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Good. Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse. I'm Bart Winkler. Alongside Grant Bills, Paul Imig, as well.
For our weekly rendition of mm-hmm mm-mm. How many people would have to, like, even if we only had like 10 viewers a week, we'd still do it, right? To like catch up? Absolutely. Grant.
I mean, I don't look at the viewers. Don't tell me. I'll keep doing this forever. You don't, I don't need to know. It's fine.
Yeah, I don't care. I'm not in charge. That's your, that's your job. Don't ask us. I'm just, I'm just wondering, and I appreciate you guys, as always, for being here.
Plenty to talk about with the Brewers, great vibes. Plenty to talk about with the Bucks, not so great vibes. I will start by making an awful sports story about me if I could. Please. And that is the Oakland Athletics moving.
Ugh. Yes. I despise this every which way. Um It is terrible. I think So basically what happened was John Fisher hates Oakland and hates his fans.
And so he's wanted to move. And instead of just being like, hey, I want to move, he systematically tore down the fan base by not having any upgrades to the stadium. By Not having any upgrades to the team. By sending guys down to the minors if they support the fan site that. um you know is supporting of the players And I still complain about it on Twitter.
I said something about John Fisher, and a guy goes immediately: well, they had bad attendance last, like. How can you say that? If you're a Brewer fan and the Brewers move, would you like other fan bases just piling on you and taking. the side of the owner. Why I want to make this about me is I did get a little trip.
Now, I will say this: in the past, jealousy turned into. Um, disdain, it's not disdain. I think the absolute world. Of pardon my take. Friend of show to you, Big Cat.
That's true. Friend of the Winklerverse. It is uh a great show. They get great guests, they have great fun. They record like a 2, 3 in the morning on Sunday night to make sure they have every NFL, they're committed to this.
And that's one thing that Big Cat's always said. He says, You have to be consistent no matter what. What triggered me a little bit was They were talking about this and they got just like all like. All the attention of, like, you fuck yeah, these guys, finally, someone's sticking up for us. Yeah.
I've been bitching about the A's since I got on CBS Sports Radio.
So what that tells me is No one listens to me. That means Or I need it in video format or whatever 'cause. But even still, I'm not like Oh, there's who cares? It's like Big Cat and PM PFT saying something is a lot more. It moves mountains more than you know, dumb me saying something.
I just feel I want to be recognized for standing against the A's. Not only, though, not only were you maybe not recognized. I heard you have a caller on the national perspective, which is what I'm going to call your show. From Oakland who was like stop talking about my A's Yeah, like you don't know about you don't know what's going on. You're not here.
What are you talking about? And I was like. Are you the Was this caller the one like John Fisher defender? I think it was John Fisher, probably. It had to have been like at least a kid or a cousin or something because.
I couldn't believe that you got a passionate call who was like. kind of like pro the ownership group. That was this guy on Twitter. That's what I expected. This guy on Twitter, I just checked that was supporting.
He goes, bottom five fan base. I said, any fan that makes an excuse for Fisher is an even bigger part of the problem. He says the A's will be the third pro team leaving the city. It's telling you it's not an owner problem. This is a comprehension problem.
So this is why people like John Fisher can get away with it. Because people are so fucking stupid overall. Overall, people are dumb. People are dumb. People are dense.
People are like We always say, oh, we're heading towards idiocracy. I wish. I wish we were that fucking smart around here. Yeah. Great movie.
Great movie. Grand movie. People also have short attention spans.
So we're like, oh, screw John Fisher. And then we move along and he just gets to do what he wants to do.
Well, that too. Yeah. That too. Grant, if you've not seen Idiocracy. Please do.
Is this one of those movies Basketball that you told me I needed to watch. Is this along those same lines?
Okay. Yeah, totally. These are classic, these are my classics: basketball. Idiocracy. I thought I'm on CBS Sports Radio.
What a massive audience I have. No one cares that I've been. Railing for the A's. Grant, you sent this. This tweet into our group chat.
And I I can't tell if it's, I didn't, and if it's a video, I haven't watched it yet. It's real. I found the video of him actually saying that. I thought that it was maybe a troll. That's 100%.
John Fisher calls Sutter Health Park, which I assume is their Sacramento ballpark, quote, the most intimate park in the Major League Baseball. He says he can't wait to watch the MLB's top stars like Aaron Judge hit home runs there.
Well, he's a monster. He doesn't know anyone on the A's. And he wants to guarantee he hits a home run there. It's against the team that you own, right, buddy? That's why he's moving to Vegas.
He's not moving to Vegas because Las Vegas fans want. The A's. He's moving to Vegas because people are going to go to Vegas to see their team. And by the way, he is a tourist. Attraction.
Nobody in Vegas is clamoring for a pro team. There's not enough of them to get them there. And in Sacramento it's gonna be the same shit. And Sacramento, like What are they doing too? They almost lost a team, and now they're cherry-picking and poaching a team from right down the bay.
That's bullshit. Nah, well, wait a minute, though. Who did they almost lose? You're saying the Kings? The Kings.
Probably wish they lost the Kings. What? I should have lost the kings. How would they light the. What do they like?
The beam. They like the playing tournament. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, good take.
Good take. I'm not sure there's a right way to move a team, but this is definitely the most wrong way to move a team. You know what I mean? 20-year systematic beatdown. By the way, is it true too?
That all of the owners are on board with.
Well, we I mean They all vote for it. At least they're not pushing back publicly. You don't know that they're like, way to go, John Fisher. Also, I saw this tweet that I shared, and I have not fact-checked it if you guys have. They're going to just be for those three years in Sacramento, they're just going to be called the athletics or the athletics.
No, that's not. I mean, is that fake? No, they'll like They won't sell merch that says Sacramento on it, probably. But if you look at a scoreboard, it'll say, like in the standings, it'll say Sacramento. It's not going to say athletics.
You don't think, I mean. I mean, that'd be stupid. Yeah, maybe. The fact that they're playing in Sacramento at all is kind of ridiculous.
Now having said that, I actually Would enjoy seeing a Major League Baseball game in a AAA stadium. I do think there's something. fun and you it's it's like the game I mean it's not exact it's different from but of a similar idea of the game at The cornfields, you know, with the field of dreams field. Like, it's just, it's a different. Place to watch a major league baseball game, a smaller, more intimate venue, like.
This is not pro John Fisher. He's playing at the Field of Dreams. They play at Little League World Series. I think that, and I'm so just saying, I think that kind of stuff is cool. Like, when there's so many baseball games once a year, not when you fucking.
Dick fuck Oakland for the third time. It's terrible for Oakland. But I think, like, if you're like, I would bet you that Kevin Holden. Will go to Sacramento to watch an A's game in Sacramento because he's done.
Well, he's well, but you would if you were that kind of if you were the person that did the MLB stadium tour, though, you would want this on your. Your list, you'd want to see it. I would want to see it.
So, Kevin, you go to John Fisher's shill, it sounds like it's an unfortunate.
Well, the problem is: if I found myself in Sacramento. And the Brewers were playing there. I would absolutely go. Absolutely. I would go if they were playing the Tigers.
