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Well I mean, I'm doing great. I get to go to La Crosse tonight, and I am just, I am. I was very excited.
Well, it's for a funeral. Huh. Speak. You're weak. You gotta.
Okay. Your tone was like, ooh.
Well, it's lacrosse. But it's a funeral.
So that's what I'm dealing with. But I'm doing good. I'm doing excellent. How about you, Bart? No, Nas.
How are you? Don't worry about our guests. You always have to worry about us. How are you? No, too many people ask me how I am throughout the course of the show.
You know, you have people. They call and say, how's it going? And you try to train callers not to do that. Um Last week. I heard JR.
In his final hour. On the JR Sport Brief show, he goes. All right, I'm taking a call. Don't ask me how I'm doing. Don't thank me for coming on.
Mm-hmm. Just get into it. And then he goes to the guy, and the guy like froze because he didn't know what to say. He's like, What do I do? What do I do here?
Um And also what I've noticed is When I hate.
So whenever I do the show in Milwaukee. People would always be like. Hey, thanks for taking my call. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
But On this news show, people are saying. Thanks for having me on your show. There's a very distinct difference, and I don't like it. I don't either. I'm glad that you noticed this.
You're not a guest. You're a caller. You know, that's why I would, I would never bring it up because if you, because I sound like a dick, if I'm like, well, I'm not having you on, you called me. This is not a You're on. I'm not having you on.
There's a but it also it It's a little bit. Totally do this without you. I don't need it. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know. There was the fourth hour of the. Wednesday night show. I was talking college football and how I think the season is going to be really good. And I had a guy call in.
And he made a point that I had not made. about how When you're like a preseason favorite. Like you kind of determine the playoffs just based on some dumb preseason poll. And then people have to, it's going to give more opportunity for these teams to climb up. And then he also made me think of another point.
Of all the years that Wisconsin, you know, you get excited, but then they lose in September and the season's over, and that won't necessarily be the case anymore.
So I said, his name was Mo. I said, Mo? I'm not kidding, and take this to heart. This is why I always advocate. That sports radio is better with callers because you came in here with a great point.
And you got me thinking, which is it enhances the program. I'm going to reference this call in the future when this comes up.
Next segment, I took three calls. The worst three calls I've ever fucking taken.
So I woke up. I woke up. One guy's talking about CJ Stroud dating Amber Rose, and instead of saying body count. Yeah. He said Something that I was like.
Girlfriend resume or something weird. It's like, I don't know, man. Paul, what were you saying? I saw your tweet this morning.
Someone said to you, like, weird ending to the show, and you're like, you said, and so the first thing I listened to when I woke up and had a moment was the last 15 minutes of the show because I wanted to see just how bad it was. And you did not undersell it. It was really bad. Yeah. Some bad calls.
And I heard and I heard Mo's call, which was a good call.
So that was confused because I like, okay, was like. Why this actually was a very good call. And then And then it c it couldn't have gone worse after that. Yeah. Like, it's not programming note: I will be competing with Grant tomorrow.
I'll be in for Zach Gelb on Friday. Oh, I'm off tomorrow, so that'll be perfect. Oh, great. Don't take this the wrong way because you know, I live, you know, don't take this the wrong way. But for the first time, I heard the Wednesdays with Winkler on the Zach Gelb show, I didn't know why I had been missing it.
Right. I think maybe I heard it one other time, like before you had a national perspective every night.
So maybe I did hurt one of the time. But like. You guys are really like, that's that's good. That was a that's a good duo. Like, you can't both be together because you both need to host your own shows.
But, like, that was really good. Like, why would he? Why would he take that the wrong way? What I was taking the wrong way is like that I hadn't heard it before. Oh, like that.
I was just hearing. Why do you guys ever listen to? And I'm like, wow. We're not yet. Let's get something clear.
We're not responsible to listen to Bart ever if we don't want to. Like, Paul treats us as we can't miss a moment, so we're prepared for this podcast every week. That's not true. That's not true. I listen when I have time, like when nothing's going on.
And I like it. Like, I don't go back and check the tape the next day. Like, for all four hours, like, I need to. Consume it. Yeah, no, I know.
I'm always doing research. Um, So, but Bart, let me just say real quick. You've always said this, though. You're a good host. You're a great guest.
Like that. Like, so you just said that. You've always said this. You have. I know, I'm such a dick.
But you've said it publicly. I'm not like airing private messages. Like publicly, you're like, oh, I'm a great guest. And you are. But you're, yeah, good host, great guest.
So at one point, well, you said I was good with Gelb. Yes. People like us three together. I've gotten people that say, oh, Bart, you and Nick Costos are really good together. Oh, you and Horvod are good.
At what point am I just fucking elite? You are the common denominator here. And when you're on with your guys at 670 the score, that's always a very good segment.
Well, you got to know what your role is. Yes, and you play the role very well. When I go on there, it's to get my ass kicked. Punching bag. Comedic punching bag.
And I think we can say that that is unanimously correct. Uh Anyway, Grant last night. Grant last night, Bart couldn't say the word unanimously. Oh my God, four times. He could not say unanimously.
I couldn't. No, you couldn't. It was I enjoyed it. If I kept track of every word that Bart was close, but not quite on over the course of every night, like I would have a hell of a list. But this one he paused because he was like inanimate.
And then I'm No, there was another there was another one, a guy called. Held in about that we didn't take on air. It was uh Something like, I don't know, I'll figure it out. I'm close enough. Close enough.
Close enough. All right. Let's should we start produce? I think that's it for the week. Good to show.
Great job. I enjoyed it. Ready? Yeah. Okay.
Grant, sneaking suspicion this might be part of your show tonight. Craig Council will never lose this community by deciding to work for the people who treat him better. He is one of us. Heck, he is the best of us. Mm-hmm.
Or mm-mm. We don't have to go down this road. It was unplanned. It's I think it's uh Look, we have friends at the Journal Sentinel. What happened was this was written by a guy in Virginia.
This was written by a guy in Virginia. This editorial that was published was not. of even their knowledge. But when it got tweeted out. It got tweeted.
Like the Journal Sentinel account tweeted it. And it says clearly on it, opinion. And it's got like Two engage two quote tweets. And then the JS Brewer's Twitter account tweeted it. It didn't say opinion.
And it's got like 500 quote tweets. I got 150,000 views already, like with not that much time having elapsed. Like the opinion section of a newspaper is fine. It's one of the. Hallmarks of the paper, right?
And it's not new. It's been around forever. Classifieds, comics, obits, horoscopes, TV guide. The newspaper was great. The TV guide.
And the opinion, the thing with the opinion section. Jen. is it's labeled opinion. If you don't label it opinion. Then it doesn't look like an opinion.
You can't, you don't, you don't put an opinion on the front. Age. And also Fuck that guy because he wrote like an asshole. Yeah. The actual article is atrocious.
It's pun here, zinger here. I think I'm Rick Riley here. Zing Boom Terraral, especially Terraral or something like that. I read it at 6:30. It was the first thing I did when I woke up today, I read that fucking thing because it was in every group of literature.
It's a just it's an awful piece. of writing it's it's again it's like he's causing Playing as a writer. It's awful. It's like he told his buddies, Hey, watch this. I'm going to get this in the newspaper as a parody.
