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Good. MORNING everybody! This is the Bart Winkler Show. We are on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream live after the Bucs beat the Miami Heat. Live after the Bucs win their group.
Group B, I think. I don't remember. Of the in-season tournament. They advance to the knockout round quarterfinal game. Should be in Milwaukee next week, Monday or Tuesday.
I hope to have the details on that. And uh And then, if they win that game, they go to Vegas. How about it? The Milwaukee Bucks in this in-season tournament. I went to the first game against the Knicks.
Okay, it was a little different. Uh then they beat up on some teams, they beat up on Charlotte, ran up the score.
Okay, you know, we're still long playing this thing. Then They beat the Wizards in a game that looked a little like they might not win that game.
Okay, well, whatever. And now, this is when it started to feel a little different. This felt like a playoff game. I don't care. If you agree with me or not.
I I think you do. I think you do. I think you do. And I'm going to treat it like a playoff game, certainly. Because When I do Playoff postgame shows.
They have sucked. The Bucs have let me down. Um The brewers have let me down. The Packers have let me down. The playoff shows are supposed to be the shows that are popping.
Right. And that's not been the case.
Okay. That's not been the case. Um So we're treating these like the playoffs. And plus. There is some kind of playoff.
Performance to it. I will try to catch up on everything in terms of scheduling and. Uh what they got next and how things are shaking out with Some of these other guys. And other teams playing. But it did come down to the Bucs were going to need a win.
To, I think, advance. There might have still been some hope. On the wild card, but likely they needed a win since the Celtics had run up to score and. There was a lot of that going on. This evening.
131 to 124. Get some stats out of the way first. Giannis and. Lillard, you know that game was the game the other night. Where Giannis and Lillard Was it Lopez II, where three guys had 30 points?
And that was the first time that's ever happened in Bucs history. That seems wild to me. Um, that it'd be the first time, but it can happen when these guys are putting up numbers. Giannis again, 10 boards, 33 points, 10 of 13 from the line, some big ones late. Lillard, 32 points, 10 of 10 from the line.
He is just so good, including what may have been the actual. A hammer in this game, the dagger, if you will, when they called a foul on Lillard Richardson in the backcourt, and then Spolstra was pissed, so he got a tech. That's your guy, Emig. That's your guy. I don't see Adrian Griffin getting bad techs.
In playoff games. I don't see that happening. Plus, Adrian Griffin now, who many still pretend to want fired. Uh still undefeated 4-0. All-time in tournament.
play You guys can join the Dan Shaney stream if you would like. Whether it is In the comments. Or whether it is Uh on the actual video of your face. Cameron says, who doesn't love some in-season tourney action? I know I do.
A lot of comments here about CM Punk. He's back, so you can't do the. The comments anymore is a distraction. He's. He's back.
Um Brian says they barely won with Butler and Hero out, nothing to celebrate. Oh, don't be a hater. Do not be a hater. This is a playoff atmosphere. Bam took over.
Bam took over. What did Duncan Robinson do? You knew Duncan Robinson would have a big night. Played him in DraftKings, 13 points. Although I had to stop I didn't win, but I had to stop because my DraftKings is like.
Two plays ahead. of my fucking TV. Direct TV has gotten slower. Like, streaming is faster than direct TV these days. I do not get it.
Drew says, clutch performance down the stretch. Great to see Chris back on the court making shots. Yeah, he was out for a while, came back in, really helped seal it. Bucks in Sace. What was your name again?
Garrett. Garrett. Yep. I was going to say Jeff. Not close.
I'll bring you in and then Q. Uh no he's not. All right, but. Back uh not Jeff, you first, Garrett. What's up?
Uh-huh. Yeah, I'll say it's just I yeah, Miami games, I don't know. I we could be up 50 on Miami and I still won't feel comfortable. It's just But hey, we won. That's all that matters.
So it's. Ugh. Are you feeling the... Exhilaration of the in-season tournament. Hey, it was a little bit.
Yeah, I'm just like, This felt different. There's no doubt about it. I don't know. I mean, it's good. This stupid thing is working.
It pisses me off, but it's good. Hey, it is working. And so, yeah, I don't know what it is, but yeah, I was getting because this officials are like, oh, it's just going to be a stupid thing. But hey, I was going to say, you had me at the edge of my seats and such.
So it was. I think what worked the most for me is I didn't Why it worked the most is because I didn't want to not be a part of it. I didn't want to, I just didn't want to lose. I don't know that I'm like, as a fan chasing the in-season tournament crown. I just don't.
want to not be a part of it. Yeah. Q. I know you've been at uh both games, right, like me? No, I missed the one on Friday.
Okay, I thought so because I was looking at your seat, I was sitting high, so I was trying to find you in your seats and I didn't see you. Yeah, we donated our seats for that game and went to the Sunday game instead. But I'm. I'm pumped. We didn't Because the Knicks won, we did not need to win.
to get into the tournament we would have got the wild card. Um But We now We'll play the Knicks next Tuesday at home because they got the wild card. And then whoever wins that game will move on Las Vegas on the seventh and ninth.
So I think that's Thursday and Saturday.
So Do we know if we're playing Monday or Tuesday yet? I I would assume it's Tuesday, but it could you're right, it could be Monday. Because so the next batch of games, the quarters will be Monday and Tuesday. Then the semis in Vegas, there's going to be a game at 4 Central and then 8 Central on Thursday, and then the championship would be on Saturday. I um don't work a lot But next week I am working Monday and Thursday.
So I don't, I wanna. I'm so committed to this in-season tournament. I don't want to Be on CBS. When I want to be doing an in-season tournament post-game show, and I'm already thinking ahead. If they get to the final.
Maybe there's like a 1% chance I try to sneak to Vegas. That ain't happening. But if they go to the final, Uh, I think I'm just gonna do a live watch stream the whole night, get and get drunk on the stream. That would be pretty fun.
Well, I was going to say, like, get deer districts filled, like for the championship, for the in-season tournament championship. Just get deer district filled and such. Just get everybody. Yeah, I mean, I know it'll be cold, but. Yeah, yeah.
Actually, what do we have for the deer district in the finals? 60,000? If we could just like get 60. It's I mean it's not gonna happen in forty degree weather. Maybe that would have to be a Winkler verse get together.
If they're in the final Saturday night, That would be pretty fun. We gotta do something. It's the in-season tournament. I am wearing the shirt that we got game one. No shirts, game two.
I will tell you, Q, I don't know if you've tried this or not. But they are a size large.
So when I first got it, where'd you hear it? When I first got it, It was tight, but it fit over the shirt. This is the no shirt has ever shrunk as this shirt. I've got a massive, here's Garrett. I've got a massive pouch going.
I have a motivation now. My goal is to fit into this shirt. No, that shirt is not. There's the shrinkage on this. Yeah.
So I had the same thing. I wore it this weekend. It's tight. And I think, what size is that? A large or an XL?
A large. Yeah, so I like normal larges are a little bang. I'm so glad we won tonight. It's the new Bart Winkler show mascot belly. Yeah.
I only do this to motivate myself. Um But I like Garrett's point on Chris. It was great to have Chris in there closing out the games, hitting like. I I had switched it back to the Bally feed. He was faster than the cameraman.
Like, I don't know what happened on that. Yeah. There were two seconds left on the shot clock, and he made it. Um So in It was really fun. TNT had all the scores on top of the screen so you could see what was going on.
