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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 111: Grand Drunk Railroad

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John are joined at stops along the Grand Drunk Railroad by special guests David Brauer of MinnPost, Jack Moore of Sports on Earth, and Kate Agnew of Girls in Tech to talk about the Twins' season ticket holder survey, hanging onto Josh Willingham, maximizing your investment in tickets, moving to Minnesota from Wisconsin, the value of pitch-framing, fitting the lineup pieces together for 2015, the Brewers' closing window, and fighting for "official couple" status.

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.5

Green Man and the Geat.

0:15.0

Green Man and the Geat

0:18.0

Talking baseball every week And the geek And the geek And welcome

0:21.2

Baseball

0:22.3

Every week

0:24.4

Because the Gleeman

0:27.6

And the geek

0:30.7

And the geek

0:30.7

And welcome

0:34.0

To a very special

0:35.1

Believe in the Geek podcast

0:36.7

You hear it is chomping at the bed, aren't you? Well, I don't have my mic And welcome to a very special Believe in a Into the Geek podcast.

0:40.5

Aaron is chopping at the bed, aren't you?

0:42.0

Well, I don't have my mic stand.

0:46.4

So, see behind the scenes here, John holds... You think it's a background?

0:47.2

Yeah, well, John holds is Mike usually like a stand-up comic, like the world's worst open-mic comic, let's say?

0:53.4

And I put it on a stand because I like to actually pretend like we're doing radio here. But we're at, where are we, the Cardinal? We're on our light rail pub crawl. And I would say a pretty great turnout. A lot of people in our silly red shirts, I don't know, 50, 70 people. They're probably, I think, 100 total. Yeah, we have 100 people coming total of this thing. So John pours the first pitcher for everyone, and then he says to me, hey, let's go do a podcast. And I say, that sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard because that's not fun. So here's the plan. But his plan makes some sense, I guess, is to do a bunch of, you know, 10, 15 minute chats with various luminaries here. We are surrounded by baseball luminaries. Yes. Baseball intelligency, really, is what the grader... The local media elite, I would call them. I would say, yeah, the local independent media elite. Our first guest, are we introducing him yet or do we have to babble for a while?

1:46.7

Our first guest is, are you still from Minpost technically?

1:48.8

I think I'm still from Minpost.

1:50.2

That's how I knew him.

1:51.3

I can plausibly claim it. I'm going to kiss his butt.

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