Episode 175: Ranking Rotations and Buying Bars
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2014
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John visit Mac’s Industrial Sports Bar and speculate on the Minnesota Twins remaining offseason plans, grill owner Michael Curry about how he bought his first bar, review the Twins new minor league coaching assignments, praise bad decisions on Christmas night, rank the Twins rotation versus the rest of the AL Central, eat WAY too much, anticipate Nick Punto’s return, encourage Aaron’s new foodie leanings and run through a mailbag.
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| 0:00.0 | Queen and the Geese and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Queenman and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week and the geek And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.3 | And the geek |
| 0:21.4 | I'm a little more |
| 0:22.2 | than the league |
| 0:28.5 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome to |
| 0:33.4 | Friday night |
| 0:35.1 | I just can leave it in the game |
| 0:36.4 | I'm a little more fired up today than I have been raised. |
| 0:39.8 | Several different podcasts. |
| 0:40.9 | I know you're excited at Aaron Lehman and reading Sportsback off. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.7 | John bonus of, I don't know, whatever. |
| 0:46.8 | Twins daily. |
| 0:47.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:48.3 | John bonus of this podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, because people are always saying John seems so unenthusiastic. That's right, yeah. Yeah. What a downer that bonus is. That's exactly right. As we were on the way here, we were at Max Industrial. Yes. Now, we, in the early days of this podcast, we hopped from bar to bar. Right. And we went to a lot of our favorite bars, and a lot of those were sports bars. |
| 1:12.3 | Correct. |
| 1:12.7 | Because we're, you know, guys who sit around and drink beer and watch sports, shockingly. But then we started going to, like, breweries and tap rooms and stuff like that, which we've been kind of focusing on lately and some restaurants even and stuff like that. now we're back at I think one of, one of the better, I don't know, sports bar. That's sort of limiting, but whatever. One of the better places to actually watch sports. Yeah, you're right. Multiple games. It's good. And, in fact, the way this got set up, especially when the size. Right. So many sports bars are in the suburbs and they're enormous, like a censor. Right. Which, you know, it's fine for a certain stuff. Right. But, yeah, you're one of a thousand people. The way this happened was, I don't know, a month or six weeks ago. We, a bunch of our stupid friends, like 20 people, got together to watch Packers, Bears, and have a wing crawl, quote unquote. A crawl consisted of two places, which was one more than I thought it was going to be. To be fair, by the end of it, there was some crawling going on. Yes. And we were one of these, this was the first stop. Right. And Michael, who we're going to talk to in a moment, came up to, I think me or we were sitting |
| 2:20.6 | by each other. |
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