Yeah, I think I noticed one thing I kind of know is: well, maybe I don't know. I mean, like, I like I said, maybe it was because I was. Uh, yeah, I think 'cause at first they had a couple, but I think once the other game started, they had all of them on there and such, so. Yeah. It would have been cool if they had like the differentials on there, like a live table.
Yeah. What do you guys think of Shaq? Why was Shaq there? That was great. Yeah, that was awesome.
Why was he there? I have no idea. Yeah. I because he's never, this is his first, or maybe he's done games in the past. I haven't realized it, but to my knowledge, this is his first TNT game.
But maybe he's done some in the past. I just probably forgot. I mean, I don't know if he was getting like recognized by the heat for like an anniversary or something, but it was fun to hear him talking about Giannis' game all night. Um Yeah, I I and I actually like the WNBA player Candace Parker that they have on set. I think she's pretty interesting.
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Some comments. Heny God, these games are good for playoff prep. Andrew says that was a fun game. Happy we didn't spot the opponent a 25-point lead today. Jason says couldn't watch the Bucks Marquette was on.
Uh, Marquette is playing a shit team today. There's no, no one's, no one's as big of a Marquette fan that you're watching that game over the Bucks if you like the Bucks. even at all. Yeah. Zach wants to talk about Jackson Churio.
An article that the brewers want to get a long-term extension with him. Obviously, we are all. For that, some positive comments about K-Mids.
Some people asking if they can listen to my Jim Rome show. Uh I don't think they Podcast those. And also, they didn't give me the Jim Rome, like, this is the Jim Rome show. Here's Bart Winkler. And so it didn't really feel like I.
Like I did it, so it kind of didn't count. Uh, Anthony says defense still trash, Middleton big shots down the stretch, Damon GA, another 30-piece, good win. DL Graeber says, I promised myself I wasn't going to get emotional tonight, but here I go. I was pacing. Yeah, I was straight pacing.
I was up standing in front of my TV. I was doing the same thing. Yeah, I'm like, okay, I can't sit down at all. It's like, I'm just, I was walking in different rooms. I'm like, oh my gosh, I just.
Well, I also too.
Well, hopefully, I mean, I don't know what the extent of it is. I know, obviously, they said. Pat went out with the right ankle sprain, but Um Yeah, but it didn't. I mean, knock him wood. It didn't look too bad.
I mean, he was walking off his own power. I mean, but. Um, I mean, obviously, everybody else stepped up off the bench and such.
So, when um, he went out, so which is what we need that gave AJ Green some run, but he wasn't making it happen. Then that gave Andre Jackson some run, and he had some big threes.
So, we'll see what the update is. That big three was hilarious. That was. And then his second one, I don't even it bounced like straight up in the air and then went in. Yeah, it was like it was like watching a YMCA shooter hitting shots.
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You need indeed. I'm going to bring in Austin. Austin. Hey guys, what's going on? Is my connection decent this time, or what?
Yeah, what'd you do? Buy it on the internet. Yep, re-ran, re-ran whatever. And because it's true. Because it's the in-season tournament, we'll celebrate and go five wide.
Whoa! Whoa. I've got Q. Garrett. Austin.
Tony in Texas. I got a question for the group here. What is up? All right, Q, go ahead with your question. Are we cheering for Boston versus the Pacers in the other side of the bracket so that we can get a rematch with them?
Next week. No, I don't want to play Boston any more than we need to.
So there's a chance we play them five fucking times this year? Yes.
So if they beat the Pacers, the Pacers host them next week. And if then if we win and Boston wins, we would play them in Las Vegas. Absolutely not. I'm cheering for Boston. I want to play him.
Hey, I'm with Q. I'm with Q. And it would be at a neutral site. Yeah, that's that's true. I mean Their racist fans couldn't handle or couldn't do anything against us there in Las Vegas.
Yeah, they. Oh, hey, Tony. Good time. Why do you say thank you? I just noticed you were here.
I'm sorry. Oh, thanks for that introduction, pal. Hey, Bart, did you cut me off the Rome show? Was that you or your producer? No, I didn't know that you had more to say.
So I said thank you as well. That was it. Did you have more to say? A little bit, but it's no biggie. Oh, I didn't know because Jake had called in, and I was going to cut Jake off, and then.
He was like, all right, clearly he. I could do. I could.
So Jake, I think Jake had a four-minute phone call. Oh, he did. Jake's call to that show was iconic. I sent him a text. I was like, dude, you need to get in one of those smack-offs.
He is built for that. He ripped on Josh Giddy. And then he, and then I think he had a Rosie O'Donnell joke in there. Oh, he slept in a lot of shit. Yeah, he was on fire, man.
That was great. Yeah, so sorry, I didn't know, but thanks, it's all good.
So, yeah, hey, you know, this Bucks team, and Bucks Twitter is pretty funny. It is entertaining. It's almost sometimes more entertaining than the games itself.
Well, on that, I think I'm going to send Paul Henning like a bouquet of flowers or fruit or something. I was trying to be the peacemaker there, Bart, and it just didn't go in the right direction. Paul, who I've referenced on the show, I've referenced him. He's been very adamant that Adrian Griffin gets fired. I'm still not sure why, because the first five games, like a lot of Bucks fans are so hyped up on the first five games, and then they don't see any, like, they're not even.
Caring to see improvement. And so I tell him I'd have my or somebody Cone. Cone said, Come on the show. We'll donate money to the Toy Drive. And then.
And he says, no, Barsh is going to dunk on me. I've never had anyone to dunk on them. I want to build my whole thing is building bridges. Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, you know, you just mentioned like firing Adrian Griffin, but. Let me ask you a real quick Packer question. Do you want LaFleur back still if they finish strong? Um I can't say no. I mean, if they finish strong.
It's just like Joe Berry. If they finish strong, then obviously they've been good. Ultimately, isn't LaFleur there not only to win games, but to develop the quarterback, which he seems to be doing?
So. I would rather have LaFleur be good. And me be wrong. And me be right and fire the floor and have to start from scratch.
Well, even the Jordan Love pick, you weren't that huge of a fan of that. I mean, you hated it, but it was a fundamentally terrible. Pick. And do you care to comment on the possibility of Aaron Rodgers returning this year? He is not returning.
He was never returning. It's so funny that he actually says that. I mean, I've always been a Rogers guy, but he's just to say that is just God drawing more attention to himself. It's just unbelievable. All right.
So this is an in-season tournament, guys. Guys, in-season tournament post-game show, guys.
Okay. Yeah. All right.
So I had a point to go off of you guys talking about. Henning and the firing of Griffin, and people in Buck's Twitter, people getting pissed off. about the game. and the way that players are playing. The w um I don't know if I know, Tony, you're a little bit older than me.
I don't know if any of you other Any of you other guys had done any online video gameplay? Like, I used to play. NHL with my body. Um We were in the top like 50 in the world.
So the way that I see the box playing. All they're doing is figuring out chemistry. And you can see it with some of the those. You know, the little pass, they see a guy over there and they just You know, bounce pass through over to a guy, and he's open for a three. Like, not everything has to be a design play.
And they're just figuring out how to work together. Let me give you a different analogy, Austin. It's kind of like when you're in college, you're going to do some dumb shit, which the Bucs do a lot of dumb shit. But eventually, you're going to figure it out when you get into the workforce.
So, hopefully, the Bucks figure it out because they do a lot of dumb shit. You know, Bart, I've criticized the Bucks and Giannis for doing. uh questionable plays, low IQ plays, but I'm not going to get mad about it right now. Come April, I think they'll be ready. Um, you know, if this team looks like they did the last three minutes of this game, which I thought they were outstanding the last three minutes of this game.
