LL Podcast Solicitation Thread
by Matthew on Jan 31, 2010 11:49 AM PST
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PrintOne more time, same as before. Post your suggestions for topics below.
We're obviously going to talk a little bit about Eric Byrnes and I have some ideas for other stuff as well, but we would like to hear what you, the listeners think. A note; neither Jeff nor I are up to date on the Mariners low minors so run downs on prospects is unlikely to come up when it's just us. When we get a little more comfortable with this, we will start trying to bring in guests and at the top of that list are people more familiar with the farm system.
Also, thank you to everyone who wrote in for the advice on the music legality front.
Also, happy birthday to LL which turns five years old this very day.
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Would like to see you guys discuss how you think Bradley's, Griffey's, and Byrnes' playing time will be divided.
and how signing a RH hitting 1B/DH might affect them further.
by IceStormV1 on Jan 31, 2010 12:01 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Here you go:
http://ussmariner.com/2010/01/31/updated-ofdh-playing-time-chart/
We’ll be talking about it obviously as it pertains to Byrnes, but read this first.
Ask a question, someone decides to make a blog post on it an hour later
I love the blogosphere so much sometimes.
Pitching
Are we going to acquire someone? What will our final rotation look like? What will the Bullpen look like? Who is a lock for the Pen. Plus Address that theme music. And add a guest star each week.
And I'd like to hear about all the pitchers after the first three starters
Who is likely to stick in the rotation, get moved to the bullpen, left in Tacoma, etc.
Maybe it’s too early for that, what with the usual Spring Training surprises and the possibility of another starter getting signed (just this weekend the M’s published an official picture of a possible future starter working out with Rob Johnson) but I don’t think it makes this kind of analysis impossible, since an acquisition just pushes all the righty or lefty dominoes down one slot.
Here are some questions in case you get bored and can't think of anything to say.
Who is the most likely to have a break out season in 2010 (RSS, Johnson, Moore, Kotchman, League)?
Who is most likely to have a come back season in 2010 (Snell, Bradley, Byrnes)?
If you could have dinner with one Mariner who would it be and what would happen?
Which Mariner do you think would make the best sex tape?
Any prediction on how Saunders will do down in AAA this next year and how many games/PA he will make in the Majors?
What do you wish the Ichiro design T-shirt should have looked like?
Best buddy cop movie pairing?
Also, happy Birthday LL!
Better Audio if Possible
Having one person in 1 ear and another in the other made if very difficult to listen. Also not sure which one but one of you guys I couldn’t even understand what was being said I had to turn it off.
Just saying I think you should make it so you can hear in 1 ear and maybe a little clearer audio but I appreciate everything you guys do.
I need a vote on the stereo v mono thing
since half seemed to like it and half not. It was done in the hope of making it clear who was saying what, but I can understand it making it impossible to listen through just one ear.
Your second point I do not agree with. How far did you listen?
I really really dug it
I thought it made the conversation easier to follow considering you and Jeff sort of sound alike
That was my concern.
I could always just apply a filter to make one of us sound different though. Who wants to hear Jeff’s audio with the pitch raised 2 notes?
You can borrow my delay pedal and make him sound like he's had a stroke
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2010 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
He can borrow my synth pedal and make him sound like a robot.
by Kirk on Jan 31, 2010 4:57 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
He can borrow my reverb box and make him sound like a spirit.
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I have a Ropert is God™ complex.
Jeff got much easier to understand about 5 minutes in
But at the start I was having trouble too. And there was some odd electronic noise going on in the background, not bad enough to take away from anything really it was just kinda funny sounding.
I listened abot 3 minutes into it.
I will say I have a hard time hearing at times people voices. So for me personally and I will admit this could just be a me thing. But it was extremely hard to understand during this first few minutes which is why I stopped so maybe it did get better maybe not I really cannot say.
Anyways this was my take on the first 3 minutes and so I never listened on. Anyways not trying to bash I really like what you guys put out with the reading material and so I really would love to hear the podcast so this was my suggestion.
Thanks again for all the hard work.
