Episode 548: Twins' Payroll Decisions
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John set the stage for the offseason with a 360-degree discussion of the Twins' payroll: how high their budget should be, the arbitration and contract decisions they need to make, trade candidates that could free up more money, and how much fans can expect them to spend this offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.3 | And the geek |
| 0:22.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:22.0 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Gleman |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome to |
| 0:32.5 | Gleman and the Geek |
| 0:33.7 | I'm John Bowness at Twinsdaily.com with me |
| 0:37.1 | Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.com. I guess this episode is probably the arbitration episode or the payroll episode. Payroll. He's John Liskaw. I'm Jonah Hill. We decided that on the Patreon. We do a... As you guys know, there's a plug for it. I guess at the beginning of the show, but we've been doing this show for 10 years. But we started doing midweek episodes for Patreon subscribers, P-A-T-R-E-O-N, Patreon.com slash gleam. They're commercial-free and they're a little more in-depth. We also do mailbags on that. They're dollar an episode. We would love to have you sign up for the off season. It would cost you three bucks a month probably to do it. |
| 1:14.0 | But one of the people send mailbag questions, which we do like an all mailbag episode every couple of weeks. And one of them, they're always great questions. And one of them was who do you guys, who would you nominate to play the other one in a movie about the show? |
| 1:28.4 | First of all, a movie about the show would be fascinating. |
| 1:30.7 | Two of us just come into a conference room and stare at each other. |
| 1:34.2 | It's a good three-hour movie. |
| 1:36.3 | But, yeah, we definitely did add some drama. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, would have to be like, act two, uh, John tries to stab air. |
| 1:46.9 | Right, it's a love triangle with Shar the dog no what it uh but i i said uh for you john lifgow which i actually i like it even better than |
| 1:56.7 | when i said it that was the first name that popped into my head you were opposed i you were |
| 2:00.2 | afraid i was not going to like it. |
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