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However, you are consuming the content. I am Bart Winkler. It's the Friday, June 2nd show being taped and delivered on YouTube after game one of the NBA finals, which sees the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat by a score of 104 to 93. Some other stuff I want to talk about on tonight's show, the stream yard is always available for people to jump in and comment themselves. We'll talk about the Brewers a little bit. They lose. Freddie has a rough first inning, recovers, but the Brewers can't get any runs. It's that magic line of four runs. If they get four runs, they're probably going to win. If they score less than four runs, they're probably going to lose. That's what happened on Thursday afternoon.

They lost. Unless there was a crazy comeback, I think the Admirals have tied up their series. We could do an Admirals post game show if need be.

We'll have some reaction to the Mount Rushmore that we did with Paul and Grant on yesterday's show. NBA finals. The whole plan, as I've told you guys throughout the NBA postseason, was I want to be live after every Bucks game and we really want to ramp it up. And the first round was getting pretty good.

And then the second round never happened because the Bucks lost to the Heat. So I still wanted to find ways to go live and see when there might be an audience and talk with you guys about what we're seeing. And so let's try to go live after the NBA finals. But with this game and with this matchup, I am a little worried about what the interest will be. I don't think the series is over yet. I think that as far as game one, this was always going to be the outcome. The Heat were in Boston in the game. Seven had to go all the way then to Denver. Denver is home court altitude. Right. But then coming off the game seven, it was always going to be this way. I don't know.

I don't know. Caleb Martin didn't play the fourth. They missed their shots. If you're a Heat fan, you don't feel great by any means. But I think really the series starts on Tuesday.

This was always going to be a series where the Nuggets kind of just had a one oh head start. And that's what happened this evening. We're on the Dan Cheney YouTube stream.

Joining us is Matt in the Falls. Hello. Good to see you again. Hello, sir. Where are you in your car? No, I'm in I'm in my basement. I got all the lights off because I have some seedlings down here and I don't want to trick them into thinking it's daytime. Very smart of you.

It could be weird for their life cycle. What's up, buddy? I don't know. I just watched the game. Obviously, big blow out. Denver totally outmatched them start to finish.

I feel like national interest is going to be pretty, pretty weak. I mean, nobody Denver. I mean, Denver has a two time MVP, but he's not flashy.

He doesn't he doesn't grab you. He's not a household name. And Miami, I mean, Miami is an eight seed.

Jimmy Butler is Jimmy Butler. He's he's great, but they don't you know, they don't have the big draw either. And it feels like when the Marlins play in the World Series, like they're a good team, but nobody you know, whatever. Well, and I don't I think that one of the stories that people are going to be scouring to find out, like, what were the TV ratings? And, you know, our and the TV ratings are just for like, I don't know, who heads casuals? You know, I think I think people that like basketball are going to watch this finals. And I think there's a lot of intrigue in this finals. But the matchup itself, you're right. I mean, I think this is the first time maybe ever.

I didn't read the full stat and I just flipped through it. But nobody in this matchup has a top 10 is top 10 in jersey sales, or was first team all pro. I mean, because you know, because you know, the center and MB got it and stuff.

But there's like, there's nobody. It's just not as big. And so I was wondering, why did the conference finals feel bigger? And then my first thought is, oh, my God, is it because the Lakers and the Celtics?

Like, is that just why it felt bigger? But I almost think Heaton Celtics, there's a history towards you get the rivalry, even Nuggets and Lakers. There's a history, there's a common opponent, Heaton Nuggets. I might have said that wrong, but Heaton Nuggets are it's such a random matchup, that you have to really like it to really like basketball to watch this series.

With all due respect. It's the least the least appealing of the possible matchups that you could have had from Eastern Conference in the Western Conference Finals. Lakers Heaton would be better. And then Nuggets Celtics will be better and Lakers Celtics will be better. So we got we got the least the least appealing matchup as far as I'm concerned, entertainment wise, as far as the public will be concerned, in my opinion.

I think the rest of the series is going to kind of keep going like that. Well, I did. You know, for those that care, I did make my prediction on Thursday afternoon. I did predict Nuggets in four. I think what everybody wanted to do, what everybody's taking the Nuggets.

I don't know anybody that's taking the Heat. I didn't put any money on this game. Brian asked if I put any money on this game. I didn't. Nuggets was the play. You could have messed around with the nine and a half line. They covered that.

I think it went under. You could have maybe thought that was the case. But no, I just this game went as everybody figured it would. And I do think that based on how the Nuggets got in here and how the Heat got here. Yeah, this is a finals with a 1 0 head start for for Denver. And we saw that we just we had to play it out and we saw it played out in Game 1.

Honestly, as soon as the and I'm not kidding about this. My brother and I always talk about this that sometimes we don't like have a feel on the game on a game a Packer game. But then as soon as we see like the jersey matchup, oh, we're not winning this game. It's something to there's something to it.

I'll try to make track of it better. But as soon as I saw the blue jerseys in the red jerseys for the heat, I was like, what is this? Somebody needs to be wearing their white jerseys. I like the colors. I don't know.

It just didn't look finals to me. I guess. Yeah. You want to stick on and talk to your buddy Tony in Texas as I bring him in? Yeah, I want to talk about Monty Williams.

