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Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.9 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins unfortunately now playing as poorly as everyone expected after the fire sale, calling up trade deadline pickups Mick Abel and Taj Bradley, the questions Brooks Lee still has left to answer, and why bad owners shouldn't provide cover for other areas of the organization also being bad.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:05.0 | Green Man and the geek |
| 0:23.6 | And the geek |
| 0:26.6 | Talking baseball |
| 0:27.6 | Every week |
| 0:29.6 | Because the Gleeman |
| 0:33.6 | And the geek |
| 0:35.6 | And welcome to Gleman Middle geek presented by blackstack brewing i'm john |
| 0:42.8 | boston's daily with me erin gleeman in v a flat you know what we have john we have a full-on bad team |
| 0:49.1 | to talk about now we've we've briefly yeah yeah we, this is what we thought things were going to be like after the trade deadline on July 31st. |
| 1:01.8 | We were prepared for this. |
| 1:03.1 | We were telling people it would be like this. |
| 1:05.4 | We were sort of making peace with it, even in the moment of like, okay, it's going to be really bad. There's going |
| 1:12.8 | to be no bullpen to speak of. Some of the starters are hurt. The lineup is still the lineup, |
| 1:18.3 | except now you're missing Castro, Correa, and Bader. And also now you're going to be calling |
| 1:24.6 | up some guys who probably are legitimate AAA guys, maybe at some point some young guys, which they're finally, I think, reaching that point. We're going to be calling up some guys who probably are legitimate AAA guys. |
| 1:27.8 | Maybe at some point some young guys, which they're finally, I think, reaching that point. We're going to talk a lot about that later on the show. And there's going to be some guys out of position. It's going to be sloppy. It's going to be, but maybe it's a little freeing that the wins in a lot. Wow. It ain't that freeing. Let me tell you. Because you still got to watch it, or at least we have to watch it. |
| 1:27.6 | Maybe people aren't. that the wins in a long, wow, it ain't that freeing, let me tell you. Because you still got to watch it, |
| 1:45.0 | or at least we have to watch it. |
| 1:47.6 | Maybe people aren't watching, |
| 1:48.8 | and they're conning on us to just recap it for an hour. |
| 1:51.4 | I am betting their TV ratings are probably showing that. |
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