well, okay. But. They're very dangerous. I will never. Use one again.
In fact, I may. become an advocate like against them. I may have to do that. There was a big controversy for a while, or not controversy, but some of these scooters pop up all over these different cities. And then cities like push back, like we actually don't like this.
And at the time. I'm like, why wouldn't you just allow the scooters? They're effective, they're neat. It's another way of transportation. What's the big deal?
Now Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to be one of these guys. They try to bring that stuff back into my city. I mean, it's in, I might even, I might like, they just, they're so incredibly dangerous.
And that's that even even before. The fun.
So Jesus. Um Yeah. I'm hurting.
Now What is I'll work backwards a little bit. What is hilarious. And I took a video, I didn't share it because I cannot have that video. Version of me out there, but I will show you a picture. Um I met somebody.
On the way out. of Nomad. This guy right here. Said, oh my god, it's Bart Winkler. And I thought.
Well, that's pretty cool, you know? Anytime you get, hey, Bart. Um this guy right here. A few short days ago. Happened to be the one to put this guy right here, this Giannis Gnome.
in front of the Yannis Mural. Mm-hmm. Of then which I Hat. And I told him online. I am protecting it for you.
I'm keeping it safe. And then I got to tell him that in person. Um Yeah. We're handshaking like it's Jim and or Steve Corell. Michael Scott, the office, that's a very office-like handshake, but I I'm that gnome guy.
And um I don't know what he thought about me. We talked a long time. I think he's like a cool dude. I like wanting to be his friend and stuff. Should have got, I should have got your number.
Like, I want to hang out with you. We had a nice time. We have a ridiculous amount of things in common. We both obviously love the box. Uh we love soccer.
And uh yeah, Ed Truck. Um And and so I met the gnome guy. There you go. There you go. Now, I did see that the mural was vandalized.
That was not me. I did not do that. But also when you saw that it was vandalized. Nothing was there anymore. Nothing was underneath.
All of that stuff is gone.
So I went to go take something from there to protect it. And then Everything else was gone.
So I saved it. And he can have the gnome back if he wants. We're boys now. Um I'm going to reach out to him, try to get him at the tailgate. Maybe out maybe the gnome will be one of the raffle prizes.
And so then he's got to earn his way back to win the gnome?
So That's exciting. The tailgate is coming up August 6th. It is a Thursday. Um Tickets Go through the link. that I have as my pin tweet.
If you want to get tickets in the section, if you're going to the game. Already Or want to buy seats wherever you want to buy them. You don't have to sit. In the Winkler verse. but you can certainly come on over.
And be with us. In the Winkler verse. Earlier that day.
So check out the link August 6th. is when that will be. And again, that is. on the uh on my Twitter. That's on my Twitter.
Um Grant just showed me that he's getting aggregated. Yeah, let's take a look at Grant and Andy Herman. I don't have anything Packer to talk about. But let's see what they're up to. Let's see what they're up to.
There's Grant and Andy Herman.
Meanwhile, on Packers' Twitter.
So, if you're viewing Tucker Kraft as the 165th player in the NFL, well, then, yeah, you're probably not viewing this very kindly. You're going to say, of course, I'll take Jamar Chase and my mom over Tucker Kraft and Christian Watson. Like, I just give me Jamar Chase and I'll figure out the rest. But I think Tucker Kraft. Is going to be one of the top three tight ends in the league this season.
And it might be much higher than that. It might be number one or number two. His run after the catch is phenomenal, and I kind of like diversifying a little bit. Where I have two guys, if Jamar Chase goes down, now I've only got Mike Kasicki and That's not great. If Watson or Kraft goes down, well, at least I have the other guy.
All right. Topic was: Would you rather have Christian Watson and Tucker Kraft or Jamar Chase and Mike Kosicki? I don't see how that is a. I don't see how that needs to get aggregated at all. Yeah.
Yeah, we don't claim that podcast. Look at the graphics that Herman's got. Look at this. He's got a guy running around he's got he had a guy running around the thing Look at crafts moving along. There's video.
Shit. Andy. How much for your services, bud? How much, or whoever you found there, I can do some part-time work for me. Oh yeah, absolutely.
All right, so proof of life, I'm alive. I've been a piece of shit for a good 48 hours. I feel really bad about it. Um I lost my phone. My brother had to help me find my phone.
