Milwaukee Bucks Win One Game All Season, Immediately Start Talking Trash to an Entire State

The Milwaukee Bucks won their first basketball game of the season on Monday night and, like a man who finally gets a text back, immediately decided he was a genius.

They beat the Indiana Pacers 110-102 to improve to 1-3, a record that in most professions is called a probation period. Then the team's social media account looked south, past Chicago, past Tennessee, all the way to the swamp, and posted: "Bad day to be a Florida sports fan."

This is a bold sentence from a team that was 0-3 at breakfast. It is the basketball version of a man who just paid off one credit card announcing a seminar on wealth.

The first target was the Miami Heat, who lost 113-109 to the Dallas Mavericks to fall to 0-4. Miami acquired Giannis Antetokounmpo from Milwaukee in a blockbuster June trade, so the post was less a tweet than an 11 p.m. text to an ex: hope Florida is treating you well, lol.

Giannis did his part. He dunked on Daniel Gafford so hard the rim asked for witness protection. Miami lost anyway, which is the Heat's version of bringing a lion to a fight and leaving with a parking ticket.

The second target was the Tampa Bay Rays, who were losing Game 3 of the World Series to the Milwaukee Brewers. Note the word "were." The Bucks posted while it was 10-0 and the game was still going, which in sports is called confidence and in law is called premeditation.

The Brewers closed out the 10-1 win about 40 minutes later, after an eight-run fifth inning the Rays experienced the way a tent experiences a hurricane. Milwaukee now leads the series 3-0. According to ESPN Research, teams up 3-0 in the World Series are 25-0, so the Rays' best remaining hope is a typo.

Mind the geography. The Rays were in St. Petersburg, more than 250 miles from the Heat at Kaseya Center. Two teams, two cities, one bad night, and a Wisconsin intern with a group-project philosophy: if Florida fails, Florida fails together.

Milwaukee's hero was Tyler Herro, with 23 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. Herro used to play for Miami. So the Bucks borrowed a former Heat player to win a game, then mocked the Heat for losing. That isn't trolling. That's a student exchange program with a grudge.

Ryan Rollins added 19 points, or as the social media team calls them, 19 reasons to log on.

The Bucks and Brewers have been inseparable all month. For Game 1, the Bucks even moved their own tipoff so it wouldn't clash with baseball. A basketball team rescheduling itself for a neighbor is the most Midwestern thing that has ever happened, and that includes cheese.

Game 4 is Tuesday in Tampa Bay. The Bucks are off that night, which leaves them free to watch, cheer and draft the next post before the first pitch, as is tradition.

Miami and Milwaukee meet for the first time on Nov. 18. Bring popcorn. Bring a lawyer. Bring Giannis's old locker nameplate, just to see what happens.

Florida has survived hurricanes, alligators and a man legally known as Florida Man. It will survive one tweet. But somewhere in Wisconsin, a team that is 1-3 is still refreshing its replies, convinced it is a bad day to be anyone but them.