Episode 492: Kenta Maeda, Ace
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Aaron and John take over KFAN on a Saturday afternoon, revel in a strong start in the Cleveland series showdown, get excited about Kenta Maeda's ascension to staff ace, dissect a number of anticipated roster moves, and look at the Twins' postseason picture.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geat |
| 0:11.0 | and the Geat |
| 0:14.0 | and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:26.2 | Because the Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:30.9 | And welcome to Gleeman and the Geek. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm KF.N, a special Saturday edition. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. with me, Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.com, and we are brought to you by Mill City Dental and Dr. Jay, Williams. Centurally located in Minneapolis's Bridmore neighborhood, check out MillCitydental.com slash gleeman. Pretty good week for the twins, Aaron Gleman. Yeah, it's pretty good months so far. They're 8-2 now in September. Really fun game. Well, a really encouraging game last night. I liked it. Yeah. I mean, they faced off against Beaver, the ace that made them look so bad in the first time, the first time they saw him. And even this, I mean, they faced him two weeks ago. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.9 | In Cleveland. |
| 1:16.0 | They beat him, right? |
| 1:16.3 | No. |
| 1:18.5 | They got to him for two runs. |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, right. Cleveland won. |
| 1:20.1 | But they lost. |
| 1:21.9 | Okay. |
| 1:25.2 | I mean, he wasn't horrible last night either. |
| 1:26.7 | No, he was not. He actually thought he looked pretty... I mean, he's just really good. |
| 1:27.9 | I mean... He's going to win the side. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, that's probably true. |
| 1:30.2 | I think, yeah, he's seven and one with a 145 ERA, even after last night or something like that. And if you talk to, like, Baldelli, Donaldson, some of the veteran hit a cruise, who's, like, one for 20 against him. They talk about him like, you know, it's Tom Seaver or something like where it's like this |
| 1:47.3 | guy's fastball's great. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Bonnes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Bonnes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.