Episode 286: The Castro Effect
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2016
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins signing catcher Jason Castro for $24.5 million, how pitch framing helps a pitching staff, where Miguel Sano and Jorge Polanco will play, John Ryan Murphy vs. Mitch Garver for a backup job, Pat Dean going to Korea, Brian Dozier trade rumors, and recapping Thanksgiving.
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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 welcome |
| 0:21.2 | And the geek |
| 0:21.3 | My goodness |
| 0:21.6 | That was a loud of a loud open. |
| 0:36.8 | I was looking at the microphone two close to it. |
| 0:39.9 | This one is sponsored by John's basement. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, come to John's basement for the best tap water. |
| 0:46.3 | Which makes no sense this week because I have been totally off the diet this week. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, basically, from the time we last talked, I had Friendsgiving, right, which was just no way that was going to happen. Monday, we had a workouting at Revival. Yeah. Had you ever been there before? Never been there. Oh, that's one of my favorite places. I will talk a little bit. Shout out to Nick at Revival, who I think is the listener. Oh, really? Yeah, the guy who part owner, manager guy. Oh, okay. I made a critical mistake at Revival, who I think is the listener. Oh, really? Yeah, the guy who, uh, part owner, manager guy. |
| 1:11.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:11.9 | Uh, I made a critical mistake at revival. Yeah. I ordered the Tennessee hot chicken. It was too hot. It was too hot for, yeah. Which, which, it's rare that I find something that is too hot for me. Yeah, it's legit hot. And so, and then the, and on the third bite, not only was it too, on the third bite, I, like, inhaled it weird, so it went right to the back of my throat. Oh, John. You can't take you anywhere, John. And so then the rest of the meal was kind of ruined. Like, I just, I couldn't. Well, I couldn't really enjoy my stuff. I'm going to go back there again for sure. I'm going to have a regular chicken next time. My favorite spot. The workouting loved it because nobody else had been there. |
| 1:46.1 | Nobody had been there before. |
| 1:47.2 | None of us. |
| 1:47.9 | But did you? I'm going to go back there again for sure. I'm going to have a regular chicken next time. My favorite spot. The workouting loved it because nobody else had been there. |
| 1:46.2 | Nobody had been there before. |
| 1:47.2 | None of us. |
| 1:47.9 | But did you guys just wait? Did you just chance it? Or did you make some sort of... We did change it because there's no reservation. So here's what happened. We had a Monday. It was a Monday lunch thing. Oh, okay. |
| 1:57.2 | That's doable. |
| 1:57.7 | But there was still a weight. |
| 1:59.0 | There's always a weight. |
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