Episode 432: Chasing Aces
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' first truly bad week, five ace starters the Twins could (and should) pursue at the trade deadline, adding Cody Allen on a minor-league deal, Miguel Sano's highs and lows, injuries reshaping the lineup, and being careful what you wish for.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:12.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:16.0 | Green Man and the Geese. |
| 0:20.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.4 | every week. |
| 0:26.5 | Because the Glemen and the geek. |
| 0:31.3 | And welcome to Gleaming the Geek Show, KFAN, 100.3, sponsored by North Star Remodeling Fine Editions, Kitchens and Bass since 1972 I am your host John Bonus at finsdaily.com with me co-host Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspector. Did you just make yourself host and made me co-host? That's right. That's like there's two presidents, one's a president, one's a vice president? You're a co-vice president. With who? Joe Paravich, our producer. Joe Paravit. Boy, bonus is upgraded. You've got a promotion, Joe. Perfect. Yeah, congratulations. You're the co-host of this tin pot show. |
| 1:13.4 | Speaking of tin pot, |
| 1:14.3 | so I stumbled. Speaking of a tit-pot week for the twins. |
| 1:16.0 | We just looked up a stat that I stumbled into in my drive over here. |
| 1:20.6 | I was just listening to the game. |
| 1:22.3 | And I thought, well, if they don't come back here, |
| 1:25.3 | it's the seventh inning as we as we start the show here but |
| 1:27.9 | i thought is this the first losing week they've had and part of me thought well that's impossible |
| 1:33.2 | they've played 13 weeks right sure enough we looked it up on the baseball reference has a has a nifty |
| 1:39.5 | schedule page that makes it pretty easy to just check monday now we're defining a week by monday |
| 1:44.0 | through sunday correct which i know there's disagreements about that. But for our purposes, we wrap up the week here on Sunday evening. So this, if they don't come back in this game, is the first losing week they've had out of 13 weeks this season. That's not going to make anybody feel less annoyed by the fact that they lost |
| 2:02.0 | four games this week. |
| 2:03.0 | But yeah, it was quite a run. |
| 2:05.6 | And they, of course, have still not lost three games in a row this season. |
| 2:09.9 | You know, I'm not trying to gloss over how poorly they played this week. |
| 2:13.8 | Because, I mean, I think for the first time in my mind at least this week they |
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