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You need Indeed. Both runners go. Truro whips it towards center. Campbell comes on and it jumps down in front of him for a base hit. Rodriguez scores. Collins stumps it third. It's the third hit of the day from Truro. His second RBI single and the Shuckers lead it 4-0.

How about that? The Biloxi Shuckers. And that on the call was Javick Blake. And he will be joining the Bart Winkler show later today. Good morning, everybody. This is the Bart Winkler podcast.

And I am Bart Winkler. And the Shuckers, I'm starting with the Shuckers today, because they won. And Truro had three hits. And Wade Miley pitched.

Good rehab start for him. Five innings. Four hits. One walk. Struck out five.

Got the win. So pretty good there. Truro is 3 for 5 with two RBI. It's batting 253 on the season. OBS above 700. OPS is what you might know it as. You guys should go look up the Mississippi Braves logo, by the way.

You'll be pissed off. The Shuckers beat the Mississippi Braves. The Mississippi Braves logo is basically the Milwaukee Braves logo. Oof.

I don't like seeing that. The Shuckers logo is a Shucker chilling in a bee. So they got the win. So congrats to the Shuckers. And this is a Shuckers podcast now.

Because the voice of the Shuckers is coming on. Javick Blake. He is 22 years old. He is the voice of the Shuckers AA team. Incredible.

Meteoric Reisz already. But he deserves it. As I will tell him, I first met him when I took over a game for the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders in the Northwoods League. I called one game early in the season. He was still at college. I think he had to graduate.

I think that's what he missed. He had to miss a game because he was graduating college. So I got to do a game.

And some were buried on ESPN Plus. I don't know. I don't know how good it was that day.

But I did it. And so I listened to Javick do it and I was like, Oh my God, this kid is good. I got to follow this kid.

And we've stayed in touch a little bit. And I wanted to have him on and talk some more broadcasting and just what it's like to call not only at this level being so young, but then also calling Jackson Churio being around this guy every day. Jackson Churio, as long as the projection or trajectory or I don't want to get spark guy to yell at me for the wrong word as long as as long as his projectory goes the way that it should.

Jackson Churio is going to be an all time great brewer, or at least somebody who has the potential to be that. And Blake is here at the ground level doing that. So coming up, we'll talk to him.

That video also is on YouTube. So you can check out me and him talking on the Dan Cheney insurance stream, Dan Cheney.com for all your insurance needs homework auto, many of you guys giving him a call at least, and saving some big time money I'll bring up again Q saving more than 1400 bucks as he told us the other day over the next year. Talking shuckers to avoid talking brewers and what a bad weekend it was for them. So did go live on Friday night for a little bit after game four of the NBA Finals. The main takeaway there is that the Nuggets are probably going to wrap up this thing Monday night will be live Monday night YouTube live stream Dan Cheney insurance stream. We will be live for that.

You can join us please help you do on YouTube that'll serve as Tuesday show. But we talked about the Nuggets a little bit just how good and well that team is crafted because when yo gets in foul trouble, and if he doesn't score for a quarter and a half, it doesn't matter. The other guys are picking it up and every single nugget has a stake to claim in this championship that is played. There's been a Christian Braun game. There's been an Aaron Gordon game.

There's been a Jamal Murray game. Of course, he just going to win the MVP. By the way, if you want to make yourself a quick $16 minus 600 is the line for Jokic to win the MVP. No minus 6000. So you have to put down $10,000. And you can win $160. And if you put down $1,000, you can win 16 bucks.

So you've got $1,000 laying around and want 15 more dollars. Get out to Pado and put the odds down for Jokic minus 6000 to win the MVP. What would the odds have been for the Brewers to get swept by the Oakland A's? That is a great question.

I don't know. But it happened and Brewers fans are mad and rightly so. I was on CBS Sports Radio during the conclusion of this game and you know I probably too much talk about that.

I live in Milwaukee and reference Packers Brewers bucks. I probably do that a little too much. But I thought what the hell? Fuck it.

Let's do it. So I was watching the end of the game because the play was the angle that I took was how should I feel? How would you feel if your team got swept by what is the worst team in baseball far and away? They were 14 and 50 coming into the series. They beat the Brewers 5-2 on Friday. Extra inning Saturday 2-1. If you missed that, great recap by Andrew Wagner.

He was thrilled to be back in the press box. Check that out. Then on Sunday they lose 8-6. Mount a little bit of a rally but then lose. The team cannot hit. They had good pitching performances before Sunday wasn't good with Freddie. But they've been getting good pitching performances they just cannot hit. The A's have swept the team for the first time this season. They've now won 5 in a row.

And on Friday night when we were talking I didn't think it was the world's biggest deal. Okay you lose. You're not going to sweep every team. And I know the A's suck but you can't just assume you're going to sweep them. You can't just assume that.

But we all think, I think we did assume they then win the next two or three. And I don't even know if that's fair. We always talk about how it's baseball.

