Green Man and the Geek

Green Man and the Geek

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Gleeman and the Geek.

Very special episode.

I think one of our most popular episodes, I'm John Bono,

at Twinsdaily.com, with me, Aaron Clemen of Baseball Perspectus.com.

And that's the second part, The Baseball Perspectives.com, is especially important today.

One of our most downloaded episodes last year was the recording of Thad Levine at the

Baseball Pers prospectus event,

answering questions from Aaron and also from the crowd about the Minnesota Twins and their offseason and the organization and their planning and everything else.

And we had that similar event, what, three weeks ago, four weeks ago, something like that?

At the end of August, we did at Target Field, those baseball prospectus night slash Twins Daily Night because it's really, and slash gleaming the geek night. It's all sort of one. It turns out I know a guy at baseball perspective, so we made it happen. And Thad Levine was gracious enough to join us again. And so entertaining. So here's the thing. We talk to just to sort of set. So you're going to, that's where you're going to be hearing in this episode. It is over an hour of Thad Levine, like John said, first you're going to hear, I sit up on a stage one on one with him and ask him a whole bunch of questions. And we have a whole discussion for 45 minutes.

And then I shut up and I go take a microphone out into the crowd.

And then the people who signed up for the event and attended it just ask him questions.

And here's the thing.

Like we set up with Dustin Morris, the communications czar from the twins, we set up, how long can we have Thad Levine for? And he says, how about an hour? And I say, that's great. An hour is, you know, a lot of time for somebody who's got a big job to take out for us and to sit in a room and talk to essentially 150 people, a bunch of baseball nerds. We go into a little room in target field and we talk. Here's the thing. Last year and especially this year, an hour comes and goes. And Thad Levine wants to do more to the point that I say to him at some point, well, you know, you've met your quota here. You're at the hour plus point. And he stops me from stopping the event and says, let's answer this guy's question and let's answer that guy's question because people still have their hand up. So I give him a lot of credit for that. I think it's hopefully we covered a wide range of stuff. Now, we should note that while I ask him about Byron Buxton, in general terms, I also ask him about Miguel. So no, I ask you get the impression in particular that he's really, really still pro-Byrin

Buxton.

But what I feel the need to say is that this was before, it was about 10 days, or six

days before, the decision was announced to not call up Byron Bucston.

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