No one, the problem with that is no one has ever found themselves in Sacramento. Ever. No one. Did he ever go to a Kings game? We need to get to the bottom of that.
Did he went outside the arena one time?
Okay. Live shot. That's true. He's working.
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Which You're like, yeah, that look is what I thought you might say. Because this. Here's my curiosity. You were the Packers GM this week. And you're hearing all the phone calls.
It pretty much is going to take a second-round pick to get Stefan Diggs. You, Packers GM. would have traded a 2025 second round pick for Stephon Diggs. As the GM of the Packers. Or I don't know because the Packers are kind of in the same.
Like Mindset is the Texans.
So they're sister teams between the two conferences. I've been saying that on my show. Exactly my thought.
So if I'm saying great for the Texans. I'd have to say great for the Packers.
So let me jump in real quick, if I may, and just say, mm-mm. Packers. Yeah, because I would say, mm-mm. Yeah, I would not. Why?
Yeah. Uh here let me my answer. Having you guys take on this on CBS Sports Radio last night that apparently no one heard, so. I heard the first hour already, and it's what kind of prompted me to say, I want to hear the Packers' perspective on this. Because we hear about this really selfless wide receiver room in Green Bay.
They're all young. None of them have hit like the diva status thing yet, that presumably at least a couple of them eventually will. Stefan Diggs is a really talented but older player. Who I don't like, I mean, I didn't do the interview. I don't know Stefan Diggs, but there's enough for me from the way, way, way outside to say: are we sure we want this guy who's been traded twice?
Who The team he was just on in Buffalo is willing to eat a $30 million dead cap hit.
So, Bart, I also thought of this when you were talking about it. Do the thing that the other team doesn't want you to do. Buffalo wanted to get rid of him desperately. Like they ate $30 million of a dead cap hit on a Top five NFL team. They threw in a fifth and a sixth, too, didn't they?
They threw in other picks to make it happen. Yeah, in this year's draft.
So you're so. Buffalo wanted him out.
So, I would say, if I'm the Texans or if I'm the Packers, in this case, we're going to say is the Packers GM.
So, like, I see the Texans get Stefan Diggs. I'm like, wow, great move. That definitely elevates their title status. But then I make it about The home team And I would say. Mm-hmm.
The t the the bills So desperately one-off this guy that they're going to eat this cap hit, give up some 2024 picks. Yeah, later round picks, day three picks. Just so that we can get a second next year while eating 30 million dollars this year. The tech, I mean, the bills want me to do that.
So if the bills want me to do that. I shouldn't do that, right? Like...
So It is, it's a strange situation because I'm watching the technology. Whoa, Texans, that's huge for them. But I'm a definitive mm-mm for the Packers, so it's kind of a conundrum. I will pause. You guys talk.
Well, I think that like and and for this to work Unless this is too fantasy mind oriented, I think Nico Collins is the number one. And I think that they had a great connection. Especially in that first playoff game, I felt like it was okay, Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico. And so, if this is going to work, Stefan has to come in there and be the number two, which I think he will say.
Okay, or even like 1B, whatever.
Okay, fine, fine, fine. But he's used to getting 160 targets a year. Yeah. And so even at the wide receiver position where You know. Even at that position, to go from 160 targets a year to let's say 85.
Is A huge Decrease.
So if he's going to buy in, it's going to be great. And I don't I still don't like I think that we I think that we are Overall, a little too hard on receivers. Yeah. We oh, so the guy got in a fight and you got in an argument. I mean, we look at arguments.
These guys are passionate. They're playing sports, man. But still, Stephon Diggs has been traded twice.
So, yeah. There is some risk. It's high risk, high reward, or high reward and low risk because you just get rid of them. Yeah, he gave up a second round pick, but... If it's not working, just Just get rid of them so.
If I were the Packers, if the Packers did this, I would probably. I would probably be excited. And then have a lot of caution. Yeah. That's where I'm at, too.
Like, you would initially send this into friendly. If the Crackers had Stephon Diggs, I'd be like, holy fuck, we're going to win the Super Bowl. Right. And then the next three hours, I'd be like, I sure hope he behaves, man. I don't want to see him yelling at my quarterback.
And I'd be sincere about that. I think if it's the one final piece If it's Andre Reisen. Like you do it.
So, I think if you're the Packers or the Texans, where they are on their. trajectory I guess maybe the Texans really think that. This is a you know how awful it would have been if the Packers traded for Stephon Diggs. Tell me. All days, yes.
They have Aaron Rodgers. And they never get him any help. I didn't even think of that. And then he leaves! And they go for stiffened thigs.
Ugh. You're totally right. I don't know whose impression that was, but the content. I don't either, but I can see the Dan Needles tweet about it right now. Oh, Jesus.
Grant. Your thoughts.
Well, I am not the Packers' general manager, but both Bart and I are uniquely qualified to put ourselves in the headspace of Brian Goudekins because we both graduated from the same prestigious university. Uh in La Crosse. I think it would be fine for the Packers. I don't think it would be bad for the Packers. I think it makes more sense for the Texans because they don't have to pay CJ Stroud for a couple more years, whereas the Packers need to pay Jordan Love.
And I don't think the Packers are going to run out of money, but Houston is well aware, they have money to burn. Even though Stroud and Love are both year two starters coming up, the finances are a little bit different. I also think the Packers have a deeper skill position group. Like I like Nico Collins and Tank Dell. But the Packers have Dobbs, Watson, Reed, Wicks.
Like, they just have more guys. They have more young guys.
Now, maybe this is me saying this as a guy that has John Mechie in fantasy. Yeah. But second-round pick two years ago, and literally. Brian Teleo Shakir, I'm pumped. I do too.
I have him in our and the one that we're in together, Bart. But, like, and for what it's worth, Mechi was a second-round pick a couple years ago and literally over. No, I think then the league that you have, Shakir, I have Mechi. No violence. No, in the one that in the one with We won't go over it later.
I have Mechi and Shakir in the one, in the first one that we were going to get. Yep, the one that we're in like year four. Maybe. I have both. But anyway, I I think the Texans depth is also good.
Um so Grant, any concerns though that The bills Want it off of him? Like that, that wouldn't give you pause? Yeah. But I would be less worried about that if I was a Texans fan. And I think this is true of the Packers too, where Like when Diggs rolled into Buffalo, he was a part of making Buffalo Buffalo.
Also, he was 26 then. Correct. Correct. I mean, yep. Yep.
I'm saying, from like a personality standpoint. He is now joining a Texans team that has a good thing going. Like they're their own little group, like they got something cooking.
So, again, just from a personality standpoint. Like, if he comes in and acts up, like, there's going to be no sympathy for him. It's like, dude, we were cooking, we were working on something before you got here. We're not tied to you long term. Like, it's easier to get out from Stephon Diggs if he acts up.
And I think the same would be true if he comes to the Packers. It's like, man, they already had a good thing going. We didn't acquire you to. for you to bail us out. And to help our quarterback progress, we brought you in to be the final piece.
So I think it would have been fine for the Packers. I think the Packers have a deeper. Group of young skill position players, and they don't necessarily need to supplement unless. They had a crack at getting like. A top three wide receiver in football, and I don't think Diggs is out.
