Episode 230: Chicken Soup for the Vikings Fan Soul
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2016
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the most depressing losses in Minnesota sports history, project the Twins' rotation and bullpen, check in on Denard Span and Ben Revere, wonder where Josmil Pinto will wind up, sleep well on Casper mattresses, debate arms versus legs, and answer mailbag questions from listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week and the geek and the geek and talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | every week |
| 0:24.4 | because the gleaming and the geek |
| 0:30.7 | and the geek. |
| 0:32.0 | And welcome to |
| 0:33.4 | the gleaming and the geek podcast. |
| 0:37.2 | Get your lips off the exhaust pipe edition. Oh, we're going to try to be talking off the ledge, Vikings fans? Well, I don't know how much of the Vikings talk we're going to. We're going to do a little Vikings talk. I don't think there's any chance. But we're most of the Twins podcast. We're going to be a Twins podcast. No, I just thought by dividing a... You just told me your weekend and your day yesterday and how good that went. Yeah. This is, by the way, I should mention this podcast can be sponsored by Casper's Mattresses, caspers.com. We'll talk about that in a little bit. I am with Aaron Gleeman of Aaron Gleeman.com and NBC Sports.com. Well, you got low energy today, John. |
| 1:12.5 | You're running out of steam halfway through a sentence. |
| 1:14.4 | I am. |
| 1:15.0 | This could be bet. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm going to have a little bubbly water here. |
| 1:16.5 | Take a swig of that. I should hit, yeah. Let's say it's, uh, that's the problem, isn't it? Yeah, it's the problem. I don't have a 6-1-2 brewer, a Lynn Lake Rory in my hand right now. |
| 1:26.5 | First of all, apologies in advance if I cough a lot during this. |
| 1:30.5 | In addition to my favorite team losing and my girlfriend's favorite team winning yesterday, which was bad enough, I spent the whole day coughing. To the point that, like, I gave myself a headache just from caught, you know what I mean? Like, you haven't been that bad since you got here no i'm just one day of cough a lot better today i'm you know got cold meds and |
| 1:49.0 | stuff but i don't know we'll see i'm i don't want to jinx it's been you're at robatessen right now |
| 1:53.2 | i've been here uh seven and a half minutes i haven't coughed yet but yeah so um you're gonna look |
| 1:58.4 | like ben rothlessburger after coming back into the game versus uh |
| 2:01.4 | it is funny like watching football uh this is nothing new i mean football's basically like gladiators |
| 2:08.1 | at this point like but it's funny how like he separated his shoulder i guess was that what |
| 2:12.2 | happened i didn't i was watching it with the with no sounds so i didn't really know it was going |
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