April 4, 2014
Link-O-Rama
• "Gleeman and The Geek" returns to KFAN this Sunday at 4:00 pm for our third season on the radio. You can listen to us live on 100.3-FM, stream us online at KFAN.com, or simply continue listening to the show via podcast like nothing has changed.
• "This American Bro: A Portrait Of The Worst Guy Ever."
• Mase is on TMZ because he's a pastor now and people at his church are revolting against him.
• Tried to keep this under wraps, but Randball's Stu revealed details about my new FSN show.
• Ginuwine can still (mostly) get the job done when he sings "Pony" in front of a female crowd.
• Here's the final installment of my annual Twins prospect rankings, featuring the best prospect in the world and the best top-five prospect group in baseball.
• I finally ditched my BlackBerry for an iPhone, which means I'm now occasionally posting pictures to Instagram (and also on Tinder, but that's more of a warning than anything).
• Next month the St. Paul Saints are hosting "Tinder Night" at Midway Stadium and they've invited me to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
• There are a whole bunch of people getting married after meeting on Tinder.
• Jason Isbell's music career must not be going as well as I thought.
• Really enjoying my old school blogging buddy Tony Pierce telling stories about Uber driving.
• We recorded this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode at Freehouse in North Loop and they refused to stop bringing us food and alcohol.
• I always address people with "hey yo" on Twitter and this is the inspiration behind it:
Sadly it's not always effective.
• Richard Pitino's best friend is the brother of Kate Mara and Rooney Mara, and he says "we used to torment them at a younger age."
• While the Twins television broadcast sticks to batting average, homers, and RBIs, the Astros are showing stuff like batting average on balls in play and Wins Above Replacement.
• Chelsea Fagan wrote an interesting article about not wanting to hang out at a bar alone. I feel the exact same way and, hard as it may be to believe, I've never done it.
• I want to host a speed-dating night for the next Twins Daily event, so Amanda Bullock's article full of speed-dating observations was fascinating.
• I wrote the Twins preview for NBCSports.com and tried to be as optimistic as possible.
• Amelia Rayno of the Minneapolis Star Tribune called me "in general, highly entertaining" in an interview with friend of AG.com Maggie LaMaack, so I printed it out and framed it.
• Lauryn Hill is one of my 10 favorite musicians of all time, but what are the odds that she'll put on a show at First Avenue in 2014 worth $65? I'd gladly pay $500 to see her in 1998.
• Rye Deli in Lowry Hill hosted several "Gleeman and The Geek" episodes and quite a few more of my first dates, so I was very sad to see it close suddenly this week.
• Sounds like a James Beard Award-winning chef is opening a restaurant three blocks from me.
• I tried Hammer and Sickle in Uptown and liked it. Good vibe, weird vodka shoes, and tasty food.
• I paid $5 for Todd Barry's crowd-work special on Louis C.K.'s website and loved it.
• Netflix recommendation: "Blue Is The Warmest Color" is one of the best foreign movies I've ever seen and reminded me of all the stuff I love about one of my top 10 movies, "Blue Valentine."
• Some of this week's weird and random search engine queries that brought people here:
- "David Kahn baseball scout"
- "OKCupid Minnesota geek nerd"
- "Otis Redding tattoo"
- "Fat left-handed hitters with high socks"
- "Talk show socks"
- "Brunch ideas in Minneapolis"
- "Steven Van Zandt shirtless"
- "Scott Erickson and Inga Hammond"
- "Aaron Gleeman right swipe"
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video of "Oh Boy" by Cam'ron and Juelz Santana:
