Episode 152: Falling to Pieces In More Ways Than One
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2014
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the starting pitching (and podcast hosts) falling apart, Jorge Polanco's rushed arrival, Alex Meyer and Trevor May having issues in the minors, Chris Parmelee as a center fielder, puking in cabs, throwing out backs, Joe Mauer turning things around, Eduardo Escobar returning to earth, Aaron Hicks going back to Double-A, and Clayton Kershaw vs. Johan Santana.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:07.0 | Creammen and the Geek |
| 0:26.2 | And welcome to Gleeman and the Geek, KFAN, sponsored by Tickie King. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:35.8 | Across from me, I've got Aaron Gleeman of NBCSports.com and Aaron Gleeman.com. How are you, Aaron? I'm all right. You're, uh, and welcomes are getting longer. That was a long and well. It's really enthusiastic. I should also just mention our producer, Kate Butler. It's coming back after a week's hiatus. I didn't even mention I don't think that Ryan Donaldson had a return engagement last week. No, it's like when Lou Gehrig first stepped into the lineup, they weren't like made a big deal out of Lou Gehrig, but then like 2,000 games later or whatever they made it. You probably notice. Yeah, that's true. Are you saying that she's Wally Pip? No, I'm saying she's Gary. I don't know. It doesn't matter because all of those things are lost on me anyway. Yeah, that's true. I did think one time we should just come in and do the show and just make up names for all the players and be like, do you think they should trade for Joe Johnson? And John would be like, yeah, but they can't give up, you know, some Jose Polanco and be like, well, okay. Sure. I don't know who the joke would really be on at that point if we started doing that. You guys, you'd lose all credibility. Yeah, which we have tons of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would really be a blow to us. We almost talked about you a little bit on air this morning with the cake show bonus. Almost talked about me. Well, we were thinking about talking about me. |
| 1:45.3 | I decided to, for, I don't even know why, but I decided to keep it off air. |
| 1:50.1 | We were talking about taxis and how, um. |
| 1:53.1 | How John puked in a taxi. |
| 1:54.6 | No, no, essentially how there's been some sort of like racial profiling and like |
| 1:59.7 | taxis admittedly don't want to pick up black people |
| 2:03.0 | in Minneapolis and it's because and I was like first of all would you want to pick up John |
| 2:07.5 | bonus if you saw him on the street drunk and staggering like right he's the world's |
| 2:13.0 | whiteest person and he barfed yes yes did. It was not in the taxi. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah, right. |
| 2:19.0 | I've heard multiple versions of this story. I've heard it from Chrissy. Right. It changes all the time. You came in to get some cleaning products in the house. That is not true. I heard it from your wife. You can't be trusted. It's not happened. He's so embarrassed. This is the one story's embarrassed, |
| 2:32.9 | all the dumb stories he's doing. |
| 2:34.2 | Yeah, well, yeah, go on. |
| 2:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:36.0 | I don't even know what to say. |
| 2:37.4 | You can only say, It's not happened. He's so embarrassed. This is the one story. He's embarrassed by all the dumb stories he's doing. |
| 2:34.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:34.6 | Well, yeah. |
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