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Yes. Keeping America and Milwaukee plugged in on what highway has the latest guy shooting out of his car. Or if on Sunday you were driving a little crazy Sunday morning, spinning out on the freeway. Got some weather concerns. Oh, it's whoa. Your overnight duties are going to pick up now. Yes, they are.
Lot of accidents. Yep. Geez. How are you? I'm good.
I'm good. I'm excited. Our badgers are going bowling. Well, they were already, but we got the ax back. Well, we're going to do something we never do. And this episode today is going to start with badger talk. I like it.
I like it. Not basketball. No. I'm not there yet.
No, not yet. Badgers. But they do have the big Marquette game coming up. Yeah.
That's in Madison. How do you feel about this game? We'll see. I think they'll lose. I feel like they'll lose.
But I know anything can happen. This must be how when Brewers fans, I'll use them as an example, are talking about how Brewers and Cubs are such a rivalry. And then the Cubs fans are like, is it? I think that's how badgers fans are with Marquette. The badgers, I don't know. Point blank, do I like Marquette?
I think the answer is no. I mean, I love the years that Deener and Wade were there. I think, I mean, the badgers are my team, but college basketball isn't my number one thing.
But I am a badger guy. I like the Panthers. I'll support Milwaukee all day long. Tough game the other day, I think, against Southern Miss.
I had a chance to come back. So I like them. I just think with Marquette, I'll support Marquette.
That's the difference. I will support Marquette. I was rooting for them against Kansas. I found myself rooting for them. And then against Purdue, I didn't realize Hunter Dickinson had transferred, isn't he? Yeah. He's like, yeah, he left Michigan.
I had no idea. That's how unplugged I am with that sport. But what happens is, and I've talked about this, they get to this game on Saturday. And any goodwill that is earned, any appreciation, sometimes even any like, I might like this team. Goes right down the drain.
Resets to zero. For no fault of the team or the coach, I mean, who doesn't want to root for Shaka Smart? It is 100% the annoyance of Marquette fans. The Marquette fans, they're the mosquitoes of Wisconsin sports. They're not a year-long problem. But when they bother you, you can usually flick them away.
But those nights that you just got bit up and weren't thinking about, in the next couple of days, you're in pain. That's what Marquette fans are. The mosquitoes of Wisconsin sports. That's a very good way to put it. I like it. I'm going to start using it.
I've been looking for a long time for the best mosquito reference that I could find. And finally, I think I've found a home for it. Marquette fans. Perfect. And so maybe they win. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, I would assume they're going to win. They're favored.
They're the better team. But Badger fans can't win. Because if Marquette wins, they're going to shit on you all year. But then if Wisconsin wins, all year they're going to be like, how did we lose to this shitty team?
No, they just come up with a list of excuses. So they can't take a loss well. Well because also it's the only thing. Like Badgers have football, obviously.
And volleyball. Congratulations. Okay. I go out on Friday to the Bucs game. I'm at Goolsbee's. And my buddy had a birthday thing. So there's some people that I haven't seen in a while. Buddies.
And they were all like looking at the TV and trying to see how Wisconsin did against Nebraska in volleyball. Yeah. It's a thing. I still think it's like when an NBA guy shows at a WNBA game, it's like, I'm telling you to do this.
No, I'm sorry. But this is actually a thing. It's not that.
I mean, volleyball's a great sport. Tickets were going for $300, $400 for that game. I don't know. Yeah.
That seems... It was the most expensive ticket for a Wisconsin athletic event this year. More than football. Yeah.
Well, football tickets were going for five bucks last game. Jesus. But hey, we got the axe back.
All right. We got the axe. Great transition. Obviously, it started badly. And then they won this game. So they beat Minnesota. They beat Nebraska. Because when they lost to Ohio State, we'd kind of talked about what games can you not lose? Like you can't lose the Northwestern, which they did, right? You can't lose the Illinois, which they did that too, right? No, they beat Illinois. Who'd we lose to? They lost to Indiana.
They lost to Indiana and Northwestern back to back games. Hey, did you see who's rumored for that job? Who?
You're a guy. Indiana? Shut up. Gruden.
That would be just full circle for it. I might have to be a Hoosier fan if he goes there. You predicted Gruden wearing red for a year. I did. Just the other red.
Yeah. Gruden to Indiana, because everybody's firing their coaches. This is the highest buyout amount of money ever in college football.
Obviously, the Jimbo Fisher, 75 million, 80 million. God, I wish I could have 80 million to go home and sit on my couch in my basement. I was pumped when I got a very small severance from Odyssey. I was like, oh, that's good.