I think Diggs is really nice, but I think the only reason it would make sense for the Packers to do a move like this is if they got a guy who's so overwhelmingly good, like it's that much of a difference maker. And I don't know that Stephon Diggs is at this point. And I saw. This Ryan Horvod guy. Unsurprisingly, of course, he is The chairman of the T.
Higgins fan club. But I did see him say after the trade.
Okay, cool. Packers counter. Go trade for T. Higgins. But I don't know if we've talked, the three of us have talked about T.
Higgins, Grant. I think to your point of like this, if you're going to acquire a guy like Justin Jefferson, duh, right? Like you, oh, what's the rest of the receiver room look like? It doesn't matter what the rest of the receiver room looks like. It doesn't matter what the rest of the room looks like.
A.J. Brown, Tyreek Hill, like guys who have a legitimate claim to being the best wide receiver in football. That would be a receiver worth adding for Green Bay because it's like, man, I know we got a lot of young guys, but this guy is that good. I just, I don't know if that's true of Diggs anymore. He disappeared a lot in the second half of last season.
And what about what about T? Just to kind of follow up on Horvat's. Tweet. I mean, he's younger, but again, I don't know if he's older. overwhelmingly Like, great.
I think he's very good. But I think the Packers, the guys the Packers have now are very good. I know. And could even get better, and they're really cheap.
So bringing in T. Higgins or Stephon Diggs would be a little bit like. The Packers Thinking, well, this is what all the other teams do, right? This is the Dolphins got Hill and the Eagles got Brown.
So we're going to go get our guy, except our guy is T. Higgins instead of. you know, a couple guys who could maybe be the best wide receiver in football. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.
So, I don't know if that's an or. I think it makes more sense for the Texans, but I. I think it also I think it could have worked for the Packers. I'm not going to lose any sleep over them not doing it for a second-round pick. I think the first 10 minutes of the Packers acquiring Stefan Diggs would have been really fun.
And then the next like five months would have been like, oh, I'm kind of like, I don't know about this. Like, that would have been my. That would have been my reaction. Again, miracles for men's games might have been fun though. You may have seen me.
I was looking on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. By the way, Dan Shaney is my. Insurance agent. I don't think I've ever. Said that, but I switched to him and it's been great.
He ran a March Madness pool. For free. And then he gives like the winners gift cards.
So there's a lot of perks to a Dan Shaney. Uh insurance. Um I took like fucking last in it. But I signed up. I wanted to tell Paul something before he vanished into the thin air.
Sorry. I have Michi! and Shakir in the other one. Oh, oh, wow.
Okay. Yeah. I thought we had swappy swappies. No, no swappy swappies. But we have bothy bothies.
Both in the two different leagues. All right. Good. And I did for a long time. Did you say Mechi?
I think it's Mechi. I've said both ways. Honestly, I have said both ways because I think I nicknamed him Meach in one of the things, and I was like, oh, it's not even, that's not even. I think that if you like, do. Sports.
You should get A little more leeway in saying guy's name's wrong. Yeah. Unless they're on like your club. Sure. But I was reading some of these A's and I had to like look up.
Christian Pache, I think it is. But if I'm saying Christian Patchy, like, oh, whatever.
So, should someone who hosts Drive Time in Milwaukee know that it's Reese Hoskins and not Reese Hopkins? How would you?
Well, your own team, you have to know. Oh, okay. I just want to know the rules. If you say Rhys Hopkins, you should be. There should be some sort of punishment involving horses running four different directions.
Yeah. Again, I don't I don't I don't ask for any particular reason. I just Just came to mind. I don't know. If someone were to do that, how do you get the Reese part of that right and not the Hoskins?
Rice, Rice Hopkins. Rice Hopkins. I'm waiting for someone to do Rice Hopkins. All right. You can see why I went with that one first.
Hopefully, by the way, by the way, Paul, I hate to do this. I know your opinion on certain broadcasters around the brewers. A color commentator did just say Joel Pyomps. And then the play-by-play guy was like, Yeah, Yoel is having a rough outing. Like instantly, right?
By the way, when Jefferson Caro got injured last week, Grant. Nice. Um well not nice. It's nice that you pronounced it correctly. Not nice that he's injured, of course.
The reason I said it like that is because as soon as the injury happened, a friend simply just texted me, Jefferson. Because they had heard our conversation and then just sent me. Yeah, you got it right. Yeah, and then uh nevertheless, uh, but yeah, his injury. I just call him JQ.
Well, let's do that to do brewers real quick. You get so last week we said, you know, brewers team MVP, you get. Peralta, Jelich, and Contreras, or the field, you would take Jelich, Contreras, and Peralta. It's been five games. You get one chance this season to change your Brewers team MVP vote, and it's right now.
You'd like to change your team MVP route right now. to Jackson Shurio. It's your only chance to do so all year. You've seen enough in five games to say, you know what? I only get one shot at making my at changing my bet.
I get one chance in it right now, and I'm doing it. I'm changing my vote to Jackson Churio. You've seen enough to do that. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm.
JC The thinker, I can like easily. I'm gonna go.
Okay, he's not quite ready. I'm gonna stay with Christian Yelich. Who's also He's back. He's more than bad. He's better.
Like, he's literally statistically. Oh, I saw Jackson Churio's first home run live. I was there. How was it? Kind of underwhelming.
He froze rap. Yeah, that answer was a little underwhelming as you froze for a sec. You know what? I might change a sit back by the router. I wouldn't change my vote.
Those would still be my three. But if I were to consider adding another person in, I don't think it would be Churio. I think it would be, I think it would be Hopkins. Right. Because I think.
Who was it? It was Vinny Rattino. We had him on Bill's show earlier today, and he was, you know, he was, you know, hitting him with the gambit of brewers' topics, and he was talking about. The Phillies, when they, you know, they've been awesome in contenders the last couple of years. He's like the leader and the voice and the personality of the team.
has never been Harper. It's never been, it's been. Rice Hopkins. It's been Reese Hoskins. And I just, I think there's something, especially now that the team's kind of.
Not searching for an identity, but we were the Craig Council brewers for so long. And now things are, you know, we're trying to figure out the shape of this team. I think Hoskins is. going to be really, really important to that this year.
So I would probably lean Hoskins over. Churio, but I mean, you just see the flashes with Churio already. I'm super excited to watch him. I just don't know if I'm willing to go team MVP yet. Yeah.
I think that's fair. I just wanted to see like how hot the excitement was considering He's going to break a ton of records for the youngest player to do this, the youngest player to do that. And Yep. You could not have asked, as a Brewers fan, for a better start for this 20-year-old kid that. Than what we got.
So I would also, I think, still say, I think I told you guys this last week, but I do have a buddy who, when I tested the question, was like, I'm going to say, mm-mm. It's this was a week ago. Mm mm. It's cheerio for me. And I said, Well, like, first off, if you're right.
What a fun season that would be.
