LL Podcast Survey

What do you think would make them better?

I realize that this will probably change once baseball season starts, but I have to give you guys credit for me having the most interest in hockey that I’ve had since maybe 2001 or 2002.

but I’ve liked the rest.

And made me finally sign up.

So yeah, you could say I like them.

And I don’t give a shit about hockey but I can still enjoy most of it.

Granted, nothing interesting has happened to write about, so whatever.

I prefer reading, and the amount of written content on LL is enough to keep me busy. If I ever used my MP3 player or if these were on the radio when I was driving or something, then my opinion would probably be different. But when I’m in front of a computer, I don’t want to listen to an hour of anything.

I just do not have much time to waste at home. That being said I have listened to two of them and enjoyed them a lot.

I wasn’t interested in the beginning, but I liked the one I listened to. You guys interact well together. I don’t think you should limit yourself to baseball talk, but you might want to stick to baseball in the beginning and then warn the listeners you are moving into territory outside baseball.

I enjoy the non-baseball talk because you guys outline most everything about baseball here on the site already. I wouldn’t mind hearing more reviews on things you enjoy personally doing (e.g. which movies you watched recently and why you liked/disliked them). You can basically get your ideas from the OT threads. I quit participating in them for a period of time because they became addictive. I am only now dipping my feet back in them. However, I might be using the OT threads to curb my excitement for the upcoming season.

but then I’m a pretty regular reader of LL so I don’t feel like I’d be getting anything from the podcast I don’t already get from LL. As the season gets started and it becomes more baseball-centric I might listen to one though.

I like that you guys do talk about things other than baseball because it allows the readers/listeners to get to know you more than just through reading the articles. I think it is a great way for you guys to introduce yourselves to newer LLers that haven’t been able to meet you in real life at a meet up or LL event. It’s hard to convey certain emotions through writing that can be conveyed through speaking. I think that it has helped me understand some of the articles a little better. This is one reason why I have enjoyed participating in the OTs because then you get to know the other people that are part of the community. It’s kind of nice to put a personality behind the written words from an author. Obviously the non-baseball talk will slowly get less and less as the season approaches.

I only listened to the last one, and I guess it boils down to the fact that nothing that you guys said on the analysis side was that interesting, meaning I could pretty much infer what you were going to say about all of the positions based on previous articles and the prevailing opinions of the LL authors in general based on reading here for years. So in that sense it’s not worth it to me to spend the time to listen to it. Sorry if that comes off harsh…there are clearly a lot of interested people so I would say keep doing it. I’ll give it another go-round once the season starts for sure.

I’ve downloaded all of them, but haven’t been able to block aside any time to listen

I listened to part of the first one, got bored, and never messed with it again- I have trouble listening to anything for more than about 5 minutes- I either space out or see a bunch of kittens making noise on youtube that I absolutely have to watch

Just haven’t had the time.

I thought it would just be a rehash of what you guys say in writing but you guys digress enough that’s it’s not completely that. If I were listening to this looking for purely a Mariners podcast then I would be mildly disappointed. But like the blog itself, you don’t always talk about the same thing. That you manage to cram in an hour of interesting at this time of year is amazing. But then again I like hockey.

I generally just skip over the stuff I don’t want to listen too, so it’s not that big of a deal. They’ve gotten alot better since you guys have improved the audio quality.

I agree with SB above that you’d probably stink if you tried to be funny, but I’m sure there’s enough to laugh at extemporaneously that it’d work.

Fortunately, it was apparently the first one in which you spoke about baseball all the way through (with a small tangent about trains). I have to say, I’ll probably never listen to the older ones and may stop listening altogether if I get bombarded by too much stuff that is not of interest.