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Gleeman and The Geek

Episode 52: Liriano to the White Sox

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John talk about the Francisco Liriano trade, break down the prospects from the White Sox and the Twins' reasoning for the deal, get sad with Otis Redding, welcome back Danny Valencia, look ahead to potential other moves before the deadline, marvel at Lew Ford, update Alex Wimmers' health, and then John leaves and Aaron does a solo podcast with the help of Twitter questions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Lehman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air.

0:17.0

Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week,

0:22.6

here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's John Bonas.

0:30.9

I've got my cell phone in case we make that big trick.

0:44.4

And welcome to KFand's Baseball Weekly with Gleman and the Geat presented by pickpoints.

0:49.0

Ryan Donaldson, doing a nice little drop-in number there with Ron Gardiner.

0:49.8

Can I hear that again?

0:51.0

Can you play that again?

0:53.0

Got my cell phone in case we make that big trade.

0:53.4

God.

0:54.5

That big trade. What would the big trade be? That voice was Aaron Gleeman of NBCSports.com. I'm John Bonus of Twinsdaily.com. The big trade. Trade deadline is this week. I guess we should do just a quick review of where the twins week. Twins three three and three this week good week for the twins

1:11.5

are about what we've been saying literally every it seems like every week since the end of

1:16.3

april yeah 500 every week so this is an odd one in that they swept to get to 500 for the week

1:21.0

it couldn't look more brutal come Thursday afternoon and it could or come Wednesday night because

1:25.1

they got swept by the white socks and then they go out and sweep the Cleveland Indians, which is kind of nice to see. They also climbed over the Kansas Sea Royals. They're no longer in last place in the A.L. Central or even in the American League. Yeah. Another positive thing. Bravo. They successfully managed to get Trevor Plouf on the eight-day D.L. We can talk about that a little bit later about that strategy.

1:46.8

You know, things are going well, and we're probably not even going to complain about that all that much,

1:50.7

because it takes a backseat to complaining about other stuff.

1:54.3

But the outstanding, or the biggest move of the week has to be that about 9 o'clock last night,

1:59.7

the word came down from the Chicago White Sox that they had acquired pitcher francisco liriana from the minnesota

2:04.7

twins for a couple of minor league prospects the big trade that we've been waiting for to come down

2:08.5

for the last i'd say two months yeah finally came down and our reaction was swift and merciless

2:14.6

well yeah mine was just sort of meh. But, yeah,

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