Episode 199: Prospects Are Human Too
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2015
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about Byron Buxton putting his Hall of Fame induction on hold, where all the Twins' run scoring went, what happens to the rotation when Ervin Santana returns, a July 3rd Saints game you can attend with Aaron and John, releasing Jordan Schafer, Chris Herrmann's job security, first-round pick Tyler Jay signing for $3.9 million, what to do and not to do while on the toilet, and Towns vs. Okafor.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:09.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:12.0 | Greenman and the Geek |
| 0:16.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:24.0 | Because they're dreaming and the geek. |
| 0:29.4 | And welcome to Gleaming on the Geek. |
| 0:33.1 | KFAN, sponsored by Minnesota corn growers of MNCorn.org. |
| 0:37.8 | It's a gorgeous day for baseball at Target Field today, especially if you're a Cubs fan, |
| 0:42.5 | Aaron Gleeman, of Aaron Gleeman.com and NBCSports.com. |
| 0:46.4 | Yes, John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:49.2 | So we've decided to come indoors to a radio studio to talk about it. I'm surprised, like... A newly freshly painted radio studio. Yeah, great. That's even better. Get the paint, fumes. I'm surprised. It seems like we used to go to more Sunday afternoon games and then leave, or you used to. Yeah, you're right. But we did a couple times yep and then we'd leave |
| 1:11.0 | early and now it's like we do so much prep work for this show exactly we that it makes it |
| 1:15.4 | difficult yeah exactly i don't know if i believe you that would be kate yeah welcome to the |
| 1:22.8 | program we should change it and we should all three go to the games yeah Yeah. And just cancel the show? Yes. Oh, all right. No, just kidding. Just kidding. Next week. We could do the podcast at different places instead of coming here on Sundays. Yeah. Well, that's not a terrible idea. I'm full of not terrible ideas. Yeah. We should. That is what people say about you, Kay Butler. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she is full of not terrible ideas. That's what Abbott says about me. That's why I'm here. That's, so yeah, they lost two to St. Louis, since last we spoke, lost two in St. Louis, one, two here from the Cardinals, and then took one out of three from the Cubs, which a three and four week against two of the, well, St. Louis has the best record in baseball. Sure. And the Cubs are currently in position to be one of the wildcard teams in the National League. As are the twins before today's game, at least. Yeah, you're really holding on to that. Well, why not? It's still there? |
| 2:19.5 | But that's not a bad week, three and four. |
| 2:20.3 | No, that's not. |
| 2:22.6 | Versus two really good teams. |
| 2:25.0 | It's a little bit, I think we talked about this last week. |
| 2:31.8 | They're at the point where there's enough above 500 much later than anyone could have thought that almost every win now is kind of worth two losses |
| 2:36.5 | in the sense that like it gives you a little buffer. |
| 2:38.8 | Right. |
| 2:39.1 | Because I really do think people are so gunshy just from the past three or four years and just |
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