Episode 193: Hicks up, Vargas down
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2015
⏱️ 103 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins calling up Aaron Hicks and demoting Kennys Vargas, how they've figured out how to beat every team except the Tigers, Jordan Schafer's place on the team whenever he's healthy, reviewing Comerica Park and Mad Max, Tommy Milone thriving at Triple-A, wanting someone who can actually hit in the DH spot, and answering mailbag questions from listeners.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:03.0 | Green Man and the Geek. |
| 0:12.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:16.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:24.6 | Because the Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:29.8 | And welcome to the Gleaming and the Geek podcast, a radio show now, I guess, on KFANonsed by Minnesota Corn Gurors on MNCorn.org. |
| 0:39.6 | You can learn more about them. |
| 0:40.8 | Across from me is Aaron Gleeman of Aaron gleeman.com and NBCSports.com. How you doing, Aaron? And he's still John Bonus. I'm still John Bonas. I'm still John. I'm still John. I am. I like this pattern the twins have now of winning during the week and then losing on Sunday. |
| 0:57.4 | Yes. pattern the twins have now of winning during the week and then losing on Sunday. |
| 0:57.1 | Yes. |
| 0:57.3 | So that, well, two things. |
| 0:59.0 | To just keep us from going over the top crazy? |
| 1:02.6 | That's the first thing, especially John. |
| 1:04.6 | John comes strolling in here if they have like a two or three game win his week. |
| 1:07.1 | He's just, he can't stop them. |
| 1:10.2 | But the other thing is it's better than the reverse |
| 1:12.2 | I mean you figure it's better to |
| 1:14.7 | lose on Sunday then |
| 1:16.0 | so it kind of keeps us grounded |
| 1:18.2 | but the twins |
| 1:19.2 | couldn't sweep the raise |
| 1:21.2 | but you know no big deal |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Bonnes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Bonnes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.