I was calling my phone from and people I know from a Buffalo Wild Wings. There were two people on a porch. I said, Hey, can I use your phone? I lost my phone and I fell off the scooter. And they looked at me like I was trying to rob them.
They said, no, you may not. This isn't our problem. I was like, okay.
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Please go online right now. Jake seems to be on a walk tonight. Jake, how are you doing? How take Jake? Yeah, just walking around the neighborhood a little bit.
Got home from work and it's just beautiful. Saw the Winklerverse pop up, so I forget to come say hi. And uh I wanted to share some takes with you about your Tuesday podcast. Um I do love Andy Herman, how he says. You know, Tucker Kraft, I think, is going to be one of the top three tight ends.
in the league and it could be much higher than that. How is two or one much higher? I don't know. That's just a little hermitism. You know, he likes to be the smartest guy in the room.
All right. Okay. You said your piece. What was wrong with Tuesday? There was nothing wrong with it.
I just I find it interesting. Because I think yourself and a lot of other soccer fans are kind of confused about what you want.
So like, um Like, that was a huge moment, right, for U.S.
soccer. And I think there's a lot of soccer fans that they want the sport to grow nationally here, you know, in the United States. There's like 30 million people that watch that game. Yeah, yeah, and that's a huge moment, you know. But then I was a little confused because the messaging.
Then on Tuesday's show was kind of like. Hey. I know soccer, and this is awesome, and people need to shut up about why it needs to change. And it's like, well, you know. It's it reminds me a little bit of Major League Baseball, where like, you know, there's Things that they ended up changing, and at first people were like, I don't know about this, and then it ended up being really awesome.
But what I was thinking for you is like... You love being the guy that knows soccer, right? Like the ins and outs, and like how the game is played.
So I don't know. I think you're kind of fighting the inner demon of like you want the game to grow, but you also don't want it to like not be. The thing that you have that you can, like, you know, kind of flex on. Like a band, like when you first find a band. Yeah.
Or like how I like Dave Matthews' band before anybody else at my junior high. And then you're like Dave. Yeah. That's the one thing I don't.
Well, there's a lot of things I don't like about Dave Matthews' band, but I think. The fact that his fans just call him Dave is really annoying. His name's Dave. Yeah, but like It's the Dave Matthews band. Oh, like are you going to see Dave?
Yeah, like if I was going to see Bon Jovi, I wouldn't say, Hey, I'm gonna go see John. Like you know what I mean? Do you want him to call it DMV? No, God, that's even worse. Um So, actually, so it's a soccer thing.
You know what it reminds me of? I say I'm going to see Death Cab instead of Death Cab for Cutie. That's, yeah, but okay, that I'll accept. But just. Shortening a band name to just one name.
I don't know. It doesn't work for me, brother. I'm going to see like Neil. I'd say Neil instead. I'd say Bob.
No, I'd say Seeger instead of Bob.
So you don't like it, you want him to call him Matthews? I think just Dave Matthews band, you know? That is Alright, Jake. I don't think Dave Matthews has earned the one name. How is he not?
'Cause it's it's a whole ass band, right?
Well yeah, and and together it makes up Dave. Come on. Hold on, I'm turning it. classic Winklerverse content right here. What?
Just you wanna walk? I I I figured just going to get some prop comedy. But okay, while you're doing that, here's the other thing that this whole soccer thing reminds me of.
So like I'm a big wrestling fan and I love WWE. I've loved it since I was a kid. We haven't talked about Sammy, have we? Not yet. We haven't, but yeah.
Oh, no, you texted me. You spoiled it for me. I didn't mean to. I felt so bad about that, but. No, so like soccer fans kinda remind me of AEW fans.
We're like They have their thing, and it's like they're hardcore about it, and they love it. And then they'll say, like, they want it to get bigger and grow it. But then you have people like me who are like, I'll sample the product and I'm like, ooh, this thing, I don't know. A lot of it, the style, it's just not for me. They don't like it.
That's fine. No, and that's fine, but then like... The AEW fans will go instead of going, Hey, I know you may not like this, but you should check out this. You might like this, or this is also what they have, it's a little different. Instead, they'll double down and be like No, you're an idiot.
This is actually the best thing ever, and you're stupid for not liking this. And that's kind of what it is. Like, so I think. That for soccer to get bigger in the United States, they're gonna have to do some things a little bit differently. That's just my take on that.
