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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 3: Losing Morneau ... and Cuddyer?

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2011

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about Justin Morneau's latest setback, package kicking, possible free agent targets, Anthony Swarzak's future role, next season's middle infield, disabled list shenanigans, Brian Dozier's moment in the sun, Danny Valencia's view from the doghouse, what John ate at the state fair, more possible free agent targets, botching Occam's razor, speaking directly to Seth Stohs, betting on Nick Blackburn, and Aaron's basketball career.

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0:00.0

Glemen, Geek, Gleeman and the Geek.

0:07.0

That's us.

0:12.0

As the song says, it is Gleeman, Geek, Gleeman and the Ge the geek that's us

0:21.7

and uh

0:22.8

that uh that music is also sort of described that

0:26.9

revved up music kind of describing my mood right now after watching this latest meltdown

0:30.3

we're in the what what the fifth inning watching swarzag meltdown

0:33.2

or not even swarzak it's everybody. Right. It's another team effort.

0:54.9

It's, uh, yeah, Swarzak is officially a member of the starting rotation now that he's had a terrible start. That really christens him along with the rest of them. Yeah, that's very nice. Very nice point. Yeah, they were trying to talk to, on the, the drive over here about how, uh, about he's fighting for a rotation spot. There's no way he's fighting for a rotation spot, right?

0:54.9

We don't, we don't agree that he's got any a rotation spot. There's no way he's fighting for a rotation spot, right?

0:55.6

We don't, we don't agree that he's got any shot at being in the rotation. You mean for next, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would suspect not, but if he pitched extremely well down the stretch, right, maybe. We kind of saw with Dunsing that they're willing to maybe overlook their overall opinion of someone if they put together a good 10 start stretch if they feel like

1:13.8

he deserves it. But, you know, Gardner has also said he likes him best in this role. And frankly, the rotation looks a little crowded, believe it or not. I mean, we went through it last week. They've got three guys under contract and the two people that are, they're going to offer arbitration.

1:45.7

I think they're both going to, I think they're not going to offer arbitration to both Liriano and Sloe, and then you don't really have any room at all unless you're going to try trading away. You're not going to be able to trade away Blackburn, who's everybody wants to trade away. You might be able to trade away Baker, but do you want to trade away Baker? I don't. Right. I mean, at this point, Baker's the best starter when he's healthy, which is a... And I don't think they're going to trade away the veteran Pavana. They're just not going to do it. The rotation doesn't look good for next year, but it certainly looks deep in, let's say, fourth starters. Right. Exactly. Perfect. So there's some news today. Yeah. So I should say where today is, where we are, we're at the Big Ten in Hopkins, right? Yeah. They don't have pitchers, so we don't have the baseball pitcher motif today. Set up for a 22-ounce mug. Right, and you went with the... I have a fat tire. I went with the Surly Furious again. I'm not, I didn didn't want to he's already repeating beer i know i

2:19.2

am well they don't have that many local beers you know so it was either surly or um i don't even remember

2:24.8

what the other one was my liny summer shandy was done for the season well she tried to sell you on a sam adams

2:29.3

yeah exactly that's not local right yeah so so but john missed the uh the news about mor, which is really depressing. I mean, I watched this. I tuned in about 7.30. And I've been watching it mostly with the sound on. I mean, I've been running around. I've been doing some work in the work room. I've been, you know, helping move some furniture and stuff. I don't believe that this news did not cross my radar in the hour that I've been watching this game.

2:52.6

Well, I can't really say because I think I've watched like 98.5% of the season on mute, but I will say maybe your brain has conditioned itself not to just ignore the actual volume. It's possible. So tell me about more no. Well, the news so far is that I saw Rick McWain, the trainer, gave a mini press conference that they showed during the pregame, I think, where he said basically Mornow complained of headaches, which they deemed mild concussion symptoms, although at this point with him there can be no mild anything.

3:20.9

And they said they called his specialist, because they're in Chicago, so they can't

3:24.5

exactly go to the specialist. And the specialist, they ran the series of concussion tests,

3:29.7

sent the numbers to the specialist, and the specials said, to play it safe, shut him down

3:34.1

for at least a few days. Which, I mean, because the rosters expand anyway.

3:39.9

Did something happen? No. I mean, not that they've said, I mean, he's hadters expand anyway. Did something happen?

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