Episode 386: Summer Breeze
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Aaron and John talk about their night at Target Field with Twins GM Thad Levine and 150 friends, Joe Mauer's latest milestone and 2019 outlook, a too-early glance at the upcoming free agent market, Eddie Rosario's ups and downs, Stephen Gonsalves' rough first taste of the majors, Jake Cave's growing fan club, and mailbag questions from listeners. Sponsored by Rotowire, Seatgeek and Bye, Goff & Rohde.
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| 0:00.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:03.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:11.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:17.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:25.9 | Because the K-M-A-N-N-A-N-A-Gee. |
| 0:31.3 | And welcome to Lehman and The Geek on K-F-A-N, sponsored by By Goff and Rody, trial attorneys, licensed to Minneapolis or Minnesota and Wisconsin. You can check them out of buyGoff.com, B-Y-E-G-O-F-F dot com. My name is John Bonus. I'm with Twinsdaily.com, and with me is Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com who had an event last night at Target Field. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, we had it. |
| 0:57.3 | It was, John, I tend to make slash force slash shuck my own responsibilities to the point that John has to plan these events. |
| 1:07.5 | But last night we had a- Yeah, this was your baby. |
| 1:09.9 | It was a baseball prospectus event at Target Field, Second annual. And so I planned a lot of it. Thanks to Landon Oldenberger, by the way, at the Twins, he really planned most of it. I just kind of sent him annoying emails. Inxty emails. Yeah. I'm familiar with those, Landon. Yeah.. But yeah, it was fantastic. |
| 1:28.7 | We've done a lot of events over the years more and more now because John loves to do |
| 1:33.4 | him and he talks me into him. |
| 1:34.9 | For me, that was the best one I've been involved in. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, it was great. |
| 1:38.8 | Because it combined all the stuff we like to do, plus it had the general manager of |
| 1:44.0 | the twins, Dad Levine, prominently involved. And then we finished the night doing what we always do, which is drinking beer and watching a baseball game with a bunch of people. And it was great, like, sold out event. John and Parker Higman from Twinsdale were there. Rob Mainz and Matthew Trublet from baseball perspectives were there, I was there, Thad Levine was there, some of the local media and some of the |
| 2:04.5 | analytics department guys stopped by for a little cameo and then hung out a little bit. |
| 2:08.7 | It was great, and we had, Thad Levine was the guest last year and was so great. |
| 2:16.1 | He had him, everybody eating out of of Palm's hand, we had him back |
| 2:19.0 | and both years. He was better this year, I thought. Yeah, it was great. And both years, he, you know, |
| 2:25.6 | we kind of say, how long can we get him for? And Dustin Morse, the twins' communications czar, |
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