Fluke sport. It's baseball. And then we just think we're going to steamroll this team. But that's how bad the A's are. Yes, the answer was yes. We did think they were going to get steamrolled by us.

And so they did not. They steamrolled us and now we're left to wonder as the Brewers embark on a series against the Twins where they will have Craig Council. Even Council's like I don't want to be around for this shit. He on purpose went to a graduation instead of managing on Sunday.

Now yes it was his kids and you probably need to be there. But ain't nobody's ever had fun at a graduation unless you're one of the families that for the first time you get a graduate and it is you know every moment's big and I'm not taking that away from anybody. And you get the big cheering sections.

That's great. But I'm sure Craig's been to his share of graduations and I'm sure he loves his son and you know it's much better that he was there than not there. And I don't blame him for being and I'm actually surprised managers don't get more time off. They got to do one hundred sixty two of these days.

They have their players play like one hundred and ten and we're like Jesus Christian yellow is going to hold up. But the manager has to sit through it every game. The manager should get a few more days off even like even teachers teachers get the summer off but teachers still get personal days to use. They can still miss some time. Managers managers should be able to get some time. Baseball is different than all these other sports. Here's the lineup Pat.

Here's the lineup Murph. You know what to do. Otherwise the best way to get a day off as a big league manager. You're telling me some of these guys don't get ejected so they can get the rest of the day off.

You're telling me that don't happen. Or they at least can just like go back and relax and crack a beer early. Not have to do the postgame stuff. Just get out of there. Yeah get ejected. Get ejected second inning.

I'm back in Shorewood by the fourth. That's what I'd be doing if I was a manager for sure for sure for sure. Hey so the Brewers suck which we can talk more about that Monday night. And then a congratulations to Steve Stricker. Steve Stricker yes Wisconsin's very own Steve Stricker won the I want to get the official name of this tournament right. The annual who gives a shit fuck tournament.

Look with all due to AmFam who puts it on it's not about them. It's about Steve. I'm on my Twitter feed.

I'm seeing a whole by whole updates. It's like we're doing Tiger Tracker for Stricker. I never got it. Look I've never interviewed the guy. I don't know him. I know that like hey it's a PGA it's a golfer. We get to interview him. Let's let's be friends with a golfer.

I know that's cool for a lot of people in sports radio that they get to know somebody that that golfs like this. I just I've never I've never I've never like rooted for. I mean I don't thought that I root against him. I don't even like I don't even care about him that much to care if he does bad. I just don't care. And now the guy wins a tournament in his backyard and I'm supposed to be happy about it.

I tweet. There's nothing more I could care less about. I just need somebody somebody tell me why I should care. And then someone said maybe it's because it's OK for sports to make you feel happy. Well I agree with that. But why should Steve Strick why does he have any bearing on my life.

I don't know. Look your boy's got a lot of your boy your boy's got a lot of tools in his back pocket. You know Bart's main hits right. I've got that dude the daily content and I've got but I've got the main hits I've got the I've got the back pocket plays. OK.

Things slow down a little bit. Guess what you're going to hear about my time in television news or the time I was a call center operator or did you know I once threw a rock through a Little Caesars. Well right in that Rolodex is why should I care about Steve Stricker.

And so that's where we're at. So with that being said I'm going to tell you someone you should care about JVic Blake Biloxi Shuckers 22 years old. He's the main guy in the booth. He actually thought he was going to get the number two job but then their number one took a different job. So they had to re-interview got the number one job and he is the man that you hear whenever you hear a cheerio highlight whenever you hear anything. This guy I'm going to talk to this kid he's 22.

22. This is the guy's voice you'll hear and I don't know that he's going to be doing the Shuckers forever. I think big things for this kid. He joins us next. We're driven by the search for better but when it comes to hiring the best way to search for a candidate isn't to search at all don't search match with Indeed. Indeed is your matching and hiring platform with over 350 million global monthly visitors according to Indeed data and a matching engine that helps you find quality candidates fast. Leveraging over 140 million qualifications and preferences every day Indeed's matching engine is constantly learning from your preferences. Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide that use Indeed to hire great talent fast and listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at Indeed dot com slash blue wire. Just go to Indeed dot com slash blue wire right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast Indeed dot com slash blue wire terms and conditions apply need to hire you need Indeed. When Cynthia came to TurboTax she just launched her new side gig a true crime podcast.

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Experts only available with TurboTax live. From a hotel room in where are you right now? Flowwood Mississippi.

Flowwood? Yes. Next to Pearl which is next to Jackson. Holy.

All right. JVic Blake is here. He is calling this year the Biloxi Shuckers.

He's their man on the broadcast. Last year he was with the Fonilac Doc Spiders and before that you were at Elon University. That's where you went to school right? Yeah.

Elon University and the High Point Rockers and Andy Ball and the Wareham Gateman in the Cape Cod Baseball League. And you've done all this so far. What are you like 22? 22. Yeah.

I graduated college early in January to be able to start working in baseball and now now we're here which is which is quite incredible. Man. Yeah.