It's the only real explanation and the guy lives in Virginia. And he probably has no idea that any of this conversation happened. That, like, he's not on Twitter. He's just some old fuck in Virginia that's like, well, I remember when Craig. counsel used to come to the ballpark as a young man why are they doing this to him I'm gonna pen an edit tutorial on it.
I think I think honestly the one part of it I think that was good. And not that anything that happens on social media is a good representation of society. But Because all of the comments are just This is the worst thing I've ever read. I hate this art. This is, it let me know.
Because I have a couple buddies who are just like, dude, what's the big deal? Like, back when council went to the Cubs, and I was like, you guys, I was like, Fuck this guy. And they were like, hell, and they were confused by my. By my thoughts on it. What I'm relieved by to some degree is that this gets published, and then you can see, like, Oh Good.
It's not like the three of us live in a little echo chamber of. It's like, no, no, like, okay.
So.
Well, I I think we're in the vast majority of like No, this is not cool. And by the way, my favorite part about All of this. And we didn't know this in November when council first went to the Cubs. But the Cubs have since done jack shit in free agency.
So it's like, oh, like, and you know, the Brewers have made some moves recently, including Brandon Woodruff that I want to talk about. But the I'm just so I enjoy the comments of it. I'm glad to know that that's. Maybe, like, the common sentiment is what the three of us have been saying now for a few months. Yeah, if there was any question as to whether people were over the council thing.
Like, people are not over the cat.
Well, and it's interesting because it was the biggest thing in the world in my life for like two weeks. The week that it happened, and then the week that he was introduced, and then it was football. And I kind of stopped thinking about it. And over the course of the football season, like when a little headline would pop up here or there, like in December or January, I would just be sitting in the studio and out of nowhere. I'd be like, that's right.
Fuck that guy. Like, I've we like, I know we moved on to do football, but like, everyone remember what council did. And like refused to be okay with it.
So I'm glad that that line of thinking still persists, and it just took some. Hack. In Virginia, to wake everyone up and wake brewers to wake the community up online. And look, if Council doesn't go to the Cubs, I'm not saying they don't make all these moves, but the Brewers have been in their bag and then some this offseason. Personnel, social media, like Murphy's deadpanning to the social media person with the camera in the locker room.
Like, what is that? What is like Jim Halpert style? Like, they are in their bag in Mary Vale, right? Just at full court press every possible way. That's good.
I think it lit a fire under this organization. It lit a fire under me. I've been more excited. I I hate baseball. But now I don't anymore.
Now I'm fucking pumped up. Stop. You don't have to. We better boo council May 27th. I'm still worried about that.
Well, I mean, you can we can the three of us and then Those listening, we can do something about that. Winkler Fest 2024. Um So, I mean, there's a way for us to actually invite. We better boo him. I live eight minutes from the ballpark, and I could go.
Uh And the good news is, and this is what I don't want to hear from Bart: there's plenty of parking. I wouldn't want to worry. You don't have to worry about the parking. I am going to try to be a part of Nooner Day. I'm going to try to go to that.
I did. The other thing I liked about the fact that this happened this morning. Nine to noon? Nine to noon goes to that brewer game.
Well, Sunburn Bowl's too expensive, but nooner day you might be able to pull off. Yeah, because somebody tweeted at me. How about this? It's a nooner day, and they go, Oh, Bart Winkler show. And I go, Don't take me.
I want to go. The one question I was going to ask and Bart, I did not know how you were going to answer it, but you've kind of answered it.
So let's just briefly touch on it. You are amped and ready to go, fired up for Brewer season. like ride or die Mat uh Pat Murphy. Let's go. Like baseball season, you're ready to talk about it.
You're ready to live it. You're ready for this to consume your next, at this point, seven and a half months or longer. Mm-hmm or mm-mm on that. I didn't know what you were going to say, Bart. I think now I do know, but no.
No. What? What the fuck are you gonna do every day? I don't want it to consume me. I'll like that it's a part of my day.
Well, o ok okay.
So you're taking the the technicality of consum bog.
Okay, okay, okay. But no, I not the technicality, like Well Maybe I should have said you're more. I'm going to have a lot, so I don't work during the day.
So do I go to games? I would if I were in your shoes. How about this? How about this? You're more amped for this brewer season than you have been in at least.
Let's say since 2018, or maybe the 2019 because they were coming off of what was so close. Because you were like You were like down, down, down on brewers for a few years. Like, actively hated them, or like, seemed to be. kind of maybe sort of rooting against them. No, I'm just glad that I uh Still have it in me.
I thought I. After the playoffs, I just, baseball sucks. But I still there's still the little burning desire to want. To love baseball.
So it is still in me.
So, yes, when I'm, you know, doing the show, I'll have the game on. And I'll watch it. Gonna dissect every move? Am I gonna? I don't know.
I'm going to clearly watch the games. During the day. We'll see how into it I get. Obviously, if they win a bunch, I do kind of like that. You don't really know what to expect.
Like they could win, like let's say they win 87 games. At one point. It's not really like the Packers season, but if they win 87 games, you'll be like, oh, yeah, I get it. But you'll also be like, holy crap, holy cow, what?
So there's an opportunity for this year to be. Fun And The Pat Murphy, I think that's going to change the... Just the whole vibe. Like, we talked about that before council. Left is that maybe there just needs to be a change of like the vibe.
Yeah. I hate that council win to the Cubs. And I hate that he um did that after pretending to be a brewer this whole time. But I like that he's gone. I like that he's gone.
I like that there's something right. I think there's something to be said too for like. You just said how So Mike Buden, Hoser, Drew Holiday, Chris Middleton, Giannis, Brooke Lopez, Bucks. Like, after they won the title, okay, cool. Like, wake me up in mid-April, right?
Like, it was, okay, like, there's games on. I'm going to watch them, and, like, it's going to be fine, and they're going to lose, and we shouldn't overreact. They're going to win. I'm not going to overreact. I think that's kind of what the Brewers have been.
And, like, you know, like. The credit that they deserve is that, as Yelich, I think I've heard him talk about, this is a a great era. We don't have to call it anything more. Superfluous, but like it's a great, I know that's that's why I But golden age golden age brews basically there you go um But like they have just made th they've made making the playoffs routine.
So this change to me is And by the doesn't mean that well, I would say making the playoffs has become. The expectation. But the this change, even though, like, look at the bucks, this has been a very difficult bucks week. Needless to say, it didn't have to be. Thank you, Mark.
We took the words right out of my mouth. Didn't need to be. But they self-inflicted through comments. Didn't even care. Didn't need to make a big deal on any of them.
Didn't need to, but there's no games happening. There's no football. It was a perfect time to make all of this. And by the way, it is on the court coming off of a loss against the G.G. Jackson-led Memphis Grizzlies.
When Giannis and Dame all played and like So it was. There was Game action on top of that, um, that was negative, but like.
So, my point is the change where it's like, okay, Boonholzer's gone, Drew Holiday is gone.
Well, there's Dame, and there's this new rookie coach, Adrian Griffin. Oh, now they're going to change to Doc. Like, the change could, it's going to create. Roller coaster waves that we're unfamiliar with, just like it is. That's why I'm comparing it to the brewers.
