Episode 87: Opening Day!
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2013
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
John and Aaron talk about loving Opening Day at the ballpark and on the couch, the Twins' lowest expectations ever, moving Joe Mauer up and Brian Dozier down in the batting order, what to do with Justin Morneau, appreciating the greatness of Johan Santana, bullpen and bench usage issues, finding what you need on Ticket King, exactly how bad the rotation can get, and why baseball is so damn comforting.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:15.8 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Gleeman |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.6 | And the |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to Miss And welcome to Minnesota Twins opening day with Gleeman and the geek. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, Geek. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello, Gleeman. |
| 0:49.0 | I don't think we've ever started like that. |
| 0:50.8 | That was real uncomfortable. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, opening day. |
| 0:54.8 | It was probably because I looked deeply into your eyes. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm not even going to look at you this whole pocket. |
| 1:00.0 | We are at Coussey's by target field. |
| 1:04.1 | John went to the game today. We should say it's Monday night. |
| 1:07.8 | Monday night, right after the opening day, like, what, 8.30? A couple hours after. Yeah. Only a couple of hours, though, after the opening day game, because it was a long freaking game, Aaron. Was it that much longer than it was three hours? I don't know. It was 645 as I'm walking away from the stadium. You're essentially like, you've essentially like chosen to go ice fishing. |
| 1:30.6 | So, I mean, of course it seemed long to you. |
| 1:33.0 | It's a fair point. |
| 1:34.6 | Vance Worley did not earn himself a lot of friends among the Twitch faith. |
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