So, I'm more than happy to be wrong if the answer ends up being Churio. But yeah, I think. It is great that he's off to a good start, and it's not like, well, you got to just be patient with the young man. Yeah. Is is and maybe there's Vince Scully's got one different, but is a 90-year-old Bob Euchre calling a 20-year-old Jackson Shurio's first home run the largest age gap?
Between announcer and first home run that's ever happened. That needs to be shared. It's gotta be 'cause I th you know, Vince Scully passed away at ninety four.
So I don't know if he got one in there. Like at age 94. Yeah. I was like, I think it was more recent than that. I thought I was alive when Scully kicked the button.
Oh, you thought I said when Scully died in 1994? Yeah, I'm like, wait. Oh shit, do I Are we thinking of the same guy? That's someone's got to be able to look into that.
Someone has to be able to look into that. I would like some people to look into some things for me if I could just divert for a second and make more about me. Oh yeah. I need help in a lot of different areas. Yeah.
And I don't I ha I'm not ready to go to like Twitter. to ask Because I think I don't like it. I especially don't like when people are like Hey, any good recommendations for a plumber? Go When they say go, that fucking go. Drives me nuts.
But I need help with a router 'cause I have the max speed. And they are sending the max speed to my router. But then the router does not send the max speed throughout the house. And I called ATT on this and said, do you have? Oh, a different router that can give me the max speed.
And I swear, everyone I talk to on the phone is dumber than the last person. My Vanguard is like, basically, they just gave all my money to a charity, I think. Because I can't get through to that.
Now I try to sign in. They're like, you need three new security questions.
So I do them. And they go, all right, you've been logged out, sign back in. You need three new security questions. It's an ever-ending loop.
So I need someone to help me with the router. I need an electrician to redo all the outlets on my first floor and then install some in my second. I need someone to help me build a studio. in my basement and I need Uh someone to help me write a will.
So, I need a lawyer in family law that does that.
So, any suggestions on any of those, please DM me at your earliest convenience. Go. Go! That was a good grant. Thank you.
But if I put that on Twitter, I'd be like, hey, I just, I don't know. I want to see the show.
Someone would be willing to help. And that's where I'm comfortable asking. I want to see the reaction to you tweeting. I need someone to help me with a will. Yeah.
I need someone to help me with my wife's work. Bart, you What the fuck? Bart, you maybe have gone through this before when, like, that's really dark and messed up. Like, with the fan, do you ever get those packets from the sales staff where it's like, fill this out? And it's like, are you looking to buy a car?
Are you looking to replace your roof? Are you looking to? And they. I was 20 and they'd give me one of these things. It's like.
I don't None. None of the thing. Bill asked me the other day during the show if I have a fireplace in my apartment. Like Bill, I I think I have a space heater, is what I told him. Like, that's all I have.
Like, I don't. I need a big house with lots of toys so then I can use that to get sponsors. But I can't get a big house with a bunch of toys until I get a bunch of sponsors. See, this is. Do you ever.
Fill out those questionnaires, and then have you ever had a follow-up from them? Because I have not. No, but I've never. No, but I've never. I've never needed my gutter.
Hey, welcome back. Welcome back. Fill out this questionnaire. Oh, great. Bart, for your ATT, do you have the fiber optic stuff in your neighborhood?
I think I do, but I'm not sure.
Okay. Maybe you're out in the burbs, who knows? I say that because we are they just dug it recently and they're telling all of us in the neighborhood. We just dug fiber optics. You should switch.
And I was gonna do it. And now you're telling me about your ATT issues has me on the fence again.
Well, I pay for a thousand and I can only get 300. You pay a thousand a month? No, no. I would. For cable, I would.
Yeah. The label is my one non-negotiable. By the way, I did do the opposite of what you were referring to, I did ask for help. I never tweet, but I did last week saying, I don't have cable. How do I watch the Brewers?
And I did as a result of that. Purchase uh an app. Yeah. I can record brewers' games on the screen. Yeah, you can get fucked, is what you can do.
That's what you can do to watch the movies because it's very difficult.
Well, it's yeah, I found a good solution thanks to someone's suggestion. Without cable. Not direct TV, but without direct TV, how could I have the joy of recording all the late night talk shows that I do? and then never watching them and deleting them from the DVR the following morning. How could I get that if I didn't have a D V R and cable?
See I remember the days not that long ago of the D V R and there used to be a charm into flipping channels. No one does that anymore. Mm-mm. You're talking to a guy who hasn't watched a commercial. In Years because I just watch everything that's recorded and then.
Yeah. In our group chat this weekend, and I hope I'm not betraying a confidence by sharing this, you said, watching the Brewers game tonight, please don't spoil. I said, Paul, you're the first. I didn't say this, but I thought, Paul, you're the first person in the history of human race for an April baseball game to be like, please don't spoil. I'm going to watch it tonight.
I'm like, Paul, there is. There's another one tomorrow. Like, you can just skip this one. You just get back in tomorrow. It's fine.
In a different group chat with friends, there's only two. One is with you guys, one's with another group. I don't want you to feel like there's a lot of, but you're both very special. But during one of the games, a message I got was just Churio exclamation point. And I was like, fuck you, God.
I wanted to, now I know there's going to be a good Jackson Churio thing. You didn't say Jack Suchurio home run. Nope, but I would have assumed that it happened to be that, and I kind of assumed it might have been. I'm sorry. Another topic for you?
Yeah. I was going to ask you another brewer's one about the hot start, but we can save it. On the opposite end of the Spectrum. The Bucks are in legitimate danger to lose a first-round series. Mm-hmm.
Or mm-mm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No hesitation from Grand Pills. Not at all.
I also think they could win the title. I think I with Ty Windish, friend of podcast, the Eurostep podcast, on my program. On Wednesday. On this on this network down there, Blue Wire. Yep, yep.
He is a Blue Wire buddy of BWB. And he said something that I completely agree with: in that he thinks if the Bucs go into the playoffs and they win the first-round series, it's game on. They're going to the conference finals at least, and they are a real legit contender. Either that. Or they are losing in the first round and it's a nightmare.
Like, I don't think there's this world where they scuffle through the first round and then they like. Have some ugly series in the second round. Like, I think this is an all-or-nothing postseason. They're either going to do this thing and they're going to do it all the way, or they're not going to do it at all, and they're never going to get off the ground. Yeah.
You would think that I would say no because I'm so always regular season doesn't matter, but obviously, yeah, they could easily lose in the first round. The East is good. They might play the Sixers. I mean, whoever they play, they could lose to whoever they play. The Pacers, you're like, oh, let's duck the Sixers and get the Pacers.
Pacers have beat us. Four times. The Magic have young athletic players? That could be a nightmare. I still think.
Maybe we'll play the Malta in the first round.
So whatever. We're going to get to the playoffs and we're going to see Dame and Giannis, and we're going to be like, oh, shit. No, oh my God. We have these guys. I don't think that this week is indicative of what's going to happen into the playoffs.
The Nuggets last year, and they didn't play Jokic in all the games, but they went into the postseason two and six. And What that means is you don't have to be like It's not an upward momentum. You can stop and start. Yeah the the flip a switch thing I just think is so So you're telling me that the playoffs Fine, but you have to be good the last two weeks of the season. It's not like a running start.