Maybe they're worse. Maybe they're better, but The monotonous Of 162 with like Council and Corbyn Burns as your number one. Like, there's new stuff here. And I grant you look like you're disagreeing, but that's how I'm feeling about it. I just don't like that you're comparing.
Brewers baseball to the Bucks or to the Packers, because I don't think In in in football, at least when your Super Bowl are busts every year, like I don't think you get to enjoy the ride. And at this point with the bucks, I I don't know that there's a lot of enjoying the ride. Baseball is the enjoy the ride sport.
So, I think comparing the situation that the brewers are in to the Bucks or the Pat, it's apples to oranges, if we're being honest. 2018 Bart, just absolutely oranges. Don't you say that? Yeah, don't say apples to oranges. And also, Bart, you were You were, uh, you had about two or three Mountain Dews when you called the post-game show in 2018 when they said, Well, yes, they just lost to the Dodgers, and yeah, they missed a chance to go to the World Series, but what a great ride it was!
So, like. Ugh. I would have chosen my words differently than Barth did that night, but I agreed with him. Like, I'm not going to look back favorably at 2018. I don't now.
I didn't then. Like that was heartless.
Well, I'm not terribly on it. Because it ended up. I do. I was in the locker room three different times. That was fucking awesome.
It was. Look, but it was literally like, it's like it's like saying, okay, yeah, well, Little Big League, where Ken Griffey Jr. robs the home run and the Twins lose. It was a fun ride, but then you lose in a in a terrible fashion.
So Like, there were good things about it, but I don't look back at it and think, wow, what a wonderful season! Like, it ended an incredible season, but it ended in a way that takes you. Where do you get off? I know that the brewers have done nothing but win the last couple of years, and the floor has been raised. But when, since, when as Brewers fans can we afford to turn up our nose at an NLCS appearance, I just don't know where this is coming from, Paul.
In the box score, in like the historical registry where it says 2018 NLCS. It's going to look great. I'll give you an analogy, actually, real quick. I just thought of this. Uh How do you spell?
Yeah, how do you spell how do you spell media?
Well, it begins with me. It does.
So let me tell you a story. Um it was like I don't know wh whatever you was uh One of the years where the Packers lost in heartbreaking fashion. I think it was. The Seattle game. That narrows it down.
I think it was the Seattle, like, you know. 99% chance that Brandon Bostick, all that. I think it was that game. But the next day, Exit interviews in the locker room, and Josh Sitton said something at the time younger me thought was crazy. I would have rather have lost by a lot.
I would have rather have not made the playoffs. I'm paraphrasing what Josh Sitton said at the time. But it was like.
So you are Extremely close to making the Super Bowl. And you're saying, Josh, that you would have rather just been a bad team. And so I'm kind of, that's kind of how I'm remembering the 2018 Brewers: is like they were so, Bart, it's kind of like this, the story you talk about. It's hard being a Packers fan. Like, people think, like, oh, this is like, you're good every year.
You're good every year. You always make the playoffs. Like, yeah, but you don't know. playoff failure like I do, like we do.
Well to be fair. And this is a Dan Shaney YouTube stream moment. I don't remember much of the 2018. That was against the Colorado Rockies, so that one was different. Yeah.
I don't know. I was not sleeping. I do not know who took that picture. I was not sleeping. That led to the biggest Bart Chuck fight, I think, that ever existed.
Which was the day that it got reviewed. There was that, it wasn't. There was a website that was doing reviews of. Shows and they listen to that day. Oh, really?
Yeah. I'll be. And I played his review once during a best of. And people were like, what the fuck is this? All right, any other thoughts on This Oh, just that I think baseball is the enjoy the ride sport.
I think it is.
So l like you can say that the season ended poorly, but I mean, it's also taking place in the summer when we're just much happier. And like, I'm just happy to have it on. Like, I'm not excusing the Brewers' failures and saying that it's okay just because I enjoyed the ride of the season, but I think it is different from football and the Bucs season right now in that regard. I think nothing makes me appreciate that baseball is around the corner and that there's going to be a game on six and a half nights a week, you know, like on average, 27 nights a month than this past week in which there's been no Bucs, no Brewers, obviously no NFL, no NBA. At night, man, like.
Thank goodness for my friends on TNT from 7 to 9 Central on Wednesday nights. I had something to watch. AEW All right. Um it's on TBS, Paul. Oh, yeah.
It's hard when you do YouTube TV, like it's weird now. Like, I don't have channels, I just go to my library and it's there. But yeah, you're right. I would like to just remind people. That one way to enjoy baseball more is to take a gummy during it.
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You may or may not have had gout in the first place, not to chime in, but we're still not totally sure about that. No, I definitely had God. That fucking hurt. It was bullshit too, because every week a new thing would hurt. And then the C V D came along.
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And I like first off. Aside from all of the unnecessary podcasts and comments that Bucks people made during the playoff or during the all-star break. But the one thing that I really liked, other than of course, Damian Lillard winning the three-point contest and the All-Star Game MVP is that something, and you know, maybe this is. Former journalist looking at narratives and whatever else. That could very well be true.
But what I liked is that after. The all-star game was Lillard was MVP. Shaq said, You know, Dame, I don't have a question for you, I have a statement. If you guys Don't win the championship and you fail, like, there's only three people who are going to get blamed: you, Doc, and Giannis. And Dame was like, it shouldn't, it shouldn't, by the way, I would say it shouldn't take.
You know, someone like Shaq to make that comment for that to matter.
So maybe it's meaningless, and I'm thinking more of it. On the topic of enjoying the ride or expectations and how that affects the viewing experience. It had me at least wondering, at least in the context of comparing it to Brewers, anything short of a championship this season is a failure for the Bucs? Mm-hmm, or mm-mm. Is it championship or bust?
Um it depends on who you ask. I'm asking I would say a championship. Uh, is okay if they don't win this year. But they win next year. I agree with that.
Now, we won't know that, obviously, but yeah, I do agree with that because I, as we talked about recently, I've been a they're going to win one of the next two. I've been that guy. But I I again, guys, I really I've unfollowed a lot of people. Um And one guy made one guy heard the podcast and then. Then I unfollowed him.
Like because I saw his tweet later. And then he goes. Mm. Big, big, mighty guys on f following people that don't agree with them. And I'm like, okay, maybe I'll follow this guy back.
Maybe I'm wrong.
So I looked at his Twitter. And the most recent tweet was. At Damian Lillard. Fuck you, bitch. You make four threes, asshole.
No. I like whoa what? I'm not following this. Containing this.
So But it's also like And then and then You know that Dame video where that was 10 seconds where he said, bam at a bio? Mm-hmm. One guy who I think is an incredible What word do I want to use? I very much dislike this man. Oh.
Kevin O'Connor. Of the ringer. I do not like this man. I had a feeling you might not. Just, I think, yeah, yeah.
That makes sense. How are we feeling about this, Bucks fans? After ignoring us for a decade. One thing that's going to rile us up. He He jumps on.
I just am annoyed by Kevin O'Connor. Isn't this what we wanted? Everyone ignores Milwaukee. No, I turn on these shows. No one's ever talking about Milwaukee.
I say, guys, because there's no drama here. It's just a good team with a good player.
Now there's drama.
