Episode 322: Heroes and Villains
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2017
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins signing Bartolo Colon and calling up Zack Granite, review the Twins' first half by picking team MVPs, biggest disappointments, and biggest surprises, plus go over which prospects might get the call in the second half, Byron Buxton's amazing sprint home, break down Angel Hernandez's lawsuit with Bye, Goff, and Rhode, and what to do with Jorge Polanco.
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| 0:00.0 | The fan |
| 0:01.2 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:10.0 | And the geek |
| 0:12.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:18.5 | Talking baseball Every week and the geek talking baseball |
| 0:21.9 | every week |
| 0:25.0 | because the gleaming and the geek. |
| 0:32.3 | And welcome to |
| 0:34.1 | Gleaming and the Geek show. |
| 0:36.2 | KFA is sponsored by the Minnesota corn growers at kernelnation.com. |
| 0:40.5 | John Bonus of Twinsdaily.com speaking with Aaron Gleeman of Baseball for Spectus.com. |
| 0:46.5 | First, we made it through the first half. |
| 0:48.7 | We made it to the first half and the twins are going to be two games over 500 instead of... |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | Boy, as of... |
| 0:54.7 | I tell you, a Friday night when they had the huge comeback, right? And, you know, they were calling up granted. They signed by don't look alone. And you think into yourself. Yeah. And they've got, you know, pretty... They're only a game and a half back of Cleveland. Not terrible pitching matchups the next two days, given the fact that the Orioles are the only team of the worst ERA, that's easy to say. I thought to myself, what if we're five games over 500? Yeah. Or no, six games. We could have been six. We were four games over 500 at the time with two games left to play. what other six games over 500 by the All-Star break? Does that change the calculus of everything else? |
| 1:30.3 | As a lifelong good Minnesota sports fan, I know that there are. You never need to waste time on the what if something really good happens, hypotheticals. It never goes that way. It was still a decent week. They went four and three overall. I was really kind of hoping for a five and two out of the-the-old. I mean, we talked about last week on the show how they were, they had stumbled in, this time last week they had stumbled. Right. And we said, well, the nice thing is similar actually to their really bad series at home against Houston last month. Right. They had a very easy next two weeks after that. |
| 2:20.8 | They went out on the road and played the Giants and the, you know, they had a, and the Angels. This week set up pretty well for them. They had two home series against mediocre, if you'd be in nice, teams. And coming out of the All-Star break, speaking of Houston. It gets very tough. Well, just for a week. |
| 2:20.8 | For one week, they get very tough where they're at Houston for a three-game series, |
| 2:22.4 | and then home versus the Yankees. |
| 2:26.2 | And then they got Detroit, which is, you know, Detroit at home, not bad. |
| 2:28.3 | But then it's to the Dodgers. |
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