LL Podcast
by Matthew on Feb 23, 2010 7:00 PM PST
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Olympic Hockey
Some small Mariner news nuggets
Lots of Jim Bowden
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I will be listening to this until Lost starts.
Off-topic, unless you cover this later in the podcast, but do you guys have any insight on Rafael DePaula?
What else are you two queens going to do up there?
Gonna finally tie the knot?
by Robert on Feb 23, 2010 7:12 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Because Ovechkin is the greatest athlete in the world
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 23, 2010 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
Weird.
I would never buy a jersey of a player on a team I don’t root for just because he’s elite. I do own David Price’s Rays jersey, but only because he’s a hometown hero.
I guess. I really like Venezuela's jerseys actually,
but I’d sooner buy a Johan Venezuela jersey. Granted, Felix is 1-0 in head-to-head grandslams, so the choice is not automatic…
Belarus
I would hear the first phoneme and think “Belletrix”, thinking that maybe the witch from Harry Potter had her own country and hockey team.
by katal on Feb 23, 2010 8:19 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
You would think after hearing me butcher Sweden and schadenfreude that people would get
that I cannot actually speak English.
The irritating thing is that I do know how to pronounce it. Which is how I know I mucked it up.
I just really suck at talking.
You can redeem yourself in the next podcast by showing us the correct way to say it.
Or, better yet, you can say it the wrong way and some of us would trust you.
I am no one.
shah-den-froy-duh.
Avenue Q is also helpful. Sort of.
Man, if only you guys did this at the Salt Lake games...
I got scalped Canada-Sweden tickets, 2nd row from the ice, for under face value 20 minutes before the game. They were less than how much a paid for the nosebleeds for the US game a saw earlier in the day. It was at that moment that I grew to love Americans undervalue international hockey if there’s not the stars and stripes sewn across the uni.
To be fair, I think there are a couple devoted to Utah and BYU football.
Maybe even BYU, Utah St., or Utah hoops.
Oh definitely.
But as for professional level sports, Utah fixates itself on the Jazz only. Although, there are a ton of Angels fans because of the AAA team. Grrrrr…
I definitely got a straight-up free ticket for US-Norway but that was kind of flukey
There were a bunch of people outside selling at face though
Kaspars Daugavins.
I was not even close.
Just for the record, team Belarus has the Kostitsyn brothers although Andrei is hurt.
They have three players I’ve heard of if you include Grabovski of Toronto, who I think is also hurt.
Falling, fallen, we all fall down, it only really matters how we stand our ground
If and when we rise to our feet again, we'll be on our own
-Tomas Kalnoky/Streetlight Manifesto, If and When We Rise Again
Still more fun than Latvia, who just lost a tough one in OT to the Czechs.
Falling, fallen, we all fall down, it only really matters how we stand our ground
If and when we rise to our feet again, we'll be on our own
-Tomas Kalnoky/Streetlight Manifesto, If and When We Rise Again
by kentcheesehead on Feb 23, 2010 9:34 PM PST up reply actions
Somebody sign Jeff up for Dave Sim's media coaching classes.
by Janic on Feb 23, 2010 10:03 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I like that your podcast covers things outside of baseball.
I like listening to Bill Simmons’s podcasts when they are about movies, TV shows, and random stories in different sports. I hate listening to his podcasts when they are devoted to one topic or sport. It’s nice to have variety and hear others opinions on what is happening in the world. You guys nail the idea of podcasting and have good chemistry while doing it.
Fun stuff. Keep it going.
If you guys ever come up with an opening theme, I hope it isn't as corny as Fangraphs.
FUCK ERIC BYRNES FUCK ERIC BYRNES!
In regards to an opening theme, you should hold a contest.
I’m sure there’s plenty of musicians on LL. Winner gets a free shout-out!
by I Lick Squirrels on Feb 24, 2010 12:51 AM PST reply actions
Yakety Sax
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
49:20
Did one of you guys unzip your pants in front of the mic?
They did speculate that Jim Bowden "whipped it out" in the cut footage.
It was more of a backpack, luggage, CD holder zipper sound rather than pants.
The part you don't get to hear is the 20 minute pre-podcast warmup
Neither of us ever feels like talking before we do these
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 24, 2010 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
I have a question...
Do baseball players really gain weight during the season? I’d be surprised if that was actually the case.
TouchMyIchiro
Yeah, I think they tend to lose some weight.
But they also lose their muscle they built up during the offseason because they don’t do hardcore workouts (which Jeff and Matthew mentioned).
I'm surprised.
I mean, I guess I can understand it with the spreads they have in the locker rooms. And I guess the travel could cause them to eat poorly. But it just seems like they would lose weight during the season, like in every other sport.
TouchMyIchiro
Any chance you can get these podcasts up at the Zune Marketplace?
It’d be nice to be able to subscribe to you guys and have it download automatically.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 24, 2010 7:29 AM PST reply actions
Another thing about the Bowden video
Going back and looking at the first video he did, it was actually (relatively) normal, there were a few weird things but nothing approaching the sabremetrics video. He even had somewhat interesting things to say about the arbitration process at times. I’m guessing that first show was what Fox thought they were going to be seeing in the future. What happened between then and now?!?! Did he have a stroke?
I honestly think the Bowden video was meant to make fun of stat geeks.
Or an attempt to cater to the stereotype. “Hey look here, geeks! Boobs! I know you’ve never seen them, so enjoy these new stats!”
This is the main reason why I want to know Theo Epstein’s reaction to the production. He knew what Bowden was doing and that’s why he said Carmine was a male in order to throw Bowden off guard.
So 2010 has already given us LL Podcasts and Sabermetrics 101 before spring training even starts
I can’t even imagine how good the rest of the year on LL is going to be
"Can I borrow your wife for 11-and-a-half minutes?"
I just want to show her this video…no I swear, just a video. About balls…I mean..baseball.
TouchMyIchiro
So after watching the video again...
Two more things come up. For one, he says if he had UZR in his day, the Kelly trade wouldn’t have happened. I feel like Kelly’s fielding wasn’t the reason he thought it was a bad trade. Shockingly, he doesn’t understand what UZR is.
Also when they are showing the shitty-version-of-Ken-Burns pictures of Devon White, one of them clearly shows him leaping for a home run and the ball being about 3 feet to his left. Do only two pictures of Devon White exist?
Jeff all really need to do is slow down a little bit.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
Your rant speed is like identical to Matthew's
it’s wonderful
by seattlebruin on Feb 24, 2010 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
Rant speed is good. But regular speed needs to slow down.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
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