I think it was about 10 or 11 years ago that my buddy @ShermanJeff asked me to join his @bucks ticket group. "No" I said. I already was a Brewers season ticket holder, I didn't follow the NBA and frankly, the Bucks kinda sucked. "It's your civic duty" he said. "Civic Duty?"

"Why do I have to buy tickets to a team I don't follow in a sport I know nothing about?" "Because this city needs them" Sherman convinced me. Jeff, it should be pointed out, could sell coffee in Utah. "Fine, I'll take 5 games." I liked it but told him I wouldn't do it the next

year because they were so awful. "It's your civic duty" he told me. And now I started to believe him that I alone could save the Bucks from collapsing. God they were bad. I don't think they won a single game I attended and after February it was hard to get friends to go to games.

Every year, I wanted out and every year, Sherman gave me that line about "Civic Duty". They still were mediocre but our seats were good and I got to bring friends, nephews and girlfriends to games. Plus, remember, I was saving the Bucks from moving to San Diego. Me, personally.

Pretty soon, I started to really like the team and then they drafted some kid from Greece with a billion letters in his last name and I was like "What is this team doing?" (Note: I'm not a professional scout and I don't know basketball well.

I knew breaking up with Sherman's ticket cartel was futile so I stopped trying. And then..holy moley ...they got good. Really good. The guys in my ticket group were awesome and pretty soon people started asking me if they could go to games. The Bucks had arrived and it was fun.

When the marches started this summer, the last people I'd see walking the streets was a team preparing for an NBA title while trying to stay healthy. Yet, there they were...front and center (not a pun) walking through the streets. They thought it was their "Civic duty" (You can

see where I'm going with this). And then today...in a move that no one saw coming, they were willing to take the "L" to prove a point. Civid duty, indeed. It had to drive the "stick to sports" crowd crazy which is just one reason I applaud the move. That notion...that

ridiculous notion that people who play (or cover for that matter) sports can't have an opinion about the world has never made sense to me. You may be a plumber, a docter, a teacher and you like to talk sports. No one ever tells you to "stick to P-traps" or "stick to foot fungus".

Anyway, what the Bucks did today was historic. It was ballsy. And it was important. It made me want buy more Bucks swag and I already have enough. I still don't know much about hoops. I know Giannis is awesome and the Lopez brothers make me laugh and I miss

Malcom Brogdon (dude was so smart) but know more about them than the countless new fans they earned today (and sure, they probably lost some too. See ya) and I'm hoping they become a unifying force in an otherwise divisive summer. Bucks in six. G'night.