Episode 41: Shake-ups and Wake-ups
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2012
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about Danny Valencia's demotion to Triple-A and Francisco Liriano's move to the bullpen as part of yet another roster shakeup, Aaron's mom calling in for Mother's Day, votes of confidence, Scott Diamond's unexpected gems, Dan Osterbrock's outspoken tweets, our PickPointz contest winners from last week and predictions for this week, and what the future holds for Trevor Plouffe and Joe Benson.
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| 0:00.0 | KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Lehman and the Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air. |
| 0:19.0 | Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week, here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's John Bones. |
| 0:46.2 | And welcome to Canvands Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and the Geek presented by pick points. |
| 1:12.9 | This is John Bonus, the Twins Geek of Twinsdaily.com, and across the table from me is Aaron Gleeman of NBCSports.com. Say hello Aaron. Hello, Aaron. And in the studio there, we've got Ryan Donaldson doing the producing for us. Ryan's going to be with us this week. I guess he's getting next week off. I am. I get to go to Madison for my sister's graduation. That's very nice. And everybody gets to see Jana in studio, so everybody's going to be really excited about that. |
| 1:15.8 | We're on board. |
| 1:16.7 | We're on board. |
| 1:19.1 | Let's talk some twins. |
| 1:20.6 | Baseball, Mr. Gleiman. |
| 1:21.3 | Do we have to? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | Okay. |
| 1:25.9 | I'll be honest with you. I think this week is when |
| 1:27.6 | everything got a lot less hostile |
| 1:29.9 | towards the twins team |
| 1:31.4 | because I think everybody is sort of embracing the whole |
| 1:33.9 | Right, everyone's given up the notion of this team doing anything |
| 1:37.4 | But losing a whole bunch of games |
| 1:39.2 | And once that happens, you sort of look for |
| 1:41.6 | You know, suddenly |
| 1:42.4 | You know, the manager pulling this guy in the seventh inning And bringing in this guy, no one cares. It doesn't matter. Or who pinch hits for whom, it doesn't matter anymore. You're just looking bigger picture. There's a certain Zen-like philosophy that is, I think, embraced Twins territory as this team is clearly the worst team in Major League Baseball right now. I don't know how many games were back of the second best team, like at least three, possibly four. |
| 2:05.1 | I don't know how many months it's been since we've won a series. |
| 2:09.6 | Or at least how many weeks it's been since we won a series. |
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