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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 396: Rocco Baldelli

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about new Twins manager Rocco Baldelli, how he differs from Paul Molitor, his unique baseball path, the difficulty in evaluating any manager, and what the Twins' coaching staff may look like under him. Plus, buying a condo, a longtime scout sues the Twins, Eduardo Escobar stays in Arizona, and the identity of The Big Kielbasa. Sponsored by Utepils Brewing, SeatGeek, and Robinhood. 

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0:00.0

Green Man and the Geek

0:11.5

Green Man and the Geek

0:18.0

Talking baseball every week And the geek And the geek And welcome

0:21.4

Talking baseball

0:21.6

Every week

0:24.4

Because the Gremant and the geek

0:30.7

And welcome to

0:33.2

Dreaming and the Geek

0:34.8

Saturday Night edition

0:36.3

Yes The Woon Socket Rocket Edition. As things are wont to be on Saturday night, it's a little bit louder, a little bit crazier, the place we are at, which is Oudap Hills. Yes. Which listeners will recognize because we had one of our gleaming and the geek Tuesday Chaproom tours here. We've been here a few times now. Yeah, it's right.

0:54.3

I like it a lot.

0:56.1

Part of the reason I like it is because it has a huge parking lot. As John knows, from way back, I'll go anywhere as long as they have a huge parking lot. And the parking lot was full. So did you have to parallel park? Oh, yeah. Did you? Yeah, I did. I mean, it was a big opening.

1:10.3

Oh, okay.

1:10.8

I went an extra eight blocks away to Parallel Park, basically.

1:14.1

Parallel Park in the sense that, like, eventually there was a car in front of me and a car behind me, but in that sense, every parking job is a parallel parking job. Because, you know, on a long enough timeline, there's always a car in front of a car to back here. But yes, I did Parallel Park.

1:28.5

I'm John Bono, at Trinsdaily.com. The gentleman who can't really parallel park is Eric Gleman of Baseball Perspectus.com. I don't even know that it's not that I can't. I'm not saying I'm good at it. I'm probably about a 40 out of 100 on it. Okay. But I'm not, I just hate doing it.

1:44.9

UZR is slightly negative.

1:46.7

Yeah, I'm like Jorge Polanco. UPR? I'm Jorge Polanco in that bad at below average of parallel parking, but I feel like I'm back into a normal spot. The PPR. The parallel parking rating. Yeah. I like that. We got not quite at the level. I guess it is. Maybe a little above replacement level? Yeah. Well, yeah, although I think, here's what I'll say about parallel parking. I was actually going to talk about Rocco Balladale, but you brought it back to that. There are a lot of people who just can't parallel park. Sure, right. And so... Or just won't. Well, I won't. But I guess I will. Push comes to shove when I need to have a beer and talk about Rocco Baldelli. But I guess that's true about like shortstop, too. There are people who just can't play shortstop. Sure, of course. Like if you put Tyler Austin at shortstop, it's going to be bad. If you ask my mom to Parallel Park, she just won't do it. She'll just keep driving. She just won't go to the appointment or whatever. So you're sort of the Jorge Polanco. Yes, I'm the list level of parallel parking before you just sort of detach from society and just never get in a car. I like that.

2:51.2

Yeah.

2:51.5

I like that.

2:51.9

But I'm always right on the verge of detaching from society, John.

2:54.9

Only my weekly date with you.

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