LL Podcast Suggestion Thread

also, your favorite Mariner fan stories from over the years. Favorite moments on Lookout Landing.

Might as well get all of this stuff out of the way while there isn’t any real baseball news

- What is your favorite part of the season/offseason to blog?
- What are your favorite posts to write?
- What is the most challenging thing about writing?
- How long does each post take?
- How often do you get an idea and immediate post about it? vs How often do you get an idea and work on it for a couple days/weeks?

Also, I’d be curious for your guys take on basketball, soccer, or NFL.

btw, I’m glad you guys started podcasting. Thanks.

With all the new offseason moves what do you think that the team chemistry will be like?
How do you feel about the year Jack Wilson will have we only got to see him in like 30 games and his offensive production wasn’t impressive, what kind of line do you see him having? Also who are you looking forward to see in spring training? Do you see the Mariners making any more moves are are they done?

Also, how do you see Jack Zduriencik leaving the Mariners? (Fired, Resigns, In a casket)

And the bullpen!

 keep looking at forecasts of Cliff Lee which seem much more conservative compared to the AL West projections you’ve done, Matthew. I’m forecasting Lee a lot higher as well, in large part thanks to the park. But there are undoubtedly others where you’d do the opposite, because they play in a bandbox and/or because their defense sucks. Might be interesting to hear which players will over/underperform their park-adjusted projections and why.

Also maybe a discussion of the different metrics, and if you see a lot of value in SIERA compared to tRA. The components may be similar, but there look to be some interesting differences, both in how the measures are computed and what they include/exclude (the issue of how to treat line drives).

Given that he basically has no offers you could maybe nab him for less than $3 million and stick him in the pen if need be when Bedard returns (if he returns at all). I’d love to get your opinion on this because as much as I am not a washburn fan I’d probably feel better about throwing him out there every 5th day instead of Snell or any of the spaghetti.

Is there any research into whether players tend to over-perform in contract years? Is there any correlation? Or is this just a layman’s antidote.

To bring it back to relevance, baseball being removed from the summer olympics?

Bavasi’s incompetence and the allegedly toxic clubhouse resulted in the organizational clean sweep that brought us Jack Z, Wakamatsu, and the rest of the front office. Would Armstrong and Lincoln have so willingly embraced a new direction without the team falling on its face so hard in 2008?