I'm fucking king of the world. And now you've worked there again. For anybody that ever is going to get a severance, or just keep this in the back of your mind, the taxes on severance pay is a lot higher than the taxes on normal pay. And I was not aware of that until I got my first paycheck. Plan accordingly.
If you're ever on severance, just know that, that the taxes are higher on severance pay. I'm almost 40 now. Me too. Yeah, when? April? Yeah. Maybe we should have a birthday party together. Maybe we should have a tailgate. At a brewery gate?
Yeah. My birthday bash. Yeah, let's do Tim Shea's birthday bash.
That'll be the next tailgate. All right. We're good? I like it. Should we do a weekend? Yeah. Oh, God, yeah. Maybe we'll start at Pato? Or do we want to do like a tailgate tailgate? Well, I don't know.
Now that I mentioned Pato, your eyes went up. Yeah, I lost money Friday night. There's this bar. There's this bar. What's the bar called? Third Street Tavern or some shit? Third Street. Is it on Third Street?
It used to be something else. I think it used to be the Ale House. Is the Ale House still there? Oh, over there? In the Third Ward?
No, by Pfizer. Oh, Oak Barrel? I don't know. There was this bar that we went to that I'd never... Like I said, I swear this bar was not here yesterday, and it will not be here tomorrow. It was like an oasis. Maybe I'll have to go check it out. Should I get in my car right now?
Actually, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make a bar called the Oasis, and every weekend it's in a new spot, like a pop-up bar. Luke Fickle, your thoughts on his season one? Seven and five. Not what we thought. Everyone thought they were going to be an air raid offense and go ten and one and win the West.
You know what? He beat Minnesota, so that makes up for a lot of it, I think. That rivalry is number one for Badger fans. I saw a lot of fans today, and this makes up for the Badger season. If we're Badger fans, and we went to the playoffs and shit, and we're 11-0 all the time but then always lost to Minnesota, would we want that coach fired?
Probably. If it was like Michigan-Ohio State. That's bullshit. I know. That game was good and entertaining. I'm just so tired of how they... Just be the rivalry. Don't...
The add-ons, the crossing out of M's. Ugh, I hate that. Stayed up there, team down there.
It's so fun. It's everything. Did you see the Ohio State athletic director get into a little tussle on the sideline with a Michigan security guard?
It is everything. The only one that should be fighting security guards is Matt LaFleur. We're going to get a bowl game. It's sounding like the Music City Ball in Nashville against the SEC team, maybe a Texas A&M, actually, or a Kentucky. Are we going to play like fucking Auburn again?
No, I don't think they're going to go to a bowl game. Did you see how their game ended on Saturday against Alabama? I thought there should have been a safety in the game, but the ref was on his ass.
And then there was another game that I thought in the NFL should have been a touchdown, but the referee, they had no ref at the goal line. I don't know, ref placement. Ref placement is my new long-term discussion point. Journal Sentinel has all of the experts' picks. Brett McMurphy, friend of show, says he's got UW connected to the Music City Bowl against Texas A&M. 24-7 Sports says the same thing.
Jerry Palm says the same thing. ESPN says Wisconsin Auburn in that game, same with Fox. And USA Today is Wisconsin against Kentucky. Other people say maybe the former Outback Bowl. Oh yeah, the Reel Quest Bowl, right?
I don't know what it's called now or something. So when is the Music City Bowl? The 29th or the 30th?
That during the day? December, yeah, I think it's a 2.45, 3 o'clock start. December 30th, Big Ten versus SEC, ABC, 1 o'clock Central. 1 o'clock, okay. So that is a Saturday. Maybe we should have a little get-together, the meet-up, the hurry-up, a Badger pregame. I will be on the air that day.
Oh, all right. So great. National Radio will hear you talking.
Wisconsin, Kentucky. Well Saturdays have been fun because I just watch the games and talk about the game. Now I'm going to have to do work. I'm going to have to prep a show and not come in there hungover. I don't know, I expected more from this season.
I understand the challenges and all that stuff. But I think what maybe we unfairly did was we looked at this schedule because next year's schedule is impossible. Six and six, maybe?
Maybe? And this is with the expanded college football playoff. Yeah, at home they play Penn State, Oregon. I think they go to U-M-A-C. Let's win-loss already. You want to be the first to win-loss? Yeah, let's do it.
Okay, I'll give you the rock music again. All right, Badgers next year. Week one against Western Michigan. That's a win. It's a bowl game rematch, right? From a couple years ago, yeah, the Cotton Bowl. South Dakota Coyotes.
That's a win. Alabama comes to town. Wait, can you just say that one more time? Alabama comes to town. Wait, not Alabama, ain't I?
No. I want to go to that game. I'm going to that game. I'll be there.
I want to go. Alabama. Alabama's crossing that mystery line of North and South.
