Episode 522: Chaos Week
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about one of the weirdest weeks in Twins history, what happens next following multiple positive COVID tests and canceled games, the domino effects of Josh Donaldson's return, why it might be time for Alex Kirilloff's arrival, and the 60/40 nature of baseball decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Three men and the geek |
| 0:10.9 | Premen and the geek |
| 0:14.9 | We men and the geek |
| 0:17.4 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:25.8 | Because the Glemen and the geek. |
| 0:31.0 | And welcome to Gleaming the Geek podcast slash radio show on KFAN. |
| 0:38.2 | Radio slash podcast perhaps. |
| 0:41.7 | We're sponsored by Mill City Dental and Dr. J. Williams, the baseball dentist. |
| 0:45.6 | Just a three-minute drive from Target Field in Minneapolis, Brinmar neighborhood. |
| 0:48.5 | Check out Mill City Dental.com slash gleeman. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm John Bono's of Twins Daily. |
| 0:52.7 | And with me, Aaron Gleven of The Athletic. |
| 0:54.9 | The Twins baseball team is not playing right now, but the radio show slash podcast that discusses |
| 1:01.2 | them playing is playing still. We, this has been a very, a very odd week. Yes. And I mean, |
| 1:09.3 | yeah, not a fun week. Began with the first game Monday being postponed in the afternoon, which I was there for, |
| 1:18.0 | which was a very surreal experience. |
| 1:20.8 | Right, right, right. |
| 1:21.3 | 8,000 people just kind of sitting there in the gloomy weather waiting for the start of a game |
| 1:26.0 | that was never going to start. |
| 1:28.1 | Then they play what I would describe as horribly against the Red Sox. |
| 1:33.2 | Then they have a positive COVID test from the shortstop, Angelton Simmons, Wednesday. |
| 1:40.0 | So he's quarantined, shut down. |
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