Is that the bracket? Q's got the bracket for us. Nice, Q. I don't know. Oh, no.
Well, rewind. Rewind. Rewind. What's that? Illegally stream Bally sports.
Yeah. God damn it, Q. All right.
So Tony. I can't see shit, Austin. No, that's fine. Hold on. No, me neither.
You could okay.
So, Tony, going up, well.
Well, the west ones aren't. Hold on, hold on. The west ones aren't locked in yet. Yeah. This is ours is, though.
Ours is.
So, Nick's.
Okay, so you were right. Nick said Bucks, and then. Celtics go. I don't know why it keeps unpausing, but I definitely had it pause. I think they know what we're doing.
Yeah. All right, Austin, you were saying. Yeah. So, okay, so Tony, my point is that, so, yeah, they're doing some dumb shit, but they're figuring out like, It's not necessarily designed. Plan.
It's just you, it's just knowing what the other guy is going to do, and it's improvisation. And that, I think, that helps win games more so than just. I'm going to draw this one up quick on the dry erase board and we're going to run this play.
Sometimes just having improv. Is going to help you win games. And that's what I saw in the fourth quarter. Yeah, yeah. No, I agree, Austin.
Yeah, because I was going to say, like, Was going to say, yeah, just obviously, like, for example, that uh, late um Aliu from uh hey Garrett, why is your why is your phone having an earthquake? Oh, I was bouncing my knee by accident. John Dale, yeah, earthquake Milwaukee. Um, uh, but uh, no, like for yeah, excited to be here. Yeah, hey, you know, um, yeah, like that Chris, uh, that Chris Aliop Tianis and something like that.
Yeah, like you were saying, yeah, just players just have that chemistry, know what they want to do, and something like that. And, um, Yeah, um, and just kind of, you know, make like even like Chris too, yeah, he had that pass to Brooke in the end. You know, he drove to the lane, found Brooke open and such. You make a great point about Middleton, though. He made some huge plays down the stretch.
And like you said, that pass, the facilitation, and then he made some shots. It looked like playoff Chris from two years ago.
So, yeah, great point on Middleton. And Austin, yeah, the Bucs do a lot of dumb shit, but they've never thrown a brick through a Little Caesars.
So hey, what's it work? And why are we taking? Why is Bart taking strays right now? What? The other thing that was good about Chris was that assist to Brooke.
Well, because they were scared of Dame, they were scared of Giannis. Um so Like it just left Brooke wide open. You know, I do think Mids does have high Q. When the double T came, he knew that. That Brooke was open on the baseline.
Brooke gathered, and Brooke, like a veteran, Gathered the ball and then dunked it in pretty easily.
So I was impressed with the Bucks on the stretch, man.
Well, one thing I want to say too is: you guys talking about all this stuff and learning and getting better, and there is some of that, and there is chemistry, and they do like. I think there was a play late where Dame had the ball, and it was like a three-on-one, turned into a three-on-two. He gave it up to Giannis, but then Giannis chucked up a three. And so Yeah, we got the ball back and it got back to Dame. Oh.
I think that was still like. Yeah, we've, I mean, and Dame too. Dame in these fourth quarters has been, he could be like, not ass, but he can, he's been turning it on in the fourth quarters. And I do think, like, of all this that we're talking about, of all this stuff. That you guys say, I think there's also a part of it is the Bucks aren't really.
They are not giving 100% in some games. No. Every game Griff leaves, he does not play. Game until there's eight minutes left or less in the fourth quarter. He sits out the first.
Four to five minutes of every fourth quarter. And I promise you, unless there's injuries. Or a huge lead, there will never be a time in the playoffs where Dame and Giannis are both off the court. Like that lineup that they had with Chris. It was like Chris.
Brooke Uh Bobby. Ajax and like Some other, like maybe Marjan. We won't see that in the playoffs ever unless there's an injury. And we lost, we lost like a 10-point lead in like three minutes of that lineup.
Well, QA, you know, Bart mentions the effort, though, and you're paying Bucks season ticket holder, I think. I mean, that's embarrassing. Like the Blazers first half. If the Packers play like that against the Carolina Panthers in the first half, they will lose the game. But the NBA, you can get away with it.
You can get away with your, what do you call it? Your Sins or. Bad behavior. They're getting away with that, Bart. The bad behavior, getting rewarded with what, the second best record in the East.
And I. I don't know what kind of message that sends, but they're getting away with it right now.
Well, I mean, There's rumors that after or before the Blazers game, like the team was out for Malik's birthday.
So they were like hung over. Um but I don't know. I don't think Griff is setting serious lineups in the first half. We won't see Thanasis playing three or four minutes in the first half of a game again unless there's major injuries. Yeah, or if they need a spark, off the bench.
Spark off the bench. But yeah, no, this is like, I think, what, like the third or fourth game this year, Giannis and Dame have combined for 60 points. I think they ended up with like, what, 62 tonight or 63? Yeah, maybe a little more. What are they like 5-0, 6-0?
Yeah. So, hey, if they keep doing that, they're. In good shape.
So I'm going to give a professional reset. We got Garrett Austin, Q, and Tony in Texas. I got some comments here I'll get to in just a second. I want to remind you. And I want to thank all you guys.
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No. It's a good question, but nobody gave a shit. Dude, the Heat played tough. Yeah, they played tough. Like, I mean, that's when we forget as much.
I mean, as much, obviously, last year we played bad. I mean, They played good, they made the finals and such. And I mean, what did they make it in 2020 and such?
So it's not like you know, it's yeah, he culture, right? Heat culture next man up. And I honestly, I know it's kind of a joke, but I kind of believe there is something to the way. Oh, yeah, they do. It's like I agree, Tony.
I agree. There's something to that. Yeah, it's it's it's well they always play you know the the bucks tough, and like I said. They just always make a lot of shots too and such.
So, I mean, yeah, it's, I was satisfied to win. I mean, it's obviously on the road too in Miami.
So, yeah, I think that was a good. I get the concern about it. I get the like, well, they didn't. I get that. I get how that's a thought.
But my emphatic no is just. I don't, I don't know. I don't, I don't care.
Well, I cared about tonight. Obviously, because I am pro in season tournament now, and I want to be a part of this, and I want to see it happen. And I don't want to see the rest of the NBA go get all the attention and the Bucks just like, oh, well, the Bucks, because the teams that aren't in it, they don't know who they're going to play next week either. They're going to get randomly assigned against other teams. Like the Wizards might play the Cavs.
We don't, I didn't want to be that. I want to be in the action in the mix. And it was a competitive sort of situation and it felt different.
So I kind of, you know, I pumped up. I want to win that game. I don't, I don't think that we need to be like.
Well, we beat the Heat, but they didn't have this. Or we lost to the Celtics and they didn't have this. I don't think we need to do. Any of that. I don't know why we are trained to want to do that.
I don't know why we haven't figured this out yet. I'll tell you why, Bart, right now. It's not about what the Bucs think, it's what the Heat think. And we saw Jimmy Butler only play one half of the first game this year against the Heat. But I don't know that any of that matters.
Well, it didn't. Last year it did. The guy absolutely torched us last year. He didn't even play any of these games in the regular game. I just don't think that this game.
This result will have anything to do with a playoff series between them. How are they going to defend Jimmy Butler if they have to play him again?
