Episode 66: Throwing Punches and Interviewing Terry Ryan
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2012
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John are joined by a few special guests dropping in and talk about John's lengthy interview with Terry Ryan in the Offseason Handbook, the end of the Alexi Casilla era, the arrival of Josh Roenicke and Tommy Field, Artie Lange and Kirby Puckett, Samuel Deduno's smoke and mirrors, the market for Scott Baker, manager Mike Redmond, promoting from within, and punching each other in the face.
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| 0:00.0 | gleaming and the geek |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome |
| 0:13.0 | Gleeman in the geek podcast 65? |
| 0:16.0 | No, 66. |
| 0:17.0 | Is it a matter? |
| 0:19.0 | Really? |
| 0:20.0 | That's a lot. Less than 100, but more than 10. This one is tentatively going to be called the Terry Ryan interview. Yeah. For lack. Is this our new thing? I like this, where we lay out what we're going to do. And then at the end, people can go, yeah, they didn't talk about any of that stuff. They mostly argued about something really idiotic for 45 minutes. I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. You are? And you are? I'm Aaron Gleeman of, let's say, NBCSports.com. Sure. Aaron gleamon.com. NBCSport and RhodoWorld.com, which is why you couldn't come out and play Friday night. |
| 0:56.9 | They, uh, what was they, what were you doing Friday night? |
| 1:13.8 | What were we doing Friday night that we wanted to do? Timberwolves, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did they sell out? I love my first idea for the podcast is that we were going to go to the Timberwell's game and then immediately afterwards recorded at Huber's. It's not good, though, to do the podcast on Friday night, because then nobody's going to listen to it over the weekend. |
| 1:14.5 | I suppose. |
| 1:12.9 | Right? hubers it's not good though on to do the podcast on friday night because then nobody's going to listen to it over the weekend i suppose right i know but then it's three days old there's such time |
| 1:18.4 | sensitive information it could be though if they signed somebody or you know but did they |
| 1:22.0 | no but they could have you thought they were going to re-sign baker by now right i did think they |
| 1:25.7 | would re-sign baker by now you uh you're talking out both were to re-sign Baker by now. You're talking out to both sides. |
| 1:29.1 | Did Timberwolf sell out the first game? |
| 1:32.8 | Officially, they sold out? |
| 1:34.7 | It's like the old target field, $34,000 when there's... |
| 1:37.5 | There is no way they sold all those tickets. |
| 1:42.0 | Because in the upper level, like where the nosebleed seats near where I am |
| 1:45.5 | yeah you know there were sections that were less than a third full huge blocks of of unsold |
| 1:50.9 | tickets there or tickets that I don't know exactly what they did like they just said okay we're |
| 1:55.2 | gonna sell the last 1,000 to a corporate sponsor for 10 bucks or what if they give them they give them away, can they count that as sold? |
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