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Call click Granger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. What's up, Don? Bart, absolutely right. The jersey color you need to have one team in white. Good call. It looked so cheap. It looked like an NCAA match. And also was this at a neutral court, this Nuggets fan base.

I don't know if they have happy place hemp out there, Bart, but they just seem like 25% off. Yeah, I thought they'd be more crazy. And I saw the gold shirts and I was like, well, absolutely thought that they were going to wear all the shirts and that everybody wore the shirts and I think that's a big deal. I think about Milwaukee.

I got to wear the shirt. Think about Milwaukee a couple of years ago, Matt and Bart, how it was just rocking at the Pfizer. You had the deers district, you had all these people outside the arena. I've been to Denver and you're right. They shouldn't have a pro franchise because of the elevation. There's no scene in Denver.

It was a joke. I mean, it's not like Milwaukee. That's for sure.

The Bart Winkler of Denver right now is going to get on the radio tomorrow and just about the crowd. He's not, he's not even going to like, if I was out there, I'd be like, yeah, we won. That's great. Okay. Yeah. We were supposed to win.

Okay. Where, where were people putting on their shirts? This is our chance. I'd be like, this is our chance on the national stage, the show that we belong. And here we are not wearing our t-shirts. I'd be pissed. I'm pissed. I don't think the Denver I've always thought the Denver fan base was pretty good with the nuggets, but maybe it's just a bunch of rich people at these games from Aspen or Boulder.

I don't know. But that was, that was a weak ass crowd. What if I'm a nuggets fan, I'm feeling pretty good.

I'm with you, Bart. I think the nuggets are going to win. I probably I'm going to say maybe in six games, I'm going to give the heat a little bit thing. Some things to build off. I like this Highsmith guy. They brought the bench.

I think this guy could be a little bit of a secret weapon, maybe come in and do some good things. I liked that Spoelstra mix up the zone a little bit and you know, Miami's not going to win that first game. We all know that. So I don't think this series is over. I'm not going to pick the heat, but it's definitely not over. Well, I think when I was, when I thought about nuggets and four, everybody wants to take the nuggets or wanted to, but then you have to account for, will there be a Jimmy Butler game? Oh, that wasn't tonight. Well, there'll be a Caleb Martin game. That wasn't tonight.

One for seven. Again, he didn't play in the fourth. And so you want to, you want to give credit to the heat for what they've done.

So you might go like nuggets and five, but then you might think, ah, you know, I want to give credit. So nuggets and six, but I think that this, the, the Lakers series was big for me with the nuggets. Cause the Lakers, they, Brian Windhorst was right for getting swept. That was about as good of a team for getting swept ever. He was right. He took a lot of shit for that, but he was right. It's just the nuggets just took their best shot every time and we're like, okay, whatever.

Fine. And then even when it was 15 up, when they were 15 up, the Lakers were in the second half of the fourth game, the nuggets just came back instantly and won. And as the Lakers gave that shot and the nuggets didn't lose a game, I might I'm that that's kind of why I'm leaning towards the nuggets. Now, maybe they like get lazy on a game and can win game five at home, you know, get that game five money, but it's just hard to see.

They, they, yeah, they could do it. And again, it's not over, but it's tough. It's going to be, it's going to be a lot easier for the nuggets to win this finals.

If that makes sense, then it will be for the heat tone. It makes sense, but here's something to look at as this series progresses. Denver's not a great road team. They haven't been all year.

You get them out of the mile high, high city. I could see Miami tying this up two to two. Really? I really could. When if that could happen and don't forget our Milwaukee bucks were down to the Phoenix sun's Oh two, right?

They came back and won a man. Are you playing a game? Uh, yes, I am.

Is it a shoot first person shooter game? How big is your screen? I'm trying to look at your glasses. I know I was worried about my glasses reflection, but you know, I thought I, yeah, I saw, I thought I saw you walking somewhere. Yeah, but I'm listening.

I'm, I'm listening because I know that I could get, uh, called on any second. Matt, I did hear a voicemail with my, you and my guy Jake. So what's going on there? What, what's I don't know. Jake's Jake's calling me weird all of a sudden.

I'm pretty sure he's got a lip ring, so I don't know where that's coming from. I don't know. Nothing wrong with that, but I mean, that's, you know, pop calling the kettle black or what? Yeah.

Hey Tony, give me your, uh, Packers Mount Rushmore. Oh, okay. Uh, well obviously Paul is, is, I don't know. I got to question him. You got to put Lambo on there, right?

I think so. You got to put Lambo on there and then you got to put Lombardi, right? Then I got to go, man, this is so hard.

This is so hard after that. I think you go Rogers and farm, but I could, I'm up for people to dispute that. You can go niche ski, you know, a guy that I always thought you can go star also Bart star, but a guy that I always felt like is overlooked in Packer history is forest Greg, one of the greatest offensive lineman ever. And Lombardi said, he's one of the best players he ever coached. And I loved him as a coach, not a great coach, but he got the bangles to the super bowl. And, and with the Packers as a coach, he hated the bears.

Every game was entertaining. So I think Don Hudson should get more consider Hudson. Yep. Hudson. That was unbelievable.

Who was your four Lombardi Lambo star and Farve. Okay. Yeah.

