Episode 70: Denard Span for Alex Meyer
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2012
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John record an emergency podcast to talk about the trade sending Denard Span to the Nationals for pitching prospect Alex Meyer, what it means for Chris Parmelee, how Span went from prospect bust to underrated big leaguer, why letter grades for prospects can lead to arguments, dropping Deolis Guerra from the 40-man roster, adding Jeff Clement for Triple-A depth, and why Hulkamania will never die.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen |
| 0:02.0 | Geek |
| 0:04.1 | Clemen and the geek |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome to |
| 0:12.0 | Gleeman |
| 0:14.0 | Episode 70 |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, all right. |
| 0:16.4 | Is that a traditionally important anniversary? |
| 0:20.3 | It's a factor of 10? If we're talking to wet it's got a zero at the end? Wedding anniversary, I guess anything passed like 50. Each year becomes a traditional anniversary. Does this mean we've got to start thinking about what number 100 is going to be? Because I recall 500 is going to be the one where Judy sits in with this. About 100, I'm going to quit. So we won't have to get. That's my plan. That's the plan. What does that put us? We do one a week. That's about right in the middle of the season. Not quite the middle of the season. Maybe for number 100, what we should do is I will trade you to another baseball podcast. Okay. I like this. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.4 | Do something like that. |
| 0:56.7 | Because I was thinking about that today, like how bizarre it is. |
| 0:59.7 | That that is just a totally recognized business transaction in sports and not in anything else. |
| 1:08.7 | Like, Aaron, we have traded you to Yahoo for so-and-so, |
| 1:14.6 | and, you know, you're going to have to deal with them from now on. |
| 1:17.5 | Or, you know, it could be to ESPN or could be to police report. |
| 1:22.2 | I got traded. |
| 1:23.2 | From Rotow World to NBC. |
| 1:24.9 | My contract was transferred and everything. |
| 1:26.6 | Okay. |
| 1:27.2 | Like a two, three, four years ago. |
| 1:29.0 | As I recall, you had some choice in that matter. |
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