Episode 15: Carroll, HOF, and New Media (with Howard Sinker)
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2011
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John are joined by Minneapolis Star Tribune online sports editor and Twins blogger Howard Sinker to discuss the Jamey Carroll signing, backup catcher options, candidates for the Twins' Hall of Fame, getting married at Target Field, and the state of blogs, newspapers, and new media.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen and the Geek |
| 0:04.0 | Clemen and the Geek |
| 0:07.0 | All right, welcome to the Clemen and the Geek podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We have got Jesse Girl playing in the background. |
| 0:18.0 | Jesse's Girl playing in the background. We've got meat sauce in the house. I wonder if they'll actually say anything to us. I don't know. We'll see. And then we've got... An actual guest. And we're at... We should mention we're at Park Tavern. Sipping on Blue Moon. Two of us are sipping. John is back to... I know, I'm back to the water. I knocked him into getting back to drinking beer, and then after about two weeks of that, now he's back on water. Yeah, I've made no progress at all in the diet since I started drinking with you. So the deal is that I'm only going to drink at a, like, a special occasion, and this does not rank. Oh, John. I'm leaving. Yeah, we're putting a special occasion and this does not rank. Aw. I'm leaving. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm not. |
| 0:57.0 | The voice of reason ranks is a special occasion. |
| 1:01.5 | The Gopher's tailgating I did all the Saturdays. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, I saw that. |
| 1:04.2 | It's leading like a drunker from the Wisconsin game. |
| 1:08.0 | That rank this a special occasion, but the weekly podcast, I've got to cut down because I'm just a, it ruins my first half of my week. |
| 1:15.0 | Yet he's got cheese curds coming. |
| 1:16.4 | I don't know how that works, diet-wise. |
| 1:17.6 | But our special guest, we should say, is Howard Sinker from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. |
| 1:24.2 | What's your official title? |
| 1:25.3 | Web coordinator? |
| 1:26.1 | Official title, it changes really |
| 1:28.1 | depending on what I want it to be right now I call myself web sports editor all right |
| 1:32.9 | that sounds good and also blogger and blogger which I'm assuming anybody who |
| 1:37.6 | listens to this probably checks out all this starts being twins blogs but and |
| 1:41.4 | what's your Twitter handle hard Twitter handle right now is a fans view. |
| 1:45.7 | A fans view. I might change it to Section 219 just because I prefer... Which is the name of the blog, right? Which, by the way, is what I tried to look you up under on your Twitter handle earlier today. When I was trying to... I sent out a tweet saying, hey, we're going to... taking questions for the show, |
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