Now only everybody's talking about Milwaukee. And if you look at the NBA standings, Grant, sorry to interrupt. No, go ahead. I did do this the other day. Let's look in the West.
You got the Timberwolves. What are people saying about them? Good things. Thunder, Clippers, Nuggets. Even the Suns, who people were shitting on earlier, are now a dark horse to win the finals.
Top five teams. Oh wow, incredible stuff. Celtics, Cavs, Knicks, even the Sixers. Oh, they'll batter through MB. Everyone's saying good things about every team except for us.
But isn't this what we wanted? to be talked about, to be relevant. It's Bucks versus the world. That's what Docs got to play this week.
Now, the problem is, is. Dot kind of created a lot. It's kind of doc's. A lot of it is Doc's fault. It is.
That's the message this week. No one thinks we. What I have to believe, what I have to believe, I have to believe this. Is that Doc did this intentionally. Like he's trying to create an environment, an atmosphere.
But I Like, I know, like, you know, a JJ Reddick and others will say, well, he's, he's. Not taking accountability, and he's not whatever. There has to be a method to this madness. It is madness. There has to be a reason.
He's too experienced. He should know what he's doing more than just having this be like off the cuff remarks. Like, I would, I have to believe this was purposeful. I have to. Because if it's not.
I don't think there is. I don't think it's purposeful. I just don't think he cares. This is my thing with Doc because everyone's like, he's skirting accountability. I don't think that's it.
I just think he's being 100% honest, which, as a coach, you cannot do. You know what I mean? Plus. And I mentioned this earlier this week on my show. Like Matt LaFleur comes to the podium, always takes accountability.
We hate it. Too much. We're like, well, okay.
So, you want a coach to walk the line of sometimes blaming his players and sometimes taking accountability and blaming himself?
Well, you don't want them to be Rick Petino. Like You saw those. Yeah, I guess my point is: everyone's mad that Doc is like, Well, my players were in Cabo. They obviously were. I need to do a better job.
Sure, but then we get mad at Matt LaFleur when he does that.
So I don't know what fans want all the time.
Well, I was okay with the Cabo comment, I was less comfortable. With I I asked him, What have you been doing? Why are you doing this? Like, okay. Why do you want to hire me?
But the thing is, I like Doc the media guy because of the stories he's willing to openly share. He's good at like, he's good at. I like that. Like, that's for me. That's, yeah, I want to listen to that.
Are we experiencing Sean Payton 2.0? We're sorry, he was in broadcaster mode. Are we getting, is that what we're getting? Yeah. And why is JJ Reddick so pissed?
His profile is Risen because Doc's out of that chair, he gets to call NBA finals. By the way, it could be absolutely miserable. having Reddick call Doc Rivers Bucks finals games and Whatever else that could be. He's so honestly Celtic series on ABC. With Doris and Brett.
I don't know if they have the East this year. They alternate, but. Bart, you might remember this years ago. But I I me I remember talking to you about this, but um I haven't done it in a few years, but I used to On the settings on my receiver for the audio, I can turn down different channels. And there would be certain announcers I don't do as much anymore because I listen typically with my headphones in.
But by the way, is that normal? Does anybody do that? Do you do anything casually? Is there a single thing in your life you just do casually? No, there's not.
Interesting. I'm balls. If I'm doing it, I'm all in. How do you listen to the TVs with headphones on? Yeah, with AirPods in.
Through the Apple TV, like you can connect through the it's I like it more. I like it more in my ear than, but anyway, that aside, um. Grant and I are both just frozen.
Well, also, by the way, it's quieter, so I'm also trying to be a good family member. You know, that there's not. The roar of the crowd and announcers.
So I'm also trying to be respectful. That's a part of it, but I do actually enjoy it more. From an auditory experience in my ear. But you can turn down the channel, and this would be, I think, a thing where. Uh Like if it's a Doris Burke.
And JJ Reddick calling like a Buck Celtics game. I won't be able to put the headphones in because I'm going to have to turn down the channel where the announcing voices come through because I will not be able to. I won't. And it won't be fun on mute 'cause I wanna hear the crowd, so I can't I don't wanna do that either. But yeah, that would be miserable.
Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. All right. Nothing wrong with that.
I just, I just felt like I learned a little bit more about Paul and Mig and that's cool. I always appreciate it. I do. I mean, and this is obviously, this is both. A strength and a weakness, but yeah, I don't do anything half or three-quarters.
I'm either really, really, really, really into it and very passionate about it, or I just don't do it. No, but even like normal stuff, you find a different way to do. Like what? Like watching T V. Like literally watching T V for starters.
Like the thing you just mentioned that made me say that. I thought maybe you had other examples. All right, for those listening, someone else, either because you're just trying to be a good family member in your household or because you enjoy it more, someone else is listening, like, oh, yeah, I put my AirPods in.
Well, like watching a game three days later on DVR. That's very weird. That's very the moment is past. It's pa it's past. But I'm not, I'm not, I'm not there for that.
I'm there to, yeah, no. I that what I acknowledge. That's weird. You watch sports like most people read books. Like, I can't get to the.
The next one until I've seen this, but it was three days ago. At this point, just screw it, read an AP article, and then just get ready for the next one. You're like, No, I must continue on the path of the lore of the 2024 bucks. Yeah, very interesting. Yeah, that's how you.
That one I agree with. Um, let me ask you, uh, let's get one more in if we could, Grant. Um. And this is a Unique one. I'm going to rule out the Super Bowl, and I'm not sure if I should rule out.
The NBA Finals.
So at the moment, I'll let you answer the NBA Finals. I will not let you answer the Super Bowl. But if it's an obvious NBA Finals answer, I'm going to say you can't say it. This is on the heels of Daytona. This The sporting event that's not the Super Bowl.
And by the way, it can't be your team.
So, if I want to see the Brewers in the World Series, you're not allowed to do that. It would have to be two random teams. The sporting event that's not the Super Bowl and that does not involve your team. that you would attend first. Your first choice would be The Daytona 500.
I'm just going to say Daytona 500. I don't know what you guys are going to say, but for the sake of I'll say you would choose the Daytona 500. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm. No, I think mine's pretty easy.
It's it's the World Cup. Yeah. I almost ruled that out too because I thought that might be that, but that's a very bar. But then you know what second is? WrestleMania.
Yeah, mine would have used to have been WrestleMania.
Now I'd say it's all in.
Okay. And when's 500. Maybe give me your barometer on this.
Well not I so I would like to attend a race someday. Like a NASCAR race. Because I used to grant uh tape. Races at the La Crosse Speedway. Oh, really?
So when I worked at UPN. KQEG was UPN. Mm-hmm. And I would go in there and I would do the tape deck. And I'd have to edit commercials into the.
You would get like a 30-minute syndicated show of like Jack Hannah's animal rescue. And then I would. To insert the commercials, I'd have to record from one VCR to another. It was wild and fucking awesome. And then to play live programming.
We put in a VCR and press play. Wow.
So then I'd call my buddy and be like, turn on channel five or whatever. And then I just paused the TV. Yeah. But then on Saturday nights Well, we never taped anything live. It was always we would do high school basketball games.
That then would tape We would air them the next day. And then with the race, we would air them.
Next night as well. And so I went to that lacrosse speedway like. 15 different times. Uh and so I like that, but in terms of like Daytona. I mean, well, not Rhode America.