You can skip forward in the track.
Please give it a try, if you are interested, and let me know if the audio is still difficult to hear.
Why did the stereo make it difficult to listen?
I thought stereo made listening much easier. Is it because people want to listen with one earbud?
Not everyone is using headphones.
I would think that a good amount listened using the flash player that was on the site. What’s the point of having audio only come out of one of your desktop speakers at a time? Only one person is speaking at a time for the most part.
Eh
I’ll be on a better computer in a week, I’ll worry about it then. I hereby change my vote from “Mono” to “Mono this week, then Stereo all subsequent weeks”
We all know they'll get in, but it seem so tacky to have those bobbleheads while they are still playing.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Pros and cons of seasoning Saunders in the minors one more year.
There’s some angles there, contract, team control, player development, peak of career stuff, and I’m probably not thinking of something. I’ve read a few things in various places about how the Brewers did that with their core of talent, and how great that worked out for them, but is that really true, and are those benefits real?
A somewhat related tangent, the difficulties in bringing up rookies vs. veteran players with a track record of numbers to examine. Especially when a team is looking to compete within their division like the M’s this year. Any relationships between minor league numbers and major league expectations? All over the map and hard to define?
mono vs stereo
I voted stereo, but it would be great if it was mixed more in a 75%/25 split rather than Matthew in on ear and Jeff in the other. That way it’ll actually sound like you’re in the room with them, rather than some out of body experience.
Dude, if you haven't heard Pepper in mono, then...
Ah, wrong discussion board.
But seriously, I voted mono. I’m among those who find the hard-panning disorienting; also, if you mix to mono you can either halve the file size, or rip at a higher bitrate and have a comparably-sized file.
I would love to get a virtual haircut every week.
Check it out if you’ve never done so before. (Put on headphones and close your eyes)
Two questions.
Please explain any baseball-based reason for having Griffey on this team (as opposed to various free agents, right-handed minor leaguers, etc.).
Please assess Yusmeiro Petit as a starter in Safeco.
Here.
1. Recently Baseball Daily Digest ran an incredible piece about Ian Snell, and why he has not pitched well. Since then I have had no faith in his ability to be the team’s number four starter. What is your take on it? What is your take on Ian Snell’s future with the Seattle Mariners?
2. What is your outlook for Mr. Vargas? Is he still developing? Does he have any potential to be more than a back-end starter?
3. Possible candidates for the team’s LOOGY position.
4. Thoughts on the 2010 Grammy’s. What did Jeff think about L. Gaga’s dress?
Wooo Happy Birthday LL!
Also, I kinda liked the stereo effect. Though I see the vote is still pretty split.
FUCK ERIC BYRNES FUCK ERIC BYRNES!
Lookout Landing sure has changed over the last couple of years.
Why, we don’t even call it Ye Olde Lookoute Landing anymore!
They have to do both then.
I fucking hate you Mariners
I just now voted in order to break the tie.
I don’t want to see LLers tiffing over this!
Let's ask Katal what he thinks
I fucking hate you Mariners
I saw that it was 136-135
So I voted such that it made it even again.
If they decide to go with stereo, listening in mono is as simple as doing this:
by Janic on Jan 31, 2010 8:33 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
I'd like to see you take an in-depth look an Chien-Ming Wang.
On how well he’d fit into the Mariners’ plan this year, of course, but also what the hell happened to him last year, what makes him successful with so few strikeouts and how rare and how sustainable that is historically, and why there’s such a huge discrepency between his Stacorner based tRA and WAR in 2006 and 2007 (2.1 and 3.0 for WAR and 4.73 and 5.24) vs. his Fangraphs based FIP-based WAR and Fangraphs tRA (4.4 and 4.7 and 4.42 and 4.29). I know you use different batted ball data gatherers for Statcorner and Fangraphs, but what’s going on?
Felix/Lee past seasons workload concerns - what if one of them blows up?
Lee (231 IP in 2009), Felix (238 last year, plus an insane workload for someone his age in 2006 – 2008). Total newbie here, sorry if it’s been discussed before…
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