Well, that that that's that that's a different totally different conversation. Yeah, no, hey, everybody at the same time, please. Giannis locked him down in the first half of that first game, and he didn't play because it was a blowout in the second half.
So, which I have no concerns in the future, I think they're going to have Giannis on him and stuff. His length frustrates Butler and such.
So, um, But yeah, um So and I was gonna say didn't Giannis says something like now that he has the freedom to choose to guard who he wants to guard? Whereas Bud didn't necessarily let him just go up against the best guy. Yeah, right. They liked Giannis more as a health defender. That's, yeah, he's good.
He is good as health defender, too. But obviously, yeah, if you want him to shut down someone like Butler who can get high, yeah, you put him on him and. Yeah, but cute, Q, you and I were at that heat game, and Tyler Hero did light up the Bucs pretty good.
So I think I'm not saying it affects the Bucs, but the Heats mind said if they do play the Bucs again, is we beaten these guys in the playoffs, we didn't have our big guns, and we took them down to the wire again.
So I'm just saying from the Heath's perspective, they come in with confidence still.
So yes, that's my point. I mean, I think the heat play is tough, and historically. They have Spo who can make adjustments mid-game. And, like, if you throw a punch, he has counter punches. Adrian Griffin.
Makes adjustments. Q, would you give up a first rounder for Spolster right now? No, I would keep Adrian Griffin. I like him. I think that Paul Henning and the rest of Twitter that is impatient just can't handle.
A coach who literally doesn't give a shit about the first three quarters of any game. Yeah. I think, in his mind, with the lineup that he has, he can make adjustments in the fourth quarter, and we will win just like we did tonight. He had the confidence to not play Damian Lillard until there was eight minutes left in this game because he was playing cat and mouse and he knew that he could put his foot on the gas just by putting Damian. And he had spaced out Chris's minutes so he could close the game too.
This guy's a doctor. Like, I have the utmost confidence in him. And I think that anybody. That Is worried, isn't dialed in and watching every minute of every game because whenever people are complaining in the first half, That were down or not doing well, it's because Giannis and Dame. aren't playing meaningful minutes and they're not playing together.
And if they're not in the game together, we're just dicking around, Griff like. Griff isn't trying unless those two are in the game together. Q, I got something to go off of that.
So. when they think So they're dicking around.
So when shit gets serious, they're like, okay, it's. Go time. And then that's when they put it together. Is that what you're kind of saying? Griff puts in a serious lineup and starts, the team starts taking things seriously.
And I think that. When we have like. Playing these rookies is really fun. It's the perfect time of year to be playing these inexperienced players. Like even AJ Green getting in tonight's game, if we were really, really, really trying to win.
He's probably not playing those minutes. But he's Adrian Griffin.
Well, I don't know. Pat was out. They needed some threes. I mean I don't really consider Pat like one of our big three-point hitters.
Well, he's playing 30 minutes a night. He is, he is.
Well, I will say he's a clutch three-point shooter. I wouldn't say he's damn good in the. Finals Ron. Oh, honest like if we're trying I I don't know. I I touch trust AJ Green as much as I trust campaign at this point to hit a three.
So, and Camp is, I don't know, is that good? Or Bees, like Bees, like Beasley wasn't in when he was. Michael Beasley, Michael Beasley. Michael Beasley. Oh, that's okay.
He shot Bulldog. What did they say? I thought. I think Smith got on that. I'm just Michael.
My point is, I just think that Adrian Griffin is a mad scientist. And he's he's just Kind of trying to get guys minutes. He's rewarding people for playing hard in practice. And I think it's going to pay off in the long run because these inexperienced guys are gaining meaningful minutes and they'll either Blossom into good players or good trade pieces, and either way, the team's going to benefit. All right, I'm gonna um Bring in.
Tony, I'm going to keep you here. Everybody else, I'm going to kick out.
Sorry. You can kick me out. All right.
Yeah. Later on. Everybody is here, Jesus. Thanks for coming back. Yep.
I won't forget you. I forgot Garrett's name. I thought it was Jeff. There he is. Uh Tony?
In Texas? And I am going to bring in Hot Take Jake. Who is very excited with his boy CM Punk coming back? Let me give a thought or two. What's that?
You predicted that, didn't you? I did, yeah. Yeah, Jake's whole life has been revolving around if punk was going to come back. I was told by a certain individual that I should just give it up. It's not happening.
That was me. I told you it was not happening. Yeah. I was texting back and forth with Barth. Jesus Christ.
I don't want to talk about punk right now.
Okay. Okay, I want to say something. I want to say about Griff. Duh. I want to say about Griff.
And I'm going to bring John in here too.
Okay, we got a new crew. Hey, John. Yo, what's up? I got Tony in Texas, Hot Take Jake, and John. With all this griff stuff.
And all this first quarter stuff, and all this not trying stuff, and going out for Beasley's birthday stuff. I think we have watched the NBA long enough. Or maybe we haven't. There was a great Image, Frank Madden. Who I need to talk to.
I need to have him on. We got to wrap about the Bucks. Frank Madden. Had a Facebook memory, maybe that's where I saw it. of a game and you could tell it was shot on a shitty phone.
A game he was at 10 years ago. You know, before Giannis, before any of this shit, the Larry Sanders bullshit, all that. And they were playing the Bobcats. And someone had a good comment on that. The problem is the loudest Bucs fans that we know Don't even know what the Bobcats were.
Like they're just too young. They the Bobcats, what the are the Bobcats? The Bobcats. If you've never watched a Bucks Bobcats game, then you need to, as my mom would say, take a chill. Tail Moron Boy.
Okay, that's what you need to do. The NBA. These things are so volatile. Like, let's take that Blazers game on Sunday. and really put it into our brains.
In terms of how the NBA works. The NBA 15-point leads are nothing. They're just not. We have to like. If you're a passionate Bucks fan, and so this in-season tournament game.
Yeah, I was getting like nervous a little bit. I really wanted this win. I'm really into it. I'm getting frustrated. I see a possession where Chris Middleton brings the ball up the floor as the point guard is getting swarmed.
And I'm like, this guy can't dribble. Pass it. Why is he running the point? You know, I'm freaking out too. You can't like I'm just saying none of this shit.
I'm just, if you could just not have any opinion about the game in the first half. Or at least keep it to yourself. That would make things so much smoother. in uh in Bucksland. M.
Shark says, I expect every shot of Dames to go in when he shoots in the fourth. It is. Great. To have a guy who's so automatic, also at the line point, because when Drew was playing in the fourth, it was like, oh man. When he would shoot somebody with all due respect.
We're like. Nine and eight right now with Drew instead of Dame. I hope people know that. You're right. And back to your Frank Madden.
I'm a big Madden. I like Madden. I mean, I think he mentioned Ersan Ilyasova was one of those players in that Bucs team. And I'll tell you what, if Ersan was on this team... He would be busting his ass in these games.
And that's. Kind of where I think you go with the fanassist thing a little bit, I do want to see some effort. during these games If I'm gonna watch part.
Well, that's fine. I honestly think Bucs fans should not turn the game on until halftime's over. Yeah, I mean, you're right. You're right. We've watched, you and I were, I mean, I'm older than you, but we've watched the NBA long enough where you don't have to try to the fourth if you're talented enough to do that.
And that's what the Bucks are doing. I guess that's a good sign. And they're closing these games out. I don't know what their clutch rating is. Maybe you know that, Jake, but I think they're one of the.