It's not a running start for any of these teams. The Celtics are probably going to arrest a bunch of guys. And they're going to be able to flip a switch. because they've been so dominant. And they're good.
painfully to admit. I don't believe in the flip, or I don't believe that it's a problem. I don't believe that you need momentum. I think sometimes it might help and it might get you feeling good, but when you start the playoffs, I think the momentum comes within the playoffs because Like the diamondbacks. They backdoored into the playoffs.
They were like, oh, fuck, we need one more team. I guess the Diamondbacks are in. And then they kind of like struggle against the Brewers. Then finally got hot against the Dodgers and then went to the World Series. The playoffs are such a different thing.
They are not anything like the regular season.
So I do think that you can view them separately. The problems with the Bucs. You know, you don't want to see these in the playoffs. And if I see some of this in the playoffs, then I'll be like, oh, fuck. But they've also not had Dame for a bunch of games.
Middleton is, you know. back sort of I don't like that. When Adrian Griffin got fired. You know, if you want to paint me on Team Ager and Griffin. And then Doc was struggling, and it's like, oh boy.
And then Doc was doing real good. And then everyone's like, oh, fuck it. Let's look at Winkler's tweets from three months ago.
Now Doc's coaching like shit. Like, should I have retweeted? Who cares? None of this shit matters. The playoffs start in two weeks.
That's when it matters. For some teams, the regular season matters. Like, it kind of matters for Houston. They're trying to get in. It kind of matters for It kind of matters for some teams.
It doesn't matter for us. By the way, what a fucking ringing endorsement for a television product and games that you can buy tickets and attend. Yeah, well, it only matters for some teams. And then you mention like a team and a half. And I'm not disagreeing with you, but that's why I'm just so fucking over this season.
If you tell me, oh, the Bucs are going to be the two seed, they might have to play on the road or the three seed. I don't give a fuck. The home court advantage is not. As Like I mean, in Boston, it's going to suck. In a game seven, you will be down by 20 right away.
So, yeah, but they always lose the first game, anyways. Might as well be on the road. I don't mind starting on the road because I. I almost like the opportunity to just steal one of those first two games, and then you're in an awesome spot. I just don't like that people seem to forget that this was a team that was down 0-2 multiple times the year they won a finals.
Here's the only thing about that road situation though, and Doc Rivers talked about it this week. They also can't win on their own. Yeah. They're 18 and 20 on the road. You often use your Warriors experience to help enlighten us whores.
You did that with the structure of the playoffs. Your second team, the Warriors, they sucked rot on the road last year. What do we need to know about it? How did that impact your team last year? Your second team.
My Warriors, well they got uh What happened to them, Lasha? They got bounced pretty quick, didn't they?
Well, they won in seven against the kings. Oh, yeah. And they lose to the. who they lose to in the next round. Nuggets?
No. The Lakers? Let's keep going. Wonder? No, the other team.
Who the fuck they lose to? I don't, they're not my team. I don't know. I watched them against the Kings. I was so pissed when they lost in second.
The Clippers? Really? Are you telling me this? No, they lost to the Lakers. That was right.
In how many games? Six? And then it was Lakers' nuggets in the finals. Yeah, and the Lakers got swept in the best 4-0 series ever. Oh, that's right.
Mm-hmm. I think I think Lucas should be the MVP, by the way. Wow, you know they could be in the play-in, right? Lucas is having 34, 9, and 10. No one's ever done it.
Can Wemby be the defensive player of the year? Bill Simmons says no, his team isn't good enough. And that has to matter. Which player team for defensive player of the year? No, he can absolutely be it.
Who wait, who's the player? Wemby. Yeah. Why do they have to be good for him to get that award?
Well, the team and the team's defense has to be good. Like, you can't be the defensive player of the year and be on a bad defensive team. I know. Simmons has lost his nut this year.
So is Rasillo a little bit, but that's different. Like those those two I mean, how are you going to watch these Final Four games on Friday? There's so much NBA to watch.
Well, and it's not for me.
Okay, and that's okay. It doesn't have to be like did they do they create their own shot? Blazer's magic. I think UConn's going to beat Iowa, but I think that's a pretty trendy pick, actually. Pagebackers is Pagemackers is her.
Huh. They don't have that. That's something. You know, I her. Yeah, they don't really have I'm him.
Like, that's great. Women can't say I'm her. That just doesn't hurt. Again, that's an arrested development bit, her? Like, no, that doesn't have the same punch.
I'm her. I'm her. It doesn't sound, it sounds past tense. It's her? No.
Him. I'm her. I am. Maybe they have to.
Well, and I'm with her was she? That didn't work. I am she. That's what I'm saying. I am I am him.
Assumes a pronoun, so I don't like to say that. I am they them. How about these play-in games? With six games to go for most of these teams, the Suns, Lakers, and Warriors could all be play-in teams. Yeah.
Kevin Durrent have the Sons been LeBron and Steph could all be playing guys. I've been very soured on the NBA this year just because it hasn't really been a great product. Have the suns been getting requisite shit for not being nearly as good as everyone thought they would be this year? Because I feel like the Bucs are under a microscope. What's wrong with the Bucs?
But the Sunshine. Oh, because in the West, it's like. It's like, oh, the thunder are good, and the timberwolves are good, and everyone that's good is celebrated. But in the East, it's like, The Cavs aren't celebrated, and the Knicks are only celebrated in New York. And then, so everyone looks at the Bucs and says, You can't be better than them.
It's weird.
Okay, let's let's play through this real quick. All right, the seven eight right now. Is the Pelicans hosting the Kings? Who would you take? Pelicans.
Pelicans. Same. The Lakers would be hosting the Warriors in the nine ten. Lakers. Um That is the kind of game that the Lakers are made to win.
Can you guarantee me that Draymond will play the full game? No, you've definitely been able to get it. This Lakers team is summed up by a team that would win that game by like 20 points and then get their ass kicked for the 7-8 seating when they're already advanced. Sure. Yeah, yeah.
So then, okay.
So then. Kings would be hosting the Lakers for the eighth seed.
So the kings will win.
Okay, so the Lakers and Warriors are both out. No, then the Lakers would be in. No, because the Lakers would have to win twice. The Lakers would have, so the 9-10. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so they'd have the Lakers will win.
So, the Lakers will be. If the Lakers are the nine, which they are right now, they're a game back of the Kings and the 80s. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking.
Sorry. They'd have to host the Warriors in the 9-10, win, and then. Go to the two, you know, in this case, the Kings, if they lost to the Pelicans in the 7-8, the G1C, the Golden One Center. Which by the way, would then set up like potentially Timberwolves as the one getting the Lakers as the eight. Doesn't seem you know what though?
Karma for the Glenn Taylor would have that Glenn Taylor versus uh The A zone A-Rod. Oh, Glenn Taylor versus the A-Zoner. Oh, Glenn Taylor. I ride Craig Jaylor. How about John Fisher versus Satan?
Ah. Who is it cat? I need to see them in different rooms first. Um Pacers 76ers is the 7-8. The Sixers would be being on the road.
