LL Podcast

Makes me feel like an insider.

I loved your last podcast, especially when you discussed whether you would have an open thread for 9/11 or not if it happend again. But I was over a week late in listening to it, so it was really painful to hear you guys be all optimistic about Cliff Lee making his first start and shit when I already knew how it turned out. Gonna listen to it right away this time.

But I thought that the only time instant replay is allowed is in fair/foul situations. Which, if true, is ridiculous.

I thought I was the only one who wondered if people remembered Ken Griffey Jr. pinch-hitting for Chone Figgins.

It’s playing the April 29th podcast on both of them. The only way to listen to the new one is to listen to it here on the webpage.

We’ve been fortunate enough to have Jose Lopez play a brilliant third base, Gutierrez to be amazing defensively andz offensively, and Vargas/Fister to hold down their spots really well. And even despite that, the season has sucked.

The dark lining to that dark cloud is that if any of those great things comes back to Earth, it could cancel out some of the positive regression we’re hoping for from basically everyone else. It’s tempting to think that any regression will be positive – how could things possibly go worse? – but it’s a two-way street. Sigh.

I can not honestly say he’s made the team better for his management this year. Every game he does something that fills me with barely contained rage. That’s not what I want out of a manager.

Did I miss last week’s podcast? The last one I have is from April 30.

Here’s an idea: If you guys didn’t do one last week, do it now, retroactively. IE only use information that was available as of May 4 or so. Just think – back then, we had only lost 3 in a row and were just a couple of games out of first! You could be optimistic about turning things around in the upcoming Rays series, and all sorts of happy goodness like that. Sort of a reverse of the usual scenario where the podcast is recorded before the outcome of that days game is known.

I loved that Jeff was so agitated during the Johnson rant that the sound was disrupted. I was envisioning his veins popping out more and more, his arms gesticulating wildly, until he began to smash the microphone like a rock star smashes his guitar.

Kirk McLean, maybe?

I agree with you about it not being that big of a deal by itself, but it’s sort of like:

- He can’t play the field anymore, so he needs to DH, but
- He can’t hit well enough to be an everyday DH, so he needs to PH, but
- He can’t stay awake long enough to be a reliable PH, so..

..GO

Who would have bet that the Padres would far and away the better team coming into the series next weekend?