So calling the Shuckers. All right. A lot I want to talk to you about. And I first got to be familiar with your work last summer. Jim Mishidek who was your boss.

He is a guy I've known since high school a friend. And he said hey our guy JVic can't do a game. Can you do a game?

So yes I did a Doc Spiders game. I'm like all right. What does what does the guy sound like. And I'm listening like oh boy he's pretty good. I was pretty impressed. And I told Jim I'm like this kid you got good.

He's like yeah I don't like to tell him because you'll probably leave me soon. And now you're with the Shuckers. But how did that how did how did you go from you like how did you find the Doc Spiders job like how did that happen.

And then I'll ask you I guess about Fonda like after that. But how did you find the Doc Spiders. So it was really I knew I wanted to go to the North Woods League because I was still in school so I wasn't able to go to minor league baseball yet because I did have to unfortunately be on campus from April from the minor league baseball season of April to September. Like there are some times when I actually need to be in the classroom and I the year before I did the I did the baseball and school at the same time and it was six weeks and I was like doing homework at twelve thirty in the clubhouse and that was that was a lot of fun. But it was one of those things where I wanted I knew I wanted to go out and be number one and have that opportunity to to do a full season where I'm running everything a lot like I am now just at a smaller scale in in the North Woods League. And honestly the way I found Fonda because I was going through like what teams A did home and road games and B like what their GMs did. And I got to the Doc Spiders they did home and road games read Jim's bio and went up.

There we go. That's the place I want to be because the number one way to learn from someone and to learn media relations alongside the broadcasting stuff is someone who's done it at a big league level for 15 years and was the head of everything for the Baltimore Orioles and the head of everything for the Atlanta Braves seemed like a really really good person to learn from and that was very very true. Yeah he was with the Brewers for a while I think intern there.

Then he ran stuff with the Orioles. It was great to run into him at the ballpark when he'd be back and now back doing the thing in Fond du Lac and he's loving it. Was able to bring you aboard. So I grew up in Fond du Lac like that's my home town. What's it like to be there for like I don't know if Fond du Lac is a visitor. What's it like to be a visitor in Fond du Lac.

It was a lot of fun. The ballpark's great. The festival food and the quick trip were fantastic. Those are my favorite two places probably in Fond du Lac outside of Herr Baker Field.

But no it's a great place to be. The food was great. Beer was great. People were really nice.

So it was all it was all really really fun. It's a great place to be but there wasn't much off time. Northwood Ziggy plays 72 games in 76 days and of the four off days or of the five six five off day six off days three of them are the All-Star break and one of them is the top prospects game. So there's really two off days the whole year.

So there's not much time to get out and look around because we're not the ballpark. You're just sleeping and when you're at the ballpark you're at the ballpark. So but no Fond du Lac was great. The people are great.

Jim was the man to work with. I mean I learned so much from him and the ability to do that day in day out and you know by myself work a minor league baseball schedule while just being in college is incredible. It's the reason why I'm here in Biloxi.

So it was it was incredible. That field you call those games at right by my middle school right by the Taco Bell I used to go to probably seven times a week during. That's a great Taco Bell. That's a really good Taco Bell. It is it is a good Taco Bell.

I used I stolen a lot of like signs from that Taco Bell when they would have promote. I don't know. I'm an idiot. You never went to Ledgeview Lanes I assume the bowling alley right there. I did. I think I went once.

Oh yeah. I did go once. I did go once. A lot of nights at Ledgeview Lanes. I did not bowl well.

It was a very bad bowling experience. Oh yeah. Well you got to put the bumpers up. Yeah yeah.

Bumpers were not up and it was it was a bad it was a bad it was bad. Well that that's all right. So from Fond du Lac and then then I see your tweet you know whenever you put out the announcement that you were going to Biloxi and I thought man what a jump. But before that I just think that like the Northwoods League and I want to highlight this too.

It's great for players. I mean I lived in lacrosse for a while with the loggers and we would see the kind of guys that went through there. God who I can't even think of any Chris Sale I think was there. There was another good pitcher that was there. There's just so many guys that have been through the Northwoods League but it's also like for young aspiring broadcasters and for people that just want to work in baseball because to do that one game I don't know like how strict Jim would have been on it. But he's like hey I think you might have to watch all these videos. So I watched all that.

I spent way too much time. I like but it was it just goes to show like this is a league for anybody who wants to work in baseball. So this is turning it into an advertisement unofficially for the Northwoods League. But I just want you to speak on that if you could.

Yeah. You know I think the big thing is how things are run in Fond du Lac. I think that's that's a big part of how it is because being owned by the timber atlers and Rob's or Jeff is the owner of both teams. He's the president of both teams and he's the GM of the timber atlers. He's quite possibly one of the few owners in minor league baseball that will pull tarp cut grass in the infield and flip burgers while still owning the team. So being owned by the timber atlers and having Jim as the GM and all the experience he's had. We were very much run exactly like a minor league baseball team which you know going to Biloxi it's pretty much the same thing as what it was in Fond du Lac. There's just more people which is awesome.