First or second best for clutch rating or something? Nobody knows that off the top of their head unless they're a psycho. Zach says Chris was clutch tonight. Only played 15 minutes. When he's back, it'll be fun to watch.
Eliza says: normally, if the Bucs fall in the fourth quarter, I take a shower, and then when I come back, they win. I didn't even take my shower. I felt that confident. It was neck and neck, but I never doubted that's rare.
So We uh We are good. We're good when Eliza showers. Benny says, does Bart not look good in blue? Come on. Thanks, Benny.
Makes my eyes pop, my baby blues. Um Elf Tone says you're all speaking a crock of shit. I don't know why. Oh. Go fuck yourself.
He's an angry old fan. Yeah. There's a lot of people talking about how some of you are in here, but not. Liking. My videos I am this so I'm gonna quietly say this But I would ask that you guys, if you don't already, Subscribe to the YouTube.
Because I may. Stop. promoting on a certain platform. I don't know if I can afford to. Because like you got to go where the people are, but.
Jesus Christ. Anyway, John, your thoughts on the game before I get some more comments. Yeah, I mean I think I think what you have to keep in mind is, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's a new coach, it's a new defensive system. But it it's also just frustrating at times when you see Okay. You know, guys guarding at mid-court and then...
they just l give it to him for wide open three.
So, I mean, I guess. In terms of like how much to be a fan, like what at what point of the season should we be? Able to criticize Griffin, I guess. When would be the appropriate time? I think, great question.
I think that. Early on. There were some things, and you're like, well, what is happening? And it's fine. Like, I think anytime.
Honestly, my answer is you can criticize Griffin at any time. To want him fired is absurd. That's my answer. To want him fired to answer his question, though, if they get knocked out in the first round, that's what we. Have concern.
Well, no, I mean, like, honestly, you see this happen in some other sports where, you know, sometimes it just doesn't work out. If Adrian Griffin took over. And it was clear it was not working at all. And they could not figure it out with Giannis and Dame. And the team was losing an absolute shit.
then I would have then I would think sometime after the All Star break, You could that's when you could make like I mean if it's bad as bad That's when I would have... All this discourse now that happened after a Bucs win against the Bulls. If it was ever going to happen, should it happen then? It's like, oh, we're not going to be able to do the fire griffin thing.
Well, let's just do it now and get it out of our system. We just have other thoughts on it. We might as well. Do it. If they go to the playoffs and then lose.
Uh then I think that you know, you could fire Griffin. Maybe. I just like. If it proves to be the wrong decision. If it proves to be the wrong decision.
You're not going to get anybody better now. Than you would when a new cycle hits, and there's other guys available or other assistants looking for work. I just.
So that's my answer, John. I don't know if that's acceptable or not, but I don't. Like if you want to criticize, I think the criticism is.
Well We're worried that it's going to be a wasted season. There's nothing you can do about it now. They made their decision. And they're gonna, and I think he's doing fine. I don't think the words fire.
Should come out of anyone's mouth. If people are like, oh, this shit's not working, I still think you got to give it. It's an 82-game season. You got to give it a little bit of time. And if it doesn't work, and if it was a bad decision.
You can't go back and take that decision away.
So. I don't know. I don't know. That's my answer. Can I address the reason I jumped on was Q made a ridiculous statement?
Um He said he wouldn't trade Griffin. Fuck yeah. Spolstra. I said that I asked the question. I would.
I would totally do that. Q said he would not. That's that's ridiculous. Yeah, I had taken a Delta 8 before, so I thought I was dreaming that. Yeah.
You just kinda let that one slide. But I do think, and maybe I'm wrong. Um If the Bucks knew they had dame you know in their back pocket. I don't think Adrian Griffin is the head coach of this team. Just saying.
And if they could have that one back, I think they would.
Well, you're probably right. Because they Reacted where they needed to make a change.
So they made a change, and that change was a coach. Then, why would they get rid of stocks, then Jake? To counter your point. I don't think they got rid of him. I think Stots left.
Well I I think it was more mutual, wasn't it? I think Stots leaving is more about Stotts than it is about Griff. No, I wouldn't go that far, but I think that um Harry Stotz wanted to be here, he would be here. Yeah. If the Bucs lose in the first round, but win the NBA Cup, Does that save Adrian Griffin's job?
Well, and that's one thing I didn't like about the Twitter discourse was like It was either fire griff or griff is the greatest thing ever. You guys are all idiots. And I don't understand why there can never just be a middle ground where. For me, it was always, I'm not. I wasn't happy with the hire and I'm not seeing a lot of things that I liked early on.
Let's see where this goes, but also. The Bucks have to be open to making a move mid-season. Like, I didn't understand people that were like, you have to give them the season, at least. And I'm like, fucking. I mean, I just laid it out like.
March.
Now I feel like this is all null and void. Yeah, Jake, I totally disagree. You can't fire him now. No, I'm not saying right now. See, this is what I mean.
People will hear what they want to hear.
So what I'm saying is. You have to be ready to do that if that needs to be done. What do you who who's your coach in? Joe Pronte? Maybe.
I mean it So, if you're gonna, if you're if you want a new coach, you have to wait until there's coaches available. Who on the market right now would you want? Kenny Atkinson? I mean, who else is out there? There's.
He was a finalist. He was a finalist and I like him. Bart would probably know more about him than I do, but I actually don't. And I think I do want to make a two. quick points that Are basketball related, but not really.
The first point, I want to shout out Eliza, who is. killing it in these comments here. She's become a star in the YouTube comments.
So, thank you. And I don't, I mean, damn it, Tony. I knew you were going there. She's motivating people to like this video to help the metrics.
So, she is a saint. Uh also I was a little startled last night. I saw that Mark Cuban was stepping down from Shark Tank. And then I saw today, he basically sold the team. For $3.5 billion.
But he's still in control. Um Either he's running for president or Buddy lost his ass in Bitcoin. Or one of those things is the that's the word on the street.
So I just wanted to. Mention that. John, I answered your question. Did you have any thoughts on that or any more thoughts on the Griffin? Conversation.
No, I think you answered it pretty well. I did have a question for Jake, if you don't mind. Yeah, please. How much joy have you taken in trolling the AEW marks on Twitter these past couple days? I mean,.
I've really taken more joy in reading what other people are doing, but I have trolled a little bit. There's no doubt. Would you like, Jake? Why don't you take a minute to talk about punk? Sure.
I think. Tony Khan is If you don't know who that is, he is Shad Khan's son. He is the, I guess you could technically call him an owner of AEW, but really, Shad Khan owns AEW. Tony is just. He basically got his inheritance early and he blew it on a wrestling company.
Um he's not a businessman. He wants to be friends with everybody. Um he didn't make the smart business decision, which would have been keeping punk. Um also the whole situation with CM Punk. In AEW um After the first incident, if that's WWE, that's the end of it because they get everybody in a room and say, hey, we're squashing this shit.
Um, whatever. Uh, my new favorite wrestler is Jungle Boy Jack Perry because he allowed all this to happen. And uh, CM Punk back home where he belongs, back in a real Real company, a real business, and I think even he understands that maybe he took that for granted now. That his top five moments are in his career. The top five that I can think of right now.
are Um The Pipe Bomb promo. Returning to WWE. Getting to AEW, returning to AEW. And then maybe a Royal Rumble match when he ran the... Gamut for the first time.
