Episode 274: Son of a Pitch
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' losing skid, six-year run of awful pitching, the planned front office regime change beyond just a new GM, similarities with Tom Kelly, Andy MacPhail, and Carl Pohlad, Tyler Duffey and Jose Berrios demotions, filling the roster with replacement-level talent, and Oswaldo Arcia's ongoing journey across baseball.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek Greenman and the geek Greenman and the geek Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:24.8 | Because they're Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:29.7 | And welcome to Cleveland and the Geek. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm KFAN sponsored by the Minnesota corn growers. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm with Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com and Jolten Joe Perovich. |
| 0:41.2 | And we are all very, very excited like the rest of you about the Minnesota Vikings season. |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, we are so excited. |
| 0:49.1 | And you know who else is excited? |
| 0:51.4 | The Minnesota Twins pitching staff? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, because nobody's paying any attention. |
| 0:54.0 | No, because they'll make people pay less attention to results like today's 9 to 6 loss. |
| 1:00.1 | And people start looking towards other directions. |
| 1:03.6 | We're so excited, John Bonas of Twins Daily, about the Vikings, that we've decided, |
| 1:08.8 | let's interrupt the Vikings coverage to spend the little time talking about a terrible team that everyone in Minnesota despises. |
| 1:15.5 | Let's do that. |
| 1:17.4 | A lot of football type scores in the twins schedule this last week. |
| 1:24.8 | Let me give me your best guess on how many runs the twins gave up in six games this week. |
| 1:32.4 | 10,000, give or take. |
| 1:34.8 | That would be the over. |
| 1:35.8 | No, six games? |
| 1:36.8 | I mean, it was, it's got to be over 60. |
| 1:39.4 | It is 57. |
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