And that's a testament to what they do in Fond du Lac. You know it's so great the way they run things and it helps prepare you for minor league baseball by the way. Yes the schedule.

Yes the games. Yes you're doing every game. Yes you're doing media relations but also your interactions with the players and how that works and everything and the player movement and everything is very much like minor league baseball to the point where coming into this year especially because our average age of our team in Biloxi is twenty two and a half years old on the hitting side of things the youngest in double A. So going into that this year having done everything last year in Fond du Lac it was it was a pretty smooth transition and that's a testament to everything that they do in Fond du Lac and that trickles down from Wisconsin in Appleton all the way down to Fond du Lac. So like your normal day because you're I'm talking to you on a Friday you've got a game tonight but as they did in Fond du Lac and you know you had those game notes for me and I'm like my like I think people might think especially the level you're at minor league baseball you are not just show up at six twenty announced leave you are the whole like media department are you not.

Tell me how you like a normal day for you today. So the road is a little different it's a little more laid back and because of that I'm able to get more of the other stuff done than during a home game where you know your go go go. So for a road game you know you wake up get coffee do the game notes. I usually do the game notes first and that's kind of the comprehensive in-depth look at everything it's like what guys have done recently the big stats highlights that sort of thing. Then you grab some lunch I'll usually do some of the website stuff that I have to do you know as part of my job I also am our web designer so you know I'm designing our corporate sponsorship pages are ticketing are that sort of stuff all on the website you know making sure everything looks good and is easily accessible for fans. And then at that point it's time to hop on the bus do some social media stuff got to send out the interview from the night before that that I did for pregame hop on the Bart Linkler show and then then go to the ballpark around to get to the ballpark around you know to 15 ish and then just get set for a game you know fill out the book do some social media stuff you know send out our lineup and everything go down for BP get the pregame interview for get my pregame interview for the day and then you know finish getting ready and by that time it is about 6.20 so for 6.35 game we start the pregame show at 6.20 and from there call the game while also cutting highlights and posting to social media at the same time and then yeah game ends do the postgame show finish that up send out our final score graphic and everything all over social media and then yeah write the recap send that out and go to home go to bed and do it all over again at the home at home it's a little bit different because there's a lot little bit more involved as far as meetings and stuff like we'll have our daily game day meeting in the morning you know there's a lot to worry about like the lineups and you know sending that out to media members and everything and making sure everything's set on that side of things but it's it's very similar as far as what the day-to-day is there's just a little more extra time to get stuff done on the road so the stuff that I know get done during a home stand it's when I get it done the shuckers of course the Brewers double-a affiliate and there's a lot of there's there's some recognizable names I think for people that are you know following the Brewers maybe you don't follow the day and day out of all these minor leagues I think Abner Uribe is a name that people know Tyler Black is a name people know maybe Freddy Zamora Tristan Lutz Jackson Churio is there so this is the guy that a lot of Brewer fans are very anxious to see at some point maybe sooner rather than later how do you not just talk to him every day for your pregame interview I've got like here here's seven Jackson questions at once how do you not talk to him every day how great is it that you get to see him how good is he actually in person do you try a little harder on every Churio call just in case you know it's gonna be in a highlight bag okay so that one that one's important that one you just cross your fingers and hope you don't screw up because you know it's going everywhere that Abner Uribe Carlos F Rodriguez who's the pitcher who's one of two Carlos Rodriguez is on the team yeah first and careless those are the ones you really really want to get right because you want them to sound really good because they're gonna go everywhere there's a running joke that every Jackson Churio highlight he could step out of the dugout we posted on Twitter hundred thousand people see it yeah because I mean how could you not he's an incredible person too which adds to the fun but yeah that's one of those things where it's a homerun you may you really want to make sure you get that call right is he as good as advertised I mean how far away do you think he might be he's ridiculously good he does everything good and you forget that he's 19 like I was talking with one of our pitchers yesterday and our hitting coach Chuck Caulfield has his kid with him for the last couple weeks and I think his kids eight we realized like three days ago that that's 11 years younger than Jackson we were like I'm sorry what yeah made that like because it's a it's a kid he's just finished up I think second grade or whatever it is and you know it's like yeah this kid's like seven younger like 11 years younger than Jackson how is this possible um but no he is so much fun to watch he is so good at everything it makes you forget that he's 19 especially with how he carries himself he's just such a good kid um and has a good head on his shoulders and that's important in the game of baseball and especially for him you know there's ups and downs in double a it's a big leap and he's handled it really well he's been terrific the home run calls have been a lot of fun and it's it's been fun to watch him play yeah I mean that that not could not only is it going to go places that day but we could be digging back I mean your your voice could be attached to his highlights forever that's a big that's a big uh it's a big task for you yeah happy year one in minor league baseball you have the top prospect in all of baseball with you which is an incredible incredible thing to start off the the minor league the minor league career is is that just Jackson Churio is on your team Andy Eforson Caro who is just ridiculous