I'll counter your take if I may. Please, please. I think the thing that is frustrating me the most about this World Cup experience. Uh, yeah, and overall, I am loving it. I think, I think, you know, I don't want to just be a complainy boy like I always am, and I'll address that in a second, too.
But I'm loving it, I'm loving everything that I'm retweeting all the good, I'm going out all over town, finding people.
Okay, I'm having a great time. I don't like how it's The the worst defenders are like these NFL beat writers that are doing it. But then it's also like No one's asking you to like it.
Okay. And you're but you're you're telling us Yeah. how it needs to change.
Well, okay. You don't want it to change. First, like the red card was bullshit. And the fact that he misses another game, absolute bullshit. I get it.
That sucks. And it shouldn't be a red card. And the reviews, I don't, they were, they were speed through in any reviews the other night. I don't know what that was about. Offside, If you don't have offside.
The sport is fundamentally not the same.
Soccer is a sport of building up to the moment. It's not just moment, moment, moment, moment. It can't be go, go, go, go, go. I'm telling you right now, if soccer was a game where the score was like 15 to 14, people would like it way less. Proof of concept: no one gives a shit about indoor soccer, which is exactly that.
Okay. Yeah, but I I think if you had your top athletes in the world, you know, playing That kind of game, or not even your top athletes, but you're just top soccer players, like with a little bit more, is all I'm asking. You gotta admit, this was kind of funny. I saw a meme and it was like...
Someone was explaining off sides in soccer, and they were like Basically, anytime anything exciting happens, it's offsides. Like, that was kind of funny. Yeah, but if they didn't have the rule.
Now I don't think it needs to be reviewed to the f- Most granular thing. Like, I don't think that that is what it should be. Just like in baseball, if you're out at first. You know, I don't I don't think it should be like that, but I don't It's not that You can comment on all you want, but it's like. This is why soccer won't no one.
No, that in 1994, we got excited and thought maybe soccer one day would be the biggest sport ever in America. That was wrong of us.
Okay. And the the the biggest Change that would need to happen for soccer to be any bigger than it is is MLS is a dog shit patient. Which is a money-grifting pyramid scheme league. If that was different. We'd be different.
Yeah, I mean I I think um I think you might be misunderstanding the message. I think... This is a big opportunity to grow the sport in this country. Like, you gotta ride the momentum, but you gotta be a little bit open to, you know, little changes here and there.
So, like, Um Again, you you mentioned baseball. Like, I've loved all the changes that they've made, and there's been, you know, initially people were like, that's horrible, you need the human element, but. I'm definitely more in the Paul Imig school of thought when it comes to stuff like reviews and Um you know, that kind of thing. I I don't care about the human element. Do you have any Buck Summer League roster thoughts?
I mean, Jakachonis, he looks awesome in the stuff that I'm seeing. He's playing in Europe right now. I forget which tournament. Um if you squint really hard You can see some shades of like a young Luca in there. I think the key is they gotta let him play point guard.
Spo definitely, I don't know if you misused him, but he didn't trust him to put the ball in his hands last year as a rookie. Kind of just use them. More like a Duncan Robinson, just a spot-up shooter. But you give the kid the ball, I think he can make some cool things happen. liking what I'm seeing with him.
The Tyler Hero stuff is hilarious and crazy. Did you see that whole story with him and the fan? Yeah. So a fan that he like a fan DM'd him. And he was basically talking shit about Bam and saying that he was overpaid and overrated to a fan.
And then the fan screenshotted it and released it. And then he got upset and called the fan a bitch for posting screenshots. Like. This guy's a dickhead. I don't want him on the team.
I mean, it's it's great. content it's hilarious but I you don't want him in your locker room. He's clearly a guy that is as ego-driven as you're going to find. I just I still want to see it. I still want to see it.
I just want to see what it looks like. I mean, it's just in like a morbid curiosity way, like you want to see the scene of the crime kind of thing. Yeah, we have them. I just want to see it. Yeah, I don't know.
I think um I guess I would defer to Taylor Jenkins there. I think you just need to put all your trust in the guy. If he thinks he can coach him, sure. But I'd rather just see. Jettison him off, get maybe another pick, and just put the ball in these young guys' hands and let them feast their famine this year.
