Episode 575: First Place! (Seriously)
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' rise to first place in the AL Central, Aaron's return from the injured list, Jose Miranda's big-league debut, Miguel Sano's knee injury, Jhoan Duran's first chance in the closer role, and how this team is starting to resemble the early 2000s version.
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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 the geek and talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | every week |
| 0:24.4 | because the Cleveland |
| 0:27.5 | and the geek |
| 0:30.6 | and welcome to |
| 0:31.9 | Cleveland and the geek |
| 0:33.3 | the Aaron is a live edition |
| 0:35.1 | I'm back |
| 0:37.1 | I am John Bonas and through the daily.com and I'm so happy that I can still talk to. Eric, even at the athletic. Are you? Yeah, I am. Okay. Well, that's good. You know I am because I was the one who reached out to try and get you to actually see a doctor, dummy. Yeah. I, uh, I, I tweeted about this, |
| 0:54.8 | but I guess not everyone is on Twitter. And we haven't taught, we haven't done a show for quite a while. I know. Yeah. We've got to explain why this is like four or five days, yeah, the time we usually do it. Yeah. So I got, I went and got COVID, uh, last, early last week. Well, I'm not in the supermarket. You make it sound like you just stopped by the convenience store. |
| 1:12.4 | Picked it off the shelf. You make it sound like you just stopped by the |
| 1:11.5 | convenience store. Picked it off the shelf. I don't know precisely when I got it, but I started to feel |
| 1:16.4 | pretty crappy last Monday. I think it. I don't know. It's all the days are running together. |
| 1:22.3 | And I skipped the the entire Tigers series, Twins Tigers series at Target Field. By the way, my apologies, |
| 1:29.8 | my voice sounds like this. This is the best my voice has sounded in a week. So I'm like thrilled |
| 1:34.2 | to have it, but I understand to the listener, it might be. To be fair, your voice doesn't sound |
| 1:38.0 | that great evening without. No, that's very true. You should have heard it a few days ago. It was |
| 1:42.8 | Becky was in heaven. I couldn't make a sound for like two days. I was going to say I would have loved him heard it two days. I was like holding up a piece of paper with notes on them and she was ignoring them. It was beautiful. Yeah. I don't want to like say I was on death's door or anything and overstated, but I was in very rough shape. |
| 2:02.2 | I think, you know, I'm not, this is not breaking news to anyone that COVID can be pretty bad. |
| 2:09.0 | But I think I, Becky and I both got it and she was pretty much, you know, had like a, you know, cold |
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