That's. different. But like a s an oval track, I I'd go to any ray. I don't I don't know that the Daytona 500 as a fan would be any different than the one this weekend in Atlanta. Yeah.
Hmm. Racing's really hard. I talked about this this week, but. You cannot be winning the whole time and then just win. Mm-hmm.
It's like baseball. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Like the diamond decks. I'm trying to think of what I would.
You know, I'm tempted to actually say the Big Ten tournament. In high school, I Like I had buddies, we would always watch college basketball together. And we said one day. I want to go to Indianapolis because it was always in Indianapolis at the time. Like, I want to go down there for a couple of days.
And just watch like basketball games all day, every day. Like, there's fewer games as the tournament goes along. I think that would be really fun. It would be like the state tournament for basketball, except. You know, a level up.
And that doesn't really exist the next level up. Like, there's not really that. there's no version of that in professional sports well well you could i mean Summer League, NBA Summer League. Oh, that's a good one. I didn't think about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, those games suck, and the players suck, though. That's the problem. Yeah, I mean, but you wouldn't like you wouldn't if you went to one Summer League game, you'd be like, uh, but I think like Summer League is something you go to 10 games in two days. Wow, and then it's more of like the cumulative of the by the way, I didn't think of that one before, just as you were saying what you said, I thought of the Summer League.
That one would be high on my list for sure. Maybe a dollar tournament, maybe the Masters, but Masters would be cool, yeah. That'd be that'd be low on mine. Like I would say as someone who does Don't really, I kind of sort of have a hockey team in the NHL. The Lightning is my team.
But It's not the same, but like going to an NHL Stanley Cup final. would be Very high on my list. Um Daytona would not have been on mine. Until My dad went and sent me these videos and I'm like, oh.
Okay. I don't think I want to But I wouldn't be invested. Like, it'd be something you go to for 30 minutes, be like, oh, that was unique. That was cool. But I wouldn't care.
So, maybe that'd be more. I don't know. Like when I was in Atlanta for a morning show boot camp. And the Braves were playing.
So I went to the Braves game. For 30 minutes, just to say that I went and then I left. I wouldn't do that. The problem with this is when you get to a certain level, it gets corporate. Like the Super Bowl.
Loses a little bit of touch. And I think the national championship game does, and the final four, because you're playing it in a football stadium. And it's been what would be really cool is if you could go to the Iron Bowl. Or, like, Red River, when Oklahoma and Texas are both really good, like, that would be an environment that would be really cool. Um, more so than I think a college football playoff game, because then you're in like Jerry World, and like, yeah, that would be cool, but it wouldn't be.
Like, it feels more like a television product in a big event more than it feels like a college football game.
So, like, one of the SEC rivalry games would be cool. Thinking out loud, what about like a Duke, a Duke, North Carolina, basketball game? Yeah, yeah, Michigan, Ohio State football. Yeah, no, Bart, how come it's so anti that one? That'd be just a crazy environment.
Yeah, I don't like that rivalry. I think it sucks.
Okay. But also, the gym is just so small. I'm not a rivalry, that's why. And Gret, kind of on the heels of your Big Ten. Tournament example.
I did get to cover one NCAA tournament and my media credential was floor seats. And it was, I don't even like college sports, really. I mean, it's fine. It's not, it's not my thing. But I loved it.
Like, it was, I was like, whoa. I hated it. Really? Yeah, because there was there's other games on. See, and I ended up not.
I hear what you're saying. I ended up not minding because it was. Um It was just it was just it was just fun. It was just a cool environment. By the way, the one that I was at, the big deal there was Jared Sullinger, Ohio State, and he was supposed to be the guy.
And also there, and was not that big of a deal, was Kawhi Leonard. But it was like, oh, whatever, Kawhi. No, Jared Sullinger, he's the guy. Like, that's the guy you tank for Jared Sullinger. A guy who John Hammond, former Bucks GM, absolutely adored as a prospect.
And then. Didn't happen much with his career.
So, wait, give me your number one. The World Cup is barred, so I'm going to eliminate the World Cup. Give me your number two. Is it WrestleMania? Oh yeah.
Do you have to be close or do you just have to be there? For this to be number one. Yeah, for mania, I would just have to be in the building. Just in the bail, just in the building.
Okay. Grant? Where do you settle? Mm. I might say Big Ten Tournament.
That sounds really fun. In a year, but it depends.
Some of the some of these like. College with college sports, there's so much ebb and flow with when the teams are good and when there are star players. Right. So that would be a factor. I'd love to go back to is Bucks games during COVID.
Uh Oh, you had so much room. What about a Packers game with you being one of five hundred? That would suck. That would suck. You know what would be really cool is I'd love to go back to some Johnny Davis, lacrosse, Central, and Alaska matchups.
Those were. Those were fucking unbelievable. High school basketball, when things really align, it can be really cool. Mostly. I could get back to those Bronson Koenig Aquinas games.
Or that I tweeted about it the other day. I saw when La Crosse Central, when Johnny Davis is the peak of his powers, play Mini Haha Academy, which was Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren and a bunch of those guys. That's the coolest sporting event I've ever been to. Oh, so you you saw so who was with Johnny Davis then? On central?
Yeah, anybody else? His brother Jordan, yeah, uh, Tristan Thompson, who went on to play, I think, at Green Bay, not Tristan Thompson of the Kardashians or the Kelly. No, in fact, his name's Terrence Thompson. I always did that during games, which is a problem, and now I'm. I'm reminded of that.
No, they were just an amazing team. And then to see them go up against a bunch of guys who are now in the NBA. But Chet and Suggs had to have destroyed that team, though. No, it was. It was, it was a fucking unbelievable game.
Johnny Davis had like 40 points. It was so sick. It wasn't like final possession close, but it was within like five points into the final minute. It was sick. Nobody can make free throws.
I remember none of the Lacrosse Hunter guys can make free throws. Speaking of which, I wish I could live two lives at once, like one where I was living this life. But then another where I was living. still with my family but I work train. in lacrosse and was just Just could just worked a nine to five there and just lived in lacrosse.
You could just fuck off. That's what Grant wants too. He just wants to live in the cross. I do, but Graham, did the wizards just As someone who obviously saw a lot of Johnny Davis, did the Wizards just Destroy him? Like, did they just permanently disable his ability to shoot normally and Be confident, like what what happened?
Well, I don't know. He had a kid. Normally, that's like maybe that I thought that was supposed to make you better, but it seems like. Hey, don't tell him to say the F-word or your guy is Facebook and you. Yeah.
Um I think the word you used was correct, gall. Ugh, the gall of this guy. I don't know. Ask Toby. I don't know, it happens all the time.
Like, I don't know that his jump shot was great, but now I see clips of it. I'm like, holy shit, they made it worse. Yeah. I'm going to tell her. I don't know.
I think NBA teams get so bent out of shape getting their guys to shoot the right way. Yeah, like it's just do what works. You know what I mean? If it's worked for him all the time, look at Haliburton. Halberton's got a weird shot.
They didn't change it and it's working just fine. Patrick Baldwin Jr. is on the Wizards. Really? I don't think I ever knew that.
