Episode 308: Surprisingly Competent
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' winning April, Miguel Sano's breakout season, Byron Buxton's small steps in the right direction, Joe Mauer's ongoing decline, the impact of a vastly improved defense, class-action concussion lawsuits with Tracy Tool and Bob Parsons of Bye, Goff and Rhode, recapping the first Tuesday Taproom Tour event, and putting J.T. Chargois call-up plans on hold, all presented by the Minnesota Corn Growers.
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| 0:00.0 | Glee Man and the Geek |
| 0:04.4 | Gleeman and the geek. |
| 0:07.0 | Gleeman and the geek. |
| 0:11.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:17.0 | Because the Gleman and the Geek |
| 0:23.6 | And welcome to Gleeman and the Geek Show on KFAN, also Twins Weekly, |
| 0:30.8 | baseball weekly. |
| 0:32.2 | Whatever. |
| 0:32.8 | Sponsored by the Minnesota Corn Growers at kernelnation.com. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:37.5 | And across from me, Aaron Gleeman, baseball prospectus. Hi, John. Welcome back from Las Vegas. Thank you. You know, I do want to talk a little bit more about Vegas later because we've got our producer, Tony Landry, heading there next week, and I want to find out what he's going to be betting. Yeah, I'm jealous now. Everybody's going to Vegas except me. Did you put several million dollars on the twins to win the World Series? |
| 0:56.2 | I did not do that. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, that was dumb. I lost money on the wild to win game five. Yeah. All right. Well, that was also dumb. It was also stupid. Yeah. The only time the twins won when I was in Vegas was the Friday night game, um, was I think that's the Santiago start. And, um, that one I would, I got there too late to actually make the, because it's two hours earlier in Vegas and you just can't forget. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I would like living on the, I love going to Vegas. I'm a degenerate gamble or I'll gamble on anything. However, that aside, I don't think I would like living full time on the West Coast because I love, especially during baseball season, but also basketball season. I love a late night. I like a 9.30 start a nightlife of me sitting on my couch with a cat watching while I eat chips. But yes, that is like I look forward to that. |
| 1:45.2 | Like, ooh, there's a, the Dodgers game starting at 915 or, you know, there's an NBA |
| 1:48.8 | playoff game. |
| 1:49.4 | And for like NFL football and stuff, right. |
| 1:52.9 | 10 a.m. start. |
| 1:54.3 | That's, that's, well, nobody wants to be in a sports book at 10 a.m. |
| 1:57.5 | Especially on a Sunday morning. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:59.5 | After a Saturday night. |
| 2:00.9 | In Vegas. |
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