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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 248: It's Getting Late Early

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and guest co-host Parker Hageman talk about the youth-filled rotation, early trade deadline speculation, Miguel Sano's defense, Eddie Rosario's hacking, holding the front office responsible, Joe Mauer's ongoing greatness, stat-heads taking over Holy Angels baseball, and how cats are like infant children.

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geat

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Green Man and the Geat.

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Green Man and the Geat.

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Yeah.

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Talking baseball every week.

0:24.1

They're right.

0:25.9

Because the Gleman and the Geek.

0:34.4

And welcome to Gleeman and the Geek, Twins Weekly, here on KFAN, sponsored by the Minnesota

0:41.5

Corn Growers. If you go to MNFarmteen.com, you can register for a chance to be a Twins groundskeeper

0:48.3

for a day with the Minnesota corn growers. I am Aaron Gleeman of Aaron Gleeman.com.

0:56.0

John Bonus of Twinsdaily is he was in Chicago,

1:00.2

now he's in Indianapolis, they're road tripping.

1:03.2

But I'm joined.

1:04.2

In his seat is another Twinsdaily writer and frequent filling co-host of this show.

1:10.4

I would say you're the third co-host, Parker Hagerman of Twinsdaily. Also at Parker Hagerman on Twitter. What's up Parker? Man, I don't even know why we're talking about the Twins anymore. Yeah. Should we just do Vikings' draft talk? Yeah. That was a good draft. Yeah, that eighth round pick. Man. Great pick.

1:27.9

Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember his name. I don't either. Are we talking about the German? I mean, yeah. Well, there isn't an eighth round. But yeah. Twins playing right now, they kind of been hanging around 500 since their 0 and 9 start, except the problem with starting

1:45.0

at 0 and 9 is that sticking around 500 for a couple weeks after that doesn't really mean

1:49.6

much because they still have the worst record in the American League.

1:54.0

They, the early good pitching, not so much anymore.

1:58.4

I think they're either second to last or third to last in runs allowed per game. Everybody's hurt. Everybody's hurt. Two-fifths of the rotations on the DL. They've called up Burrios, who we're going to talk about his debut, and he also pitches Monday, makes his second start. So he'll get at least a second chance. Alex Meyer, who they called up and pitched out of the bullpen first time, is going to start Tuesday. See, they're going real young in the rotation all of a sudden, at least in the short term. The offense better, but hasn't really broken through like we thought. Not enough. Not enough. Yeah. They've had a lot more power than they did early on but they're still having so much problems

2:35.7

getting on base consistently and then cashing in runners so many of their homers have been you know

2:40.8

solo shots all young ho park's been solo shots i mean he's been in a bunch of bombs it's great to

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