All right, Grant, you can be dismissed. By the way, Markel Fultz is another guy who they destroyed his jump shot for no reason. broke him down to nothing. He's repairing his career nicely, but like. Yeah, I don't know why they do that.
Right. Well, it's nice to see you both. I do have to run. Bye, Grand. Goodbye, gentlemen.
Madison Zone Sports Broadcast street system. You do this on purpose. It's not that hard. It's not that sports. Why?
You can't say that and think that's actually what it is. That doesn't make any sense. Sports Network, ZSN? It's the Wisconsin. Sport zone.
Radio network. It's the Wisconsin Sports Zone. It's not hard. It's not hard. Do you wish your show had your name in it?
Well, I guess it does with grant bills. I don't really give a shit. If we changed it to the Grand Pills show, it would be, it doesn't really matter. It doesn't, come on. It doesn't really matter.
Like, you changed the Bartwinkle showed it. It is a good logo. It's been the same one, always. Nothing's ever changed. It's still got the 2018 on it.
I just I don't know. I'll keep it.
So Barbara. I want to go have a beer at on Third Street for you, Bart, this weekend.
Son of a bitch. Is it more sensitive to do it before or after a funeral? Yeah. What's better? What time is the funeral?
Uh well I'm going to the visitation technically in the evening. Oh, you gotta get a plan at least. I can get a bloody before and then a. You're right. I'm going to sandwich it.
We'll go before and after. You guys talk some wrestling. I'll see you.
Well, no, I don't want to talk wrestling with Bart. Bye. Bart, we'll do the Bart Omena, though. God, you love the Bartle meter. I'm curious what I want to hear how you can do this.
I'll save your ass again this week and remind you that the Bengals should be in there. I just want to tell people that on Tuesday I told a story that I say, fuck with my son. And we laugh, and it's a really nice bonding moment. And some guy messaged me, found me on Facebook. He said, I'm very disappointed, and you lost respect for you as if he was my dad.
I said The gall that you have to tell me how to raise my child. And he said, an even more disappointing response. Yeah. And I said likewise. And he said, I'll leave it at this.
You even said on the show that You don't want your wife to know. Bitch. I am doing a radio show. I am entertaining you. Who knows that it's even true what I say?
Criticize my sports takes. Criticize my voice, criticize my inability to say common words. But don't you This is where some people would be like, Don't you ever talk about my son. He's not. Talking about me, but my son's name out your fucking mouth.
All right, this week's Bardometer is going to be which franchise is the most tortured right now in the NFL? Which franchise is the most tortured, right?
Okay. Which franchise, if you're a fan of? Are you like, fuck this? Hmm. Yeah, can't say that but Okay.
Most tortured fanbase is in the NFL.
Okay. I'll give you my eight, and then you can ask me where other teams are if you want. I'll tell you why they're not in. Um What's that? Can I name let me let me name a few real quick That just immediately come to mind.
And I'm just, I'll just be curious if they're on the list or not, yeah. Yeah, I'll just I'll be scarier as if they're even in there. Washington has to be very high. No, they are not in. They're not in.
What? New ownership, feeling of optimism. I get, okay, good counterpoint.
Okay. The Jets have to be high. The Jets are definitely in. Yeah, jets have to be very high. It's not the Bears because they have the number one pick and they have a good problem on their hands with Field.
So not the whole world's their oyster. Yep, I'm with you on that. Um This is Stuff. Hope Springs Internal. There's a lot of teams that could feel okay right now.
I'm going to say the Browns. You're stuck with Deshaun Watson. Like you're good, but you're not good enough. Are the Browns in there? I don't think they'd be top five, but I think they'd be in there.
You can put them in, but I could take a team out to put them in.
Okay, so you like the suggestion. Um I think the Cowboys have to be pretty high. No, Cowboys are not in. Why? Because their fans are too stupid to understand.
So you're saying they should be in, but the fans, okay. That's yes. It's a comedic. I like that. I like that.
Realize if you can. I don't Think the I don't well, okay. The Eagles just won a Super Bowl recently, or went to a Super Bowl. I don't think the Eagles in. Yeah, I don't think they should be.
I don't think the Dolphins should be. I mean, I know you kind of have a weird Tua thing and you're stuck with that contract, but like, I don't think that's tortured fanbase. Would you like a barometer? Would you like to hear it? No, I want to see who I this is hard.
I want to see who else. If I can, the Panthers have a terrible owner and might have totally like made a terrible 10-year mistake by going with Bryce Young over CJ Stroud. Carolina's in the top five, right? I'll tell you in a minute. It could be the Giants.
It could be the Vikings. I don't. I mean, the Falcons, I think, have reason for optimism. The Raiders have a new coach that the players like. Maybe it's.
Denver, because you don't really have a Uh Okay, let's hear it. I'm curious. I don't think the Packers should be. If we were still stuck with Rogers, I think the Packers should be in the fuck no. I'm saying, I'm saying, like, but a year ago, like, or two years ago, I would have said the Packers are in the top five, but it's that's okay, go ahead.
And then, I don't know, the 49ers, because they always can't quite get over the hump, and Shanahan can't win, even if he's up double digits in the Super Bowl. All right, go ahead.
So, I think I don't have the Lions in here. Should I have the Lions in? No, why? Because they lost bad. No, I mean, I would be very optimistic if I was a lion, more than I have been 30 plus years.
All right, number eight is the Minnesota Vikings. Do you have no correction? Very little hope. And now everyone else in their division has promise except for them.
Okay, I like that. Yep, good argument. Number seven is the Giants. Yes. Yeah.
Just because they're kind of stuck with Daniel Jones and Coach sucks. They're gonna you know yeah. But the Giants good on the Giants. Because they made they find reasons, they find a Tommy DeVito who I'll mention this and people won't know, he was their Sam Congato. You're right.
In God will we trust. Yeah. Number six is the Steelers. Yeah. I think that's fair.
Stealing over because they have not had a losing season under Mike Tomlin, yet they don't give a fuck about that. They are just very heartbroken that they've never. that they haven't been back in fifteen years. Yeah. I guess that's fair.
Have they not been back since? 2011 against the Packers? No. Okay. Number five is the bills.
I took it. Sell me on that.
Well Every Bills fan grew up. knowing about their previous generation's heartache. Yeah. Fuck, it might get bad again, but it'll never get that bad. And now it's like getting that bad.
No, it's not. It can't be the Chiefs. But they have a young superstar quarterback. Who can't win? Uh that's not fair.
Number four is the 49ers. I think that seems about right. Number three is the Panthers.
Okay, who's ahead of them? Jets and? Number one is Atlanta. Oh, what? Why?
Because the amount of people. That have called. And reference 28 to 3. Yeah. They are not over it.
I think it's like how we feel about the Seattle NFC Championship game. Multiplied. Because it was the Super Bowl. And then It had this this happened. The so I think I'm right on this, I'll have to double check.
That year that was a long time ago. That was like 2015. For 2017, Here, let me look. But it was also the last year the Jets made the playoffs. Hmm.
That Super Bowl was 2016. They made the playoffs the next year, but lost. And then they've been seven and nine, seven and nine, four and twelve, seven and ten, seven and ten, seven and ten.
Now they do have a reason for optimism. Yeah. If they want to talk themselves into it. 28. Just when you thought it was over.