I can't argue with that. That's that's. And there was, so I was talking with someone about how Rogers should be on instead of star to represent a different era, but I'm not trying to represent eras.

I'm trying to pick the four most important guys in Packer history. So off the field issues does that mean anything or post-career? No. Okay. No. Are we talking about Farve or did star do something? I don't know about star. Everything Bart started was great.

My grandparents met him and then saw him a year later. Right. That's how I was. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. Man the falls Tony in Texas. You guys take Jake. What's up brother. What's up guys. I miss you all is behind you Monday night. Wow. Is it Monday?

No, it's not. Well, but it's been Mondays. I just, I didn't change my background. I got lazy. Well, what's up, Jake.

You just got called up for having a lip ring. Who called me out watching the show? I think Tony did it. It wasn't me, Jake. It wasn't me. Wasn't me. You called me weird.

So I said, Hey, this guy's got a lip ring and he's calling people weird. That surely you knew that was a term of endearment. Oh, I better.

I hope so. Well, yeah. I don't, I don't have any enemies on this show. You guys are all my boys. All right. Ryan wants to know who my Mount Rushmore is of Milwaukee wave. Okay.

Victor, the goalie, Keith Tozer, Michael King, Michael King, the guy that was the trainer for 30 years. Yeah. I feel pretty good about tattoo.

I don't know who that, I have no idea. I feel pretty good about that. All right.

Got you a reset. Jake, your thoughts on the game. Did you watch it? I was having nightmares there for a minute. Cause I'm, I'm rooting pretty hard for Denver and God, if that wasn't like I was having flashbacks of the bucks blowing big leads when the Miami went on like a nine Oh run to cut the lead to like nine.

I was like, Jesus Christ, this is the worst thing ever. But they never, they were never going to, no, it never felt like it was actually going to happen. So yeah, I mean, I think the series, I thought if Miami was going to win one, I thought it was going to be tonight. So I think it's going to be a sweep quite honestly. We all know Miami wins tonight. Why would you think they'd win the night after a game game they were going to least likely win? No, no, I think I just thought that maybe Denver would come out a little lax days, goal being off. And I guess I'm too used to Milwaukee bucks teams because they do stupid like that, where they just play around with their food.

So no, I think it's going to be a sweet for Denver. I do think we need to appreciate Nicola Jokic because the dude is the best player in the world. I know we all love our Yanis, but he really doesn't have much of a flaw to his game, certainly on the offensive end. And I think his defensive struggles are overstated because people dying to just find weaknesses with the guy because they don't want to appreciate him. So and there's various biases behind that.

But I'm just going to go out and call it like it is. He's the best basketball player in the world right now. One of the top three to five most fun guys to watch. So I don't understand why there isn't more market based around this guy. I mean, I understand why, but I think it's bullshit. Why? Yeah.

I'm with you on the joke. Why? Why?

Because he's a Serb foreign born player. Yep. Oh, but they're always talking about how he's on his horse overseas and shit. They market horse, horse, the horse he's riding. What we all need to just discuss this though.

This is important. How does this affect LeBron James? What are his thoughts on the series? What is he doing during the series? What are the Lakers doing?

What are they? Are they looking at scouting some of these players? What is going on in LA? That's what we need to know.

Bart, your thoughts? Well, I did see LeBron was actually at a movie premiere tonight. I was just kidding, man.

I don't know. So does that mean that he never intended to make the finals? Did he have plans all along? Hey, there's a desk or a spot opening up next to skip Bayless. So maybe there you go, Bart.

Yeah. Well, but you probably want to go to Brontes graduation ceremony. That seems like a good guy.

I like LeBron the person, but the basketball players just, I've got this. Hey, go ahead, Tony. I got a question, Bart. You brought up something that really piqued my interest today at the Bart Winkler podcasts.

Today. You, you mentioned on the show that Jalen Brown was three to one to go to Milwaukee. Yeah. I, my ears perked up, man.

I spit my coffee out when I heard that one. Those are the odds that I got from our, everyone in sports radio, Jimmy Shapiro, whenever you see odds, it's always from the same guy. Cause one guy like sends people the odds and does all the dirty work for everybody. And those are the odds. Do you guys see any chance that hell that would happen?

No, I don't either. I mean, I could see a chance if you got two teams that aren't really looking to one's not looking to rebuild it. Like they both are kind of in that contention. And if they decide, well, sure, we could trade Jalen Brown and get a really high draft pick, but we want to stay where we're at. The bucks could say, wow, we need a shakeup. We need somebody that can score a little bit more in a half court. Maybe they're interested in a holiday for Brown swap. I could see that holiday for Brown that that's Middleton for Brown. I don't think Boston would be interested in that. I think it would be definitely.

They're terrified of him. That's true. He is the Celtics killer. No, keep chewing there and then make your point.

Hey, I got my dessert going. Azula is being brought back to the Celtics. Any thoughts on Missoula going back to Boston? What do you think? I think he's an idiot. Yeah. Every time I see him speak, I just like, it's like, oh, does he do the three word answers?

Cause he can't put a sentence together. You guys on that. I'm glad that that's happening. I'm with you. If a coach can't do a post game conference. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Yeah. Not to be like a mean, but I think he might be more dumb than he is trying to be a Dick. Like Joe, what do you think about the defense? He's probably like, wait, they asked me, I have to answer now.

