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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 173: Talking Torii

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

Sports News, Baseball, Sports, News

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2014

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John visit Sociable Cider Werks and talk about the Minnesota Twins signing Torii Hunter, the varied paths of Carleton grads, a tutorial on defensive metrics, and reactions to Hunter's press conference comments.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.5

Meant and the Geek

0:15.8

Means and the Geek

0:18.0

Talking baseball every week And the geek And the geek And the geek And welcome

0:21.3

To the Glemen of the geek

0:37.4

Podcasts podcast podcast Podcasting today, broadcasting today, broadcasting, podcasting. and welcome to the Gleman of the Game podcast.

0:38.3

Broadcasting, podcasting today, broadcasting, podcasting.

0:41.5

No, we're not broadcast.

0:43.6

Sociable cider works.

0:44.8

Socialable cider works.

0:45.9

Which, I don't like you here a lot.

0:48.6

I've been here, I was here a friend of ours had her his wife's birthday here,

0:52.9

and I was sitting here drinking cider, and the guy said, are you gleaming? And I said, yeah, and he said, yeah, you can. I don't know. I've got a few ciders in to remember. And also, I'm terrible at that. And I was like, yeah, and he goes, you guys were supposed to come here last year, which we were. Right. And then you had a thing come up and we couldn't come. Right.

1:11.3

And I was like, oh, yeah, let's come back here.

1:13.3

We had an emergency at the apartment building. And this was not the time we had a man sleeping in the furnace. You've had a lot of interesting. We had an actual furnace issue. But we're back here. It is, I don't know, Saturday. I always like during this time of year especially

1:27.6

given our history of doing a Sunday podcast and have them break news on a Monday or whatever, I like to say when it is.

1:36.0

So it's Saturday afternoon.

1:38.0

So, like, if, you know, they signed James Shields for $200 million, like, Sunday morning, I don't want to be people like, boy, are they dumb.

1:45.6

They didn't even talk about that.

1:47.0

We are dumb, but we would talk about that. You're expecting James Shields to sign? Do you know something? I don't know. Yeah, 200 mil. I figure the Twins are really, they got that good press from Tori. They're feeling good. They're running high. So yeah, we actually have some news to talk about, which is nice because the offseason is so tough to predict in terms of, like, the news cycle. So we got a lot of, you know, manager talk. Well, we also, it's also been two weeks since our last podcast. Right, we took off for Thanksgiving. We got a lot of time. Because John doesn't care about you, the listener. No, I know. Whereas I don't really care about anybody. You sat there just talking to an empty mic.

2:19.2

Yeah, it was weird.

2:32.5

Because. Last week. No, I, here's the thing. John's got the microphones. So I just talked. Me and the cat. I just said, what do you think? You told him all about Yang and whether or not he was going to sign. Yeah, we talked about the... The Kia Tigers?

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