as well yeah it's great to get those I mean what a what a tremendous start for you the double a stuff um you know you're speaking on your day and your schedule how do you like how they do it down there so basically like here's the shuckers month of uh juke you guys were at home for a week and then yet off monday now you're in where'd you say you were floralsburg where are you flow wood pearl jackson the capital of mississippi plus the little more area now you're there for a week and they play a six game series monday off then you're in montgomery for a week a six game series then you're home and it's another these six game series you know and you were coming from fondle like where it might have been like green bay tonight wassail the next day fondle like and then back to you know kalamazoo or wherever you guys go it's like do you like this is it better is it six game series the people like by game four these players like get me out of here i hate this team i like it i think it's i think it's fun uh the six game series are a good way to kind of see everybody um and it makes it interesting come like game five and game six when you get those like second appearances out of the bullpen or the sunday game when you're getting that second start from the starter especially they pitch well in game one you're like oh this could be really really fun but the sixth game series are fun you know it's it's a lot more laid back as far as like the day-to-day wise in double a compared to the north woods league because the north woods league you have to account you have to be in a bus for two and a half hours every single day to go to wassail and back or go to wisconsin rapids and back or if not on the road like the only overnights we stayed were kalamazoo michigan battle creek michigan and kokomo indiana and outside of that it was all commuters so up and back so the fact that a game ends i can hop on the bus just go back to the hotel that helps a ton as far as just like being able to get some sleep um so i think that's that's a really good thing about being in double a um is that it is kind of though you get that monday off day every single week those six game series you can get comfortable in a place and kind of you know get entrenched in it and be able to really learn um the opposing team um and just not having those those bus trips every single day i think is is big because it allows you to just get a little more rest which is important when you're playing 138 games when did you um i used to good answer by the way people i've been getting criticized for asking the next listeners are criticizing me for not acknowledging the answer and like i am listening okay so that is a that's a great answer thank you you're welcome this i got a moving on i i understand that completely yeah moving on um so when i was a kid i used to do like fake radio shows in my room uh and i had you know it was play record you know i'm old play record on the boom box when did you know that this is something you wanted to do um did you want to play did did that like when did you know that you wanted to be where you're where you are and where you're getting well when i wanted to i always wanted to do broadcast i thought it was going to be when i was literally post playing career thing after i finished up being a long time starting catcher hall of famer for the new york Yankees yeah that did not work out i was about 12 years old when i realized hmm yeah that might not be that might not be the case anymore in life we might we might need that might the broadcast career might come about 25 years earlier than you had quite envisioned back when you were about six years old um but i'd always wanted to go into broadcasting i actually used to call in my head wiffle ball games then i'd play against myself in my backyard when i was little wow so much the same much the same as what you did in in your room with your own radio show it would be calling my own game as like just throwing up the ball and me hitting it in my backyard when i was when i was little i taped all those shows so i did them and i would do like character voices and i would love to go back and hear them but i did them from like third age like 11 to 15 and then when i was 15 i'm like uh these are stupid i recorded over them and then when you're like 18 19 i'm like i wish i had those so another lesson to young people is you go through a weird teenage phase where you hate everything you've ever done don't don't don't throw stuff away that's yeah i didn't record it that's the big thing i did so i didn't do as i started i started doing games and i was in middle school i think i was 12 when i did my first game it was a baseball game and it has been wiped from the internet it was it was like going back to listen to it was hilarious i don't know if there's that much remaining of the early stuff i did i can tell you the first game i ever did of like four because i started my own broadcasting network to call games when i was in high school in middle school and the first game does not exist because i plug everything in i go to call the game 13 year old me didn't know that i had to unmute the microphones and call the entire game with it muted and that was how that was how that that whole started so that that broadcast definitely does not exist but there are there are some others floating around youtube of like me at 14 calling games and it is incredibly funny to look back at and so eight years later you're with the shuckers who are you like i mean who did you grow up listening to who's like somebody that you wanted to emulate who's like because i listen to you and i'm like i wanted to be like you i mean you were calling like well thank you you're calling like bitches and i'm like this guy this guy's man who did you like who are you looking up to who's who's got like who's got the job that you're gonna steal well growing up growing up so i grew up a die-hard yankees fan in the middle of massachusetts which is a bold move considering i was born in 2001 and i was three when 04 happened and then the rest of my life the yankees won one world series and all of my friends and classmates got to hold the other two red sox titles over my head for the first 18 years of my life before i moved to north carolina but the best part was is that there was a a radio station it was like a news talk station in providence rhode island 790 am that carried the yankees games which i don't know how or why they carry the yankees games they carry the wf and field so growing up i would always listen to john sterling and susan waltman calling yankees games every single night like it got to a point where my parents you know when you're literally getting read the bedtime story