How does this work? Yeah, I guess better to be dumb than a Dick, by the way, Bart, I just wanted to give you a compliment. Hey, I'm getting a compliment on me. Hold on. Bart nailed the Mount Rushmore.

I think it's pretty simple. It is Lambo Lombardi far and a star. Thank you, Jake. Thank you. Thank you.

And I wanted to say that I love that. I mentioned this on Twitter, no matter what, whenever you start talking about Mount Rushmore, it inevitably ends up with just a bunch of dudes listing names. Oh yeah. Marcus Johnson. What about this guy? What about this guy?

Nobody making points, just naming names. And do you remember that guy? Yeah.

And that's entertaining as shit. All right. I'm going to use this opportunity to remind you it's Tony brought up happy place, hemp.com, promo code Bart, 25% off each and every order.

Get the Delta eights, the Delta nines, the CBDs, the CBN. Those helped me sleep. What helped me slept last night. I'm sorry to say was alcohol. I did have a drink at the end of may.

It was good, but then like I was hurting all day. I was going to say Bart, if you do want to go to sleep, just put a brewer game on. That'll put you to sleep pretty fast. That actually I took a nap during the brewer game. Yeah.

Yeah. That is going to knock you out within a couple of hours. You'll be knocked out. But I did. I did have a drink. I didn't finish may. I negotiated with myself as alcoholics do.

I skipped Memorial day weekend and I skipped my birthday. So I thought I was, I thought I earned a couple of hours yet the better way to fall asleep and not have that hangover all day would be the gummies that get me through may happy place, hemp.com, promo code Bart, 25% off every order as mad as just blowing some people back to kingdom come on his video game. How can you really see that? No, I can hear everything. It's just destroying my, it's like, it's like bill Michaels is doing an interview.

It's bad. Is that why you're muting me before? Yes. All right.

Well maybe if I got to talk, I could overshadow the clicker. Well, what did you want to say? You want to talk about Monty Williams?

Yeah. Bring up Monty Williams and I'm going to go five wide trademark pending for a Q what's up dude. So we got man, the falls has the floor to talk about Monty Williams. Tony in Texas is here. I take Jake is here and Q is back.

Matt, you have the floor. So I guess that that news happened last night. Um, I didn't hear about it until I was listening to today's episode at like eight 30 PM. So like an hour and a half ago and Bart said, Oh, Monty Williams signed 78, you know, six years, $78 million to Detroit. And I was like, is my Williams like a running back or a wide receiver that I've never heard of? Like sign with the lions. Like, and I started Googling like Monty Williams RB and money and they didn't come up.

And then I realized through the Google machine that it was a coach in the NBA. I'm not kidding. Some, some running back.

I've never heard of cause it's possible. I got stuff going on. I don't know every NFL player, you know, $13 million a year going to Detroit. It makes sense. And then it's, it's Monty Williams, the coach whose best accomplishment is blowing a two Oh lead in the finals and then under achieving with, you know, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and whoever else they got over there, Chris Paul. But you know, God knows what's going on with them. Um, and it's just, it's shocking.

Like you said what boot and Holzer was getting 5 million. So like Monty Williams, six, seven, no more than that. So did Monty Williams. People's go, people go into the meeting and be like, all right, we want at least seven and be like, all right, I mean, like, how did, how did this happen?

I want to know, like, I just don't understand it and it's hilarious. And the pressure is going to be enormous. And I mean, I guess Detroit has a few good young players, but wow. 13 million a year for an NBA coach.

That is, is that more than Nick Saban makes? I don't know. That's a good question. Like that's, that's just unreal. But what? Yeah.

11 million. Yeah. The first time I'm going to agree with Q there is no pressure at all. What are you talking about? Q and I are the same page on this.

Yeah. It's like you, isn't it like a five-year deal. There's no pressure. Cause it's guaranteed money. Like he could get fired tomorrow and he gets all that money. It's all guaranteed. Huh? I mean, that's, that's the coaches are, but the thing too is like, they were, the pistons were like gonna Charles Lee was one of these names, but it seemed like it was going to be a guy who could go in there, have some time, implement this program. And then they would only like how much you have to pay Charles Lee to be a head coach 2.53. Yeah.

Okay. So there's, there's no pressure. If you just care about the money, but like if you want to go in there and do a good job and be like the guy who lived up to this contract, yeah, there is pressure. He's got, I don't want to be the guy who got this contract and that sucks. He was like, I don't want to live in Detroit. And they're like, all right, 10. And he was like, no, still don't want to live in Detroit.

That could have happened all the way up to 13. I think we're going to see something for the first time ever. We are going to see a tank job from an NBA head coach, not because he wants his team to get a better draft pick, but he's like, I want to just get fired and collect this $78 million and just never be seen or heard from again.

Cause like what's, what are your options? Get $78 million and live in Detroit for six years or Detroit's one of these cities on the come up guys come back on the come on the calm. They're on the calm Detroit. There are 82 games in a NBA regular season. Detroit in the last four years has won a total of 80.

Fun fact for you. I would have guessed less. I wonder what the cost of living adjustment is going from Phoenix to Detroit. It's gotta be like 50% in the other direction.

