Episode 426: The Best Record In Baseball
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins boasting the best record in baseball, Willians Astudillo's return, Miguel Sano's impending return, what to do about a struggling Trevor Hildenberger, Mitch Garver refusing to stop, smart ideas to improve Target Field attendance, and breaking down the Twins' vastly improved defense.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:10.9 | Dream and the Geek |
| 0:15.5 | and the Geek |
| 0:17.4 | Talking baseball |
| 0:20.7 | every week. |
| 0:26.0 | Because the Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:31.2 | And welcome to Gleman The Geeks Show on KFANN 100.3. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm John Bolus of Twinsdaily.com. with me. Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com. Best record in baseball, John. It's old hat for us, Twins fans. Oh, wait, it hasn't happened like 50 years. I looked up there, as of right now, we're doing the show a little bit earlier this week. |
| 0:57.4 | So it's before the Sunday game. |
| 0:59.8 | Yes, we don't know the result of the Sunday game. |
| 1:04.1 | But they're currently up five games in the AL Central. |
| 1:04.5 | Correct. |
| 1:09.2 | And they have not been up five games in the AL Central since the last day of the 2010 season. |
| 1:09.8 | Right. |
| 1:11.2 | And they really haven't. |
| 1:15.7 | Which we just talked about on the latest Gleman and the Geek podcast from the Tuesday Taproom Tour. |
| 1:16.4 | And I looked as I look up at the TV screen here and see Glenn Perkins doing some |
| 1:21.2 | pregame work for FSN, the last pitch thrown by a Twins pitcher in that final game |
| 1:26.9 | of the 2010 season when they had over a five- lead the last time was Glenn Perkins. Mopping up hadn't become Glenn Perkins yet. He was basically a failed starter at that point who they were having mop up. Yeah, it's been a... They tried to screw him over in his arbitration? I think that was right around the time when he filed the grievance. But that's all been washed away because now he's, you know. |
| 1:46.5 | Now he's on FSN, FSA. Yes, he's on FSN, which I think is a good idea. I like Glenn Perkins a lot. Yeah, they not only, I mean, every week, I feel like, I mean, on opening day, we did a live broadcast. and one of the big things we talked about was basically the optimism for this season is based on two strong things. |
| 2:04.1 | One is... did a live broadcast, and one of the big things we talked about was basically the optimism |
| 2:01.4 | for this season is based on two strong things. |
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