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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 189: Opening Week Blues

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Twins' rough opening week, Torii Hunter struggling in the cleanup spot, Trevor May joining the rotation, John's trip to Vegas, Blaine Boyer going as badly as expected, Harry's Razors giving listeners a nice discount, Gleeman Disciples' initiation rites, Paul Molitor's willingness to platoon, where the Twins' top 40 prospects can be found in the minors, and hanging out at Mason's Barre.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.5

Green Man and the Geek

0:18.0

Talking baseball every week and the geek And the geek And welcome. To the baseball

0:21.6

every week.

0:26.5

Because the Cleveland

0:27.5

and the geek.

0:32.9

And welcome.

0:34.8

To the beginning of the baseball season,

0:36.8

A.

0:36.9

and Cleveland at NBC Sports.com. Yeah, it's already over, though, for the whole top nine. The beginning at the end of the baseball season. So we're recording this. We're at Mason's Barron right by Target Field, and it's Sunday evening that we're recording this. It's when it's just lost. They're now one in five. We're both going in how many hours from now? I don't know, about 20 hours from now, whatever, to the home opener. And not that anybody had, oh, it's John Bonus, by the way, of Twinsdaily. So we should mention who the sponsors. Yeah, Harry's Razors, which we'll get to.

1:11.3

Got another deal.

1:12.3

Go to harries.com, get $5 off your first order with the promo code gleaming. Yeah. All we do is give people just free stuff on, John. It's unbelievable. We also have an announcement of sorts, which we'll get to in a minute. But I was saying not that anybody except you, because you were pretty convinced they were going to win the World Series this year, but not that anybody had, like, really that optimistic, really, and I certainly didn't. But there is something about being one in five and playing, like, crap, before you even get to your home ballpark. It's like, they're saved by the fact that it's supposed to be like 70

1:45.0

and sunny on on the home opener yeah it was like 45 and drizzling it would just be like yeah it would be but

1:51.5

it's i don't know it's a bummer but realistically i mean if they take two out of three or sweep

1:57.5

the the royals at home here they're right where they were supposed to be. They were trending in the right direction in there. Yeah, but for the next podcast. Well, so we say... Or the next broadcast. Yeah, probably this time next week, you'll be able to listen to us live again on KFAN. Is this our fourth year in a row? Fourth season? Yeah, fourth year in KFAN. Yeah. Chase, Louise, how did they ever get past? Keep doing that to us. Well, it's the story of this whole show is that we picked the, you know, we had each been twins bloggers for like 10 years and had been on, you know. And we both picked exactly the right time to start writing about them and exactly the right time to start talking about them. We started in like 0-1-02 when they started getting good after a decade of being bad. And then we had both been, you know, various radio stuff. John was doing stuff on K-Fan. I did some stuff at 1500 at K-Fan. And then we're like, let's start this podcast. We started it in September, I think, or late August of 2011, which was their first, like, really terrible season in a long time. And they remained that way since. Right. But I have the, well, so, but yeah, starting next week, what, four to five? Is that when we're on? Four to five? Four to five. Every Sunday. We'll be back on KFA in pending the wild playoff. But that doesn't mean you should quit downloading the podcast because. Right. So you have two options. You can, well, three options. You can tune in to the radio show from four to five every Sunday, or it'll be live.

3:27.3

Right. So you have two options. Well, three options. You can tune in to the radio show from four to five every Sunday, or it'll be live.

3:27.3

Right.

3:29.0

You can do that and then listen to the podcast, or you can just listen to the podcast because the podcast will continue to be put out the same way, either on Aaron gleamuncom or Twinsdaily.com, via iTunes, via Stitcher, via all the various ways you get podcasts. And you'll get content that is not on the broadcast. Right. So what we do is we do four to five on the radio. And once you remove the commercials from that, it's like 40-something minutes usually. And then we do another 35, 45 hour of podcast only that we then patched together with the radio side

4:01.2

to form, you know, the usual hour and a half podcast that you've come to love, to know and love

4:07.3

from us. So yeah, we'll be back, I think, because the wild first playoff game isn't on Sunday.

4:12.3

So we should be four or five Sunday. And then after that, I don't know, we'll tweet out if we're going to be on but yeah for the people who just like to listen to the podcast you really don't have to do anything different it'll be slightly different that we won't be able to babble as I am right now for like you know an hour and a half consecutive we will have to take uh you know two minute breaks but that'll be edited it out anyway. It really is, I don't even know

4:33.4

that I want to talk

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