Oh yeah. So like $78 million in Detroit is like probably, well, I could, I could adjust that for you too. I'll do a salary. You guys have questions?

I'll be Google the night. Hey, I got, I got, I got, I got, I want to talk about these coaching moves who came out on top. When we look at this right now, Philly, Boston, the box, you know, Phoenix has not named a coach.

Have they? Is Ty Lu still out there? Phoenix has not named a coach never out there. He's under contract with the Clippers. What do we feel about Nick?

I don't know anything about Nick nurse Billy. I mean, that scares the hell out of me. I mean, there's still questions if Joel even wants to stay there, like he could demand a trade. I I'm honestly like, I feel like Sixers needed to make a move like that. So I'm not concerned.

I feel like it's a boomer bus move and Nick nurse just seems very unpredictable. So I shocked to hear this ready. Yes. $1 million in Phoenix is 995,000 in Detroit. So it's like the same. What's your source on that? Nerd wallet.com 1 million in Phoenix is 939,000 in Milwaukee, which is 870,000 in Fond du Lac. That's surprising to me because a lot of people from California if the cost of living is getting too high there. So they're just flocking to like Phoenix. They're coming here. California's up. They're coming here. Texas too. Yeah, we're turning into a blue state from a red state.

We've got a bunch of Winkler's over here. Hey, how about my guy Trump this morning? What happened?

What do you do? He said, no in the morning Trump goes, Trump goes, and this term, whoa, I don't know what it means. I don't like it. We use it.

We don't know what it means. And then nine hours later, he's at another event. He's going the military.

They got to be all woke. Happy pride month. This show supports pride for sure. Hey, all about that. Excuse me.

Oh, former Packer. Great. You guys remember is there a Tula? No. No.

Okay. There was a guy who was commenting on the YouTube. I don't know who he is. I don't think he's one of us.

He says, his name is Vinny. He says, nobody wants Milwaukee's trash players. Drew for Jalen. LOL.

You guys are garbage. So I feel like the, the Jalen for Middleton trade would be amazing. Like that would be my dream for us. He's in move. Oh yeah.

He's like eight years younger. Yeah. If only we didn't need Boston to agree to it, then we'd be set.

No, but they, they seem so anti Brown right now that like, I don't know. Like I just feel like they could get a much better offer than Chris Middleton Lillard for Jalen Brown, like obviously more pieces involved, but yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think Middleton has more value to Milwaukee than any other team.

I don't think that he's available though. Like I don't think Portland's going to give up on Dame. Well, I don't think so either, but just in the discussion, that's like the kind of names that are being brought up for Brown and I get it. You know, I think I'm really interested to see Jalen Brown play on a team other than Boston and kind of as the lead dog, because when I watched the Celtics play from the eye test, I see more of a dog in Jalen Brown than I do Jason Tatum.

So I don't know. I could see him getting traded and just completely blowing up. Yeah. I think he's been underutilized and hidden behind Tatum. So I, I would love to get him on the bucks. You're saying Jalen Brown has been hidden.

Yeah. I think he's been the national media is all over him. Just like Jason Tatum.

I don't think it's to that level. I disagree on that. Jason Tatum people, people want Jason Tatum who like baptized their son in the church of Jason Tatum.

I mean, he is, he is a God-like figure. Jalen Brown's just a guy everyone likes. Yeah. Is Jalen Brown a top 20 player in the league? Top 15? Where do we have him? I think somewhere between there.

Yeah. I would say he is, but I think he has top 10 potential. I've heard Jason take top five, top seven, but I feel like when you guys all talk at the same time, that's good. Chris is like, I think Chris has peaked in that ranking. So Chris might be top 20, but it's hard to say because he's often hurt. But I don't think he could, he doesn't have the same upside as, as Brown does.

And then like Bart was saying, there's like an eight year age gap. So even if like you have to give up a pick also to get Brown, I feel like we'd be all right. I'm never going to draft again.

Who cares? I mean, at some point we'd have to, I don't know. I, I'm, I'm upset with the bucks for always giving away their picks, but I'm, I'm with Q on that one. I would totally make that deal. If you can get Brown without giving up a holiday, like you bring back, like that is a, that's pretty much a stack team that that's gotta be a finals favorite, but I just, I still can't see Boston doing it well. And whoever pays Chris's contract, you're going to be on the hook for like 45 mill a year. Well, Jalen Brown's going to get a max where he's getting 60, right? Yeah.

But I think we've got room for him and a Giannis. Yeah. But that's going to be it. See the way that this new tax is going to go is that if you super max two guys, you can't have your Bobby's in your path.

You like, you're going to suck. All right. How, how long is that CBA for? Cause it like, it doesn't seem like it's good for the players at all. So I feel like that, I thought it was like seven, eight years, man. They agreed to it because now they can all get high. I will say this too. I think if you're talking about Middleton at 45 a year or Brown at 60 a year, I'm easily taking Brown. Yeah.

As a contract, like as a movable piece, Brown has such a huge half life where Chris's half life is like two or three years and you're going to have to sign them to like a five year deal. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, would you take Mary over Brown right now?

