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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 156: Trade Deadline Recap

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2014

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about swapping Sam Fuld for Tommy Milone, extending Kurt Suzuki, calling up Kennys Vargas, being a curmudgeon, looking for Alex Meyer and Trevor May, learning new things that sound dirty, overvaluing prospects, claiming Jordan Schafer off waivers, checking in on Aaron Hicks, Oswaldo Arcia struggling versus lefties, and moving into the penthouse.

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0:00.0

And the geek

0:07.0

Talk is baseball every week

0:13.0

Because the Gleeman and the Geek

0:19.0

And welcome to Gleaming and a Geek on KFA and sponsored by Ticket King.

0:26.6

I'm John Bowness at Twinsdaily.com.

0:28.2

We've got Aaron Gleeman, aren Gleeman.com, and NBCSports.com.

0:32.5

How you doing, Aaron?

0:33.3

I'm all right.

0:34.1

Good?

0:34.6

I realize what a curmudgeon I am.

0:37.5

This is going to shock me.

0:54.2

But I was just telling John, I don't we recap how terrible I am every week. But like, I'm like, there's the uptown. It's just surprising me that you're like, I didn't realize I was a curmudgeon. Yeah, it always shocks me with people. I think I'm pretty cheery most of them. But no one else seems to think that. No.

0:54.8

So the Uptown Art Festival has been going going on a weekend and it's like literally a foot from my front door. Right. Like I could like, you know, throw a water balloon at them, which isn't a bad idea, actually. But the problem is I keep forgetting and then I get in my car and I think I have 15 minutes to get somewhere and then it takes me 15 minutes to get a block. Right. And then all I do is just sit in my car and just, you know, swear at people who just want to see some art to just walk around on a nice day, you know, with their boyfriends and girlfriends. The whole reason you're in Uptown is for that sort of festive,'s false active lively urban lifestyle

1:29.0

yeah no it's just

1:30.6

I like to stumble home from bars

1:32.1

is the reason I'm in up time

1:33.1

but we have some twin stuff to talk about

1:35.2

which is uh the trade deadline

1:37.4

came and went and uh they made

1:39.4

one move they didn't make

1:41.9

they had a non move that

1:43.2

ended up being a move yeah ended up being a move and then they had a couple guys who they didn't trade it with that a non move that ended up uh... move yeah and it ended up

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