and then i'd turn around put on 790 on my radio and fall asleep to that and that was that was really how i grew up it was listening to yankees every single night man so you try to emulate sterling or is there other people that you like no i wouldn't say i don't i don't i can't get into the whole having a scripted home run call everything i just kind of go with whatever whenever my mind wants to say for a home run especially if it's one of those like the jackson churria walk-offs homers you just kind of go with whatever comes out of your mouth and it's just kind of off the cuff but no there there have been a lot of people um especially at the big league level that have been a really big big help um with with kind of shaping my broadcasting career and helping me out in a big way um jake eisenberg's one he's with the canister royals jeff levering has been a huge huge help throughout my career we met each other back when i was oh gosh it was his like final two years in potucket before he joined the brewery so i was like 13 maybe and he's been he's been a massive massive help throughout my entire career you know he's been listening to tapes of mines um he's he's been listening for a long time and some of those early tapes were not very good i can tell you that much um so him and i him and i go back a long ways which is which is awesome same with jake him and i have known each other um throughout my college years and then he's been terrific in helping me um just kind of shape what i am on air and helping me get to a good place um you know lev and jacob and create in that regard of helping me kind of hone in you know the the basics and the fundamentals of it um and then kind of leaning into all right like here's how you tell a story here's how you do this you know here's how you want to kind of structure things in your mind so that it comes out in like a flowy good way it doesn't sound like a bunch of mumbo jumbo garbage which is really really cool to kind of get into the nitty-gritty and they're both so good lev's lev's incredibly good at his job um jake's in his first year in the big leagues this year with the royals um and he graduated college in 2017 or 2018 five years out of college oh wow so yeah they're both they're both they have both been massive massive helps and it's so cool to see each of them grow too you know when i met um when i met lev i met him in the the mccoy stadium uh visiting clubhouse and now he's out here doing national games and calling brewers games and that's that's awesome to see i had him on uh you know i got to meet him you know know him a little bit and he he was like yeah saturday i can't uh i'm not doing the brewers i got some other thing i got to do his other thing i'm i'm scrolling through it's mlb on fox it's cubs giants national or something i got i got some other thing to do you know i just got a national broadcast to do that's a fun another thing it's like a good excuse that's a good excuse look if you're going to have an excuse that you have you can't make the brewers game doing the nationally televised game on fox is an okay excuse my uh i'm calling this the levering question because he's the first one i asked it to i always when i was going to have him on because levering is the best not to make this a now a levering commercial but when the radio station when see you later uh he was one of the first to reach out and i said all right rain check whenever i get this pot off the ground and the question i always want to ask him was what inning are you the best so he said he gets better as the game goes on and the ninth inning is there like i because i thought my answer is like the third or fourth inning when i suck in the beginning especially if i'm walking into a northwoods league and now i've i've probably got a like a total fraction of the game that you have but right away i'm like who's this guy then i feel like i get into like okay i know what's going on but then by the end i'm trying to like spit out this fact and what he and and it's it's a disaster so where are you the strongest in a game well i think it depends because i'm with leb because i actually watched i watched that episode of the podcast back because i i was just what a guy i was i was i wanted to see what happened and his answer is is a good one because the ninth inning you always want to be your strongest because the ninth inning is one of the biggest things happen and that's the thing that's when i think i'm at my best as far as like the nuts and bolts stuff because that's all you can focus on in the ninth inning because you don't want to get into hey like we have a picture of kayla bowman who pitched in germany you don't want to be talking about how he pitched in germany in the ninth inning of a 2-2 game with two runners on you just don't want to be talking about that so i think as far as like the nuts and bolts of like all right here's where we're going to dive into the situation what's going on i think it's a nice thing but i think as far as like the storytelling aspect of it it's probably like the fourth or the fifth inning is when like you're able to dive deeper into those stories of who those guys are and i love doing that it's kind of digging in deeper to like who they are as like a person um kind of like they're like a fun story about them like we had joe great jr this year in bloxy and he's a guy who had lasik surgery going into last season and the lasik surgery didn't work so we had to go out and get a corrective contact lens in the middle of the season after he just couldn't hit a curveball and he thought it was all mechanical and it turns out no he just couldn't see out of one of his eyes um so like that's fun to get into in the middle innings but the late innings you always want to be at your best as far as like the nuts and bolts stuff of like hey here's the situation here's like what's at stake and then just call it as it happens that happened to a brewer it happened to somebody it happened to someone that was in milwaukee i can't think of it now maybe someone can help me tweet me or something but they were here and they were awful and then no one knew why and then they left somewhere and then the other team was like they're physical like oh yeah his eyes are messed up and then he was i forgot who it was that that but the joe gray junior story though convinced me that i am very okay with wearing contacts the rest of my life and i'm all out i'm getting first at least it freaks me out to begin with because like the eyes being open while they're shooting lasers in there is just freaky enough so but that as well as the fact that like you paid all this money and it didn't work and like half his job is to see the baseball like that's