Episode 54: Half Empty or Half Full?
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2012
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' odds of contending or rebuilding in 2013, where Chris Parmelee eventually fits into the lineup, a possible minor league affiliation shuffle, exactly how bad Tsuyoshi Nishioka looked, whether Nick Blackburn should stick around with a 7.50 ERA, Liam Hendriks' and Brian Dozier's long-term outlook, which of them would make a worse Olympian, Bert Blyleven vs. Patrick Reusse, and why Gleeman won't go to Las Vegas with Bonnes.
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| 0:00.0 | KFAN's Baseball Weekly with Lehman and The Geek, presented by Pick Points, is on the air. |
| 0:16.5 | Now, with a look back at this week in baseball and how to win more points this week, |
| 0:22.0 | here's NBCSports.com's Aaron Gleeman and Twinsdaily.com's John Bones. |
| 0:34.8 | And welcome to KFN's Baseball Weekly with Gleeman and the geek, presented by pick points. |
| 0:46.5 | We've got a, I don't know exactly how to characterize this week. |
| 0:51.7 | I've got actually pretty due introductions here first. |
| 0:54.1 | We've got Aaron Gleeman across the table from. We've got Ryan |
| 0:56.3 | Donaldson doing his magic behind the glass there. |
| 0:59.5 | We'll be back tomorrow. I can promise you that. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, that's good. There's been a lot of |
| 1:05.3 | promises that this week has been |
| 1:08.0 | a little bit of a downer after what started out as, |
| 1:12.8 | start out with two big wins over Cleveland, almost, you know, |
| 1:15.7 | maybe a shot at moving into third place in the AL Central for a little while. |
| 1:19.6 | Right now, they've lost, what, three straight cents then, |
| 1:23.9 | and are now battling the Royals for last place in the Yale Central and in the American League. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, although were you really excited about the notion of third place? |
| 1:34.1 | I know, especially not because it was mostly because Cleveland had fallen completely from the first division to the second division. |
| 1:39.8 | It's not like the twins had made a hard charge. |
| 1:42.4 | I think entering today's game, there were 15 |
| 1:44.3 | games below 500, you know, looking to maybe stay to move up to 14 below 500. They're |
| 1:52.0 | basically where they've been all year. So, you know, it looks like another 500 week, which is what |
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