Episode 138: Roster Decisions and Over/Under Picks

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2014

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about picking over/under win totals for each team, Kyle Gibson vs. Scott Diamond and Aaron Hicks vs. Alex Presley, Sam Deduno moving to the bullpen, drinking Hammerheart beer and eating all kinds of good stuff at New Bohemia, Vance Worley clearing waivers, how not to get an iPhone, Josmil Pinto and the catcher situation, Padres fan bartenders, and succulent sausages.

Here's the breakdown...

1:30 – Australian Twins

4:30 – Hammerheart/New Bohemia

7:45 – Running Sap

11:30 – Starter Race

22:30 – Assembling dreck

25:00 – Hicks return

31:00 – Batting 2^nd

35:30 - Succulent Sausages

39:00 – Fattening up

40:30 – Vance Worley

43:00 – Twins catchers

43:50 – Bench speculation

48:00 – Shaving letters

49:00 – Aaron’s iphone

53:45 – Over-unders

57:25 – Houston Astros

58:30 – Beer flights

1:05:00 - Seattle Mariners

1:08:30 – LA Angels

1:13:00 – Texas Rangers

1:16:30 – Oakland A’s

1:20:30 – Blue Jays

1:24:30 – Baltimore Orioles

1:27:00 – Yankees

1:30:30 – Red Sox

1:32:00 - Tampa Bay

1:33:30 – White Sox

1:35:00 – Cleveland Indians

1:37:00 – KC Royals

1:39:30 – Detroit Tigers

1:42:00 – Minnesota Twins

1:46:00 – San Diego Padres

1:47:00 - Next week

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 and the geek And the geek And welcome
0:21.4	To a
0:36.7	Fired up
0:37.0	Kleeman and the geek podcast. Really? Jitin' play bonus. I'm ready to go. Come on, John. I got stuff to jump. I'm coming from brunch. I'm nice and lit up already. That is never your reaction to the video of the podcast. I didn't have to drive so I, you know, mimoscid myself to a high level of charmability. Got dropped off here. like it was, you, door to door service. So I'm giving you a ride home then. You are, yes. I hope so. We're out Uber. I've been Uber in it a lot lately. I'm excited. You know why? Baseball has started, John. I watched a game last night at Liquor Lyle's establishment in a lovely uptown Minneapolis at about 1 a.m.
1:13.8	I was watching the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks on a big screen.
1:17.0	I was pretty much the only person even at all interested in watching it.
1:21.6	And even that was sort of if you.
1:22.7	But I don't know if it's just because...
1:25.8	How was the Sydney Cricket Ground?
2:01.2	How was the what? Sydney Cricket Ground. It seemed all right. Yeah. They had a good crowd. It seemed like they had a good, enthusiastic crowd there. It was funny, though, like, as soon as the game ended, they had it right for the airport. Like, they didn't stick around. Oh, well. I guess, I don't blame me, because you have, like... played a a couple games there though right two games and they played an exhibition before that like against some Australian team Luke Hughes was the cleanup hitter for the Australian team I guess they each played the Australian team and Trent Oldgin or Oldgin he was going to be like their leadoff hitter but he signed a deal and he went to play in Mexico instead or something like that. So Luke Hughes doesn't even have a minor league deal anymore?
2:03.5	No.
2:04.4	I'm guessing it was a situation where some team was like, we could send you to double A or you could go play in Australia. Right. Because he's not, what is he, 30 probably at this point? Luke Hughes, for people don't know. gone, there's not a lot of point to put it up with the miners.
2:15.8	Was a decent prospect for the twins who got about, I don't know,
2:20.0	350 at bats for them over two years or so.
2:23.2	Never really hit and wasn't much of a defender.
2:25.7	But the twins more than any other team had developed.
2:28.6	He had some fun moments.
2:29.9	He led the team in spring training homers one year.
2:32.2	People thought that was a big deal.
2:34.5	But they've developed a lot of Australian players.
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