Episode 493: Playoff Possibilities
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' best and worst potential playoff matchups, if avoiding New York is the only thing that matters, Mitch Garver's return creating a catching debate, Josh Donaldson getting ejected after a homer, and the state of the rotation heading into the final week.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:11.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:15.0 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:25.8 | Because the Gleeman and the geek. |
| 0:30.6 | And welcome to The Gleevesh |
| 0:33.7 | Show on KFAN, sponsored by Mill City Dental. And. Jay, Williams, centrally located in Minneapolis's Brinmar neighborhood. Check out millcitydental.com slash gleeman. I am John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleeman of the Athletic. Don't tell people that, John. I don't want to be associated with this team at this point. No, I don't know why I said that. Oh, no. One shout out, and we were, this time, we were talking about, at this time last week, we were just watching this team head into what we said was the most critical 10-game stretch of the season. |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, and we identified that before the season began. |
| 1:14.1 | This was the 10 games that was going to be. |
| 1:15.4 | This was the only really truly difficult section of this. |
| 1:19.1 | Other than maybe the first week of the season. |
| 1:21.6 | Right. |
| 1:22.3 | And we also said even back then, before the season began, before the 60 games began, |
| 1:29.2 | the AL Central will probably be decided that week. |
| 1:32.2 | Well, we were right about that. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, congratulations, John. |
| 1:34.5 | You were correct. |
| 1:35.8 | Nostradamus. |
| 1:36.4 | The ALE Central was, in fact, pretty much decided, but not decided necessarily the way that we were probably hoping. |
| 1:43.5 | No, I mean, it's also just, they come off the three-game sweeping of Cleveland. Right. And then you go to Chicago, and like you said, you know, everyone knew that was going to be a difficult stretch to white soccer in first place. The Cubs also in first place. Right. And they've been so bad on the road most of this year. |
| 2:02.4 | And now they've lost four to five. |
| 2:04.0 | You have two more left against the Cubs. |
| 2:06.1 | Although in that 10-game stretch right now, we're four-and-four. |
... |
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.