Episode 142: Moneyballing Offense and Outfield Logjams
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2014
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and guest co-host Parker Hageman talk about the Twins' surprisingly good offense and unsurprisingly bad pitching, claiming Sam Fuld off waivers, Kyle Gibson's upside, Jason Bartlett's retirement, Aaron Hicks running out of time, winning awards from City Pages, what to make of Phil Hughes and Ricky Nolasco, dating your sister, new podcasts to try, and blindfolding women on Hennepin Avenue.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:10.0 | Green men And the geek |
| 0:13.7 | The truck is baseball |
| 0:15.8 | Every week |
| 0:19.3 | Because they're Talk is baseball Every week |
| 0:22.2 | Because the Gleman |
| 0:22.2 | And the geek |
| 0:25.6 | And the geek |
| 0:28.5 | And |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome |
| 0:34.6 | You'll notice that I'm not John Twins Geek bonus. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Aaron Gleeman, the Gleeman half of Gleman The Geek, from NBCSports.com and Aaron Gleeman.com. |
| 0:38.8 | John Bonus is celebrating Easter, the traditional way that people celebrate Easter, which is to go to Las Vegas, |
| 0:44.3 | and just make a complete dupus of himself. |
| 0:51.1 | If you want to follow him on Twitter, he writes a lot about drinking beer and stuff in Las Vegas. |
| 0:53.6 | It's very exciting at Twins Geek. |
| 0:57.9 | But I've assembled a all-star crew to help sub for John Bonas. |
| 0:59.6 | As always, we have the lovely and talented Kate Butler, producer extraordinaire, behind the glass, running the ones and twos. |
| 1:04.8 | How's it going, Kate? It's good. Thanks for having us here on Easter. Yeah. You're the reason we're here. I am. Yeah. I'm going to blame it on the Jew boy. Can I have them here on Easter. And I've brought in as my special guest co-host. Now, you know, we have a lot of meetings about this show. It's a very professional show. |
| 1:11.3 | In our latest production meeting, I said to Kate Butler, I said, who do you think we should get to sub for John Bonas when he's gone? And she said, well, who are the choices? I said, well, we have two go-toes that we've used in the past. We have Nick Nelson. I don't think that's actually how it went. I'm pretty sure. You have a bad memory. The only two people that I thought of were Parker and Nick, but I said Nick first. Right. And you said you already asked Parker. Yeah. You ruined the whole bit. I was going to throw you under the bus here. But there is no bus to throw me under because you are wrong. No. |
| 1:27.8 | I'd like to know where I'm at, though. |
| 2:01.9 | Right. |
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