Episode 129: Arbitration and Kite Festivals
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2014
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the often confusing arbitration process and what it means for Trevor Plouffe, apartment shopping and kite festivals, Paul Molitor embracing video and analytics, Metrodome memories and Russian difficulties, Delmon Young going to Baltimore, pretending to be a soccer fan, brunch as a way of life, mailbag questions from listeners, and supermanning beer pong tables.
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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 talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | every week |
| 0:24.4 | because the Glemen |
| 0:27.6 | and the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome |
| 0:32.8 | To the |
| 0:34.6 | Back to our roots |
| 0:36.6 | MLK Day edition. |
| 0:38.0 | Of Glemen of the game. Yeah. How's going, John, boy? We used to do this Monday nights all the time, right? Yeah, except then we would sometimes do Tuesday nights, and then we would say... We didn't really have a plan pre-like K-fan days, right? And then K-Fan put us into always doing on Sundays. and I think we kind of tried to always have it ready for Monday morning. |
| 0:56.2 | Right, because originally our plan was have it do it Monday night because we wanted it available Tuesday morning because we figured everybody would want to talk about the Vikings on Monday. Yeah, that was a dumb. That was a dumb thing. But yeah, so it's, what is it, noon? It's 1245 on a Monday morning, MLK Day. John's not working. I'm working, of course, because blogging stops for no man. And we're at scoreboard in lovely Minnetonka slash Hopkins. I realized that John wanted to do it at my house. Yeah. Three reasons we didn't do the podcast in my house. |
| 1:29.3 | One is I didn't really want to clean up. |
| 1:31.2 | It's kind of dirty. |
| 1:32.8 | It's like a disaster area at this moment. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah, that would have really put me off. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.6 | Second reason is I realize this might be our last scoreboard podcast ever. |
| 1:44.6 | How come? |
| 1:45.4 | Might not be living here, John. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm moving. |
| 1:48.4 | This is sort of the default bar because it's a block from my house. |
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