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A 6 man rotation, yes? With 5 days+ rest? In August? And somehow 100 pitches is fully worked? I don't get it.

Well, running is now out the window. I just hope we don't get no-hit and fall into a tailspin.

Anybody know what MKE record vs ATL is for the past 15 years or so? Feels like .200 baseball.

My feelings I shared on Facebook this morning after letting it soak in a bit. Going to ride this feeling for a long time. Being a Wisconsin sports fan is not for the faint of heart. Far away from the bright city lights on both oceanic coasts, a collection of athletes come together, forming teams that are largely rooted for by blue collar workers and farmers. Folks who's work ethic demands the same from the small market stars they scream for with the same vigor as their urban counterparts. World Championships are few and far between for those that love the programs that call Wisconsin home. They aren't bought. Rather they are earned. It takes longer to do something the "right way". Just like a farmer knows to harvest when the crop is ripe, waiting out the process sure makes the fruit sweeter no matter how hungry you become by the wait. Being a Bucks fan wasn't mandatory and it sure wasn't easy. I remember my Dad taking me to the Bradley Center to watch Allen Iverson/Sixers in 1996. The city/state hadn't sniffed success really in years. The Brewers had been bad for 14 years. The Bucks hadn't won a playoff series for 12 years. The Packers were coming on with Favre but were experiencing heartbreak to the Cowboys every January. I looked up at the rafters and saw 1 single banner from 1971, yet the Bradley Center arena was full of hopeful fans who were hungry for their City, for their Milwaukee, to ascend the mountain. We all showed up, albeit to see Allen Iverson, but to be entertained for one night in a largely meaningless mid-week basketball game. For me, the start of a journey of being a Milwaukee Bucks fan when being a Milwaukee Bucks fan didn't mean anything but disappointment. A faraway dream, with a lot more resting inside the heart than inside the brain. As a young impressionable sports nut, it would have been easy and fulfilling to root for the Jordans instead of the Ray Allen. To take stock in David Robinson or Lebron James instead of Andrew Bogut or Michael Redd. But as predictable as the fall watermelon, the taste was worth the wait. Loyalty and patience was rewarded. Success was delivered by the guy(s) that took those same small-market, nose to the grindstone values and stomped on large market ideologies on their way to the top. Giannis didn't bolt for LA or Philly or Brooklyn or Miami or Houston, but instead he said, "This is my City and I don't leave until WE win one" Ownership didn't buy a star, they drafted one and then rewarded him with what the market demanded. Ownership didn't make phone calls from yachts in the bay and draw Middleton and Holiday to Milwaukee to be overwhelming favorites and play out the string to hoist a trophy...they drafted them and traded for them and said, "work hard and WE could be special". Special it is to have done it in the only way a Wisconsin sports organization knows how. Tireless effort on years and years of unwavering hope. Milwaukee, you are World Champions and while we may have to wait another 50 years, they can never take it away from you. #MKE #MyCity #TheDeerWereFeared #2021NBAWORLDCHAMPIONS

While being frustrated with Rodgers' summer "antics", I've never gotten the opinion that he wants more money (turned down being the highest paid player in the league) or more love. I think he genuinely wants to have more say over the roster construction than the GM and that's it. That he did not agree with the FA strategy and resource allocation the past few years and then it tipped over with not like the draft strategy and draft resource allocation last season. While I dont think he dislikes Jordan Love, I think he rightfully doesn't understand trading up and giving away assets to acquire a guy that's going to hold a clipboard for 5 years in his eyes instead of trading up for a talent that is going to bolster one of the other positions on the football field.

For others interested, you can find bits of Paschke's call on this intro to the podcast https://wtmj.com/bucks-flagship-podcast-3/ The 7-20-21 Bucks Talk listing

If anybody can find Bucks Radio Network audio calls from last night online, I would be forever grateful.

Anybody listening on the radio? Know where to find any clips online?

ITS HAPPENING!!! WORLD CHAMPIONS BABY!!!!

98-90 with 3:40 to go is the FIRST time I let myself feel/believe.

It was. Hit the backboard prior to Giannis contacting it.

Team game. Middleton and Jrue and Patty and everyone is going to struggle for minutes at a time. Can't get down on yourself or each other. Just fight.

Keep.....feeeding.....him!! He'll shoot 80%

Ok! I can get behind this!

That was an atrocious quarter.

I think the ball stopped moving on offense.

That la dee dah crap (Giannis Travel) pisses me off. Preaches focus and just...sigh

WHAT A QUARTER!!! Other than Holiday slouching off Bridges once at the arc and some nervous, unnecessary extra passes, I dont think this team could have put up 29 points and played any better. #36MoreMinutes

Great sequences after the Bud timeout. #KeepFootDown

Bucks being way too unselfish on offense early. Turning it over with the cute extra pass.

Some hot takes... - Middleton is surely a good enough #2 to win an NBA Championship. Is he infallible? No. - I think Crowder making threes irritates me more than the happiness of Lopez making threes. - I don't understand the Conaughton hate off the bench. On the Giannis steal of the inbounds pass, he literally forced the pass guarding the inbounder. He hustles for rebounds. Makes some silly fouls and isn't best defender, but his energy is enough for being the 3rd of 4th guy off the bench. - How the refs failed to call the 6th foul on Booker might be the biggest NBA reffing travesty I've ever witnessed, including Jordan's push-off vs Jazz. - I dont see how PHX wins in MKE. Very cool that there is atleast a game 6. I don't know that MKE can win in PHX either, but aside from winning it all, I couldn't be more proud of the end result this season, even amongst the frustration of the failures. - Devin Booker is a STAR! Chris Paul is just "a guy". #ISaidIt.

PJ Tucker is killing the team.

Why are Bucks fans chanting when Giannis is on the free throw line? He has enough thoughts running through his head.

The Bucks were in the bonus in the 3Q with roughly 7:42 to go...and got one trip to the line one one non-shooting foul to Giannis out of it. That's terrible.

There's literally one guy on the floor for the Suns that is capable and every Bucks defender is two steps behind him, chasing worthlessly.