Who you got? Pacers hosting the Sixers in the 7-8. John Fisher's 62, like He's rich. Why can't you just go away and be rich? What is this constant quest for power and money that we as humans have?
Well we never have enough. Yeah, I truly, truly, truly believe that I would go away so fast. These politicians. Like These guys I don't want to be like political. Go ahead, cook.
But, like, why is Mitch McConnell still bothering at eight? I know he's finally retiring, but. I shouldn't even say finally. I oh fuck, you know. The long respected career in politics part.
But what what what's the point? Get out get out at seventy five. Geez, no, it would get out so much sooner than that. I want to retire at 50. What will you do with your life, Bart, if you retire from it?
Take on some hobbies and projects. He's not a hobby project guy, respectfully. Bart, you're saying? I would love to learn. I would love to figure out how to finally play piano.
I would love to learn Spanish. I would love to see different parts of the country. Maybe even the world. I would love to not have to be bogged down to a To a, to a, like a commitment. I would love to just wake up and say, the world is my commitment.
I see, Grant, I can't do that unless your parents did that.
So my parents didn't have a billion-dollar industry. I mean, you could, if you really wanted to, beans and rice, rice and beans, you could retire at 55. It's doable. I just, I just. But then I still need to pay for health insurance.
Okay. But what are you going to do with your life? Human beings, we're not designed to wake up and just fuck off for a whole day and then go to sleep. You need something to. You need to get your hands dirty.
You need to create. You need to create. I got draft kings. You know what I would do?
So basically, I don't want to retire. I just want to be a full-time draft kinger. Didn't they ban you? Didn't you? I thought you were done with draft king.
They thought that I was cheating because. The computer I was using at work was on a uh What is it? A V V P that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the other time, the time where you took it. That was Bovada.
Oh. Wasn't there one of those, though, that you said, never take my money again, never take my copy.
Okay. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah.
Does anyone else I'm a little I'm listening to the Brewers post-game show. And it's like Pado Sportsbook is the sponsor of it, right? And it's like bringing a new meaning to betting big and betting bold. It's like, is that really. I understand those are just buzzwords, but how do you say that as your tagline?
I turned on ESPN today. Betting conservatively, betting cautiously. I turned on ESPN and they were doing a women's tournament. Segment And it was a betting segment. And I gotta say, I'm all for betting content.
But I think they you need to be separate. You saying men and wom We can't bet on women's sports, but we can bet on men. It's quite a jump. I appreciate it. I'm saying no.
You said I'm not saying that. Like, not well, if you, if you want, if you think UConn's gonna win, you gotta dig a little bit, but you'll find there's more value on Paige Beckers to be player of the year because she's plus 225 instead of plus 200 for UConn. Oh, great, fuck.
So, are these guys gonna win? Like Caitlin Clark, apparently she wanted to go to UConn. That seems like a story you could fucking report on. That's why, by the way, that's why, that's why I like Costos. Is Castos isn't just like...
Like, that's those are the types of conversations I like. Where it's like, if you are betting this, think about it this way. And this is why this number is what it is. Like I would go to horror and betting. Mm-hmm.
I don't want to see This guy who, one of the 15 anchors there that I still don't know his fucking name. But he's been in my life for 20 years. He's retiring. The retiring one, John Anderson? Not that one.
This other guy. If I showed him to you, I'll pay you if you knew this fucking guy's name. Who was the guy? Was it Rhys Davis who referred to a bet as a risk-free investment jokingly, and then everyone jumped in his ass? Which is so dumb, by the way.
But it wasn't a joke. He's just bad at speaking.
Well Are you going after a media personality, Bart? Reese Davis, yes, I will go after Reese Davis. I feel like they are so in the tank. For the SEC, they are a menace to this. Oh my god.
By the way, I find it really interesting that. Anyone who has listened to you. or knows you. Prior to January of 2024, knows you pick so many media battles that. It's it gotta be exhausting, and now.
The other guy who doesn't Don't go after enough media people.
Well, I don't want to. If I'm going to go after someone, I'm not just going to go after them just to go after them like I would. Like I used to. I'm going to go after him if there's meat on the bone. Because I just, I don't want to wake up at noon and see that.
You know, I had a tweet explode, or someone wrote an article about me, but why should I think that that's even possible when I've been. trying to say fuck John Fisher for 18 months and no one gives a shit. Is that even Jason Barrett? Menu Barrett Sports Media. I loved you and Shep talking shop, talking about the biz the other night with callers.
Well, I was really pissed about that. Shep was too. They both were.
Well To say that collars are a crutch. is a crutch. Correct. Like if you if you say If you just say, All right, I take a phone call and then you, you know. Clip your nails for three minutes while there's a guy talking on the phone.
Yeah, that's obviously, you're not doing your job. But if you want to hear just a general example. Yeah, but if you wanna hear other people like Have an opinion and then react to that opinion. There's so many times where. I'm like, God, I don't know that I have anything else on this topic.
And then I'll talk to a caller, and they'll say something that'll spark something in me. And then I'll have another five, ten minutes on the, and it's like, wow, I'm so glad that someone was willing to call and talk.
Well, and I do, I mean, I think you said this because I heard this segment. as well And I think you mentioned it, but It Some hosts, of course, 100% do use it as a crutch, as a way to kill two minutes with no back and forth, with no. Added value. I'm not going to say that I never like zone out during a call. Oh, I do.
But I'm saying more often than, and I we've talked about this, but. when when you became when you s like as you were evolving On SSP, and you became very caller-centric. I like, I told you, I'm like, man, it's a lot of calls, like really long calls, Bart. Are you sure this is what you want to do? And you're like, just trust me.
And I've told you many times, like, I was wrong. Yeah. Because it it it is a an art. to make the callers not taking calls, but to have it be valuable. That is not common.
I think that's a very unique. Skill to not anyone can anyone can take a caller, but to have it be a meaningful, valuable ad. is a skill that you have. Like, sometimes callers just call the call. They're like, well, it's your show's on, so I'm going to call today.
Like, that's not my fucking fault that, you know, so-and-so called in with nothing to say today, and I'm not going to be mean to them on the air. You know what I mean? There are like I never felt this way doing the morning show, but There are some people that have called the show that I Even if they've called like one time, but I'm a lot quicker to be like. Wow, I have immense disdain for this person. Like, I just do not like the way he is speaking.
Yeah. I don't know, I've never felt that before. You have more options, more caller options now, though. Like there's a A broader field of possible callers.
So you can be a bit more picky. He does not need this, but I will say, Tony is a pros pro. Cohen is a pro. Tony is a pro. Tony goes from the phone is picked up to two seconds and he's into his point.
And I love that about Tony. Also, Cone the other day. When he went to take a f Fucking drink. With his straw through the bag while you guys It's the only sound. Like, I could show that to my girlfriend, and she'll be like, this is.
These, why are you wasting my time with this? And I'm like, no, trust me, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. And it's just a man with a bag on his head drinking through a straw. It is interesting. Like, if I'm scrolling Twitter and Bart, you'll be doing one of your lives and it happened this week.