Mesa, Nixon. Oh, not all of it's a mystery. I know. All right, after that, who do we play? Then we have a bye. Then we go to, for the first time ever in Big Ten play, USC. Oh, South Carolina, right? USC. Southern California. Oh, shit. So Alabama and USC.
The USA. That's a loss. I don't know, Lincoln Riley's kind of falling on his dick. Purdue at home. That'll be a win. Rutgers on the road. That'll be a win.
Top of the win. At Northwestern in October. That's a loss. That'll be four and three. Right now we're four and three. Penn State at home.
That's a loss. We've got to win one of these. We'll beat Penn State.
No, keep going. I've got the win for you. At Iowa. That's a loss. The Oregon Ducks at home? That's a win.
What? No Bo Nix. I don't care. They don't have their quarterback. At Nebraska. I'm going to give them a win. Yeah, we don't lose to them. Minnesota at home. Win.
So seven and five. He's got to get players. He's got to recruit. He's got to get players to win these games or else we're going to be very mediocre. All right, here's a fun game. Let's say the Badgers start the season 4-0. That would include wins against Alabama and USC. Which of the following games would they absolutely lose? Purdue at home, at Rutgers, or at Northwestern?
At Northwestern. I feel like they'd probably lose the double at Rutgers, too. At Rutgers, yeah.
I mean, Rutgers is better. I think one of these games will be the Peacock game that everybody bitches about. Well, the Alabama game will probably be Fox. But Fox always gets, you know, when they do this, Fox always picks Michigan-Ohio State first. I bet you CBS picks up Alabama-Wisconsin. Or it could be the night game on NBC.
Or it could be, yeah. Or it won't go to ESPN, right? Because it's an Alabama road game? Correct. It's an Alabama road game, so no ESPN.
Well, you know what? One of those two networks will pick it up. I bet you CBS picks it up, because why not? It's Alabama. At USC is going to be like a 9-30 Fox game. Yeah.
It's going to be late the weekends that they have. That could be an NBC game. Oh, yeah.
That, too. Wow. Big 10 Saturday night. Big 10 Saturday night.
Big 10 Saturday night. Hey, can you tell, I was trying to tell the story of your nephew's cousin's buddy's friend's uncle that went to Happy Place Hem. Oh, yes. My buddy's uncle's brother. But not also uncle.
Not also related. He went to Happy Place Hem. He said he wasn't sleeping well, and these gummies that he bought weren't just working well, so he decided to go there. He name-dropped myself, and they gave him a little sampler pack and said, here, try these. If these work, come back.
I think he went back. Wow. Yeah, I think they worked.
I'm pretty sure he said he told my buddy's uncle, the other one, that he had one of his best nights sleeping. Wow. Yeah. Now, every time he goes back, tell him to use the promo code BART.
Yep. I told him. 25% off. He went there, too. He didn't call. He went in. Yeah, if you go in, you could probably just drop to Tim Shea and get that discount.
I need to go back there soon. You've been saying that for a couple weeks, Tim. I know. With the weird time I get up, I've been sleeping well. What did I take? Sunday night, I took one.
Okay. Sunday night, I took... It must have just been the Delta 8. It's in the tin that says full spectrum. When I have to stay up during the day, I take these bad boys. You are taking those? The yellow ones. The mango? Yeah.
The THC-free. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just took a Delta 8. Then, I stayed up a little bit, watched the game, got tired, went to bed. See?
It was great because I do if I don't take one. See, there's two ways that I can go to bed without being insomniac. Drinking?
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Grainger, for the ones who get it done. I guess I'll bring it up again. I think I've gotten to the point where I'm more upset about the people that are telling me to move on from this council thing. I was moved on. I was moved on. And then he showed up at a Bucks game like nothing fucking happened.
That is bullshit. The day before he showed up at my, well not my niece's basketball game, but a tournament. And I saw him. Anyone heckle him? No. But.
Look, if Craig Council, who on the Dan Cheney YouTube you see the council with no head bobblehead. Mine I did throw away after I broke mine. There are still pieces on the floor. I still have the other three that I need to. Shit, that's a good one too. I know.
I might keep this one. Yeah, maybe we'll like him again someday. But I don't understand how people like, okay, so yeah, you go to your nieces game, you go to your daughters, whatever. I mean, listen, he's still living in town. Just let him be.
But that's part of my problem. What would have been the reaction if he shows up to Bucks Bulls? The same, nothing. And I said, this is my comparison.
Let's say there's a manager of the Philadelphia Phillies who then takes the job with the Mets and then shows up at a Sixers game. He would be kidnapped and you wouldn't see from him again. I know.
Until you transferred five Bitcoin to a random account. Okay. This is, and I'm not saying we need to make his life a living hell. No, he's there, fine, whatever. Ignore him. The fact that he thinks he can go there.
