Episode 150: Mixed Messages, Done Deduno, and Cat Fancy
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2014
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about Sam Deduno being on thin ice, pitching prospects Alex Meyer and Trevor May being almost ready, the Twins sending mixed messages about now vs. later, Josmil Pinto's demotion, weird phobias, Trevor Plouffe and Aaron Hicks getting hurt, the end of the line with Jason Kubel, Vance Worley rising from the ashes in Pittsburgh, and how to become a cat person in one week.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese |
| 0:10.0 | and the Geese |
| 0:13.0 | Freeman and the Geese |
| 0:17.0 | Talking baseball Every week |
| 0:22.3 | Because the Gleman |
| 0:25.6 | And the geek |
| 0:28.6 | And welcome to Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and The Geek |
| 0:33.9 | Sponsored by Ticket King |
| 0:35.6 | On KFAN. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm John Bonaise at Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:39.7 | We've got Aaron Gleeman across the table for me. |
| 0:41.7 | Aaron, how are you today? I'm all right. How are you, John? I'm a little disappointed, to be honest with you. Why is that? You know, it's Father's Day. You're looking for a big day, and today's Twins game just about made me want to start throwing things. |
| 0:56.9 | John, you should know by now that you can't... a big day and uh today's twins game just about just about made me want to start throwing things |
| 0:56.8 | john you should know by now that you can't uh let the twins determine your mood because you'll walk |
| 1:01.3 | out and as miserable as i see i've been for a long stretch of misery as that would you think i would |
| 1:06.4 | think i would have learned that starting like in 1974 when I first started listening |
| 1:10.8 | them on a regular basis? I mean, certainly, since we've been doing this show. Today was crushing, though. Yeah. Just crushing. Yeah, there have been a few games this season where it's been like... The series was crushing. But it's like if they can just win this one, it's like, oh, they took the series from the trip. And then it's like... Right. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:27.2 | Well, and that's why that's one of the things why it was so devastating is because they had so many opportunities to win. They just couldn't get the clutch hit to fall in that they wanted to. You know, pretty good at bads, pretty good situations, took advantage of things. Some very poor defense ended up being the, being sort of the deciding factor in the baseball game. |
| 1:47.8 | You've got your supposed big money ace on the mound here versus Rick Porchello, who is a terrible pitcher, but he's still going seven innings while your guy's going five and two-thirds. |
| 1:59.5 | I don't know. |
| 2:00.2 | Did he'll ask you to make it out of the seven? |
| 2:01.6 | And a third, I think, yeah. |
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