Green Man and the Geat

and the geek

Greenmen and the geek

Talking baseball every week.

Because the Gleevement and the Geek.

And welcome to The Gleeveeat on KFAN, 100.3 FM, sponsored by North Star Remodeling. It was done fine, additions, kitchens, and baths since 1972. I am John Bonas of Twins Daily, which has been around since 2012. And with me, Aaron Gleeman. I've been around since 1983. Is that what we're doing? It's 1983. January of 83.

It's almost 82. If you want to kind of stretch it, say I'm almost my 37th. I'm an old man now. John's even older, though. That's the lucky thing about partnering with John. I always make you feel like a young, vibrant person. That's not even really true. I'd probably make you feel like a young vibrant person. twins now

we'll say when it goes final

they're about to I think finish off a five and one week. You're just working so hard to jinx this. No, I'm just convinced I don't have the power, even over my own life, let alone someone else's life, so I don't think I have the jinxing ability. We'll see. But they also then finished last week at three, and they took three out of four from the White Sox. Right. So eight and two since the, you know, line of demarcation of now the schedule's easy. That would be nice. That's the good news. And the bad news. And the better news is that they have actually in that span gained on Cleveland.

Yes, two games. Now it's a three game league. Yeah, I think when we were doing the show last week,

we were waiting to see if Cleveland was really going to lose on a Sunday, lose their last of the easy games, right?

And I think the Twins were pretty much marching to an 11-1 win at that time.

And the question was, you know, coming at the end of Sunday, it was a two-game lead.

And even going maybe 5-1, they've maybe gained one more.

The tricky part is, and we obsessed about this over the last three weeks leading up to this,

which is that the twin schedule was pretty tough there for about two or three weeks. The Indian schedule was incredibly easy for seemingly about eight years, but it was probably about six weeks. And then it was going to flip. And we talked a lot about that. Now the twins have taken care of business going eight and two against the White Sox, the Marlins and the Royals. Now it should have been nine and one. We'll talk about that one Marlins loss as it relates to some bigger picture of things. But the problem is, you know, the Indians lost two out of three to the Astros, which was to be expected. That was kind of what we were banking on. But then they just demolish the angels. Angels put up really no fight. And so, you know, we need some of these above 500 teams that we've been waiting for the Indians to get to on their schedule.

Well, we need someone to take care of business a little bit.

The team should be taking care of business should be the twins because the next weekend.

Well, this is what I was going to.

The above 500 train for Cleveland includes the Twins.

So I was going to say the good news for the Twins is that they played that easy 10-game stretch that we kept pointing to, and they went 8-2, which is what you roughly should have done.

The bad news or the less good news for the Twins is that this upcoming week at Target Field, the red-hot Atlanta Braves, who are one of the best teams in the National League, way up in the ALE, or the NL East, all kinds of star power, all kinds of pitching. There are 20-some games over 500. Fantastic team. Fantastic young team. A little bit like the twins, maybe like one step ahead of where the twins thought they'd be coming into this year. and then you have, you know, a suit. Let's hope they take two out of three there or maybe even just avoid a sweep there. And then you've got a huge series. I mean, certainly the biggest series of the year with Cleveland coming to town where, you know, no matter what the lead is, pretty much at that point, the division's up for grabs in that series. I mean, one sweep one way or the other, the twins can cough it all up or if they sweep the Indians, they can jump out to a huge lead. It's huge. And I mean, the Indians team, we're going to talk a lot about the trade deadline as it relates to the twins, but the Indians also really shook things up at the trade deadline, too, trading away Trevor Bauer. This is going to be a very different Cleveland Indians. Yeah. Not only different just in terms of personnel, but the entire sort of approach of the team, it was so pitching heavy, I mean, really for the past three or four years, but coming into the season, and we were questioning at the beginning of the year, how are they going to score runs?

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