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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 335: Magic Number Ride

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Twins being on the verge of a playoff spot, lining up the rotation for New York, buying playoff tickets, the long journey from 59-103 to the postseason, Paul Molitor's job status, the biggest improvements in Twins history, choosing a Wild Card game roster, ugly WPA numbers vs. the Yankees, and mailbag questions from listeners.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.6

Green Man and the Geat.

0:15.0

Green Man and the Geat.

0:20.0

Talking baseball every week. and the geek and the geek and welcome baseball

0:21.6

every week

0:24.4

because the Gleman

0:27.6

and the geek

0:30.7

And welcome to

0:33.2

Gleman on the geek podcast

0:34.8

across the table for me

0:37.1

Eric Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com. And who are you? I am John Bowles. You could introduce me. Oh, yeah. No, not. John Boone is a twin daily. We're at Iron Door Pub. Just prior to the early 11 o'clock twins start. We're here at 10.30 on a Sunday morning. So early, John. I think we are pretty much going to be spending the whole day at the Airdre Pub because we've got Twins game at 11. We've got Vikings probably at noon. Packers. Packers. Oh, we've also got, because this place also shows all of the twins games, league a bunch of major league baseball games we can

1:11.3

probably get them to turn on the uh rangers game at three o'clock or two o'clock well that was the

1:16.3

plan john but i'm going to tell you something that is good a little bit of good news bad news is

1:20.6

it's not so important to watch i know so we can potentially watch the good news is uh twins are

1:25.8

basically in the playoffs uh all right i should have maybe maybe said, the good news first. Look at you. Look at you twerking on the on the jinx. Yeah, I don't believe in jinx. I'm, I'm, I'm, uh, sort of a linear thinker or a, uh, I say a realist, but some say a, you know, cynical. Scrooge. Whatever, yeah, that's one way.

2:06.2

But I, and so I'm not one to, you know, when somebody's 70% to make the playoffs, I'm not one to say that it's over. Sure. Because my point is people focus too much on the 70% and not the 30%. Right. You know, whether it's the election or the playoffs or a coin flip or anything. But, you know, a couple things about when I post the playoff odds from baseball perspective is every morning.

2:07.4

Right.

2:07.8

And it's been, you know, above 50% now for weeks.

2:10.3

Right.

2:10.6

And it's 60% and 70%.

2:12.5

It drops down to 52%.

2:13.6

Sure.

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