Money in the bank versus John Cena. Yeah, okay, but the mattress. We'll talk about this, Paul. I talk about more about this on Thursday's show. But if that exact same situation that happened in AEW had happened in WWE, like Jake said, they would have sat everybody down, get everybody in the room, and then they would have used it to make money instead of the young bucks.
oh being babies and all up in their feelings i just Yeah, like Rollins hates punk. I believe that, but they're going to make money. Yeah. And Rollins is an adult and he's going to do his best for business. He's CM Punk is no longer working with children.
And I do think um It is so, it's such a picture-perfect moment of the day after Punk gets fired. There emerges a clip of the young Bucks doing a victory lab in a half-empty arena. It's just so Jeff's kiss. You know, they got their little victory, even though the biggest star in the company is gone, and that, you know. That might be the final nail in the coffin for AEW, where now they're going to be T and AEW because they don't have a lot of star power now.
And if you look at Punk's return, I think they said in 24 hours got what almost 80 million social media engagement. I mean, he's somebody that transcends wrestling. He's somebody that non-wrestling fans pay attention to.
So I think it's a huge coup for WWE. Did you ever finish? John, finish, and then we're getting back to Bucks. Yeah, I was at the gas station today, and somebody came up to me and asked about CM Punk.
So, I mean, it's just. He's all over the place. Oh, yeah. Nice. Aaron, comment on the internet.
Hot take, Coach Griff already way better than. Sub patterns than Bud ever did. Dame best closer in NBA. If mid can stay on court. We're getting a Bucs tournament win and a Larry O'Brien.
Do people remember that Buck won a title? I just.
Just throwing that out there. Oh, but he had nothing to do with that. Never mind. Go on. I'm stealing this.
And I think we should all damp to. Kyle Kaz87 on Twitter. Says Bucks in one. Fucks in one. I do like that.
That is good. Uh Eliza. What's Griffin doing wrong? Let me know. Defense, that'll come.
By the trade deadline, 13 and 5, not too big. Who are we trading at the deadline? What who can we give up? Who are we getting? I saw a lot of Portis slander tonight.
Yeah, no, Bobby's not getting moved. That's stupid. You guys want to see Robin Lopez get any fucking playoff minutes? Jesus. His production against good teams.
Does not eye test seem to be as good as it is against B? Bad teams. Bobby? Yeah. I don't care.
Listen. In the playoffs, if Bobby gives us 10 minutes, that's 10 minutes of non-Robin Lopez minutes. That's all I care about. Robin's not going to play, Jake. I think you're safe.
Who's going to play? Who's their other big man? If they get rid of Bobby. Who's playing? Giannis would be your backup.
Well, we do have Jay, if that counts.
So, Giannis and Brooke are playing all 48 minutes then. Jay. He's 6'4, Bart. He was staggering, Jesus. He's bigger than me.
Q wants to Clear up what he said. He said, I would not trade a first-round pick. Tony asked me if I would trade a first-round pick for Spo. No, I wouldn't. Anyone would trade Griff for Spo straight up.
Well, I feel like you Q, I feel like you did say running back, run back. I can confirm that it was a first comment. It's all recorded, Q. It's on the internet. That says a lot of stupid things, but that's up there.
All I remember about that is. Q said he wouldn't trade. I heard him say he wouldn't trade Griff for Spo. He wouldn't. Yeah, yeah.
That's what I heard. I don't think he said that. I'm pretty sure he said he would not trade a first-round pick for Spoiler. Surely, you could play it back here.
Well, you guys will hear when you're listening tomorrow or today.
Well, I can try to find it. I don't. Q, if you want to defend yourself, you can. Also, I would take Budenhoser over Griffin, so he's won a title and has a proven track record of success in the NBA. Who else did we go?
Q says that was a dumb combo about Griff firing a 13 and 5 coach is dumb. Nobody's saying f oh my god, this is what I'm talking about. Listen to what people say. Don't hear what you want to hear. Listen to what people are actually saying.
Tom says we got to be better. I heard Randy say random the other day. See? Uh Matt wants to cancel the wrestling talk. Jump in, Matt.
Oh, you know what? I got a Matt in the False voicemail I want to play. Can't wait. Matt in the Falls. Hold on.
Can I do my impression? Hey Bert, it's me. I was uh Driving on the freeway the other day and I'm like, How fucking stupid is it that there's three lanes when there should be four here? I just, it's really, really bothering me. All right, go on to play it.
I don't know. Pretty good. Yeah. I love you, Matt. Carlos Blake's voicemail line.
Carl of et.com backslash Bart. 402-915-B-A-R-T. That is an Omaha number.
So before you hit play, can I do my quick one-line impression just to compare it? Sure. Right. Are you ready? Hey, bud, it's me.
Oh, okay. Hey, Bart, it's me. I just want to kind of. Put an end to all this uh back and forth about counsel and you know whether or not people should be upset and you know all the analogies you know if Oh, well, you know, if if if you got offered this mutt, so you don't even need to make an analogy. If you if you don't understand this and you're not upset.
about council going to the Bucs game. You just You're just stupid. You're too stupid. to understand an analogy.
So there's no point in even making an analogy for these people. Like, how can you not be upset? Oh, council Sherry up for the buck scheme. That's I think it's a good idea. There is no analogy.
You're just stupid if you Mm-hmm. It settles a popular. Uh Sorry, this is just charged up 'cause I'm sick of hearing about this.
Okay, that was that was it. I mean, while I agree with the sentiment, he needed a little bit more empirical evidence rather than just saying you're stupid. Austin, great impression. Matt says that was good. A lot of laughing faces from the comments.
It's all out of love, Matt, I love you, buddy. All right, the other thing I want to do is. I got, we gotta, I gotta go find. I can rewind my video, right? Even if I'm doing it.
Can I play my? Yeah. Oh, the smoking gun. Here we go. I gotta find out what Q is saying.
Hey, Bart, I'm going to drop. Big Packer game coming up. I say they upset the Chiefs. Pack is back. All right, who wants to talk for a minute while I mute myself and listen to this?
Jake? I would, but people weren't digging the wrestling talk, or at least Matt wasn't.
So that's all I can think about. I did say. To my wife, after you do want to talk about wrestling for a minute. Yeah, yeah. No, after Punk returned, it was like 30 seconds after it went off the air.
My heart's pounding and I look at her and I'm like, I don't think I would pass a drug test right now. Like that's th something changed inside of me. And uh yeah. Yeah. I love that man.
It's it's a bit pathetic for me because I was kind of having a Crab apple day before that, and then kind of after that, my attitude picked up quite a bit. Yeah, my wife is like. What happened to you? Like, what happened? And I begrudgingly had to admit that as a 33-year-old, I still get.
Marked out and excited about CM Punk coming back.
So I'm 38, man.
So I'll, you know, I'm right there with you. But. I did want to note. It's crazy to me, and I guess this is a thing that I didn't know about. whether it's WWE's cameras or their makeup or whatever their lighting.
He looked 10 years younger than he looked in AEW when he walked out. He looked healthy. He looked happy. Yeah, Bart, you texted me that you think he looks like Aaron Rodgers. And I don't know about that, but.
He looked healthy and happy to me, so I'm happy for him. Yeah, it's going to be a fun little ride here. Yeah. I uh The only thing that gets me more excited is if uh AJ Lee is number thirty in the Royal Rumble. That's yeah, you know, that could be the uh the other side effect of all this.
We get an AJ Lee return and that would make me very happy. Just for her talent, obviously. Oh, yeah. I mean, she she she was kind of the one that kicked it off before.
