Episode 195: You Can Rub Anything For Luck
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2015
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' pitching depth vanishing with one Ricky Nolasco injury, whether Oswaldo Arcia is even wanted back, Casey Fien's return to the bullpen, Chris Colabello hurting and helping his old team, sending kids off into the world as adults, Trevor May's new approach, Tasseldega Nights, Josmil Pinto not knocking down the door, answering Meatsauce's mailbag questions, and the great corn dog vs. corn on the cob debate.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen and the geek |
| 0:10.3 | Clemen and the geeky Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:25.3 | Because the Gleman and the Geek. |
| 0:30.0 | And welcome to The Gleeman and the Geek show on KFAN, |
| 0:34.9 | sponsored by Minnesota corn growers at MNCorn.org. Across the table me is aaron gleeman of nbcports.com and hardball talk hard thanks for reading what is it again i know you're a big fan aaron gleeman dot combe i read that one what's the other hardball hardball talk nbc you know you don't even know these URLs anymore because you just start typing what's your silly website i? I am from my Twinsdaily.com. Still? You still doing that? Still doing the Twinsdaily.com? John, the Twins, uh, I don't know how I expected them to, like, lose 15 games in a week. Not like... You would have been real disappointed. Yeah, it's still going, John. |
| 1:11.3 | It's still, this is kind of fun. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm going to say, like, we've, I mean, we write about and talk about the twins endlessly, |
| 1:18.3 | no matter what their record is really. |
| 1:19.9 | We like baseball one way or the other, right? |
| 1:21.4 | And at least one of us likes to complain about bad teams anyway, so it kind of fits his personality. |
| 1:27.1 | But I will say, like, just being out and running into people and talking about the twins |
| 1:32.5 | with people, like I was at, yesterday I was at Fulton, brewery, and guys like, oh, you know, |
| 1:38.4 | go, I'm like, oh, you know, so talking about the twins, and it's fun to not have the first |
| 1:42.9 | sentence be, when is this thing |
| 1:45.5 | going to stop being terrible because for the past three for the first bad year it was is this |
| 1:51.1 | they falling apart or is this and then 2012 2013 2014 it was basically like well when's to know |
| 1:58.8 | going to be ready when's bucksston ready when is this thing going to be not terrible? And now it's, is this for real the other way? Is this for real going to stay? And are they going to collapse or how long can they keep going? And that, you know, I'm sure that'll be tiring to talk about, I guess, at some point, but it's a whole lot less terrible to talk about when you're trying to figure out |
| 2:18.1 | how much longer can this be a good team? |
| 2:20.8 | And, you know, as the weeks go by here, we joke at the, or I joke at the start of every |
| 2:25.3 | episode now, they haven't stopped winning. |
| 2:27.7 | Right, right. |
| 2:28.8 | 10 games over 500 going into today's tilt, which they are leading right now. |
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