that's an important part of what he does like that's just horrifying that would be terrible like go down this deep dark rabbit hole of like yeah i'm just terrible and no you just got lasik a surgery that you thought was going to correct your vision and it just didn't so i'm going to stay put with my contact lenses for the rest of my life this is an advertisement for northwoods league jeff levering not lasik surgery there we go um obviously you know you are a young man and your career is in front of you where's like outside of yankee stadium where would you where do you aspire to call a game someday any major league ballpark american family field would be a lot of fun even the trap even the the trump thing the trump if i go to the trap i want to go to the ray touch tank that's the important part of going to the trump i've been to the trap as a fan it's it is a dump but it's a dump in a charming way actually actually like that's important sometimes you need i i went to the trop once on a it's like a a field trip thing my freshman year of college but they it was the off season because it was january and the trap wasn't open um so i walked around the trop and peeked in it looks like a wild place it looks like a a wild wild place but like the trop's one of those places where if you go like if you ever hear the trop during the playoffs and that's the same it's the same thing with the rogers center any of like these domed stadiums in the playoffs it's just an incredible atmosphere same with american family field like when you close the roof back when it was miller park and when you close the roof and you get you pack in like fifty thousand people it just creates an insane atmosphere because all the noise just like hits off the roof and bounces back down and like it just creates an electric atmosphere which that that's you know the trop has that american family field does that it's a lot of fun too i like these old stadiums like in being able to cover the brewers just as a media guy for a while i still get giddy about wriggly uh because the it's the dirty secret but the cubs were the team i liked the most first growing up now brewers were in the american league cubs were in the national cubs were on tv every day and then of course nice safe here yeah yeah yeah but um when i go to wriggly even like if i go to lambo you know as for i know i'm when i go to wriggly i feel like i'm stepping into a tv and going back in time because it's so unchanged and so that that's always one that i liked is is wriggly i haven't been out the fenway i'm assuming there's a similar quality there but some of these older stadiums like that's that's where i would love to be in a booth for yeah no i love wriggly wriggly's awesome i went there 2017 i think but that's that's a great place i actually saw the brewers play play the cups there um but that's that's such a fun place to see a game like it's it's just such a cool neighborhood and they have chicago dogs and it's based for me it's like baseball and food and movies are probably just a three baseball food music baseball food movies are a top three right there so chicago dogs incredible then just it's just like getting curds in wisconsin like you just can't beat it oh so what's your favorite baseball movie oh so little bigly growing up so we used to have like uh the movies you rent from the library growing up and i think i rented rented a little big league like 50 times growing up so it's that and then money ball was like the non-kids movie then i just i love to death because i'm a nerd money balls the nerdiest baseball i'm a little anti-san lot if i must say it's good i i enjoy sandlot i just think little big league is just a little like there should be little big like screw these sandlot days at the park a little bit you have you there's a right answer to this question and you got it right little big league bowers bowers is one of my all-time favorite movie characters the line that i would always quote is uh uh when what's his name i don't even know but he goes he goes i gotta go home and tell my wife that i got cut but it's okay because some kid likes my baseball card he traded him for two-way bogs and a sammy sosa i mean that is an incredible trade it's it's a great movie the amount of great quotes in there are incredible also fever pitch is not as bad as people think oh i can't stand fever pitch though i also grew up a die-hard yankees man so like fever pitch to me is everything yeah yeah yeah major league what about major league major league's great major league's great it's uh that's that's an all-time great like that bolderum are all-time great movies bolderum is i'm living the life of bolderum currently because that's the most accurate minor league baseball movie of all time the ballparks are a little nicer in 2023 though than they were in the 80s in the carolina league but no it's yeah bolderum bolderum's great yeah major league's really good major league two is also pretty good major league three it takes a steep downturn but major league two is pretty good as well major league three i paid a uh doctor thousands of dollars to remove that from my brain that it even exists they're making a major league three that's my reaction because i paid i don't want to that's the good that's a good reaction to have hey uh thanks for the time man i you know think the world of what you're doing and think you're great so keep it up and uh can't wait to see where you go i appreciate it thanks for having me on it's been uh it's been a fun year and i'm just happy to be on the bart winkler show yeah it's not a bar it's the bart winkler the bart winkler show yeah you did it congrats to you career highlight put that on your 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gives me some social media branding post patty you are wonderful you are wonderful let's hang um i am going to play to end the show a very controversial take i have very controversial this came up while we were talking i i don't even know i mean it's on the internet it's on youtube we'll see this is one of these interesting takes i have where the beta the beta version of me that you know there's an alpha dog hanging in these bones you know there's there's an alpha dog he's trying to get out but beta bart is squashing him down he won't let him and the alpha dog is trying to get out a little bit on friday night so friday night as i mentioned we did a postgame show if you are a bart winkler show completist there is an episode we end up going six boxes a youtube only stream for dan shaney's eyes dan shaney youtube stream but you can check that out on youtube and we talk nuggets evan heffelfinger was there for a good chunk of it hot take jake jumped in tony in texas matt