Then it's people telling me, why is this a big deal? Again, if you don't get it, you don't get it. But now I'm getting the, Bart, Craig's a Bucks fan. What? Now he can't be a Bucks fan? Do you think Craig Combs will give two shits about the Bucks, honestly?
No. From the tweet that I saw, John, the guy that put it out, someone asked him, what was it like? And he goes, Craig was unbothered the whole time, but never cheered. And when everyone was standing, he was still sitting down. So, some passionate-ass Bucks fan he is. Aaron Rodgers is an owner of the team, still.
Did we forget this? Oh, remember, he's dating the other owners. Probably. Aaron Rodgers still has ownership in the Bucks. He won't even show up there.
No. But Council's like, oh, no, fuck, I'll buy a ticket. What an idiot. I just don't, I don't get how I, I don't get it. Like, he does something atrocious, and I get mad. I'm the bad guy. I think there's bot farms. This Council thing, because I know when I put out a tweet, what kind of reaction I'll get.
Or, like, I know what a, you can feel a steady amount, like, okay, there's a lot of negativity here, but this is, for what this is, the negativity matches what this is. This Council thing is off the fucking charts. The amount of people that, like, I don't get it. I really don't get it.
I don't fucking get it. I know, it's, it's, he needs to just not show up. Big sporting event. Do you think he'll go to the Brewers winter warm-up?
Yeah, why not? And meet Cubs manager Craig Council. No, just as a fan, you know. Yeah, he's like, oh, I was, I was wanting to be in one of these as a fan, this is pretty cool. Walk around. He's gonna be around, everybody, so get used to it.
Especially during the off-season. You'll see him around at your favorite restaurant or whatever. I mean, I don't want to see him at Tupelo Honey. His daughter's only a freshman, so 27.
Oh, class of 27? Yeah, that's why he didn't move. I just, I just, you know, the whole thing about Milwaukee being the Chicago suburbs, it's more about Brewers to me. It's about Milwaukee, man. Sucks. Somebody asked me if I, if the game had doubled my salary, would I go there? You might. You would. I would. If I could be program director, fire all of them and hire all of you guys. Yes! I got a job.
If ESPN Milwaukee ever wanted me, I'd go there and do a part-time show once a week. Yeah. For peanuts.
If the game ever wanted me, they'd have to give me the keys to the fucking castle. There you go. Big difference. Anything else? Just a little news plug here for CBS 58 and our good friend Steve Sparky Pfeiffer. I will be talking to you momentarily. Our news crew will be out at the toy drive today, Tuesday. So, take a look. Take a peek. We'll be out there showcasing that event and that whole shebang.
I'll be out there, like, in mere moments. Nice. Very cool. All right. Well, I miss you. Always.
Let's get together soon. Thank you for the lunch date, too, by the way. Oh, you're welcome. The chicken and waffles at Tupelo, honey? Yum. Delicious. Yeah. I said I should have gotten that. I should have gotten that in addition to my breakfast. Yeah. My breakfast was good, but then you look around and see chicken and waffles.
You're like, yeah, I got room for that, too. Shit. Very good. By the way, the code I mentioned, 20% off. So, if you go there, you still have through the end of November.
You got the rest of the week. If you have a, you know, lunch thing you want to do or some dinner time, 20% off when you put Bart Winkler Show in the reservations. Our guy Zach went there, I think, Sunday night. So, check it out.
Otherwise, I mean, check it out anytime. They got brunch coming up on the weekends. They got great food. The first day I went there, I saw David Gruber. The second day I went there, I saw the Jonas Brothers. So, who knows who you'll see? Might run into a Tim Shea.
Who knows? I'm going back. I'm definitely going back. No.
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Yeah, soon. We should talk about the Packers. I'm still not buying into the playoff hype. Well, let's see what happens this week. Yeah. Well, I think they're going to lose this week.
Let's see what happens against Carolina. They should have been my survivor. I'm out. Oh, no. Really? I took the fucking Saints.
Oh. I would have told you no. But then the Saints had two red zone turnovers, five field goals. They should have won. The process was sound.
The results were not. All right. All right.
Yeah. Let's see. I think they're going to have a clunker against one of these four teams. Bears, Giants, Tampa Bay, Carolina. I'm guessing it's going to be Tampa. Where's that game? Lambeau. There's nothing mystique. That's gone.
There's no home field just because they're playing at home now. What are we, five and six? We'll see.
We could finish 11 and six. I'm not buying that. I'm not buying it.
Stop. I was impressed. I think so.
With Simone Biles, right? Rumor going around. Bye, Tim. Goodbye, Bart. Go, Brewers. And we're back.