It probably is exactly what Grant is referencing. I didn't have a chance to watch it live as it was happening, but I quick scrolled and sure enough, Bart was live. And what I saw, like, if you didn't know better, and you're scrolling through your Twitter and okay, this Bart Winkler guy is doing a live thing right now, and it's a side-by-side of you, and the guy wasn't paper bidding on his edit. This If you didn't know, and you like, you're a new follower to Bart Winkler from the National Show, and you started scrolling through, you're like, What? Like, how could you react in any other way but befuddlement?
It's the nods too when he just goes like this. Oh, I'm pumped when I get a cone bag nod. Are you looking for something? Because I have one last comment, then I got to go. Yeah, I'm trying to find this guy.
That, oh, maybe this is him. Are you looking at the entire history of every human that's ever been on TV? Like, the list of people who host Sports Center cannot be this long. No, the guy's on now. And I just scrolled the entire ESPN like Rooster.
And I did not see his face. But I I have to show you this guy because If you see this guy, you will not know his name. All right, continue. I don't watch Sports Center, so I don't know. But you've seen this guy.
I don't know. I know you have. I didn't know John Anderson was still in the air. I really, and I don't mean that as a shot. I just don't why.
I just don't know. John Anderson could walk into this fucking studio right now and I'd be like, did I like. Used to live next door to you or something. Like, I don't, he like, he's so prevalent, but he's also not at the same time. Like, he announced his retirement, and the entire sports world was like one of the best.
Like, the tributes just poured in. And it's not that he didn't deserve them. Just whatever.
Well, what was your comment, Paul, while we wait for Bart?
Okay, this isn't the guy, but I know nobody knows this guy's name. I don't know who that is. I don't even know who you are. You've been on ESPN for 16 years. I don't know who that is.
But I'm the wrong person to ask. Kevin Gonners. Kevin Costner? Kevin Connors, but that's not the guy I'm thinking of. All right, I'm going to share you with this.
If you've seen the tweet, it doesn't count, but this came in while we were talking. Buster only. reported what the difference, the dollar difference was. Over the three-year span, of which the A's will be in Sacramento and not Oakland. How much money difference?
So he quote: Oh, I saw this. Yeah. Oh, if you do, okay, then don't cheat. Grant, it appears that the difference between what Oakland offered and what the A's wanted was about blank. or so over three years.
Total over three years, not per year, but total over three years. Total over three.
Well, I'm inclined to think that it's well, what is this money for again? For the lease? That would be my assumption? It's not less than 10 million, is it? No.
To less than 20? Thirty five million. Buster only goes on to say, or about this saying that the Angels are paying reliever Robert Stevenson. Holy balls They're paying I've never even heard of that guy paying him 35 million $95 million for Hater, by the way, is shitty money. There's no way that contract is going to go well.
How is he doing so far? I've not seen it. I blew a save. He's blown two saves so far. Did he blow two Yankees games or was one of them a different no one to the Jays?
And then, did you see what Joe Musgrave said? Musgrove, the code starter, said. Yes. Hater is my Roman Empire. Anything that he ever does or is said about him on the internet, I will find and I will.
commit all my attention to. Here, ready? Go ahead. Share your screen. Uh I'm almost ready to at least overlay.
I don't know how to share screen yet. But I think I can provide an overlay. This guy has been on ESPN in some capacity since 1997. What is his name? Oh, I don't know.
God damn it. What's his name? I don't know. Mike? He's been on.
ESPN longer than Grant's been alive. What's his name? Yeah. Joan. Joe, Phil, Joe.
Bob. Mark. When you say the name out loud, will it click in my name? No, no, no. You won't be like, no, no.
John Butchergrass. No. David Lloyd. Oh, fuck off. I've never heard that name in my life.
But you know this man? I do know the man. Like he's generally it's like generally familiar. Here I am complaining about Might not get enough traction on CBS. And there's a guy who's been on Sports Center.
Since before Y2K was a problem. Ha ha ha! And we don't know his name. His name is what again? Lloyd Miller?
What is Sports Center like David Lloyd? I'm going to clip that. I'm going to clip that, I think. Are you supposed to graduate from Sports Center to go on to do bigger and better things? Is that how it's like SNL in that way?
And that's what I'm saying. It's like SNL was your dream job. You love it. You realize it fucking sucks after eight months. And then you have to do it for six years because you work so hard to get there.
What is the bigger or better thing? I don't like Dan Patrick. Sports Center? Yeah. Show.
Your own radio show. Working once a week during football season. Um You know. Maybe that is. Is that the pinnacle of our profession?
And we're all like, God, that doesn't even sound that fun. Berman? What are we doing? Yeah, it's like, fuck, he's got to work Sundays. Yeah.
At night too. Like even like even at work. 20 days a year. Bye-bye. The dooto dos.
David Lloyd is like if only he knew. The stream that he's catching. That's it, right? David Lloyd?
Well, I'm going to clip this, I think. Are you going to tweet it at him? No. But someone will be like, at David Lloyd ESPN. They'd be Friday night on Twitter.
Or maybe he'll be like Sam Decker, just search his name every couple hours just to make sure he's not missing out on anything. Sam Decker does search his name. There's no question. And that's fine. Like I don't do it, but no one tweets about me, so it's fine.
I'll search my name right now. I haven't done it in a while. On Twitter? I'm sure it's going to be all positives. Search Paul Imig.
Well, there's also so many people that I've blocked. Right now it was you It's just me. Oh, hey, what's um I gotta go. What's your bartometer? I'm either gonna do most hapless franchise currently or Like in all sports.
Yeah, best NFL division.
So like the most hapless like the A's are number one. A's, the White Sox, there's no order. A's White Sox, Rockies, Wizards. Blue jackets, sabers, angels, hornets, the entire AFC East. Pistons?
I was going to say Patriots need to be on there.
Well, I just put the AFC East as a like a collective. I like that. Hey, what is it? The one, if you were looking for a baseball one, though I think you just found it by packaging it in this way, but. You were talking about something the other night that made me wonder If you wanted a baseball, one of like the eight most marketable MLB players.
Like to grow the game, like you're trying to grow the game. You need marketable stars.
So, like the guy that walks into the room and you're like, oh, that's a baseball player. I want him for my brand. I'm going to give this guy a shoe deal. I'm going to give this guy a blah, blah, blah deal. This is the guy that can bring our sport forward.
who the top eight would be. I think my number one is is isn't is number one really obvious? Off the top of my head, I would say. I'm thinking off the top of my head. Bryce Harper.
So I He'd be in, like, I don't have a list, but like in my top three, I think it's Aaron. Toto, Judge.
Well, you're going to say judge because we got a big day coming up. Paw Patrol Day. Yeah. Judge is doing an episode with Rubbles crew. But he's like six foot eight.
He's a mammoth human who just, oh, nice. I see that. And you have Sky on there, too. Very good, Marshall. Otani's not.
Why have none of you said Otani? Because he's not. No, I think Otani gambling thief. Oh geez, stop it.
Okay, okay. Utani's clearly in there. Oh, that's a good one. Thank you. What about like Jose Altube?
