Episode 457: Shrinking Options and Backup Plans
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about what's left of the Twins' chances of signing a big-time free agent, what pivoting to the trade market for pitching help would entail, Eddie Rosario and Jake Cave trade rumors, getting scouting reports on middle relievers from drunk women in bars, and the war zone that is Twins Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week and the geek And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.3 | For the baseball |
| 0:21.4 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Gleman |
| 0:27.5 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome |
| 0:32.2 | To Gleman and the geek |
| 0:34.4 | For you |
| 0:35.4 | I'm John Bollens for Twinsdaily.com with me Aaron Gleeman of the Geat. For you. I'm John Bowles of Twinsdaily.com with me, |
| 0:56.6 | Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.com. Aaron Gleeman of Gleeman and the Geek. That's easier. Let's just to say that. Yeah, of the Common Man program. Or is he like, yeah, common said, Gleeman in the Gleek. Says that every time. Gleeman of the Gleek. Yeah, apparently I'm, I've done common show now a few times lately. |
| 0:57.8 | Uh, gleaming in the gleeck says that every time gleam in the gleeck yeah apparently i'm i've done common show now a few times lately uh uh he uh he texted me yeah what yesterday yeah yesterday yeah yesterday we should say it's |
| 1:05.9 | saturday afternoon early late morning saturday late morning as we record this we should call that up because there was big |
| 1:12.9 | breaking news late last night the twins signed a pitcher |
| 1:15.3 | yeah that we should talk about mr nobody |
| 1:18.1 | so they signed from parts not nobody he's appeared on the |
| 1:21.5 | he's appeared on the not on the program but he his name |
| 1:24.5 | has appeared on the program and by it not by us who are you |
| 1:26.8 | talking about Caleb Thielbar oh you really are at the worst, John. So I spent about, I spent half an hour last night trying to find the episode where Caleb Thielbar's name was first uttered on the gleaming of the geek show because, do you remember when it happened? Yes, I do. |
| 1:44.2 | We were at, this was a long, this one the first episodes, we were at, um, what's it called the hog, the boar, the wild boar, yeah, in Hopkins. I don't even know if that still exists. I thought it was wild boar as well. Correct. Yes. Uh, it was at the wild boar in Hopkins. I don't know why I remember this. and a woman, a very drunk woman. |
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