Episode 147: Previewing the Draft and Saving the Offense
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2014
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about Oswaldo Arcia and Josh Willingham being ready to return, what the Twins will do with the No. 5 overall pick in the draft, how much time Aaron Hicks has left to show something, Alex Meyer and Trevor May doing well at Triple-A, biting someone's ear off, Glen Perkins' underrated excellence, Pat Neshek bouncing back in St. Louis, back-to-back Tinder dates, not having good stories any longer, and scouting college and high school players with special guest Jeremy Nygaard.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:11.1 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:15.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.0 | every week. |
| 0:26.1 | Because the Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:31.4 | And welcome to baseball weekly with Gleeman and the Geek, sponsored by Ticket King on KFAN, the sports leader. I'm John Bonas, Twidsdaily.com. Across the table for me is Ayrd Gleeman of NBCSports.com. How are you doing today, Aaron? I'm all right, John. You seem in a goofy mood. I'm in a little bit of goofy mood. I got a little caffeine going today. Yeah? Yeah. You know how I am like at it. nice out, John. I thought, what I want to do is go into a nice dark studio inside and talk to John bonus. It is like a week ago last Friday, a switch just flicked. Yeah. It was, I remember, I'm pretty sure a week ago last Thursday, they were still talking about frost warnings in the morning and maybe a record low or something. |
| 1:12.4 | And then last Saturday was 80 degrees for the art of whirl, et cetera, and our big night in northeast Minneapolis. |
| 1:19.2 | That's right. |
| 1:19.8 | And then it has been gorgeous ever since. |
| 1:22.4 | It's going to be gorgeous for this upcoming week. |
| 1:24.2 | We've got Twins coming home to Target Field, Monday through Thursday, a couple of day games |
| 1:29.0 | sprinkled in there, a Memorial Day game, a Thursday afternoon game. This is when you take radio class, when you go to radio school, this is what they tell you. They say, talk about the weather a lot. That's what they do. On the radio to start shows. People love weather time. Sadly, the twins, you know, last week we were like, well, maybe this isn't such a bad team. |
| 1:47.9 | Maybe they'll be. shows. People love weather time. Sadly, the twins, you know, last week we were like, well, maybe this isn't such a bad |
| 1:47.4 | team. |
| 1:47.9 | Maybe they'll be all right. |
| 1:49.0 | And then they lose two or three in a row and we're like, yeah, abandon ship. |
| 1:52.5 | Yeah, they may be coming home in under 500 team, which was almost, it didn't seem very likely |
| 1:57.8 | say Thursday afternoon when I was tweeting out that the twins are on pace for an 85 win season because they'd climbed two games above 500. |
| 2:06.6 | I took a look, and I was hoping, you know, with Sunday's game starting late, it's going on right now, I guess you didn't notice, with Sunday games starting late, I thought, well, they've only got two games left, and they're two games over right now. |
| 2:19.1 | We've got, like, a pretty decent chance of being two games over 500 for the Gleeman and the Geek show. |
| 2:25.8 | In 150 or closing in on 150 episodes, had the twins ever been two games above 500 for a Gleeman and the Geek episode. |
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