Green Man and the Geek

Green Man and the Geek

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I'm John Bonoose of Twinsdaily.com With Hey, welcome. Cleaming the Geek.

I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com.

With me, Aaron Gleman of Baseball Perspectus.com.

What's with this episode called?

How about the, hey, we might actually be good.

Well, this is John's premise. I like that John, ever the optimist, here's what you need to know about us. If you're just tuning in. We've been doing the show since 2011. Right. Twins have been essentially terrible that whole time. August of 2011, right? In the middle of the 99 loss. Right. We picked the worst possible time to start a weekly show about the 20s.

And so they've been terrible.

They've had an 83-win season in that group and then 85 win season two years ago when they made the wild cards.

So that was the high points.

And so John is generally more optimistic.

I'm generally more, let's call it, realistic or pessimistic or whatever, or just a jerk.

But John also, I try to reel John back in based on what happens on Sundays, usually.

Because I think if you looked at like the Twins record on Sundays right before we do the show, it's got to be terrible. Like even worse than normal. I don't know that's true. What I remember last year is that if they had a good week, then Sunday was always a loss. And if they had a bad week, if Sunday was always a win. Because either way it ended up tempering us back towards the middle a little bit. Ruined whatever our talking about.

Now, they're now eight games in the season. They're five and three. They've played. So there's a lot of ways to look at this. I mean, one of the difficult things, one of the good things, but also can make it tricky about baseball is, you know, you get the marathon, not a sprint, all those cliches about it. And it's true. but you also you don't want to to, and the twins have done this plenty, you don't want to trip and fall out of the gates and break your nose on the pavement, which the twins have done three or four times in the last decade, and then you're 10 games in the season and it's already over. So there's a box they've checked successfully, five and three. I mean, four and four would have also done that, but they've avoided the trip and fall out of the gates. But the tricky part is, like, you know, they lose today in a very winnable game. Their first loss of the season. But versus a good team on the row. Absolutely. And so if you look at the five and three record, first of all, if they go five and three in every eight game stretch, the win, I think it was 101 games.

Be a decent season.

And so that's part of the difficulty of evaluating baseball.

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