Well, I think uh I think number thirty in the women's rumble is going to be Sasha Banks, but You know, we'll see what happens. I'm having a hard time finding this. But I mean, I think the heat play is tough. And historic. He was on for a long time.
That's gonna be tough to find. If you throw a punch, he has counter. That's part of the. I just want to see. I really think he fucking said something.
Yeah. I think 9:40. It was shortly before I jumped on. Yeah, I know. I'm just trying to do that.
Or maybe just after I jumped on, maybe. Q, you there? Q. Two baggage stream. I'm I'm saying that I answered Tony's question, which was would you trade a first for Spolstra and I said no, I would stick with Griff.
Yeah. It found it. It found it. Yeah. Like, if I said I wouldn't trade Spo for.
Griff, like anyone would do that.
So, all right, what happened here? It's a Bruder film. Oh, DeRotweiler says new Fortnite season coming out soon. Let's talk about that if we're going to talk about wrestling. What's that?
What's yeah, I don't know. First man. Spulster, right now. No, I would keep Adrian Griffin. Yeah, I like him.
I think that was it. He said for a first, yeah. Would you trade Spolster for a first right now? And they said, no, I was Adrian Griffin.
Okay. Yeah. But did you ever talk about trading straight up? No, no. I think Jake is accusing us of not listening and hearing what we want to hear.
That's the smoking gun for you, Jake. You did the same thing to me. No, I I think you're wrong on this one.
Well, I'm here to clarify what I meant and You're hearing what you want to hear. The only thing worse than your Chris Middleton takes are your. your coaching takes.
So keep up the good work. I wanted to bring that up. Yeah, he's done on defense, man. He's really, really bad. Fair play to him.
He hit a clutch shot, but holy cow, it's it's I lose a part of my soul every time I watch Chris Middleton get posted up. Or at least the black hole where my soul used to be. Yeah, no, I think, I think, I think, I don't think he did. I think the mystery is solved. I'm going to stick to what I said, which is that he did say it.
I just played it. He didn't. That's not what I heard. He did not say it. Derot Myler, $10 donation to the show, kitty.
For more matte impressions. Yeah. Okay, that was the Rottweiler just said, what was that, Fortnite? Fortnite, what are we talking about? What is that?
I don't know what that is.
Someone explained, but Hey, cut me off as Matt.
So I fucking was on Twitter yesterday. Twitter? What is Twitter?
Someone was just talking about the Zapruder film. Who is that? Jayf I d I I don't what is any of that? Jeff says, Bart, if you do not open a box of 1990 set Pro Set Live. Then Santa Claus.
Yeah. doesn't exist. Oh ho ho. I'll open up a I might have a pack here. I got a pack.
We might have dueling packs. Yeah. What do I got? Oh shit, okay. Bart, you keep looking.
I've just found a pack of 2004-2005 FLIR Tradition NBA. No. Well, you might get some good people in there.
Alright, let's take a look. We've got... Who the fuck is this? Theron Smith? All right.
Well, not Ron Weller's.
Okay. You're opening a pack? You opening a pack? Yeah, I got a pack. Bobby Jackson.
Sixth man. Sacramento Kings. Heck of a player. Oh, there we are. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. What else do we got? Oh, Bucks Legend. Yeary Welsh Holy shit.
We've got Kenny Thomas. K2. Mm-hmm. Uh David West, he was still playing like two years ago. The caveman, Chris Kamen?
All right.
Uh Nazr Muhammad. Is he dead? Why do I why do I feel like he's dead? Ah, jeez, I'm not gonna go there. Um 911.
Joanna. It's Jason. Oh Jesus Christ Um another Bucks legend in Bucks gear. Keith Van Horn, baby. This is an awful pack.
This is a great pack. And then we got the Oh, here he comes. His wife, Peter. Another kid card? Yeah, what the hell?
It was like a cursed hack. All right.
Tommy's, I think, is in his car. Tommy? Call me. Hey, what's going on? Can you guys hear me?
Yeah, welcome to the show. What's up? I was just popping in. I like to tune in after the Bucks games every once in a while, just see what was going on. I can clarify, Q definitely did say.
First round pick, which I still think is a stupid take. Like, I would immediately do that. But he did not say Griff for Spo.
Okay. Not what I heard. Yeah. I should we be excited enough to go to Vegas for the in-season tournament? Is like that's how excited we should be for this thing?
I kind of want to. I feel like that would be a fun time to go hang out. I don't know what the court's gonna look like, if the court's gonna be all fucking weird when you go there, but. I think it would be like a cool trip, and I'm kind of starting to catch the same buzz for the IST. I mean, like I said way, way earlier.
Uh the first game was interesting 'cause it was new. Then they played shit teams, and okay, you run up to score, whatever that wizards game. Was there Friday? It's like, all right, we just can't lose. Just please don't lose to the Wizards.
There was something about tonight. Tonight was a game. Tonight was playoff atmosphere. I know they didn't have a hero. I know they didn't have Butler.
But Bam was taking over and... Uh They didn't have the crowd. We had Crowder the first time we played them, right? I I believe so.
So, I mean, we're banged up a little bit too on our end. Like, we're not at full 100%, but I just wanted to pop in and say that The g the Bucks Twitter is absolutely insane to hate on Griffin this quick. I mean, I didn't want Bud Gunn for sure, but If it meant we had to get rid of Bud to get Dame Lillard, I think we would all have taken that trade, no? Yeah, I don't think like the the storyline points It just the dame thing was just like John Horst. Hadn't like it was just, I mean, this reality where Dame is here is like one out of a thousand.
Well, I was just going to say, I don't think. If the Dame Lillard thing came first, I think Gianna signs the extension and they don't firebud. That's my take. Yeah, I don't think they would have fired Bud if Dane was here first. Because that would have been the change.
They needed a change. We're like, all right, two years in a row, we need a change. The easiest change is the firehead coach. I also think one of the um Reasons for the Griffin hire was to appease Giannis to get him to re-sign. And it wouldn't have been necessary if he would have made the damn move.
And I do feel bad for Bud because um He did look shell-shocked in that series against Miami, and to know what he was going through now. Um it just feels kinda icky and I feel like he definitely got a raw deal. Andrew says, eight and one since the Crowder injury, addition by subtraction. That is certainly a take. That's my best friend, by the way.
So he lives in Phoenix. He despises Jay Crowder. It's a bit now. Like he hates him with all of his soul. And I.
The game we lost is the game we needed Crowder the most. You know? I, yeah, he told me last year when they acquired him, he's like, dude, you don't even know, man. He's so terrible. He's a shell of what he once was.
And yeah. But shout out. Hey, I um I texted Andrew tonight. Hey, just saying if the Bucs make it to Vegas, because you know that's a short drive for. Him in Arizona there.
So I think if I went for the final, I would do it. And sarcastically be so into it. Like, I would conjure up fake tears if they won, and like be ripping my shirt off and just, you know, being an ass about it. Austin is giving money to, he's requesting a story. He wants to hear the story of why I had to delete a tweet.
Of a cake. That had a picture of Bill Michaels on it that said, This one's from Mark. God damn it. All right, this one's from so Bill used to. Make up fake emails, which is fine.
He's doing a solo show. It's a practice of how he can guide the conversation one way. And it's more interactive. I really don't have a problem with the making up of emails. It's just that He never could think of a name on the fly, so he always said Mark.
Okay. If he did 20 emails. 18 would be from Mark. You're right. One would be like.
