Episode 404: Waiting for the Boom
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins walking a fine line between patient and inactive, retiring Joe Mauer's number, Target Field vs. Metrodome payroll numbers, the latest on Nelson Cruz and free agent pitching help, the Winter Meltdown selling out, and mailbag questions from listeners. Sponsored by Robinhood.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Meant and the Geek |
| 0:15.8 | Meant and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Gleeman |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome to Gleeman |
| 0:32.9 | The Geek |
| 0:33.5 | Holiday Week edition |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, Craig is a Christmas time |
| 0:37.3 | It's okay to It's like to find a long pass Yeah, crazy. It's okay to... It's just long half. Yeah, it was like eight months ago. Hanukkah was like in July. Here's the thing about the war on Christmas. Uh-huh. If there's a Jew in the room and they're the ones who say Merry Christmas, then it's okay. You're safe. |
| 1:10.9 | Then we can say it? Yeah. Otherwise, we're not allowed to say it. Yeah. Otherwise, I want you to say Hanukkah. But I say Merry Christmas to everyone I see. In my building at restaurant, I say, hey, Merry Christmas. You notice I've got the Christmas tree up and lit for you here. John, Merry Christmas. Now, thank you. Merry Christmas to you. |
| 1:11.5 | Here's the thing. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm not trying to draw attention to non-Christian status. and lit for you here. John, Merry Christmas. Well, thank you. Merry Christmas to you. |
| 1:11.5 | Here's the thing. I'm not trying to draw attention to non-Christian status. Do you know what I mean? I've spent 35 years not doing that. So I'm not trying to say. That's wise these days. Yeah. John, there is not a day in the last 5,000 years. We got all kinds of books about that and everything. It's like the basis of our whole being. |
| 1:28.7 | We've been saying the books about that and everything. It's like the basis of our whole being. |
| 1:28.5 | Fair point. |
| 1:29.4 | We've been saying the equivalent of Merry Christmas for, what, 5,300 years or whatever it is? |
| 1:35.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:36.0 | That's in some dispute, I suppose, the amount of years, or the number of years. |
| 1:39.7 | But, yeah, it is, we're back at the original Casa de Bonus. |
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