in the falls the guys from thirst and 10 tim shay was in there for a while we were live listening to tim allen's postgame on the game so we we got all over the place and we had a good time that is available on youtube the part that i'm going to play here because i want more opinions on this if i should continue rallying against this or not this is from friday show again you can catch the whole thing friday this is a friday youtube show you catch it on youtube i think i think we've lost our way a little bit with how 50 50 raffles are intended to work with all due respect i already regret this i've stopped doing 50 50 raffles at charity events because the expectation now is that you have to give the money you win to the event right that that sucked because like if i'm doing a 50 50 and the prize is 600 300 bucks went to the charity but then somewhere along the line one guy was like you know what my 300 i'm gonna give it back to this charity and everyone's like and then people people keep the money and they get booed i paid you're never gonna see those people again i just that like you should be able to you should be able in this country you should be able to win a 50 50 and have already done your donation and be able to walk away with the prize we might as well call it a hundred zero i think i think the rule should be if you know the person that it's going to then you have to give it back if you if you have no idea who the person is then you just take it as long as you give the foul ball to the kid that's you know whatever the money it's on this i mean i i really appreciate like it's a charity and but you if it's it's it's a design gambling contest you're raising money because you're giving people the thought that they could win a little bit of money and so you're raising money i knew that's for sure but then you have to give it back you don't have to but that's the expectation now how many of these things are you at where you are like be able to define this trend bro i'm like a professional mc i see it all the time for what i did a thing earlier do they have one of the soccer games huh do they have one of the soccer games they do but it's not a charity so the people profit are you available for events i am there you go wait the 50 50 like half of it goes to the team yeah or their charitable funds just like the brewers the half of that goes to the brewers community foundation and then you get the other half and at brewer games there's like hey i won 14 000 at the but then if you go to like tommy's lemonade stand and he does a 50 50 you're like fuck i gotta give him my 50 bucks it depends on the situation like i went to uh or a subtle brag my band played a vigil for some what instrument do you play uh guitar and bass nice and um they did a 50 50 raffles part of it like a whole bunch of bars donated baskets and stuff and people put money in and both they did 250 50 raffles in both of the times the winner put the money back in i get it in that situation where it's like benefit going to the family of like a tragedy but but i but don't have the 50 50 it's just give us your money and at that point like it was only like 300 like i'm not trying to sit like and and you or or or it's very delicate i just feel what i'm saying is it feels like like if you want to if you're like hey i just came i thought i'd play i didn't think i'd win i went 300 bucks you clearly need it more than me um i'm so happy to just be a part of this and i can do a little more that means the world to me uh here you go but the expectation is you do that that's what i'm fighting against the expectation is you have to give it if you want to give it you should be able to give it but if you don't you should be able to keep it this is your biggest larry david moment ever well because it's a slightly like it it because what i'm saying is what i'm saying if you get if you get to the heart of what i'm saying i'm saying take money away from kids who need it is what i'm saying fuck them kids and that is monday's episode we will be live tonight after nuggets and heat probably put a bow on the nba finals or that he could surprise us we'll see i would love to heat though to win and then win again on thursday it'd be another show and then win again on sunday that'd be another show but then when i'm back on cbs sports radio next weekend i can preview the game my shift is okay hit and miss on sunday uh i did lose connection again that was great you know why i lost connection my levels were too high the guy said and so when i talk loud the system that we use to connect me to new york has a built-in feature that if somebody taught like if the machine thought it was being attacked because the levels were abnormal because i was like talking too loud because my levels were so high the microphone volume was too high so i got knocked off the air so that that's how that's how most of the sunday show went but i would love for next sunday to preview heat nuggets game seven that would be that'd be fun and i want this finals to continue i don't want it i don't want it to i don't know even though like i'm not particularly enjoying these finals game two is fun i just i want to go as long as possible because i don't want either team to actually win so if this could be like a best of 28 or 27 makes more sense that'd be cool just play this thing out all summer the twist and turns even if the nuggets took like a 13 to 1 lead i don't care i just don't i don't want either of these teams to be officially crowned so let it run out uh i'm gonna be making a visit to carl's place in the coming weeks have some more hilarity to bring you from there carl of et.com backslash bart he brings you our voicemail line there's a voicemail that hot take jake left me that i would play here about chris middleton but i want the voicemail so he's so anti middleton staying here that i need to talk to him and talk it out and tell him why he should if you remember last week this was on friday's audio show i had a great idea that chris middleton should be a part-time player but to pay him full time so that went over well so check that out uh nine oh nine one five four oh two two two seven eight i don't remember the voicemail number it's on my twitter all right we'll talk to you after nuggets heat without the ones like you who work tirelessly to keep things running everything would suddenly stop hospitals factories schools and power plants they all depend on you no matter the weather emergency or time of day you're the ones who get it done at granger we're here for you with professional grade industrial supplies count on real-time product availability and fast delivery call click ranger.com or just stop by granger for the ones who get it done