And I'm back. I'm back at the toy drive with Steve Sparky Pfeiffer. It's the Bart Winkler show. And we're in the Bears sunroom studios, if I remember that right. That's correct. Yeah.
If you can check us out on the Dan Jett show. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right.
That's right. If you can check us out on the Dan Cheney YouTube stream, Dan Cheney insurance. Steve, I have some sports related questions for you, but that could weigh 17 years.
Most of those who've been out here. There was COVID here. Yeah. But other than that. Two years. Yeah.
Two years. Other than that, it's been you talking to the people, getting donations. All for the kids, Sparky.
That's good stuff, man. It's for Children's Hospital, Children's Wisconsin. Again, I mean, just think about it. You don't want to be spending your holidays in the hospital. Your kids definitely don't want to be spending their holidays in the hospital. So, you know, what we do is we collect toys and it helps, you know, for those kids during the holidays to get a couple of toys, a toy or two from Children's Hospital. And then we get enough toys, which thankfully over the course of time, we've been able to do so. It helps, you know, supply toys for the entire year. So if somebody's having a bad day, they get a toy, puts a smile on their face. For their birthdays, checkout when they're going home, you get a toy on checkout when you're going home. That's good stuff. Plus, it also helps with Robin's Nest, which is something that they started up in the last 10, 12 years or so, which is something involving foster parenting. So a lot of these foster parents, you know, that don't have a ton necessarily going for them. So they're able to kind of help provide toys for them for the holidays as well for those foster kids that they're mentoring. So it does so much good stuff. It's my favorite week of the year, has been since we started this thing 17 years ago.
And hopefully we can keep this thing going for another 17 more. My first year out here was 2015, 2014, maybe I was in the studio, maybe first year out here 2016, but still since the mid whatever. Would you believe me if I said my outlook on this has changed after I had a child? Yeah, absolutely.
Not that it changed, it's just now I can say things and mean it instead of just like pretending. I mean, look, I always tell the story, Matt Regasius, who used to be a producer for Bill Michaels back in the day, has a son who has special needs, I guess would be the best way to put it, and spent a lot of time on children's and I'll never forget when his son was really young and he was in, he called me and he said, don't you ever, ever stop that toy drive. He goes, because the look on my son's face when he was given the toy just changed his whole day. He was in so much pain and everything else that was going on, but that moment was huge. And not only was it huge for the kid, but it was huge for Matt and his wife, the parents actually seeing their son smile, who had been going through so much that day, it's a big deal. And I had the same, I had an experience with children's as well. Last year, we had our baby daughter at the end of July and Labor Day weekend, she stopped breathing.
And we were in children's Labor Day weekend last year for two nights, three days, whatever it was. And it ended up not being anything, they called it a brew event. You and E mean unexplained event. So they have no idea why it happened. But apparently it happens with babies. So it happened once and they said it happens twice, then we have to be something to be concerned about.
Thankfully, never happened again. But you can imagine when your baby's eyes rolling in the back of their head and they're turning purple, how scared you would be driving your baby to the hospital. So I've been through it, I've spent nights at children's hospital. So you're right, when you're a parent, and if you have to use children's, you really get a better idea of it. But even if you have a kid and you've never used it, knowing that they're there is a big deal. And so many of the people that use children are not from southeastern Wisconsin, they flying from other states, they come in from different parts of the country. Because this is one of the top hospitals in the country and we're blessed to have it in our backyard. See, I gave you an assist there because you could say a lot of that much better than me. I mean, my kids four, I can speak on how great toys are and how great it is to have a hospital here. But thankfully, we haven't, you know, the only nights I've spent would be when he was born.
Sure. Which that's lucky. Knock on wood. You see that video of Jason Kelsey, you see that at all when he's in the hospital, like living his best life while his wife was in labor.
That's kind of what I did. I was asleep. I Oh my God, she's in labor for 10 hours. I'm just sleeping. I'm just enjoying myself. That's horrible.
I'm a chair. That's, that's when me as a dad goes up, me as a husband keeps going down, but she's still with you. So it's, it's, it's all worked well as of the taping. Yeah.
Yeah. Hey, by the way, if you can't make it out here to Blaine's Farm and Fleet in Oak Creek, we're out here every day, Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm. We have great volunteers from Children's Wisconsin are helping us out as well. He's liking cash donations, check donations as well, as well as brand new toys here. Check out Toyland, Blaine's Farm and Fleet. If you can't make it out this week between Monday and Friday, why the hell not?
I'm just joking. Um, but you can donate online at 1250amthefan.com. Just click on the toy drive story. You can make your donation online. Uh, and hopefully I can see a bunch of you out here during the course that we can talk some sports. Yeah. Uh, this is fun. It's great to be a part of this.
