Episode 50: Waving The White Flag
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2012
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about once again rooting for the worst team in the league, why Francisco Liriano is like religion, what defines an "A" or "B" prospect in trade talks, how passing on Mark Appel makes even more sense now, celebrating our 50th episode, Matt Capps' return, Carl Pavano's non-return, Aaron's refined drinking habits, and a whole bunch of mailbag questions from listeners via Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air. |
| 0:13.3 | Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week, |
| 0:18.8 | here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's |
| 0:25.5 | John Bones. |
| 0:31.0 | And welcome on a sweltering April day. |
| 0:40.3 | Ah, John. |
| 0:41.2 | Doesn't it feel like in April day, Aaron? |
| 0:44.4 | In the sense that they were getting their brains beating on most April days as well? |
| 0:49.3 | That's exactly right. |
| 0:50.5 | So you're listening to KFA's Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and the Geek. |
| 0:53.3 | That voice you just heard was Aaron Gleeman. He's seen across the table from me. |
| 0:57.3 | And who are you? I'm John Bonas, and working his magic early was Ryan Donaldson in the booth. |
| 1:05.9 | We're going to be talking about the twins. We don't have a lot to talk about, and most of what we have to talk about |
| 1:11.0 | is not good. I'm just warning you. There was only a half a week of games, because we were all |
| 1:15.3 | treated to a glorious All-Star game in Kansas City. And then we came home and saw more |
| 1:23.3 | of watching our favorite team get beat up. When the Oakland Athletics have come to target field, |
| 1:29.9 | and it looks like are on their way to sweeping the twins, |
| 1:33.3 | which I would think would put the last nail in the should we buy or sell debate, |
| 1:38.8 | if there wasn't already multiple nails being put into it. |
| 1:42.2 | Well, I mean, realistically, if you were trying to be at all objective about it, |
| 1:45.9 | which we like to think of ourselves as, the debate recently has become, |
| 1:52.1 | not should they buy or sell, but should they sell everything |
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