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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 140: Opening Week and Radio Return

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2014

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John are back on the radio at KFAN and talk about the Twins' opening week, Ron Gardenhire's milestone win and place in history, getting home opener tickets, Chris Colabello's great story, choosing Derek Jeter's career, Twitter slap fights, trading producers, the changing bullpen roles, college tours, and The Church of Mase.

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0:00.0

Creaming as a key

0:02.0

Dreaming as a geeky fucking baseball

0:21.6

there's creepy

0:24.6

because gleaming and the geek

0:27.6

and the geek

0:30.6

and welcome

0:35.6

to the 2014 season of baseball weekly with with Gleeman and the Geek, sponsored by Ticket King, your hometown ticket leader at Ticketkingonline.com. I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. And across the table from me is Aaron Gleeman of Aaron Gleman. Of Aaron Gleman.com and NBCSports.com. Hello, Mr. Gleman. Hi, John. How's it going, buddy? I'm very excited. You look good. Well, do I. Yeah. This is our third season on the radio, I realize. Yeah. Shocking. I mean, I don't know what's wrong with Kate. Anybody gave in the first season, a little two are. It looks like the twins are going to win. they shocking. Not gotten off to quite as pathetic of a start as I worried about. So that's nice to talk about. I mean, look. Your second place Minnesota Twins team. Is that right? Yeah. I think they're well on their way to second place. Last I saw now they're in a three-way tie. Yeah. Second place, so they're also in fourth place.

1:28.7

It hasn't been pretty.

1:30.4

Some of these games have been kind of ragged. No. But, yeah, could be worse. We got a, you know, I was going to say a decent team, but a not yet terrible team to talk about. And I don't know, some interesting stuff to talk about that.

1:41.7

They already have a few roster issues that we kind of, I mean, to people who are just

1:46.7

tuning in now, we do this, we, interesting stuff to talk about that they already have a few roster issues that we kind of

1:45.5

I mean to people are just tuning in now we do this we do this every week of the year talking

1:49.8

about the twins and during the off season we do a podcast which you can get on iTunes that's right

1:54.4

or Twinsdaily.com and in fact even even if you listen to the entire show today you're only

1:58.7

going to be any half the story because you can download the other half of it off of iTunes or gleamingdonogne.com or whatever

2:05.1

because we do a one-hour podcast after the one-hour show to delve even further into the minutiaia

2:11.6

of the Minnesota Twins and of baseball in general.

2:14.8

Yeah, or John's going to tell me about the college trip except with his daughter daughter, probably. There will probably be some also-supperson. I got a couple stories for you, John. Yeah, so what would be your go-to-a-topic here, Twins-wise, to start a new season of this glorious show, John? I'm going to give you the floor here. Well, I mean, I think what is me, I guess, is that there's a almost nothing is exactly like I kind of expected it to be.

2:39.4

The starting rotation hasn't been quite as good.

2:42.4

The hitting has been much better.

2:44.6

And in particular, a couple aspects of the hitting have been much better.

2:49.4

Chris Colabello is suddenly the MVP of the Minnesota Twins,

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