Joe, because he would just look at Joe. And then the other one would be from like. If the Bucks were playing the magic that night, it'd be like from Magic Man. Yeah, it was, it was, yeah, it was just the worst Sam tonight.
So Long after Joe was gone, long after Bill was gone. See a Jake, I guess. Bill Bill was gone for $12.50. Joe had a cake made for him for his birthday that said, This one's from Mark with Bill's picture on it. He sent it to me.
I tweeted it.
Something about, like, whatever. I was being a dick, and I tweeted it. And then Bill got so upset. That he Message my management at a company he got let go from. And the company.
Took his side.
So I had to remove The tweet and like stop talking about him. Which bottled my mind.
So that that's that's all that that's all that happened there. I don't know that's worth ten bucks, but. Jeff says $4.99. Your 1999 ProSet packs are on the dresser. Go clean yourself up.
All right, here we go. 1990 ProSet. Ready? My absolute favorite. Packs ever.
There's so many errors on these cards. Are you guys ready for the excitement? I I can't wave. I'm ready. Tommy is numb with anticipation.
If you get a Craig Council, you know you got to throw it away, right?
Well, these are football, unfortunately. Oh, okay, okay. We've got a Super Bowl. We got Mark Carrier. We got Steve Smith.
Jim Everett.
Okay. Eric Williams Lions. Icky Woods. Brian Millard. Oh, everybody's favorite Jet Troy Benson.
J T Smith Mike Munchak Oilers. Carl Mecklenburg Pro Bowl. Chris Dolman, sack leader. Ronnie Lott. Simon Fletcher.
Oh, and a scratch off. Oh, and Jerry Ball. I can win a trip to Hawaii. And I don't have a coin. All right, so shitty pack, I think, right?
Should have opened that hosting the Rome show with the Chris Everett and Jim Everett. That would have been pretty good. Wouldn't that have been great? Yeah, that guy. God damn it.
I will fit into this shirt. Probably when I'm dead and my corpse is rotting. But I will fit into the shirt. All right, I'm going to open up one more pack of something good though, because I have this salty. I have this saltine box of Where I keep all my packs of cards?
You send the packs. You don't just open them right when you get them?
Well, I've been saving packs as I go because I want my son. to open them someday. If he's interested, all the times he got to see Icky Woods play would really. Welcome, Joe. He he plays with my old toys.
So, okay. He doesn't know. One Soto. He doesn't know Shohei Otani. But he knows Wade Boggs and Andre Dawson.
Okay. Okay. So that's pretty good. I gotta see if I have any cards. That like are worth even opening.
Um here we go. How about a tops? We'll do a tops 2001 baseball. How about that? Any good rookies in there, maybe?
We'll do a top. Tops 2001 baseball. The Bonds MVP here. Oh shit, 2021 baseball. Oh, I was going to say Ichiro, maybe 2001.
Oh, it was Ichiro. Yeah, you're right. Not a Hall of Famer, though. Could I get like any like... Who like a Jackson Churio?
Was he made in that time yet? Uh I don't I don't think it was there yet. Are we going to hear a deal on that this week too? Did you see that story? Maybe.
Yeah, like they're gonna give so. 20 million a year that he's never played? Isaac Paradise? Parodies, I've heard it both ways. Fuck is this?
Oh, okay, that guy. Miggy Cabrera, anyone? Adam Jesus Christ, cards are such a waste of money. Yeah. Colin Moran, this fucking asshole.
Quenta Maida. Yeah. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, double time. We got an Omar Nervaez. Look at that.
And we got an Orlando Arcea. Wow, starting shortstop in the All-Star game. And we got a Don Mattingly. Special edition. And we got a Justin Verlander.
He might have won the Cy Young that year. Tyler Chatwood. Ronald Acuna Jr. Ian Kennedy. There was so the last the sometimes I'll sell cards if I get a good one Just on eBay?
I got this card of this. It was the guy's name was Ryan Johnson. And it was a card collector. I was like, who the fuck is this? I looked it on eBay.
The cards, it's like a rare special. Cards were going for $100. Oh, shit.
So I sold it for a hundred bucks. The the physical card was the card collector. Yeah, they made like special inserts and then The card collectors. Went crazy for I don't know. Maybe Ryan Johnson's the guy that bought it.
How much are you charging for a card of you on it? in a tops pack. Oh man, could that be great?
Okay. It's got to be in a pack, special edition. You can't make your own cards. Matt says, What on earth are we doing? I don't know.
Once I get past the hour mark of a show. None of I don't fucking know. I don't know what I'm doing. All right, I think that's it. I think once I open up cards, I think it's time to go to bed.
All right, I'm pulling up to all I gotta say is. Chill the fuck out, Bucks Twitter. Chill the fuck out. It's like the third best record in the entire league. Show the fuck out.
Do we know when the Bucks and the Knicks are going to play yet? As you're listening to this in the morning, you might. I don't think they've scheduled it n yet.
So unless I'm missing that, but We're going to play the Knicks again.
So yeah, I don't know. My guess is Eastern Monday and Western Tuesday. All right.
Later. See you, man. It's John. Thanks for coming. Anything else that I do want to cover?
The Churio stuff is interesting. I'll have more on that. Tomorrow This blue really does pop. It's a shame that this shirt. Does not fucking fit me.
In any way, shape, or form. One more card. The Rottweiler for two bucks. One more card pack. All right.
Here's one. 1994. NFL draft picks. Exclusively draft cards. This I was really saving for my son, but.
He probably won't like sports anyway. None of these kids do. Who's this? Ryan Yarborough? Rob Frederickson.
Eric, who cares? Trev Alberts. Nebraska legend. Oh, here's a uh Trent Dilfer. Anthony Phillips.
Jerry Rice rookie flashback. I think I already have that card. Trey Johnson. Mm-hmm. John Now this pack sucks too.
Dwayne Washington. Not good. Got a Jerry Rice, but. I don't know. All right, uh Bucs win.
Tonight I'm pumped. Uh Jesus Christ. Rottweiler, you spent a fortnight on me. This saltine box. I had as a kid.
In my house. Like my mom collected these, and then we got rid of all of them.
So then I saw one at Goodwill, and I was like, I'm fucking buying this. Should we do one more? See, these old ones are such like wax pack ones. That's not worth it. Here, one more.
2020, this is a small pack. 2020 Leaf. Football. Yeah, the saltine box is what's. Where's money?
T. Higgins. Joe Reed. JJ Taylor. C D Lamb.
Brian Edwards. All right.
All right.
Now it is time for bed. Thank you. The Bucs do play on Thursday. I'm on CBS that night, but I'll go live afterwards. I think Cowboy Seahawks are playing at the same time, so.
We can uh do Packers playoff. Situation And yeah, we got Paul and Grant later in the week.
Next week, certainly. I just hope the games aren't on. When I am doing CBS Sports Radio. But, you know, them's the shakes. And then if the Bucs somehow are in, The Uh In-season tournament final.
I would do a live. On that. How about Okay. How about one more process? One more 90 pro set.
Shit. Roger Craig. Andre Reed. Brent Jones. Packers corner Dave Brown.
Mike Munchak. The rest are shit. Joe Montana. I've gotten 20 of this card. Garbage.
All right, I salute you all. Thanks for. Letting me open cards on the internet. Um after a Bucks game. I'm going to go tell my wife what I just did.
I open cards on the internet, honey. One more pack. There's no, I don't have any good ones. I don't have any good All right. We'll go uh Show's over.
Good night.
Okay.
