Polanco, Mauer, and TV drama
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' five-player trade with the Mariners for Jorge Polanco, potentially big news on the ongoing local television drama, Joe Mauer officially being a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and a great Winter Meltdown event thanks to Matt Wallner and Louie Varland.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.4 | Baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Cleveland |
| 0:27.5 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:33.5 | The busy offseason |
| 0:36.2 | A busy offseason |
| 0:36.2 | Edition |
| 0:37.3 | Mary Cleveland The Athletic Who are you? John Donos, Tudson, David. Oh, that's who you are? Oh, I've been wanted to do this show. This whole offseason, first of all, I can tell your mic setup's not going to work for you, John, because you're too far away. John's trying to copy me today. It sounds good at my ears. I've tried not to touch the mic because it absolutely makes sound when I wave around the mic or I switch hand on the mic. The real truth is John just thinks I look cooler because I have a mic stand. I love this you hunched over. Well, that's my look for everything. Mic stand or no, I'm hunched over. I'm like the hunchback of the hunchback of northeast. Here's why it's not going to work. |
| 1:12.7 | It's because I'm going to have to I'm like the hunchback of the hunchback of Northeast. |
| 1:11.5 | Here's why it's not going to work. |
| 1:12.7 | It's because I'm going to have to go way over here to clear my throat. Well, maybe that's good. There's been absolutely nothing to talk about realistically. From the two-un standpoint, there's been some TV speculation, which we have a little bit more on that today, which we can get into. But in terms of actual moves or even like |
| 1:28.3 | rumored moves that we can kind of speculate about, it's been three plus months of almost |
| 1:34.1 | literally nothing with apologies to Josh Stamont, who's indeed something and a worthwhile |
| 1:39.7 | human being to discuss and all that. And now, I'm not trying to say that the whole roster has been overhauled in the last 72 hours or something, but we have the Horne Pallonco trade to talk about. Correct. We have Joe Mauer. Since last we spoke on the free show, which was about two weeks. Joe Mauer is now a first ballot hallfamer. Yeah, right. We're going to give you a little, just a real quick recap of the winter meltdown event from last weekend. |
| 2:03.0 | And Twinsfest, yeah. |
| 2:04.0 | And Twinsfest in general, because, yeah, we talk to, well, Baldali and Falvi and St. Peter and all that. |
| 2:11.5 | And now we're, what are we, 10 days from the start of, 12 days from the start of spring training, basically? |
| 2:19.5 | Yeah, so yeah, 12 days exactly, right. |
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