Episode 113: Live From Target Field
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2013
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John take their Minnesota Twins podcast to Target Field for the final series of the season and talk about Ron Gardenhire's job status, Terry Ryan's aversion to spending money, Joe Mauer being shut down, Josmil Pinto's impressive September, Jumbotron proposals and the Kiss Cam, going back to journalism school, Jack Moore's triumphant return, 1981 World Series tickets, mailbag questions from listeners, and singing Al Green songs.
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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 And the geek And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.4 | Baseball |
| 0:22.0 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the gleaming and the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:30.8 | And welcome |
| 0:34.2 | To the Gleaming of the Geek podcast, huh? |
| 0:36.7 | Maybe our quietest Gleaning of the Geek podcast ever. Yeah, we are... Oh, oh. You're not doing play-by-play. No, no, I'm not doing play by play. We're actually at the Twins Indians game. It is Friday night. What's the date? I have no idea. The 20-something. 20-something? Third to last game of the season. |
| 0:56.4 | Twins are already down. |
| 0:58.7 | To try to play spoiler to the Cleveland Indians' hopes? |
| 1:02.2 | I think it's a little late for that, but yeah, you're always more optimistic than me. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah, we're out in right field, first row, John's usual seats, and we haven't done this before. I'm not sure if we're going to get kicked out or what's going to happen. So, you know, you hear a scuffle take place and then the mics go off. That's, you knew what happened, I guess. We got thrown out. We're trying to be somewhat quiet or quieter just because there are humans around us. And it's not terribly loud at the Twins game right now. |
| 1:29.7 | It's real weird. |
| 1:31.1 | This is a Friday night and it is probably the last warm night we're going to have in Minnesota |
| 1:36.6 | here. |
| 1:37.8 | And it is what? |
| 1:41.0 | What do you think the accurate attendance is right now? |
| 1:42.9 | We're in the first inning here. It's not pretty. It's maybe 12,000? Yeah, I was going to say like 14,000 maybe. I was here, I've been here now this, the third game in a row. Two games ago it was about this bad. Last night I'd say it might have been 18,000. It was decent. |
| 2:02.6 | But, yeah, today is not... Is this even worse than it was last night at Wednesday? |
| 2:05.1 | Definitely worse than. |
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