Episode 18: Winter Meetings
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2011
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
It's the middle of the winter meetings and the Twins are making news, so Aaron Gleeman and John Bonnes discuss Matt Capps' return and breaking away from an ugly relationship, Kevin Slowey's departure and playing the blame game, Michael Cuddyer's options, Twitter fights, Jason Kubel alternatives, the winter meetings, scaring John's son, and loud karaoke.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen and The Geek, Clemen and the Geek. |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome to another episode of Gleeman and the Geek, the predictable A.N. to start the show. |
| 0:18.7 | You know, last week, we talked a lot about the potential resigning of Matt Caps, |
| 0:23.4 | and John, you know, was very upset just about the possibility. |
| 0:27.9 | He basically said, don't talk to me about Matt Caps. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm sick at hearing about Matt Caps, and he was so distraught. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, I felt worried for him. |
| 0:34.4 | Lo and behold, Matt Caps re-signed, and I'm sad to say that John has decided to step |
| 0:40.3 | away from blogging, effective immediately, and unfortunately, the podcast is going to be part of that. |
| 0:45.9 | Now, we're going to go on without him. This week is going to be a solo episode. And then I'm going to be |
| 0:50.1 | auditioning co-host going forward, you know, American Idol style probably, something along |
| 0:55.9 | those lines. And now I realize I do need a callist because I've officially run out of things |
| 1:01.3 | to say with this attempt at humor. And oh, look, there's John. He's over his matcaps hangover. |
| 1:05.8 | I did appreciate the call late last night just to make sure that I was okay, the little suicide |
| 1:10.7 | watch that you set up with my wife. I thought that was kind. I was touched. I'm not going to lie. I was touched. We took away all the belts and the shoelaces once we heard that the cap signing was going to happen. Should we? Well, let's start. I want to let's start with a little small talk, before we dig into Cabs first. Okay. I think Caps is probably the first, the first big topic that we're going to do right to do. So I got to ask you, what is your life, is this by far your busiest week of the offseason? Yeah. The craziest week of the off season? Started yesterday and they go till Thursday morning, but basically Wednesday is the... |
| 1:47.0 | Tomorrow is the last big day. |
| 1:48.0 | We're taping this Tuesday night. |
| 1:50.0 | And I wrote... Monday I wrote, I think 17 or 18 blog entries on Hardball Talk. |
| 1:56.6 | And today I wrote more, I think, 19 or 20. |
| 1:59.5 | And as a collective, the Hardball talk guys wrote 54 blog posts between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. tonight. |
| 2:07.6 | And I'm sure they're going to do, you know, 20-something more at least while we're doing this podcast. |
| 2:12.9 | So, yeah, it's nuts. |
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