Gleeman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air.

Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week,

here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Bleeman and Tw twinsdaily dot com's john bonas

and welcome to kvand baseball weekly witheman and the Geat presented by pickpoints.

We're going to be talking twins for the next hour or so.

I'm across the table from Aaron Gleeman.

And producing for us today is the lovely, Jean-A midditch.

Not quite as lovely as Ryan Donaldson, though.

You might want maybe a little facial hair or something. You know, it's a little something like that. Those are big shoes to fill in the loveliness department. Oh, God. You guys are too much. All right. We're going to be talking about the twins because you don't want to be watching the game. That much is clear. It's not been a pleasant day.

It's been a pleasant week, so let's focus on the week more so than the day.

Although I think we should probably talk about this. He's such an optimist, John. I was going to say the opposite.

I think we should probably start talking a little bit about, you know, what has gone wrong today

because it's what has gone wrong with, you know, a good chunk of the season.

The starting pitching was absolutely brutal.

Yeah, I mean, for all the talk of how bad Leriano was in the rotation and how bad, you know, various starters have been...

This is, to me, the most discouraging run by a starter this year, though on Marquis is on. Because he, look, not that anybody expected him to be anything great. Right. I mean, when he signed with the twins back in the off season, I don't think either of us were thrilled with the signing. Right. But we both understood that at that price point, what you're getting is at best a number five starter?

Well, three million bucks.

But the whole idea of signing Marquis or a guy like Marquis is that he's not going to just implode on the mound.

Right.

With Liriano, nobody is shocked when he just unravels and falls apart because that's

sort of who he is.

But the whole draw to signing Marquis is that, well, we know he'll at least take the mound and, you know, throw strikes and all this stuff. With Lirano, with somebody like Lirana, you're betting on the upside. Like you're willing to forgive the downside because... There is no upside with Marquis. But with Marquis, there is no upside. You're just looking for somebody to chew innings. So if he's going to implode... And today he chewed 1.2 of them. Yeah, he really ate those in his boy.

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