In the second episode of the OnMilwaukee podcast, sports editor Jimmy Carlton and pop culture editor Matt Mueller introduce its new name, the Postgame Tailgate, and discuss the Packers' loss to the Cowboys on Sunday.
Is the sky falling? Is the season over? What's wrong with Aaron Rodgers, was Mike McCarthy to blame and were there any silver linings for Green Bay? Also, good effort, Badgers! After a valiant but heartbreaking loss to Ohio State, are there such things as moral victories in college football?
Also, the Bucks traded Michael Carter-Williams and acquired Tony Snell in return. Cool, Jimmy says. Who's Tony Snell, though? And, of course, Matt talks movies.
Tune in, subscribe to OnMilwaukee's Postgame Tailgate podcast feed on SoundCloud and let us know what you think (or how much we suck)!
Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.
After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.
Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.
