Glee Man and the Geek

Glee Man and the Geek

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Because the Gleman and the Geek.

And welcome to Gleman The Geek Show on KFAN, doubling as a post-game show today.

I'm John Bonesop Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.com, and we're sponsored by Mill City Dental and Dr. J. Williams, centrally located in Minneapolis, Brynard neighborhood. Check out millcitydendal.com slash gleman. What have we done to this team, John? By being somewhat optimistic last week, it's my worry that, me especially. I'm not just this week, also during the Patreon episode where we're basically saying, yeah, these games don't really count. It's all going to be a cakewalk. It's very strange to, I mean, first of all, I think they did lose four games in a row at some point last season, but it might not have been until like... Oh, it was very late.

August.

I mean, I remember up until, I think up to July or something, we were talking about how they haven't lost more than two in a row. Right. That was an ongoing thing, how long they had gone before they had run into a losing streak like this. And so they start 10 and 2, which is tied for the best start in the history of the Minnesota Twins, and then they lose the fourth game against Pittsburgh, which was basically two two game series. And we said, okay, yeah, we did a Patreon. We did a Patreon episode. We do a midweek shows, commercial free, kind of more in-depth postgame type stuff uh patreon dot com slash gleam in their

buck an episode so we did one right after the day the final pittsburgh game which was a day game i

rushed over after being at target field once you asked about it and our sort of takeaway was

the pirates stink very much right the twins did not really play well at any point in the four games against the

pirates, but they won three. They could have obviously won the fourth one. They gave it up late.

And our takeaway was, well, it's a good thing that they're kind of playing another weak team

in Kansas City because they clearly weren't clicking on all cylinders. Then they go to Kansas

City and they just get rolled.

Three in a row against Kansas City.

And again, just, you know, the thing that saved the twins early, because, you know,

their hitting has been, let's call it, inconsistent all season.

I mean, they've had two or three guys haven't hit at all.

Right.

And other than Nelson Cruz and Max Kepler, pretty much the whole lineup has

struggled for the most part. And the thing that saved them was they hit like 380 with

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