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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 372: Ranting and Raving

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Twins' bullpen and their WPA, Jake Cave's big game and potential role, ranting about looking ahead to the trade deadline too soon, Miguel Sano's ongoing struggles, where first-round pick Trevor Larnach fits among the Twins' top prospects, how Eduardo Escobar could fit beyond 2018, sports intellectual rights with Tracy Tool and Bob Parsons of Bye, Goff & Rohde, and Tuesday Taproom Tour details. Sponsored by Sota Stick, Casper Mattresses and Away Travel

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Green Man and the Geek

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Green Man and the Geek

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Green Man and the Geek

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talking baseball every week.

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Because the Gleman and the geek.

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And welcome to Gleman and the Geek.

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K-F-A-N.

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Sponsored by ByGoff and Rody. Injury attorneysorneys here in Minnesota and Wisconsin, check them out at buygoth.com. I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleeman, of Baseball Perspectus.com. This is a bit, I feel like every week now. And I probably let off with this exact sentence last week. So this is truly groundhogs

0:55.1

day at this point. Yes. This, it's again the same story, which is a week full of

1:02.1

underwhelming baseball overall, some sloppy baseball, some decent pitching, and just not enough

1:09.0

consistent offense. Correct. No real progress made towards getting to 500, let alone actually closing the gap on Cleveland.

1:17.6

Right.

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And the Indians are actually kind of playing, like people thought they would be playing at this point.

1:22.7

Except when they play us.

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True, which is coming up under this upcoming week.

1:26.7

They have three at Detroit and then three at Cleveland.

1:29.0

That is correct.

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Yeah.

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You know,

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in the AL sense.

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And that ways it's another big week. But I, I feel like we're just, it's like the scene in, uh, these move, like a movie where they'll just show the calendar pages flipping by. and it's just like just weeks go by and it's like the same story every week that you know the

1:44.9

face has changed different guys on the disabled list. But you look at the lineup, and it's real banged up. And Eddie and Eduardo are the only ones really carrying things. Jake Cave of today. And it's sort of the same story. So I think there's going to be six below 500 now after today. And we're 62 games in the season. So there's an even hundred left. There's plenty of time left, obviously. I mean, you're not even to the halfway point. And it's not as if they're... Assuming they win today, yeah. And also I'll also tell you one other thing, which is that almost every week it seems like whatever mood I'm in going

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