Episode 488: Safety Squeezes and Ragged Rotations
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about Jose Berrios' struggles and the Twins' in-flux rotation, the strategy behind a surprising safety squeeze, how the Twins dramatically improved their defense, what to make of slow starts by Miguel Sano and Mitch Garver, and whether or not John Bonnes is a heartthrob.
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| 0:00.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:11.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:15.0 | Glemen and the geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:25.9 | Because the Cleveland and the geek. |
| 0:30.9 | And welcome to Cleveland and the geek. |
| 0:34.5 | On KFAN, Sponsored by Mill City Dendel and Dr. Jay Williams. |
| 0:38.9 | They're centrally located in Minneapolis's Brinmar neighborhood. |
| 0:41.4 | Check out MillCityDental.com slash gleeman. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily with me, Aaron Gleman of The Athletic.com. |
| 0:49.7 | So because the, hello, John, because of the odd nature of this weekend slash next week's schedule, normally. |
| 1:00.0 | You're just so thrown by the wraparound series. |
| 1:03.7 | But you know me, I'm a very sort of linear thinking person. |
| 1:08.4 | I like things to be sort of neat and orderly and I like answers to things. I like, you know, like I like a spreadsheet. I like, so the fact that they- This is why you're so miserable all the time. There's no real answers. Yes, because the world provides fewer and fewer of those instances. We get it. And you, I've partnered with you and Dan Hayes, the two guys who are just like, let it flow, brother. I don't know what's the difference. So I don't know how that works really. But you might not be the best judge of character. I don't know. Yes. That's true. But because they played the Roy or they were supposed to play the Royals Friday or Saturday, Sunday and Monday. They ended up not playing Friday. |
| 1:44.7 | They played two yesterday, which was interesting. |
| 1:46.6 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:47.7 | Fun to watch a couple seven inning games. |
| 1:49.5 | Yes, it was an interesting experience being there for that. |
| 1:52.0 | And then they play today. |
| 1:52.8 | They win today. |
| 1:53.8 | But when we hit the air here, 5 o'clock Sundays or 4 o'clock Sundays past years, |
| 1:59.2 | 99% of the time we're sort of wrapping up the week. Right. And at the very least, you know, wrapping up the series that just ended, I like being able to do that. I like being able to say, oh, they took three out of four from the Royals or they split against the Royals. This sort of... There's a difference about taking versus the royals or three out of four versus the royals. |
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