Episode 47: Full Nelson
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2012
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and special guest co-hosts Joe Nelson and Nick Nelson talk about Matt Capps' injury and the closer replacements, Trevor Plouffe's case for the All-Star game, what to do with Francisco Liriano, the buyer versus seller debate, Brian Duensing's move back into the rotation, more Josh Willingham heroics, Byron Buxton's pro debut, and why John Bonnes shouldn't even bother coming back from vacation.
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| 0:00.0 | KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Lehman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air. |
| 0:17.7 | Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week, |
| 0:23.1 | here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's John Bonas. |
| 0:31.9 | The Twins Geek, John Bonas, out once again. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Joe Nelson filling in and Aaron Gleeman alongside along with special |
| 0:37.9 | contributor this time around. Four to five we go today. Nick Nelson from Twinsdaily.com. |
| 0:43.5 | Guys, we thought it was over when Joey Votto did this in the eighth. |
| 0:47.0 | In the air to left, going back at the wall, going to be gone, gone, gone! |
| 0:57.0 | That's V. Fervado. |
| 0:59.4 | V is an MVP. |
| 1:03.7 | And very special on this day. |
| 1:05.0 | Listen to this crowd. |
| 1:10.0 | The Cincinnati Rags, Fox Sports Cincinnati with the call right there. |
| 1:44.2 | V. Fervado and MVP, the reigning NL MVP, got Scott Diamond for that long opposite field, two-run shot in the eighth inning, put the Reds up three to two, and we'd love to play that Josh Willingham highlight, but it's not available quite yet to us. So, Willingham, with the game-winning home run on the top of the ninth inning off of or rolled as Chapman. 4-3, Twins win the game. Guys, welcome to the show for another week. Thanks for having me on board. Man, that was quite the game. That was a, that was gotta be one of the most exciting games of the season. I think so. They've had some where they've blown games like that, where the other team gets a walk-off hit and all that. But that was amazing. I mean, the vibe before the game was rough because they were talking about Caps is now shut down, going to the D.L. And I was starting to complain on Twitter about the injury situation. And I'm thinking, well, we're going to come in to the radio show, and I'm just going to complain about that for 45 minutes. and then all of a sudden one of the best games of the season to talk about, which I would certainly prefer. |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah, Willingham he's I guess he slowed down a little bit I mean he started to go through where he was |
| 2:08.4 | striking out a lot but I mean power wise and big hits he has been as good as he could possibly be |
| 2:14.8 | in the first half of the first year of a three-year deal. |
| 2:17.7 | It's unbelievable. |
| 2:18.7 | I mean, I looked it up right before I came over here. |
| 2:21.5 | The last guy to have a OPS as a right-handed Twins hitter were 71 games in the season. |
| 2:27.8 | This far into the season, it's been 35 years. |
| 2:31.0 | Larry Heisel was the last one in 1977. |
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