And welcome to Gleman and the Geek, presented by Blackstack Brewing, now in a liquor store near you.

I'm John Bonas and Twins Daily with me.

And a lot of news is Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.

We've got a lot to talk about.

We've got a lot to talk about.

That's the thing of doing the free show every two weeks now.

We've got plenty to cover at the hour and a half that we've got here.

Yeah, although we've done like four Patreon podcasts since the last free one and we still

have a lot of new stuff because, and we talked about this a little bit over on the Patreon

side of the street, P-A-T-R-E-O-N, Patreon.com slash Cleveland.

Right.

Commercial free, which after this episode you may really value.

Because of the nature of like the early off-season schedule, it sort of manufacturers,

news whether you like it or not.

And even for a team like the twins who aren't necessarily doing much, you still have to do some stuff because there are deadlines set up in November with in terms of roster in terms of Rule 5 protections in terms of arbitration stuff.

Coaching staff, obviously we're going to get to all that stuff.

Free agency is underway.

There's been a couple of signings already including josh naler uh significant signing there are also some

new tv stuff that we wanted to talk about not quite new i do well we'll talk about this further in the show

because we got a lot to get to but we did do like a 20 minute segment on the esPN MLB TV situation like three months ago when that news came out. Yeah. And I am happy to say that that, about 95% of that still plays in terms of what we talked about. But we'll go over that because I know we've gotten a lot of questions about that. And I know we both talk to Twins official about that because they wanted to get the word

out, which I appreciate that. That was nice of them to be proactive about something like this. Does it annoy you that they called me before they called you, John? No, it does not annoy me at all. It annoys me that they called me. I actually end up wrap up a meeting. I'm like, hold it. Why am I getting this call. I got to go and I wish I wouldn't have had to wrap up that meeting.

So I would have it. I would prefer getting this call? I got to go. And I wish I wouldn't have had to wrap up that meeting. So I would have, I would prefer he called

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