With Shanahan being in the Super Bowl and blowing it again, with possibly trying to get Bill Bell. Check. Yep. They have relived it again. Sure.
Atlanta, I'm putting it number one. Let me ask you this. I don't know if this should be part of the Bardometers. The Bartometer also does factor in. Reaction it may get from different fan bases that have that air.
all part of the algorithm but And on a scale of one to ten. Like, I would say, like. Jets fans are a ten out of ten in terms of passion slash crazy. Like they just they're They are diehard. Jets fans, I think of a Jets fan, I think of like, they love the Jets.
They hate the Jets, but they love the Jets. I don't think, as I don't think of Atlanta fans in general, like people in the, like, Braves. Uh Like hawks, like, I just don't think of them as being like more than a six out of ten on the passion scale. Is that Unfair and if it isn't, does the problem? The problem is that at length.
is like It's an SEC town. Yeah, or they have other people care about the braves. I'm going to challenge. I'm going to call in and Tally, that's I think that's a That's too high. Uh Jets got to be above the Falcons.
Well, that's what the barometer's doing. Whatever can kill a segment, Paul, you know that. Yeah, but even better is if, which is what you're trying to do, I think. It's like if it kills three segments, because you get a bunch of calls from Atlanta. What about wait?
Um, are any consideration toward the Ravens? They have a two, like, they have a two-time league MVP. No, Zay Flowers like Mate. Yeah. Zay Flowers completely lost.
You can put them in at nine, ten. Yeah. I mean, what what I did, just to pull up a quick list, is I sorted The NFL standings from this past season, just a quick pull-up list of teams, and the Ravens were the only 13-win team. What number did you have Dallas at? You didn't I don't know.
They're not in. That doesn't make sense to me. I think the b I if I was a Bills fan, I would feel just fine. I could put I don't I'd put the Cowboys in but I like the I like the bit too much Okay, fair enough. All right, fine.
Again, the barometer is its own thing. And then that's what we play both whales. Do you want in on that or no? Uh no. I'm going to listen to it later, of course.
But you do that. And then next week, we'll do the. NBA player duos that Zach Gelb didn't mind doing what you would you would thought was too much work.
Okay. I have destroyed this thing. That what you're sitting on?
Well, what I'm sitting on is my chair from Fast Lane. With Goldberg on it. Yeah. But then I worn out that pad, so I have one of these. Ah.
Uh stadium seats. Yeah. Here are some of the sponsors of the Brewers. What year do you think this is? This is 70s, right?
Or eighties. Yeah, sev no seventies, yeah, seventies. Um American Hampton Bank. Midland National Bank, Mitchell Street State Bank, Bank of Commerce. Oh, these are all just banks.
Never mind. Does the Cedarburg State Bank still exist? Does the New Berlin State Bank still exist? What about? Colonial State Bank in Theensville.
Yeah. I don't I don't know Farmers and Merchants Bank in Menominee Falls. Hmm. You can buy your tickets by phone at the stadium or by mail. Do you imagine?
The brewers a check for tickets, and then a week later getting tickets. That's fucked up. I very, very, very much miss hard copy tickets. Oh yeah. I'm r that's that's the worst for me, that's like the biggest like oh you know you're we're just gonna send them to your phone like no i want a i want my ticket Oh my fucking ticket.
I want to hold the ticket. I want to keep the ticket. Give me a ticket. A physical ticket.
Well, now teams are like, oh, you want a ticket? You can buy one. Yeah, would you like to convert your digital copy into a printed copy? I have pretty much every ticket I've ever used in a box right over there. I do too.
I I have many of them. Mm-hmm. When I would print them out and and you Because they're doing that way, instead of those. Wait, what do you mean? Like like you'd get it emailed to you?
Yeah, like uh When I went to a Packers Titans game in Nashville, I have that ticket printed out. Just like you printed on your printer and then you kept the yeah.
Okay. That's not as cool. No. All right, bud.
Alright, be well. Talk to you later. Bye, Paul.
Okay. One more segment of the show that will be voicemails. Let us do some voicemails from Carl's Place, Carlovet.com backslash Bart. Use that link. If you just go to carlvt.com, if you're in the market for a golf simulator.
Then I don't get any credit. Carlo VT.com backslash Bart. I'm going to take up golf. Like I've taken up golf I'm gonna get fucking good at it though. I got all these days to just dick around.
I mean, I gotta work at night and prep for the show, but I could squeeze in an eighteen.
Okay. All right, I've got one here from Brett Intosa 402-915-2278-402-915-BART. Here is Brett in Tosa.
Okay, but posted here. Um, you know, I listened to your your Tuesday show and obviously baseball's right around the corner. still open the bucks and turn things around, but Um, with baseball around the corner, um No, I'm getting excited for the brewers. Um And I'll put my mic Tighten still a little less because of the whole council news and I couldn't agree with you more on Gerant. over council and How he thinks he can get away with this.
And I guess my plea to Bruce stands, what I want to do here is. Go out, get your ticket from for Memorial Day. I believe it's May 20th, March 5th. May 27th. First game bass, get your tickets behind the cub dugout.
Um Reach out to me on Twitter. I will supply all beer in the parking lot if you're a Bartwinkler. Uh Show listener, and if you could take us behind the cup, go. I love living in Wisconsin. I love.
the culture in Wisconsin. I love how friendly everyone is. We have to be able to turn the switch at times. And this on Memorial Day. the table we have to turn the switch.
I agree. I don't want to hurt anyone. I don't wanna Thing I don't want to do it. Um Is there the line that we Can't copy. But we have to get as close to that line as possible.
And I I've got four tickets, a couple roles behind the club's dugout. I will be there. I want to make this as miserable as possible for that motherfucker. Um and we cannot forget about it. We can't you know, I know this happened a long time ago.
We can't forget about it. We can't boom when he gets announced in the first inning and sit on our butt the rest of the game and act like nothing happened.
So I've got three months. I don't know where that line is yet. I probably need to watch how much I drink in the parking lot to make sure I don't get arrested. But we've got three months to figure it out. Without crossing that line, I agree with you.
Whoever spray paint asks, keep doing it, and let's not let him forget this.
So that's all I got. Thanks. And that was a message that Brett sent before Four The editorial that we started the show with where somebody from Virginia. Um I'm gonna read part of it. It is like, it's the worst written thing.
I've ever heard in my life or ever read. It's so bad. Just every every b That writing trope is awful. As a lifelong Brewers fan, I am rooting for the Cubs. There, I said it.
But before Brew Crew Nation throws overcooked sausages on my bona fides. Rest assured, I'm aware of the line I'm crossing. Those Wrigley folk are a beer garten masquerading as a fan base.
So How many How many offensive and lame things? Cook sausages on my bona fides. Uh A cheap shot at the c Cubs to gain favor. That was dumb. Then he talks about council.
I see no rooting. No choice but to take my rooting interests south of the border. I don't mean the sandbag, the sterling record of the brewer's current and well-meaning owner. Like a pine tree hanging from a rearview mirror, he has cleared the air of a certain used car stench.
Some of us weren't sure we'd live long enough to see it. Zing Boom, and most of all, Torero. Man, fuck this guy. I can't even I can't even read the rest of it. It's so offensive.