You can donate online if you can't get here, but if you can get here, see my man, Steve, that helped too. Um, I need to, I need to come to you as a long time radio man and the things that I've been dealing with lately. Yep. We talk Packers.
I was on Curtin Long. You are. Thank you. We talk Packers. That's posted.
So I'll start with a softie. Do we think they're making the playoffs? Cause I told you, I think they can.
Yes. They're very noncommittal. Their schedule's bad. So we got Kansas city also, but then they have Tampa in the, not in the right order, but the giants, Tampa, Chicago, Carolina, Carolina, and the Vikings. And if you lose to Kansas city, you still got five games. Let's give them a loss in one of those five games. It's still four winnable games based on their schedule, based on Seattle schedule.
If we're going to scoreboard watch a, yeah, I think they can, I think. And even if they go and get killed fine, but if I think they can, and I think it's, it's good for a team that is, even if they don't make the playoffs, it's nice for a team that's young like this to have that goal to have something to build towards. I think that I just, this season for being five and six is like, I'm very pleased with how it is going.
And they are five and six. Brian Gudekun said in mid season that they had to show them something the last 10 games. But since that press conference, I believe they've started to show him something week in and week out. And this team has turned the corner offensively, especially has turned the corner. And I think at the beginning of the year, a lot of people said that wins losses, whatever, but the offense specifically, cause the defense is Joe Berry.
It is what it is, but offensively, you want to see the offense playing better as the year went, right? And by the end of the year at two, three games, by the end of the year, we were like, okay, they turned the corner. We're good with this going into next year. They figured it out.
It took a while, but they figured it out. We're good. We're going to go with this group next year. But if it's one, two, three, one, two, three point every first half for 17 weeks, and they never get out of their own way at any point, then maybe it is okay. Is Jordan Love really our guy? Are these wide receivers really what we thought we were?
Then you have those questions. But since that presser, I think they've taken those steps. And now I think it's, I mean, it's gonna be hard to convince me that Jordan Love's not the guy at this point. But to me, he is the guy. And I think they still need one more true number one, with all due respect to Christian Watson. I think they could really use a true number one wide receiver.
But outside of that, I think they're good to go. With respect to the holiday season and Craig Council, who has been, hold on, to our toy drive in the past, don't care, and has donated, don't care, why I want to bring this up is obviously I'm furious with him. And why I think he did is terrible. I don't remember a take that I've had or an opinion or a feeling that I've had that's been so met with pushback that I don't understand the pushback because I've had takes about the Bucks or the Packers or whatever. And I understand the other side of it. But the amount of people who, Wisconsin fans, forget the Cubs aspect of it, Wisconsin fans who are trying to tell me, it doesn't matter, who cares? And then I was over it. And then he shows up at the Bucks game.
The brazenness of this man to show up at this Bucks game. I just don't understand how you can't be mad. The thing that's always triggered me in any time that we talk about money is the thing that we do, it's these comparisons to like, well, you would do this in your job. You would do this in your job. You don't move from AT&T to Verizon and they have two million fans pissed at you.
He made Milwaukee look like a Chicago suburb. That's why I'm the most mad. And why aren't people mad with me?
Can you help me? First off, it's Toy Drive week. I'm trying to be happy, trying to do stuff for the kids. You bring up this idiot. I told you, I told you, Craig's donated. I've said a good thing about Craig for the first time since Craig-tember.
Good for him. Listen, I've never been more mad about a sports topic in my life than anything. You can talk about the Packers screwing up 2014.
You can talk about Brad Favre leaving. Excuse me. This one angers me the most, by far. I've been the most angry about this. Just the thought of his name.
I get mad. I didn't realize he was at that game last night. I saw it on social media this morning. Somebody that I tweeted and you quote tweeted it on your account. I will tell you that this is the difference. When Brett left, Brett never said he was one of us.
Brett never said, hey, I'm like you. We did that. Right. But he never said he was one of us.
Right? I grew up here. I went to the stadium like you did.
I'm a brewer through and through. This is so important. Okay. Brett never did any of that stuff. Brett never decided he was going to live here after he got traded to the Jets. Brett never decided he was going to live here after he got traded to the Vikings. Want to know why? Because he wasn't one of us, number one.
Number two, he wasn't stupid enough to come back here after everything that went on. He got rid of that softball game, lickety split. I'm out. I'm not coming back for that either.
Let Donald Driver do it. Rogers as an owner doesn't even come back to the Bucks games. Right. All of that.
Not having it. Then we have Craig Council, who does the video, who says he's one of us and is literally been one of us. You know Whitefish Bay basketball games? He's there watching his kids play high school sports. He's there. Nobody bothers him. He's by himself. It's all good. Goes to a bunch of Bucks games again.