I would. Yeah. And so with the echo, who's got the echo going, you were Tony, which can't be me. All right. I need one or two of you guys to say good night. I can say good night. All right. That's fine. Thank guys.

Can I queue? I just wanted to say before I left that my Mount Rushmore of the fan is a Bart, Gary, Sparky, and Rami. No, it's Gary Sparky, Tim, and then or Chuck.

Who Tim Allen? No, I'm on a Brewer post game guy. Not a shot. Okay. Well, I'm not on there, but thank you. Yes, you are. Stop shortchanging yourself. Yeah, I think you are bar.

If we're talking about quality here, a hundred percent in the Brewer's locker room twice in 2018. And I did put the chairs out. Iconic. Hmm. All right. Who's leaving me? I'm getting the fuck out. I love you guys. See you, Jake.

See you. One thing I wanted to talk about is regarding the nuggets, their roster. Remember how all year we're like, Oh, the bucks are so deep. It's so fucking great. Tony in Texas here in the falls here. Oh, the roster is so deep.

It's so fucking great. The nuggets don't go more than seven deep. Like that Bron guy got out there, Brown.

They don't care about him. Jeff Green's out there literally just to give like other guys, breathers. Otherwise that is a six man rotation.

And so for the box, we're all like angles and Crowder and Pat and Grayson and Bobby. And the nuggets are just like, no, no, no, we're going to get Jokic. And then we're going to get three or four guys around him that play off him perfectly. They're going to be unselfish because they know that Jokic will give them the ball and they'll get theirs and they'll just all play as a unit. And they have built like it's risky because if a guy gets hurt, you're fucked. But they're going to do this with pretty much a six man lineup.

And I don't know if that's a trend for the future or not, but it's certainly the opposite. I think guys have what the bucks have been doing. Yeah.

Bart tech. That's the classic case of quality over quantity. And don't forget they had bones Highland. They traded him off a good young prospect. Yeah. They did trade bones away.

People do forget who bones, bones Highland. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. Not familiar.

Ah, yeah, as well. Well, that can you give us the Minnesota wild roster? I mean, what, what, what do you know?

Yes, I can give you some, you know, a number of players. Give me that. You got in the cup, man.

What? Who's winning the cup? Vegas. They I'm with that Vegas. I'm going to pick Vegas in like what?

Five, four way. They might sweep them. They look really good. I mean, they're they. Yeah. Nothing like the traditional matchup of Florida versus Vegas for the Stanley cup.

Right, Matt? Like the original six hockey hockey powerhouse towns. Yeah.

But you know, I will say this about Vegas. So they've really taken that team and made that their thing. So good for them.

It seems like the fans are great and you know, they got a cool logo and stuff and they probably like that team better than the Raiders. Oh, of course. Yeah.

Well, now they're getting the A's probably. I mean, what the, what a great time. It's a nice juxtaposition. You got ice hockey and one of the hottest cities in America. It's you guys, this wasn't a long time ago when they wouldn't put teams in Vegas because of sports gambling. Yeah.

They wouldn't let Tony Romo have a fantasy draft there. Jeez. Money talks. Times have changed. I don't say a thing and it don't walk. That's my, that's why I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans.

Hey, speaking of Vegas, you're going to that game in Vegas against the Raiders. No, that was going to be the one. His friends pussied out. My friends pussied out. Well, well I shouldn't say that. That's not the phrase.

That's a bad, I got that at that out that we can't say that that's a bad term. My friends had a change of heart. No, what happened is they saw the damn bill what it's going to be. I looked at that trip. It's crazy.

Yeah. Flights were bad. God, the tickets were bad. Well, even Stanley cup tickets, I think the cheapest is 600 bucks.

It's ridiculous. People will fly and go to the game and then party. Yeah. Hockey games are fun.

Even if it's not your team. Yeah. That's what I've heard.

Speaking of hockey, the Milwaukee admirals tying up the series against Coachella Valley. Yeah. I saw that.

I watched some of it. It was on my 24 and I don't know who caught it, but Aaron Sims, who I think is one of the great play-by-play guys in the world. Yeah.

On radio, he's solo and on TV they had a guy, I don't know who it was. It sounded like it was Vinny Rotino, but he kept talking where Sims wasn't ready for him to talk. And Sims just had to keep stopping there. Yeah. Yeah.

And he'll never admit it, but I bet he was frustrated as shit. So my condolences for Aaron Sims. Very Larry Sims. Cook.

People at my 24 are listening. You got to let Sims he cook. Yeah.

It's like McCarran when he, when he goes all over Larrabee, I can't stand that. Yeah. Let him cook. Tony. What I said, Tony, did you know that Bart went to a Packer game and had to listen to the broadcast and a luxury box the whole time?

I did. Did you know that Tony? Yeah. I remember that. Have you ever heard that before? Yeah. It was fucking terrible. Yeah.

I heard that story. Anything else boys? Well, we've mentioned the admirals and the wave that just shows where the brewers are right now. It's just brewers lost. Hey, let me tell you this brewers fact, Tony, they are in first place at the beginning of June 1996, the first full season with at least one wildcard in each league, 50% of the teams leading their division on June 1st, 58% one division.

Yeah. The brewers have a coin flip shot right now of winning their division. Well, according to friend grant bills, this is the golden age of brewer baseball.

