Episode 23: Mailbag
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2012
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John open up the mailbag and take questions from readers about a wide range of topics including the payroll drop, what happens if Justin Morneau can't play, the search for righty relief, disliked players and the media, Danny Valencia's future, Levi Michael's timetable, and Moneyball.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen, The Geek, Clemen and The Geek. |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome. |
| 0:12.0 | We're off to a great start. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:15.0 | This is going to be, every week we sit down here, we say, this is going to be the worst podcast ever. |
| 0:23.0 | We're going to try to do it this week. |
| 0:24.5 | We're not just talking to talk. |
| 0:27.0 | This week we're really going to go for that. |
| 0:30.8 | John is tired. |
| 0:31.9 | He's delusional. |
| 0:33.0 | He doesn't know what he's doing. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm specifically not drinking just because I'm afraid I'm going to totally lose it. And I don't know really what my excuse is, but just general, what my excuses every week. Did you get your nap today? No, no nap. You're going to be all crabby. Yeah. Can you tell the difference, though, at this point? Yeah, we get into bigger arguments when you don't take that. Probably true. Yeah, I don't know. So not a lot of twins news going on. |
| 1:04.5 | So we decided we've done two mailbag podcasts, you know, once a month or so we'll do a mailbag. |
| 1:09.2 | And they got good response. We got a ton of questions. And you guys actually downloaded it a lot. |
| 1:11.7 | So we figure you actually like it. So we're going to do that again. |
| 1:16.3 | First, I guess we can talk a little bit about some non-mail bag stuff. |
| 1:17.0 | Sure. |
| 1:20.6 | You had something stuck in your craw that I know you wanted to get... Well, I don't know if I was stuck in my craw, but we did get a little... |
| 1:25.2 | Somebody addressed the whole Twins payroll situation this year in the media |
| 1:30.1 | sort of it was it was Phil Mackey on ESPN 1500s website talked a little bit about you know why the |
| 1:37.1 | twins what his perception is and I don't know that he necessarily you know laid this all out as fact |
| 1:43.9 | but his perception of why the twins ended up cutting $15 million of payroll. |
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