Nobody bothers him. All good. My issue with all of this is you could have taken the Mets job for a million less. You didn't want to do that. The Guardians, they don't know how much they were offering, but you would have had no response from brewer fans. Even though you're in the same week.
Nobody would have cared. All right. You and David Stern.
We say, Hey, Greg's at the Bucks game. That's cool. Cool. Whatever. Right. He wants to stick around.
That's neat. Guardians job. Fine. Do what you got to do. Only two jobs.
And I literally tweeted it out that morning before it happened. I don't care where he goes. Do not go to Chicago to the Cubs and do not go to the Cardinals.
I'll tell you this. He could have went to the White Sox. I would not have cared. Would not have cared.
Go ahead. Maybe in the World Series, maybe someday. Don't care, but you stay in the division and you go to one of the two biggest rivalries of this fan base, which you know, because you grew up here your entire life and he's playing dumb. Now that makes more men. You want to play it both ways. I knew Steve this whole time. Screw all you idiots who are trying to tell me to get over it.
It's not even been a month. He showed up at the Bucks game. Now I've said it on my podcast. I recommend you boo him, his family, everybody in the grocery store at the bank. They left him alone at the Bucks game.
Wherever you see him, you boo him. Like I don't want you to be personal. I don't want you to name call. I want you to know that. Yes, Steve. But if they're buying an Apple, boo, just boom everywhere you see him. It's ridiculous.
And then he has this press conference and he's trying to tell me, oh man, it was a lot more difficult than I thought this last week. I didn't think there actually was going to be like this. You're a moron then.
You are a complete and utter moron. If you didn't expect brewer fans to be pissed off about this. And what makes it worse is you go to the Cubs whose payroll is going to be double the brewers easily. They're going to be probably have every chance to go to a world series. The brewers are going to be in a rebuild here going forward. With Brett, you saw him twice a year for a couple of years.
The council, you're going to see him 13 freaking times a year for five years at least. And more than likely, if they win and they go to the playoffs, he's going to get another five years and another five years. And you know how he's going to be remembered as the manager of the Chicago Cubs. That's how he's going to be remembered before this whole thing is said and done. And then when he's wearing that Cubs world series ring around town, you can go up and congratulate him on winning a Cubs world series and feel good about yourself.
That is absolute insanity to me. Why are so many people defending him? Easy. He grew up here.
But he hurt me. Do you have any idea how many family and friends and acquaintances this man has around southeastern Wisconsin to help insulate him and to help fight his fights going forward? They're everywhere. I had a volunteer out here today. She was telling me that her daughter knows his son and they went to school together and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay. I mean, that's just one example when it came up today of, Oh yeah, this person went to school. That person that knows that person. He has a huge network of people that love him and I get it right. Good dude was a good dude and they're all going to protect him. So this is not like Brett. Brett had a few people, right? Business people around the area that like Brett, but he didn't have the close knit people around him because he didn't grow up here like council. So that's what makes this all completely different. That's why you have so many people running to his defense and telling people to get over it because they're friends with him, his kids, his wife, other family members, and they're going to defend him to the death no matter what happens. And those that are pissed off and angry don't have an affiliation with him. Don't care about him or his family and care more about being a Brewer fan than anything having to do with him.
I'm not saying he can't live and be out in, you know, I'm not saying he can't do that. I will. Get the hell out. Go live in Illinois.
You want to be a Cubs manager? I agree. Go live in Skokie. You don't have to live here. But that one report said his dream job. Cool.
Take your dream and get the hell out. But if I want to, like, I'll give him an inch, if I give him an inch and say, all right, he went, you went to some Whitefish Bay games this weekend. Okay. He showed up at a Bucks game. He's going to continue to.
That is how, how do people not understand? Like, that is a slap to everyone's face. And then, and then, okay, well, how do you, he's a huge Bucks fan, Bart.
Oh yeah. Guess what he did at that game? Sat on his ass the whole time. Never clapped. Never cheered.
That's what I was told. Well, I don't know. Who cares?
I don't care if he stands up for cheers or not. But you're right. It is the whole aspect of, eh, I'm fine.
I'm credit counsel. I'm great. So I'm not going to worry about that. Wisconsin's all talk.
They won't boo me. Could you imagine, I keep using this example. Billy's manager goes to the Mets, goes to a Sixers game, he would be dead. Tell me this. Tell me what would happen if LaFleur or McCarthy or any of these other guys would have went to the Bears from here. What if Forest Gregg would have coached the Bears after Ditka?
How would that have been received? Or what if Ditka, right, Bart Starr, what if Ditka would have coached the Packers after he coached the Bears? Would Ditka be the same Reverend Ditka in Chicago? Had he coached the Packers for 10 years later? Did Mann win a Super Bowl with us?
