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Gleeman and The Geek

Assessing the Twins at the Season's Halfway Point

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

Sports News, Sports, News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Twins reaching the midpoint of the season below .500, Jeremy Zoll doing his best to shut down Byron Buxton trade speculation, Mick Abel going for surgery, Marco Raya getting called up, and the biggest bright spots and disappointments of the first three months.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.5

Green Man and the Geek

0:18.0

Talking baseball every week.

0:26.4

Because the Kwemen and the geek.

0:30.6

And welcome to

0:31.7

Kweemian of the Geek, presented by Blackstack Brewing.

0:35.5

We could use your wishes, thoughts, and prayers this week.

0:38.0

I'll get to that later.

0:38.9

I'm John Bonas with Twins Daily with me, Aaron Gleman of Aaron Gleman.com.

0:44.0

The twins return home from a 5-1 road trip,

0:48.0

and anybody who listens to the Patreon podcast,

0:50.0

know we spent a decent amount of time after,

0:52.2

on Monday's episode, basically basically saying it's great that

0:55.8

you won five out of six in Texas and Arizona but now unlike other times they've had good

1:01.8

stretches like this in the season you have to avoid backsliding completely from that and

1:07.6

that was made difficult by the fact that they're facing the best team in baseball

1:12.0

in the Dodgers. And in fact, we saw they returned with a big old thud and got swept by the Dodgers

1:18.2

two competitive games and then the middle game just got blown out in kind of a bullpen situation.

1:24.4

But that means they cross over now. they're officially into the second half of

1:28.3

the season i know in baseball we tend to talk about that with like the all-star break but the reality is

1:33.3

the all-star breaks like 60-something percent of the way through the season so right now they are 38 and 44

1:40.7

they've played one game of the second half in terms of the schedule.

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