Episode 86: Hello Hicks, Demoted Drew, and Schmoozing
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2013
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins officially naming Aaron Hicks their starting center fielder, Drew Butera's demotion to Triple-A, the Twins Daily get-together at 612 Brew, the rotation with Scott Diamond on the disabled list, meeting podcast listeners and smart fans, realistic expectations for prospects, trying to get to second base without passing out, Joe Benson's future, remembering their debut episode, feeling old because of Tupac, trying not to hate Duke, and Las Vegas vs. Mystic Lake.
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| 0:00.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:11.5 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:14.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the gleemed |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome to Wiggleven of the Geek podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | A little bit of different Gleven of the Gake podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Our listeners can't see this, but we're doing this on a lunch break. |
| 0:47.9 | Wait, people aren't watching this? |
| 0:50.2 | Why do I get in a shower and get dressed for this every week? |
| 0:53.1 | Sure. |
| 0:53.7 | Oh, that's terrible. |
| 0:54.3 | No, we tried that. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, we did. With the YouTube videos. And actually, people seem to like them in the sense that they were kind of amused by them. And then train wreck. Yeah. There's only so many times you can flash a light in my face and be like, say something, Aaron. I've used up all my stand-up material in the first one. There is a limit to that, actually. |
| 1:12.8 | I think I could do that a lot more than I do. |
| 1:13.4 | Well, it depends. |
| 1:11.1 | Is the goal to produce a team? Aaron, I've used up all my stand-up material. I don't know if there is a limit to that, actually. |
| 1:43.5 | I think I could do that a lot more than I do. Well, it depends. Is the goal to produce a terrible video that is sort of interesting because it's terrible? We can do that anytime. I think you underrate yourself in terms of your impromptu ability. Sure. As we just saw by the last minute of this great talent. I was going to say you should have showed a fair amount of impromptu ability on a Saturday afternoon when we had our Twins Daily slash Gleeman and the geek, twins viewing party event. Be honest. You were just impressed that I showed up. I drove myself there. I found the place, which was actually sort of difficult. |
| 1:44.4 | How late did you end up saying? Yeah, it was. It was easy to get within a block. There's no sense. For once. I found the place, which was actually sort of difficult. How late did you end up saying? |
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