Then he lays out ground rules. Whoever wrote this is Marshall Ekblad? He might be outside of Outside of war crimes. He might be the worst human ever. Oh wow.
Senior Director of Media Relations at the University of Virginia. Oh, he's not even old. I shouldn't be doing this. Maybe I should get him on the show. See what the hell he's Thinking.
He's a young guy. Kinda looks like me.
Well He got he got to be published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. What a hero. What a hero. All right, anyway, another voicemail for you. And that will be from Dan in Grafton.
Dan. Hey Bart, hope you're doing well. Hey Dan. Um, Dan, just gotta get this off my chest.
Sorry? You can't really hear me all that well. I'm outside on my AirPods, uh, walking my dog. We live right next to the freeway, so it's kinda loud, but If you can hear this, hopefully you can hear this, hopefully you play this. Uh, but I'm listening to your to your show right now, your Tuesday show.
And uh I think someone commented saying 35 and 21, not good enough. Oh, we're the third feed. First of all, second of all. Where then? Freaking lower.
Who would have thought, you know, like seven years ago that a buck would have Well, two superstars. paired with, you know, And I'll three time I'll start Chris Middleton. compared with the all-time leading score in Netflix April Pose. And other players who are coming here wanting to play for the Buck, not just like. uh you know traded or added because they Yeah.
They had nowhere else to go. Yeah. I'm gonna be in Day Rabbit. Um Uh And yeah, I enjoyed the team and Playing really well. I people are just saying to be humble.
Oh, I gotta say, didn't need to be a humble about the button. Think about seven, eight years ago I would Yeah, like we were winning some games and everything. We were m Taking the playoffs, but I mean, it was we were just happy enough to take the playoffs and now like, oh, if we don't win the finals it's It's one more deal. People are going to cry about it. I mean, we have gotten it for a long time.
We have damed for the next four years. I don't think there's anything to worry about. I don't know why people are confused about this. And yes, I've tweeted out right after the Memphis game that I was really upset, but that's just how I react to things. I wish it wasn't like that, but That's how I react, I guess.
And I gotta stop. I gotta I gotta look at the big picture and I think that's what you're doing, that's what I wanna do, that's what a lot of the these fuck fans need to do because People yeah, people think we're humble about What we have Collective, ride it out, and see what what uh what happens in the playoffs. People. It's uh okay to be Upset when the Bucks do something to upset you. I can't gatekeep on that, but.
The way we react. It's like sometimes when I get cut off. Or if there's something that happens to me in traffic. It's okay to be like. Ah, what the fuck, man?
But instead, I honk, I swerve. I pretend like I'm devastated. My reaction to a near accident. almost causes a new accident.
So I'll take my own advice, but We gotta relax. But I've preached that enough. Uh here's How Take Jake. Hey, Barty. It's your boy Hot Take Take.
I'm going to try to talk to you. I miss the show, man. I don't know. This must be what it's like when two parents get divorced, but it's on good terms. And, you know, they're sharing custody of the kids.
And they just kind of see each other every now and then. And, you know, you knew it was the right call and you're happy for the other person, but it's like, oh, you just missed the old.
Sometimes, but I had to call to comment on your outrage about this supposed outrage about the Bucks. And I also had to comment on your John McDonoughlin impression. Um McLoughlin, that that was very Very much shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I don't know what you were going for there, but Yeah, now yeah. Like you're out of breath, like you just woke up from a nightmare or something, so it's like that's like.
Okay, Gabriel. Here we go, just a couple quick stops, couple quick branches. But you got like a little bit That was that was Yogi Bear. John McGlockland and Shaggy, but I digress. Um, Bart, I love how positive you like to stay.
Now, I don't know if you truly are this positive or if this is like a defense mechanism. I'm thinking it's more of the latter. But you can't be mad at Bucks fans for, you know, you say making a big deal out of things when you mention it yourself. You gotta put context behind these things.
So maybe if Dame like says he was my top five, he puts Bam in there and not Giannis. That's one thing, but Contextually, this is the guy that sat around and mulched because all he wanted to do was go to the heat. And that was it. Like, he wasn't gonna take anything out for an answer.
So It's Like, oh, you you say it's not a big deal, but when you add in the fact that Since he's been in Milwaukee, he's looked miserable. He hasn't played like his old self. Um You know, you gotta take those things into context.
So yes, maybe one thing on the surface isn't the biggest thing when you add it all in, on top of the fact that we're paying three head coaches, one of which can't keep his dumb fucking mouth shut to save his life and keeps making things worse and worse on himself and on the team and the expectations. Like, what do you expect? I don't know, man. I wish I could just ignore these things. And the other thing I wanted to say is, yes, like maybe some people are freaked out or like really mad.
I'm more bummed out than anything 'cause this was supposed to be like the greatest Buck season ever. And nothing has worked so far other than their talent has carried them to some winds. But It feels more and more to me like the Anthony Mason where you have these expectations and this is it. And you just kind of see it and you're hoping it's not the case, but little by little this thing is falling apart.
So I don't know. I hope I'm wrong, but Just doesn't feel like our year, but don't be mad at people for noticing the obvious. I almost feel like there's more people mad about other people being mad than the actual shitty year. Not this time. No.
I don't know. He got cut off from the three minutes, but good voicemail from Jake. I here's what I'll say with the Bucks. I might react the same way that everybody else reacts. I might do that.
I might freak out. I might. I might crumble. I save it for the playoffs. They're going to make the regular season.
Nobody is even complaining about the one or two seed. You're not even complaining about that. You don't care. You just care about how it looks and how it's going to make you feel. Because you don't think they're going to be able to flip a switch.
Or whatever. And maybe they won't, but they're still two months before the playoffs.
Okay. They're 35 and 21. They played some games. You know, we all talk about that Memphis game. Nobody talks.
Bucks nine's only talk. They kick the shit out of Denver. No one cares. It's a good basketball team. They still have to figure out how to best utilize everybody.
Middleton's been hurt. It's a big part of that. And the coaching has been weird. And we'll see. I'll judge him in the postseason.
And even in the postseason, remember the year they won? How many of you thought it was over? Two down to the nets. And you cry, cry, cry. How many of you thought it was over?
Two down to the suns? Where, where, where? You gotta watch the movie first before you have an opinion on the movie. You got to watch the story. You got to read the book first.
Oh, I don't get what's going on here. Did you finish it? No. Maybe in the end it all pays off. It all works out.
There is a rush. There is the Bucks fans have such a desire not to be heartbroken that you Break your own heart. Instead. And it's weird. And with that.
I bid you adieu. The show's still here. We're cranking out two a week, Jake. I know we're not on after the games, but Sparky is a lot. Ron and Drew are a lot.
Justin Garcia on the radio.
So there is good bucks conversation. I'm on the air. Call me.
So did you watch that Bucks game? As a matter of fact, they did. Let's talk. I know it's not the same, but. Let's make it the same.
First couple of weeks on the show, I heard from a lot of you guys. I don't hear from you guys as much. Mm. I thought we were going to take over. That together we would all invade.
Instead, I'm hearing from jackasses from San Diego telling me how to parent. Yeah, comes with the territory, I suppose. Thanks to Grant and Paul. Thanks to those of you that did leave voice messages. No thanks to Marshall Ekblad.
Have a great Weak. End. Bye. Okay.
