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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 48: SABR, Snubs, and Selling

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2012

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about Joe Mauer making the All-Star team while Josh Willingham got snubbed, Aaron's vodka-filled experience at the SABR convention in Minneapolis, Ryan Doumit's contract extension, John returning from his East Coast ballpark tour, Trevor Plouffe staying hot, whether the Twins should be in full-on sell mode, the Francisco Liriano dilemma, and why Pizza Luce at 3:00 am is a bad life decision.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ann.

0:07.9

KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Lehman and the Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air.

0:19.6

Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week,

0:24.6

here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and the Geek, presented by Pickpoints.

0:48.3

We're finishing up, I'm sitting across across i should probably give introductions here we've got

0:54.8

ryan donelson behind the glass tickling the ivories making the show happen inter in interrupting our

1:00.9

national syndicated show and across the table for me i've got a very pale erin gleeman

1:09.2

really pale i was gonna say uh i was a sort of a pallor kind of way yeah you have an a very pale Aaron Gleeman. Really? Pale? I was going to say,

1:11.2

I was in a sort of a paler kind of way. Yeah. You have an ornery. I think I'm just ornery for the length of sleep. Maybe a little cranky from... Ornier. I should say ornier. Because I, uh, I'm normally, that's my normal state. Either you are cranky, or I am just re-energized from having two weeks away because we've met...

1:28.4

Yeah, we had a great argument.

1:29.9

We've met the first half hour of it with the entire half hour of the prep time arguing. And I said... It's like old time. After, you know, 15 minutes of that, I turned to John and I said, I hope you were recording that for something because otherwise that was just a tremendous waste of time. It'll be interesting to see if we can revisit, make it hear that magic happen during the show today or later on during the podcast.

1:50.5

Yeah, I don't know if we can replicate that, but I guess we can try.

1:53.4

Hey, before we get into too much twin stuff, we should talk a little bit about the big event that happened this weekend here in Minneapolis.

2:02.0

The Society for American Baseball Research had their national convention, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and I guess into this morning.

2:09.9

Yeah.

2:10.3

I think basically people just picked themselves out of bed and flew out today.

2:14.6

It's a national... First of all, we should probably give a little background.

2:18.3

Sabre is... S-A-B-R,, it's a national, first of all, we should probably give a little background. Sabre is,

2:25.9

S-A-B-R, Sabre, is a national organization that is dedicated to studying and researching baseball.

2:30.7

They do a lot of, I think, I think people think that, you know, the Sabre Geeks are all statistics people.

2:35.2

That's probably, I would actually say the minority. Yeah definitely not sure I mean I've been going I went and this

2:38.0

past week weekend and this was like I think my

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