Episode 333: Frontrunners
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins re-taking the Wild Card lead, Trevor Hildenberger and Matt Belisle stepping up, ending an era of Royals baseball, Byron Buxton's ongoing hand problems, Ehire Adrianza's surprising pop, vintage Joe Mauer, late-night scoreboard watching, and Robbie Grossman at the bottom of the lineup.
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| 0:00.0 | Fixing in Minneapolis, St. Paul, the fan. |
| 0:09.4 | Green man and the geek. |
| 0:15.2 | Creamen and the geese. |
| 0:19.7 | That's pretty good. |
| 0:23.1 | Talking baseball That's pretty good |
| 0:26.5 | That's pretty good |
| 0:28.3 | And the geek |
| 0:30.3 | And welcome to |
| 0:34.8 | Gleaming the Geat show |
| 0:36.3 | I K-F-A-N I'm Bonus of Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleman of Baseball Perspectus.com. Hi, John. Hi, Aaron. How are you? If you guys only knew what John Bonas does to prepare for a show. Yeah, a lot of pouching. A lot of work. Today I ran nine plus miles to prepare for this show. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.1 | I like to be exhausted before I come in here and deal with you. Yeah, so you can match my energy level. Is that why? Everyone should do that. I'm just, I'm at a constant state of, oh, have you just run nine miles? No, I'm just real lazy. Well, it's either that or drink a lot of whiskey or smoke a lot, because that way I get this sort of husky, sort of, I've been running nine miles and I'm out of breath sort of voice. Yeah, that the people love on the radio. That's right, yeah. Yes. Going through puberty. Any day now for you, John. You're going to start to really grow some facial hair. It's going to be great for you. |
| 1:27.8 | Speaking of coming of age. Great segue. Your Minnesota Twids. Yes. It's been a, well, we often talk about how doing this show as a weekly show. And today we're doing it on Saturday. We normally do it on Sunday. So it's a little different. We don't quite get to wrap up the whole week. And we do it during the off season, and we do it as a podcast. |
| 1:46.7 | And you can as a podcast. |
| 1:46.3 | Yes. |
| 1:46.8 | And you can download that podcast at gleaming and the geek. |
| 1:49.8 | Yeah, or search gleaming the geek on iTunes or Google or whatever. |
| 1:52.5 | But it's when you check in sort of at the end of every week or near the end of every week, the highs and the lows become so apparent because it's like two weeks ago, |
| 2:02.7 | the twins had taken the frontrunner position for the second wild card, and they were about a |
| 2:07.5 | game or a game and a half back of the Yankees for the first wild card. |
| 2:10.7 | And their, you know, their playoff odds on my site, baseball prospectus, were right around 50%. |
| 2:15.9 | Right. |
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