It's all part of the development. There's a lot of guys on this Buck Summer League roster I'm sharing that I don't know who they are. Hey, Boobjob is going to be there. Yeah. Bubbaljab Markovic.
Buja Bubbalicious. I can't wait to see him. Um I think he's uh What was he, the MVP or whatever league that he just played in? Earl Timberlake Jr. Yeah, some you look at some rappers.
It's very much the opening scene of Major League. Kevin Boopy Miller. Yeah, this guy's dead. Who's Queenie Queen? He is the cousin of Duaney Duaney.
Oh, that Lewis Jr. Who's the guy? Oh, Malik Lewis. Malik Lewis is the guy we drafted that looks like a young Giannis. Does he?
I didn't like see any photos or footage of him yet. Rafael Castro.
Well Their first game is tomorrow, I believe. Yeah, um 2.30 ESPN Plus. I'll be tuned in. Yeah, so if any of you are like the 4th of July. Isn't for me, and you want to be inside and watch Bucks basketball, you have that opportunity.
Tomorrow. Shit, that's what I'll be doing. Yeah. Oh well. Anything else, Jake?
No, thanks for the vine, buddy. Yeah, you got it, bud. I'll take Jake. Out for a walk. It's good to get those steps in.
I'll get out for a walk. Tech B says you need Hero here. He's motivated and he wants to be here. You need his scoring. The Bucs Summer League.
They are in this California Classic, so they're with a bunch of these teams. That plays in California, and then they get invited to it. And then they also are going to play in Las Vegas.
So they got the Warriors tomorrow, the Nets, okay, on Sunday. These look to be two o'clock games. And then Monday night, they'll play the Kings. That'll be some good USA players. Post-game action.
Um in their matchup against Belgium. You can check that out. Very eager to see that. The summer league in Vegas, more traditionally, will be starting on July 10th.
So next week, they'll have the Heat, the Spurs, the Suns, and the Hornets. I believe this seven-game schedule will entail that entire roster. Maybe a change here and there. No Adeta Kumpos on the Summer League roster. No Adeta Kumpos, it seems like, on the Bucs roster.
As well. Um Regarding anything else, soccer, there could be a change. England, Mexico could do real big Sunday night football TV numbers, but They might have to move that game like. earlier in the day. Not a fan of the day game move-ups.
If you have a game, I don't. Just see what happens and move it back if you have to. And now people are complaining.
Well, Mexico and USA, they're not equipped to hold the World Cup. And because of the weather, they're absolutely equipped to hold the World Cup. You're seeing it right now as Lionel Messi. Takes the field. In uh Miami, as I get a shot for My Twitter account.
Something else I would like to share here that maybe isn't of relevance but If you're a part of the Winklerverse, you've been a part of the journey of the first layoff, perhaps, and then the second layoff. Um I have a lot of anger. About what happened to me, and how it happened to me, and the profession in general, and the way that it's covered, and the way that I have or don't have a place in it, and how my old station pretends I'm dead. I have a lot of anger about how I've acted towards others. how I've been a thorn in other people's sides.
I've I'm I'm ready today to move on. and start clean. I don't know that I'm afforded that opportunity, but I need to let the anger go. I've come to that realization. Over the last, let's say, day.
That I need to let that go for this to succeed, for me to succeed. I'm scared. I'm 42 years old. I've been doing this my whole life. It seems like um I don't know that there's a path for me back on the radio, but also.
I'm excited. I'm doing this. I'm able to do this. And I get in on um You know, Friday afternoon and catch some of you, and you'll listen to it. And we're not, you know, breaking any.
We're not rising up any of these podcast, you know, top 10 sports movers. or anything, but there is something here. And That is because of the people in the Winklerverse. That's because of you guys still following me and allowing me to do this, and the sponsors that we have from Carl's Place and Happy Place Hemp and Dan Shaney, of course, and the tailgate we're going to get going, and we're going to have a great celebration and a great time.
So I need to. Do that's that is what I need to do. And I, you know, I think I look at like with Giannis, where. He was on an emotional journey about what he wanted to do next, and he made us all go along with him. And uh I don't, I don't maybe need to take you through all the emotions of it.
Okay, like if I'm on channel 12 or doing some hit, I'll be like, hey, look, I did a podcast, you know, check it out. But I don't need to have you wear the emotion of what I wear. And I also just have to kind of Speed past that emotion. I just cannot hang on to it any longer. It is.
