Episode 256: Pitching injuries, draft picks, and waiver claims
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2016
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about injuries to Phil Hughes and Trevor May, first-round draft pick Alex Kirilloff, Glen Perkins' setback, J.T. Chargois' short stay, waiver claim Neil Ramirez, Byron Buxton's bad follow-up week, Tommy Milone slicing up Triple-A hitters, clicking around the Minnesota Corn Growers' website, and Justin Morneau sleeping with the enemy.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man |
| 0:00.6 | And the geek |
| 0:08.7 | And the geek |
| 0:11.7 | Greenman and the geek |
| 0:18.1 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:26.5 | Because the Cleveland and the geek. |
| 0:32.1 | And welcome to Cleveland and the Geat Show on KFAN, sponsored by Minnesota corn growers at MNFarmteam. I'm John Bonas, of Twinsgeek of Twinsdaily.com across the table from me, Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com. Aaron? Yes, sir? You, uh, if the twins can pull out this game today, they've had a 500 week. You feel a lot more hopeful about the team? |
| 0:55.3 | Ifs and butts were, what's that? |
| 0:57.2 | I don't even know the saying. |
| 0:58.5 | Something and something, then something and something. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, it's a funny thing. |
| 1:03.0 | We sort of talk about the same topic every week now, which is sort of how do you cope with, |
| 1:09.2 | A, the team being bad, you know, historically inept, not so much bad. And B, how do you cope with a, the team being bad, you know, historically inept, not so much |
| 1:13.1 | bad. |
| 1:14.0 | And B, how do you, we're not at a place where we can emotionally or job-wise just detach from |
| 1:21.9 | the team and say, well, we'll check back in in March. |
| 1:24.4 | Right. |
| 1:24.9 | A lot of, I don't blame fans who do that. |
| 1:27.3 | I think that, you know, for your own sanity, that's actually a reasonable thing to do. It's hard to do when, you know, you're locked into doing multiple radio appearances and you're just sort of more obsessed. And, but I definitely have lost track of sort of, not lost track, but emotionally, of the sort of day-to-day, who they won yesterday, can they make it two in a row? You know, it's tied now. If they get a win here, they're 500 for the week. Because it's like there's no context you can put that in that matters, really. Right. For the week now, have they been playing a little bit better? Yeah, of late, maybe the last two weeks a little bit better. And they also are facing the Marlins for the week now have they been playing a little bit better yeah of late maybe the last two |
| 2:01.7 | weeks a little bit better they also are facing the marlins for the first three game series right |
| 2:06.0 | and they absolutely i mean they're on the they're in a three game losing streak right now and |
| 2:09.8 | right and they said no one who watched yesterday's game right uh would say uh they're playing better |
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