Episode 271: Dreadful D-EEEE-fense
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2016
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' pitching and defense bringing them back to reality, Byron Buxton's latest stint in the minors, pitching staff comings and goings, Kurt Suzuki on trade waivers, Brian Dozier refusing to stop hitting homers, Miguel Sano's elbow problems, what to do with Trevor May, and the worst decisions you can make with food after the bar closes.
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| 0:00.0 | The fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Dream and the geek. |
| 0:16.4 | Green man and the geek. |
| 0:22.3 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:28.9 | Because the Glemen and the geek. |
| 0:33.9 | And welcome to Gleaming the geek on K-F-A-N-100.3 FM. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:42.5 | Next to me is Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com and Aaron Gleeman.com. |
| 0:47.9 | Producer is Jilton Joe Paravich, and we're sponsored by the Minnesota corn growers. |
| 0:52.4 | Gleeman and the Geek with five E's. Yeah. That is one more than your Minnesota Twins today. Last we check. We're waiting. They still have time. I think they can still pull it off. John did the math on this, by the way, as I walked in. It took two brains to figure out how many E's were in our name, the Twins name. Yeah, I think. responsible for for two of these, Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Respectors.com. Yeah, I'll take that. It's my lowest air total of all time. It's funny that last week, well, one of the things are significant others, I would say, joke about on this show, or maybe just mine, because I think |
| 1:28.1 | you're giving up all hope of listening to the show, but always used to joke throughout all these |
| 1:32.2 | bad seasons that we've been broadcasting for, that on a week-to-week basis, we are either |
| 1:38.0 | so high or so low, depending on what happens in the previous, like, 72 hours. |
| 1:42.2 | I tried to cut back on that. |
| 1:43.7 | But last week, the twins had gone through, a stretch where they were playing 600 baseball for almost a month. Two months. Yeah, more. And we were talking about how the offense was really clicking and Max Kepler and Sinoa was hitting and Maurer and Dozier. And we were like, wow, this is really, this is really something. Maybe now they can finish strong. |
| 2:02.5 | You felt like there were enough, like some of the pieces in place, not just, you know, |
| 2:09.4 | nice to see some wins, right? |
| 2:11.4 | But also you started to feel like, hey, there's some pieces here that could actually be |
| 2:15.5 | long-term pieces here with Kepler being obviously there's some |
| 2:18.4 | there's some boxes i like to think of this maybe this is just my sort of linear OCD thinking but in my |
| 2:24.1 | head i like to think of you know you have 25 boxes as a roster long term and you can go all right |
| 2:30.3 | right field checked kepler we're good there you know d h checked so no we're good there |
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