Episode 20: Willingham, Cuddyer, and Kubel
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2011
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Aaron and John talk about swapping Michael Cuddyer for Josh Willingham, Jason Kubel's departure, Christmas vs. Hanukkah, projecting the Twins' lineup, outfield defense, how to use the leftover payroll on pitching, a Ben Revere-Trevor Plouffe platoon, first impressions of Ricky Rubio, and what not to drink at a party.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Clemen Geek. |
| 0:04.6 | Clemen and The Geek. |
| 0:11.0 | And welcome to the... |
| 0:15.0 | What episode are you? |
| 0:16.0 | 20? |
| 0:17.0 | Episode 20 of Gleeman and the Geek. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the... |
| 0:20.0 | Good episode to stop on, right? |
| 0:21.5 | Slash Hanukkah episode. |
| 0:22.7 | No, I was going to say the opposite. |
| 0:23.9 | I was going to say 20. We'll be like the British office. We don't want to go on for 10 seasons. You get the two seasons in and just call it. We're going to stop in 20 episodes. Is that it? I'm going to ask you this is the last one? This booth at Scorba brought a breakup with you, John. |
| 0:36.5 | Over Christmas, I figured it's great timing. |
| 0:38.4 | First night of Hanukkah, by the way. |
| 0:39.9 | Is it? |
| 0:40.4 | I was, I figured it's great timing. First night of Hanukkah, by the way. I was wondering about that. I'm a little bitter, to be honest with you. I was a little bitter when I first heard that I wasn't getting freshly cooked. Hanukkah cookies. And now I feel bad about it. Yeah, they got postponed by illness in the family, but I don't know. You may get them. I've never had a Hanukkah cookie, so I was really looking forward to it. And I like cookies, especially like freshly baked cookies. I'll say a Hanukkah cookie is essentially a Christmas cookie, but maybe like 13% less good. Just by my experience. Not quite enough sugar. Not quite as, you know, it's got a little frosting on it. You guys feel a need to suffer for your holidays a little bit. Well, yeah. The other thing is, well, and also like our shapes for the cookies aren't as good. They're like the Ten Commandments and a menorah. It's like, are they really? That's awesome. But like growing up, we, we've made them every year at my grandma's house, all my cousins and stuff. And growing up, they would send me home with, you know, boxes and boxes of cookies. And that's why I got to be such a fatso, probably one of the many reasons. But now I realize, like, I don't bake the cookies. I mean, my grandma does that and my mom does that. I don't really decorate the cookies because I'm... Do you cut the cookies? You like put the little cutters in it? And now I'm realizing this year I'm not even going to eat the cookies. So I don't even know I need to be there, but I pitched that idea to my mom. And she was like, no, you need to be there, so we'll see how it goes. |
| 2:01.5 | I've got to ask you how you felt on Sunday morning. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah, John and I went with Parker from Over the Baggie to the Timberl's game, the preseason |
| 2:10.6 | against the Bucks, and then we went to a party Saturday night. |
| 2:15.7 | Thanks to Ms. Lindsay Gensel for inviting us to her party. |
| 2:18.3 | Yeah, it was great. |
| 2:19.1 | And I don't know. We weren't out that. What? Were we out? No, we don't. We were, we were, we were, we were wrapping up by about 11.30. We were on our way home about 11.30 to 12 o'clock. Yeah, I felt fine. You felt by the next day? |
| 2:32.7 | I was going to have the Hot 100. |
... |
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.

