Episode 8: Pohlad, Payroll, and Power Arms
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2011
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John meet another groupie and talk about preparing for a payroll drop, hoping for Denard Span, dueling diets, betting on Joe Nathan, looking back at the terrible bullpen, parsing Jim Pohlad's quotes, Pulitzer Prize winners, acquiring power arms, missing Ozzie Guillen, improving the injury situation, trusting prospects, the level at which a sample size is no longer too small, how much to fear the Tigers, and revisiting Delmon Young.
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| 0:00.0 | Clemen Geek. |
| 0:04.6 | Clemen and The Geek. |
| 0:08.0 | And welcome to this week's Cleavement and the Geek podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm John Bonas, Twins Geek, and across from me at, across me is... |
| 0:20.0 | I'm gleaming, Aaron Gleeman. |
| 0:22.4 | And we are at Bunnies in, we think. |
| 0:25.7 | Technically maybe St. Louis Park, but more accurately on Excelsior Boulevard. |
| 0:30.1 | That's right, yeah. |
| 0:30.9 | Which I think I gotta say, this is, I think, the busiest place we've been. |
| 0:35.3 | Yeah, we usually tape these or record these on a Tuesday night |
| 0:37.8 | which isn't a real high traffic yeah we've been at some empty places yeah and this is i would say |
| 0:42.6 | maybe two-thirds full or something's right and our waiters just brought me my water that's something |
| 0:47.5 | yeah john is still on water one of us at least is drinking beer we're here we're watching oh soon soon |
| 0:52.1 | i promise yeah that's what you said last time i'm out jokes. I only had like three weeks' worth of mocking material for you to. This year, I was all ready to go back on and then I hurt my knee and so I'm on various meds that don't play nice with alcohol. See, that would be more reason to drink. Yeah. If you were a weirdo like me. Had I not actually taken the meds? |
| 1:12.2 | That's a whole different podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | That would be correct. |
| 1:14.8 | So we're watching a little playoff baseball while hoping, you know, at some point |
| 1:20.1 | within the next three years, maybe the twins will be involved again somehow. |
| 1:23.9 | Wow. |
| 1:24.3 | Are you rooting for the Yankees or the Tigers here? |
| 1:27.0 | I am rooting for not the Yankees. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, okay. |
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