Episode 562: Big Papi and Trading Pitchers
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John discuss David Ortiz's election into MLB's Hall of Fame, what offseason starting pitching trades look like, the rhetoric surrounding a nerd being named the Vikings new GM, and why Aaron is once again excited about an in-person event.
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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 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Glemen |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.6 | And the geek podcast |
| 0:34.0 | Big Poppy edition |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah |
| 0:36.6 | I mean maybe Who knows I'm John Bones of Twitsdaily.com. I'm with me. Eric Glemen of the athletic. This is, like Bruce Lee said, Be like water. That's how we plan these podcasts these days when there is no actual news. There was a little bit of news on CBA stuff, at least. I mean, not really. Not really. I mean, we're very... They're talking. That's something. Yeah. That's more news than we've had for two months. We might get into that. We got a few things, twins related to talk about. Like John said, David Ortiz, the former David Arias when he was with the twins. |
| 1:11.0 | I saw a picture of his rookie card. Oh, really? He's got to be about 90. His rookie years with Seattle, right? 94. No, I mean, he was in the miners with Seattle. Oh, is that right? Okay. I think it was like 90. I remember he got traded for seven Fleer or something. Dave Hollins. That much I remember. And then Dave Owens, whose nickname was head. |
| 1:28.3 | Head? |
| 1:29.2 | Because he was just, that he had that large for Dave Hollins. That much I remember. And then Dave Hollins, whose nickname was Head. |
| 1:28.2 | Head? |
| 1:29.1 | Because he was just that he had that large of a head. |
| 1:32.1 | It was one of those things that you could put a six pack of beer into his hat. |
| 1:36.2 | I feel like having that nickname today would not be great in the Twitter generation. |
| 1:40.9 | Hey, it's Head Hollins. |
| 1:42.2 | Okay. |
| 1:43.1 | But yeah, I saw a rookie card, you know, because they were doing all kinds of lookbacks at Ortiz and everything. |
| 1:48.7 | I think it was, I want to say, 97 Fleer or something like that. And he's, you know, a skinny Twins minor leaguer, and he's holding the bat over his shoulder. |
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