It is affecting me and um. Mentally, physically. I just got to let it go.
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I also didn't see the Brewers game yesterday.
Now, yesterday I was kind of wrapped up. I did stop in to watch. Oh, that was two days ago. Yeah, England was on. I was at three lines.
It was tense in there. And then England banged in those couple of goals. But yesterday was watching some soccer and then nap and being a beach, being a big piece of shit. Um, and I didn't like it, I didn't even know until this morning what had happened. I saw there was some controversy with the um air that was not in air, where they threw it over to first base and then.
the Brewers or the scorekeeper didn't tack on the air. For Jacob Mizurowski. And so he had unnerved, or they did it in air.
So he had. Runs that were unearned, and the conspiracy is you're trying to do that so it doesn't blow up. His um What is that?
So it doesn't blow up his ERA.
So five runs, but just one earned because of the air. He still struck out 10. And so his ERA still sits at 150. 4-7, and he is a Cy Young contender, and he is very, very good. And it's weird to see even five.
runs there if it is earned or unearned and even unearned. But I saw Reds fans were chirping at that. The inner division chirping. We probably do a little too much of it. We probably do a little too much of it.
Now, When you see the Cubs score 22 runs. Or, however many runs they had. And then a couple of days later today, they're getting their ass kicked 14 to 0 as we speak. That is nice. To see.
You do like to see that. The Cardinals are there. As then, it's also nice to see with Wrigley Field, the friendly confines were flooded. In the concourse. And that's nice to see because they cocked off about our roof.
Having one minor leak. Comparing something that they don't have. to something that we have. That just like when Marquette fans ever make fun of Wisconsin football. I don't understand why.
You do that. At all. I don't understand why you do that. And I don't understand why you would make fun of the roof if at Wrigley Field you don't have. Uh the roof.
Um Yeah, thanks, Tech. I am being a piece of shit. You're right. I mean, you didn't say it that way, but. That is kind.
And I just gotta stop. And it's not just low blows. I'm not just punching down. I'm punching up. I'm punching I've been punching to some people I should not even have their phone number.
Just a huge piece of shit in like every single fucking way you could imagine about dealing with this process. For a job, like, you know how miserable I'd be if I was working nine to one right now? Especially during the World Cup. I gotta, I gotta. I gotta I gotta take my um You know, I gotta look at it half full and maybe not half empty.
So I got to look at it that way. Anyway, the um Chirping back and forth. It's probably a little much. MC says the Brewers are looking to win five division titles in six years, and we never start anything online. It's always some other fan base looking to make sure Milwaukee knows.
They've never won anything. That's a good way to put it. I don't feel like the Brewers are shit starters. Whenever people because We'll talk amongst ourselves. Like, we'll have conversations amongst ourselves.
Hey, is this the golden era of Brewers Baseball? Trademark granted me. Hey, is this, this, this? All this kind of stuff. And then other fan bases, they wake up and say, How can we get at Milwaukee today?
What can we do to fucking get at Milwaukee? What have they said? What have their podcasters said? I mean, it's no surprise that Maybe my most watched video ever is When Craig Counsel got hired by the Cubs. Cause who's watching that shit?
Cubs fans finding it, sharing it on Cubs Reddit. Look at these assholes. That's what you're doing. That's why I will do. Any I will do any Craig Count, anytime I do anything, Craig Counsel.
I'm doing that for the engagement. I put something on Twitter, pop. I put it on Facebook, money. I put it on YouTube, Score I'm only doing that because I got to buy these little tiny AW root beers, which is how desperate I was today because I was out of Mountain Dew. I didn't have any other soda left in the fridge.
Uh so that's That led me to that. Um Buck Summer League looking forward to We could do some breakdowns, I guess. Very excited about the USA, very excited about the run. They need to win one more game. Yeah, leave the drama in our house.
Absolutely. They need to win one more game for this to be. A successful cup. I think let's get to Friday the 10th against Spain. Let's get back to SoFi.
We're in Seattle. This weekend, they are Monday. They're throwing out the first pitch of the Marionairs game, I believe, tonight. These guys are creating a name for themselves. It sucks we don't have this guy.
Baligan for the game on Monday. Guys have stepped up before with L. Christian. They can do it again if need be. And as long as Matt Turner never sees the field again, I should be fine with that.