I don't know. I don't agree with that necessarily, but maybe they can get some type of magic going, get these guys healthy. I think Garrett Mitchell injury really just took the wind out of my sails. I was looking forward to that guy.

So I don't know. I think the brewers are just, it's a hard watch, man. It's just hard to watch those guys.

At least the games are fast. Yeah. I mean, I watched today's game and I fell asleep, so you did. Yeah. So yeah, that just shows where the brewers are first place and all central sucks, but you know, we'll see.

I've seen really bad teams go far into playoffs. Maybe that'll happen with walk, but before we, I do have a bird question though. Would you just blow this shit up and trade burns or would you keep them? No, I, uh, I'm riding this team out. Okay.

I'm not, I'm not thinking they need to trade anybody yet. And should we rename this team at the Wisconsin brewers instead of Milwaukee brewers? Yeah. No. Well, is it a really a Milwaukee team though? It's more of a state team. I don't know.

Bart was, I was going to actually call in about this cause Bart was talking about, Oh, they market till they do this. They market like, I don't, what are some examples of them marketing to the state and not to the city? What the tailgate lot. What, how does that Milwaukee people don't tailgate? I'm so confused. You, you just don't like the fact that there's so much concrete there cause you have this weird thing against concrete. No, I I'm a, I'm an urbanist. So what he's saying, Matt, people from Lake country or Heartland, Oconomowoc, they're not going to drive to a bucks game cause they're scared to go down to the city. Is that, is that what you're saying Bart? I'm saying the way the brewers do everything, it's not too, like they don't have a roof there and a big tailgate lot for the people in Milwaukee. Cause we just say, Oh, it's raining. All right.

I'm not going to go to the game. Yeah. But they gotta be like, well, if there's a big bus from, you know, rice Lake, we gotta make sure that their day isn't ruined. That's that's kind of absurd. Well, that's why they did it. Is that why every baseball team in the country that has a dome in the suburbs, is that every, is that why they all do it? Cause they want to cater to, yeah, I guess you do want to cater to the state cause there's more people, as Paul said. Well, yeah. I mean, I'm not saying ignore the rest of the state, but you got, I just don't know how many times these people that come here, how much of their money is spent in Milwaukee.

I think it's, I think it's very little. Well, what's weird about the bucks. So Bart is they were trying to get the Chicago market for a while. I thought that was weird.

And then, I mean, I get it. The bulls were kind of down and then they, they played a game or in Madison, which I think they should actually look at doing a regular season game in Madison. I went to a Buck's preseason game against Chicago in lacrosse in oh eight.

Okay. That was cool. Well, that was back when they had the, the, the lacrosse redbirds, right? The, maybe the, the, the, was it a continental, continental basketball associate, the CBA, they called it. Remember that they had the cat birds at one point. Yeah. Whatever they were called, but yeah, I don't know if the coach, but then the bucks got that logo with the state logo.

I don't know, man. I think the bucks are kind of trying. I kind of see what you're going with that.

Ultimately, I think you think Whitey's scared to go down to Milwaukee. I think that's what you're saying. I think that need to decrease their cement by 60%.

Okay. Well, yeah, I'm with you on that. Just too much, too much concrete. You're right. But what are they going to do?

They're not going to, they're not going to build another stadium even like off the, between Palermo's and where the lot is. There's those, there's all those big buildings, but it's all industry. Right. You're telling me like, that can't be a little zone? The, the Menominee Valley area. Yeah.

Just all. And there was that recycling fire down there. I was right by it. Cause I went to Pado yesterday. There's potential. I don't know if the Indians own that land, but there's potential over there. Indians.

Yeah. Are we blaming the Indians? The American natives? And this, Matt, we can't have team names.

We've got to change our name. Native Americans. Indigenous people.

Indigenous people. Yeah. Right.

Where's Q? Oh boy. The natives.

Well, they took our team name, the Braves. Yeah. Oh man. You're assuming they're disposition. Yeah.

Their courageousness. What was I going to say? Oh, I had something. All right. Good stuff. All right.

I'm going to say goodbye to you guys and talk soon. Yeah. What's on the docket tomorrow? To this show? Well, this is the Friday show.

This is it right here, right? Yeah. And then I'm going to plan to go live against Sunday night after the finals. All right.

After the finals. All right. Good deal. All right. Good talking to Matt.

Matt. I got some bullshit to go through. So if you, if something piques your interest, you know, hop back out. Sounds good. Okay. Bye. All right. Bye boys.

A couple of comments that I did want to read and thanks all those guys for being here. We will be live again. Sunday night. When is Griffin going to be announced by the bucks? That's from Jake. I don't know.

Nurse was announced today and he was getting heckled about if he wants James Harden or not. Test user says Ted Lassa last two seasons were disaster. I watched the first two really enjoyed it. I've only heard bad things about season three.

I might just watch the finale and go on with my life. The episodes were like 25 minutes. And now this year they're all like 80. I don't know what they're trying to do. They only want to have three seasons. So the third season they made like a third, fourth, and fifth season all in one. I heard they ruined the Nate storyline. So I didn't, I don't know if I liked that.

