Episode 458: Donaldson or Bust?
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins coming up empty in their pursuit of "impact pitching" via free agency, shooting their final shot for Josh Donaldson, beefing up the bullpen with fan favorite Sergio Romo and BABIP god Tyler Clippard, losing out on Madison Bumgarner, whether the Indians or the White Sox are scarier, and a bonus clip of our Patreon-only interview with Dustin Morse.
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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 |
| 0:21.2 | All the week |
| 0:22.3 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Glemen |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek show |
| 0:34.8 | For you |
| 0:35.9 | podcast |
| 0:36.3 | I'm John Photos |
| 0:37.0 | I'm with me Aaron Gleeman of Theathletic.com and today's episode is all about rumors and move my god I was going to say this is the the most jam-packed episode we've had where nothing happened now that's not quite true because the twins actually didn't make two moves that we're going to talk quite a bit about. |
| 0:55.5 | But this week, I don't know if it's just sort of a post-winter meetings. |
| 1:01.2 | Right. |
| 1:02.5 | I think it's also a pre-Christmas thing. |
| 1:05.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:06.1 | Yes. |
| 1:06.5 | I think there's a lot of business that people want to get done, uh, pre Christmas. |
| 1:11.8 | But I also just think this offseason as a whole. |
| 1:15.0 | I mean, it certainly has moved way, way, way quicker than the last two and way quicker |
| 1:20.3 | than we expected just because we had sort of molded our expectations based on the last |
| 1:25.6 | two off seasons, which were molasses slow to the point that it was like throwing everything, you know, everything we knew about for agency was kind of thrown off. |
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