Just 'cause he's short? Because we know who he is. Yeah. Yeah. I Julio Rodriguez, but nobody knows who he looks like.
He could be sitting next to me in this building, and it would still take me a sec. Bryce Harper's definitely on there. Mookie Bats? Movies on there. Basically, it's just what are eight people you think the American public can recognize in baseball?
Well, just or that if they had a bigger platform, if they had more sponsorships, if you put them on the covers of everything, that it would move the sport.
So maybe they aren't yet. Recognizable, but they're good enough. It's easier to. But it can't be like Jackson Churio's not in there. No, like, no, not, I mean, certainly not yet.
I don't, I don't think there's a brew. Oliver Dunn's not quite ready. Not close. Not quite. Would like Kershaw be in there?
He's so old. That's okay though. I mean, I don't know. No. What um Josh Hayter?
Hater is an interesting relatable to a lot of the American public, I would imagine. What, for sucking at their job and falling upwards? Being racist is more what I meant, but also that. I'm just lyrics going up. Did you say they're just lyrics?
Sweet lyrics. You know what he did? I can't remember. I don't know. I just what about like like uh Vlad Guerrero Jr.
Big big guy. You know, the famous dad, big leaguer, right? Exactly. You love Nepo babies in America. He's obviously not a Nepo baby.
He earned his he earned his keep. He's very good. Yeah. They finally found a tweet that Travis Kelsey had to delete. Oh, really?
Were they just song lyrics? April 4th, 2010. Happy Easter to all. Shout out to Jesus for taking one for the team. He's all wrong.
That's exactly what Jesus did. Oh, he deleted the tweet. You know, Thanks to Jesus for taking one for the team. How is your Easter? Do this topic, would you, please?
Yeah, what should I do tonight? Should I do Hapless Franchise tonight? No, do the baseball one. Do this one. By the way, I think Corbin Burns lost some of his when he cut his hair.
I'm very serious about it. I know, but not yet. But I'm saying, like, you're going, you're the MAC. You're so interested in this. Do you want to just do it and send it to me?
Do you want to do my show for the next two hours? Because I'd. I went to a concert last night. I'm a little pooped. I'd like to go home, personally.
Do you need a guest? No, I g well. I mean, do you?
Well, next week is Neil Diamond Week, so I was hoping to have you next week, if that's fine. Or I'll do both. It's a lot of Bart Winkler. I'm kidding. You know, I would love as much Bart as possible.
What would you what would you talk about if you joined me in forty minutes? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Ringing endorsement for your services. A's.
Yeah, here to talk about the Oakland A's. The guy who's been on the forefront of the fuck John Fisher campaign. And not getting the credit he so rightly deserves. That's funny. I do I do think El Tuve is on there.
I'm I don't want him to be because He clearly cheated. I'm gonna do Hapless franchise tonight. I need more t time to think about that one. And I already wrote out the franchise one, so. And how dare you add more work to your excruciating 20-hour work week?
I'm going to put sabers. That's toxic. That's toxic, Paulamig. I'm purposely being a dick. Yes, that's true.
I'm gonna put Sabers 2 to get a reaction from Buffalo and make it look like I'm talking hockey. Yeah. Why did you say the Columbus Blue Jackets? Yeah. Why?
What's the deal there? I just read an article about them, how they have like the shittiest franchise ever. Really? Yeah. Like they're never good.
Every time they get close to being good, they fucking fall apart. They're in Columbus. People don't even know like Who's the team that moved that it's like Oh fuck, they uh Atlanta Thrashers. Yeah. You could tell me, like, oh, the Thrashers are on TV tonight.
I'd be like, oh, okay, what time? You'd be like, fuck, they're not a team anymore. I'd be like, I didn't know that. Yeah. Does the NHL have a Vancouver team?
The Canucks.
Well, you could throw an ML. I might put Major League Soccer as a whole as one of the fucking general shows. Major league every major league soccer club. Why? Because your league's fucking garbage.
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna do that. I hope that People get that I'm just having fun and This does not need to be seriously debated. It's just going to be a little bardo meter and then I'll get out of it. There's so much to talk about. Your, by the way, I want to tip my cap to you.
Your bardometer last week, and I didn't hear the whole show, but I just heard you breaking down the ways in which baseball could improve. I thought that was very good. That was very good. Barwinkler. I enjoyed that last week.
So I'll have to listen tonight. I even did a TikTok on it. It got 5,000 views. on TikTok or on Twitter. I put it on YouTube.
It got 119 views. I sometimes use the TikTok studio to make videos and then I just download it and post it on Twitter and never post it on TikTok. How many views on you running around the building at midnight last night? Uh that one had Uh Uh only 4,000 views. Man, hard to believe that that wouldn't be viral.
Well I did post it at one in the morning and it wasn't that great. I was being facetious. It's Well, it depends if it's on. Twitter or whatever. You know how many times I've been told, like, And this is going to be cocky.
Bart, that's your best tweet ever. I haven't done that a lot. I'm not live actually.
So All right, guys. Thank you. Goodbye. Thank you. Thanks for having us.
Always appreciate it. Grant, why don't you do Brewers MVP? Do that question on your show.
So I got to go on air in. 23 minutes and I'm yawning a lot. And that works. If you had to bet right now, you don't put any money down, but if you're right, you get $100. Who's the first MP?
Team MVP. Do it. Do it. Do it. Sure, yeah.
Phones will ring off the hook for that. That'll that'll that'll move the needle. That is that's spicy. If how about this? If you were the one, dude, one of Stefan Diggs.
If you were the Packers GM, would you have to do that? I deliver you guys great shit. I take Paul's shit all the time. Paul, what was your topic two weeks ago? I got a whole show out of it.
It's just to feel something. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, if you were the Bears, why wouldn't you explore trading the pick to get an established quarterback? Yeah.
Good great fucking Question: I had Paul on when you were in Florida. It was just the two of us on my show. That's awesome. We did. And uh this is neither good nor bad.
I think we accomplished everything that we normally accomplish in an hour plus in about 14 minutes. Like, I, I. I think sure we were missing some of the charm. But we kind of did it. You were missing the lapsed in internet connectivity.
Yeah. You know, Bart, you are like the personification of the Chris Pratt one from Parks and Rec. Hey, Leslie, I typed in your symptoms into the thing here, and it says you have network connectivity problems. Yeah. Ha ha.
This has been fun. Truly, it has. I look forward to every conversation we have, and I'm already thinking about next week. I can't wait. Let me just check the brewery schedule quick here.
You guys can go at any time. I'm gonna leave. Bye guys. Talk to you soon. Yeah.
I don't want to go. I have to go. See if I was. Bye. Thank you everyone for stopping into the Winklerverse.
I'm trying to check the calendar, and it looks like my entire calendar. has been erased.
So now I have a brand new problem to deal with. Oh no, it's back.
Solar eclipse on Monday. Should I go live? We'll do Wednesday next week. Bucks and Celtics play Tuesday. That'll get people riled up.
Celtics probably sit everybody, so will we. Brewers will be involved in a series with the Reds. Thank you. Like and subscribe. Uh For Grant, for Paul, for Dave.
I'm Barwinkler.
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