Yeah. Quite frankly, I don't think we or baseball for that matter has made a big enough deal about how we've continued to dominate after Council left. But for us, it is what it is at this point. And the biggest problem with the Cubs being our rival And the Bears being our rival. And someday this might happen again with the Bucks and Bulls.
I mean, imagine if Giannis. ended up on the bowls. They just outnumber us. And that's what it comes down to. They outnumber us.
And a Cubs fan will find this and be like, go look at Brewers fan bitches. That's not, it's just, it's too much to deal with. Um You pretty much know everyone on Brewer's Twitter. And that's just, you know, people that cover the team, but people that talk about the team. People that make jokes about the team.
You pretty much, if someone's on Brewer's Twitter, like you're aware of them, there's rarely a tweet that breaks containment or is really funny or is controversial that comes from a new person. If a tweet gets big from someone, it's someone you've seen before and probably engaged with, and maybe are their friends, or maybe is you. But with cubs, there are so many that there's just new people popping up every single time. I don't think the same Cubs fans ever come at me one time, twice. I don't think the same guys ever come at me twice.
It's always one new guy out of nowhere. And I also noticed that there's always like a new character right now. There's a character who keeps calling me Vague Boy. And he'll go away in two weeks. And then he'll be somebody else.
There's always these two weak guys. Uh I never know.
Okay. Forrest says, I've heard England fans complaining since the start of the World Cup. that VAR is going to rig it for America.
Well, that theory's out the window. Yeah, and I saw who made the point that they think, oh, we're just tired of America now. We you guys had a little fun.
Now we got to get you out of this tournament. We got to get you out. There's only two round of 32 games left. Argentina. And Cape Verde right now.
And in the game tonight. between the two clubs. that are playing I believe it's Morocco. Nope, Colombia and Ghana.
So that one's tonight at Arrowhead. At 8:30 Central Time. Brewers don't play until late tonight.
So, whatever Brewer thing I said is still relevant for three hours. That's pretty sick. But have a good weekend. Have a safe weekend. Pop back some Seltzers, promo code BART, 25% off.
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I got a little boo-boo-woo-boo. And I'm just trying not to be a piece of shit anymore. And I thank you guys for being with me on this. On this fucking journey. Oh, yeah, that's the other thing.
I was talking about how. England, Mexico is our big rival. Mexico's our big rival. Just like, you know, the Vikings or whatever. I feel like you used to root for other Big Ten teams in the tournament.
Or in bowl games, I feel like we don't do that anymore.
Something changed. But we would certainly never root for the Vikings, lions, or bears. Right. There was a time the Lions played the Niners where you're kind of rooting for the Lions because you actually hate the Niners more in the playoffs. But even though Mexico is our biggest rival.
And I know the counterpoint is if someone's your biggest rival, you can never root for them ever. But I am rooting from Mexico. I want to see Mexico beat England. I want to see them. I want to see them and Canada and us go as far as we all can.
I want to see the continued success of CONCACAF. As a federation. I want to continue to see the success. Of CONCACAF. If you're a die-hard.
Vikings fan, may I suggest to you Purple Insider. I did a podcast with Matthew Collar uh earlier this week. And we were ranking and talking about the NFC North coaches. And I shit on a lot. I shit a lot all over Matt LaFleur.
And that plays better. That plays better on a Vikings podcast than it does. here in the Winkler verse. The furthest they've ever gone. They took third, miraculously enough, in 1930, but that was.
completely different. Otherwise, the quarters. And this is a new round.
So, yeah, we got a knockout win, first time in a while, but. This is a new round.
So we still haven't really started. the traditional knockouts. And we'll see how that goes down. Coming up. Shout out to UW-Milwaukee as well.
They had a basketball camp the last couple of weeks, Bart Lundy and the boys. My kid was at that. Uh, they put on a very good camp, so shout out to them. And I s my kid Already he's dribbling at basketball a lot better than he was Monday morning.
So, shout out to Bart Lundy and everybody at UWM. Shout out to all of you. Gonna go upstairs now and watch the end of this Argentina game. Enjoy your soccer tonight. Enjoy your Brewers.
Enjoy your fourth. And we will talk after the holiday weekend. Me and Carlos, as long as that's a bridge I haven't burned. Because by golly, I've burned all the fucking rest. And that's why I'm in my basement at five o'clock on a Friday.
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