Exactly. As well as the Bears. Yeah, come on. Speaking of Bucs, last thing. I don't know if, I don't know, but after 10 games and now there's been a winning streak and now Kevin or Conner or whoever the hell he is has an article about the Bucs should fire Griffin again. It's 10, what are we doing?
Being stupid. The third place, third best record. Look, we got an in-season tournament title on the way.
Well, I don't care about the in-season tournament. I've been to both games. Good, good, good. Very good.
Yep. I'm going to my first game with the Bucs Spurs, December 13th, when Benyama, we'll go see when Benyama. This is the only reason I'm going to that game, to be honest with you, is because the 16 year old got some award from high school.
So I only had to pay for one. They might be raising the NBA cup banner that night. Oh really? On the 13th?
It's like a week after. Maybe. I don't know. Whatever.
So anyway, this is the thing. Did I like Adrian Griffin higher? No.
Did I want a more experienced coach? Yes. Having said that, should we make proclamations about this team in November? No. December? No. January? No.
Talk to me at the end of February, early March, and then I'll tell you what I think this team is going to look like. I don't know if you watch, what is it, Bucs Film Room? Is that the Twitter account or whatever it is?
Mr. Film. Yeah. If you watch, go back at his Twitter feed a couple nights ago, and look, and you could plainly see either they don't know where they're supposed to be going on defensive rotations, or they just choose not to move their feet to get to where they're supposed to be going on defensive rotations. But there are clearly issues on defense. And I do not care what the numbers say, oh look, they're missing two more threes a game against the Bucs than they were before, right? Because they're missing two more threes per game, not because the Bucs defense has done anything to try and have that happen at this point.
Offensively, you're going to have any chance to win any game because you have Giannis and Lillard. Last night, I'm watching Twitter blow up as the Bucs are getting hammered. Sunday was rough.
Right? People are losing their minds. No, last night, Monday night, people were losing their minds. Oh no, today's Monday? Today is Monday. Yeah, you're right.
This is the Tuesday episode. Yeah, sorry. I still try to present this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. I'm all confused.
I can't break that habit. So anyways, so Sunday's game was awful. And people on Twitter, oh my God, people paid money to go watch this game and look at the crap they've got to watch. Unbelievable. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Complain, complain, complain. I'm saying nothing.
I was watching it. I'm like, okay, well, we'll see what happens. And what happens?
They come storming all the way back. Giannis and Lillard take over the fourth quarter and they win the game. Again, you all can freak out and be mad because they're not winning the way you want them to win, but they are winning. Number one, number two, seeding does not matter for this Bucks team. The only thing that matters for this Bucks team is will they be healthy when the playoffs start? And will they be playing together as a unit in that starting five? Will Giannis and Lillard have figured out how to play together by the time we get to the playoffs?
The answer to that should be absolutely yes. Then it's, will they all be healthy? Will Middleton be healthy or will they be without Middleton in the playoffs? That is the biggest key of all because without Middleton, that team is much different than with Middleton.
And Brook Lopez, holy crap, look at Brook Lopez play late. So that too, how will his role develop and go on throughout the course of the year? These young guys, are they still going to be in the playoff rotation? Because right now they're giving Andre Jackson a lot of damn run.
Marjon Beauchamp's getting run, AJ Green's getting run. Are they still going to be relevant by the time the playoffs come? That's all the stuff we have to focus on. The defense will figure itself out. It'll get better. It's going to take time. But all this crap about Adrian Griffin being fired is stupid.
Like it is way too early to care about this one way or the other. Steve Sprockie Pfeiffer, the effort he puts in to this toy drive is unparalleled. And because I care about him and I care about this, if you guys can do any donations, please do because I, you guys sometimes tell me, do a charity thing. No, this goes, then it saves me the trouble and work and I can still feel good and we can get people to help.
That's right. Blake's Barbed Fleet all this week, Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm. I'm out here.
Come on out, say hi. Got a bunch of representatives from Children's Wisconsin and Robinson's helping me out all week long, which is awesome. You can bring a toy if you already bought a toy somewhere else, drop it in the bin, write it out where we are set up with our Bear Sun Room, or you can go inside Toyland here at Blake's Barbed Fleet, buy a toy or two in there, drop that in the bin, or we have a cash bucket. You could drop cash or checks into that as well, checks to Children's Wisconsin or go online. If you can't get down here during the week, go to 1250amthefan.com and make your donation online. Again, kids in a hospital during the holidays, nobody wants to be there.
Nobody wants to live through it. And this helps. Thank you everyone. Have a good day. And to hell with you, Craig Council, he is a dick.
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