I know it was one guy that everyone compared to Rogers, but it was Ibrahimovic, Ibrahimovic obviously, if you know ball like I do. I don't know. I probably won't watch season three. My thoughts on CM Punk returning. He's coming back to AEW. I think that the fans are going to boo him and I think he needs to go full out heel. I think he needs to be angry, dick, asshole, vindictive heel. Smiley Punk was fun. We all miss punk.

He came back. He's all smiles. Guys.

I can't keep smiling. Yeah. We all love that. He needs to be a dick.

He needs to be a heel. Q liked it. All right. Tom says you guys had a show with Paul and grant. I thought that was three 12 year olds seeing how much they could swear. Yeah. I don't know Tom's deal, but every time that I swear, Tom like takes a note of it and comments on the video.

So because I'm me and you know, predictable and me, I have to do this. Fuck, shit, fuck, bitch, fuck, shit, bastard, bitch, ass, titties. Apologies to anyone in the car with kids, but if you've listened to the show, you knew that was coming. Shit, fuck, ass, fuck. Heat beat the, well, no, the Heat beat the Celtics to get to the finals, but the Denver Nuggets beat the Heat. Just a couple more thoughts on that game. One Oh four to 93 was the final.

This is the thing about yoga. So he has a triple double in his first finals game. You know, who else did that? Jason kid, 27 points. He led the nuggets and scoring, which I would have guessed Porter Jr.

I would have guessed Murray. And I know that yoga had a big impact, but I would have guessed one of those other guys first Aaron Gordon at 16, but yeah, you'll get your 27 led them in scoring the heat a little different of a situation. Just 13 points for Jimmy Butler. Caleb Martin did not play in the fourth quarter. He only had three Struce was over 10.

Holy God. Struce was over 10 and over nine. This from three, this is what's gotta be irritating for any bucks fan that has watched this team. And, and now Celtics fans seeing it like it is the worst. That's what happened last year in the NBA finals, Horford and grant Williams killed us. And then those guys shot like hell in the NBA finals, max Struce going old for 10 Oh, for nine from three. That's something I will highlight when I'm in for Zach elb Friday night on CBS sports.

So yeah, as far as the series, again, I don't think it's over by any means, but the heat, we're always going to come into this series with a one Oh disadvantage. And that's what you saw play out here tonight. Let's see, you got some other things to mention real briefly before I do that, want to remind you about my good, good buddies at Omaha stakes, $30 off your packages for the father's day specials. They've got packages that they put together.

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He did an interview with CBS news yesterday morning. Bro, I've got gum disease so bad that the dentist told me how much it would cost to fix my gums. I have not been to the dentist since. I should be the spokesman for gum disease. Plus, you know who else has early gum disease?

47% of American adults 30 or older. He's out there acting like he's the first person to ever contracted disease. No, he just needs to brush his teeth better like we all do.

We've got some comments on Mount Rushmore. Actually, Matt in the falls had left me a voicemail on the Carl's place voicemail line. So you just heard from Matt. Matt, I'm going to play your voicemail. 402915 Bart, Carl of ET.com backslash Bart.

Check out their golf simulators. Oh, this is Matt in the falls. Oh, man, big bird drinking from McDonald's Coke. Very busy. You know how it is. Hold on. Oh, man. Excuse me. Excuse me. Okay, here we go. Listen to today's episode. And, you know, kudos to you guys for stretching us out getting some getting some airtime out of it. Thank you. But the Packers.

Mount Rushmore is super easy. Lambo Lombardi are Rogers. All right, that was Matt's thoughts.

Some of your other thoughts. Corey says Ron Wolf question mark. Yeah, I think farve kind of steal some of the thunder from him. Brandon says to me Rogers is over farve on the Mount Rushmore. He won another MVP and went to more NFC championship games. I think that's true.

And then opinionated lab says no need to overthink it. Mount Rushmore is curly Lambo is the founder. He can be George Washington. Lombardi set the foundation and the tone. He can be Thomas Jefferson. Ron Wolf saved it from his lowest point. He can be Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt was in charge at the time.

He can be Mark Murphy. So you want to give it to Lambo, Lombardi, Murphy and Ron Wolf. That would be no Packer players. Oh, well, Lambo Lambo did play. So never mind on that.

No, I'm pretty confident on mine. And I'm gonna try to get some other Packer people to answer the question for me. But I think it's I think it's Lombardi, Lambo, star and farve.

And the only other change that I would make is maybe put Rogers in place of one of the quarterbacks. But I feel pretty good about star and I feel pretty good about farve. All right, Sunday night, we'll try to do this again. Thanks for those of you that are here. And thanks for those of you listening. Of course, I got a lot of content that we've been pumping out. If you missed any of it, there was a conversation I had with the Bears fan.

We talked about wins and totals. My talk with Jeff Levering, I think was a pretty good conversation that I thought would get more views on YouTube. If you want to go watch it, you can always revisit my talk with... Remember when I talked to Clay Thompson? I don't know if you guys know about that. It's like the whole reason I got a website, Bartwinklershow.com. Thanks again to Sun Ant Interactive was so that I could show off my interview with Clay. But we'll come back on here Sunday night, wrap up the Brewers weekend.

They do play Friday afternoon at 4.15 on Apple TV. You're all warned. You're all warned. We'll talk to you again, signing off. See you Monday.