And Now For Something Completely Similar
An announcement about the future of Lookout Landing.
Lookout Landing News
Your Lookout Landing Lineup
Jon Shields I spent five-plus years writing at Bleeding Blue and Teal/Pro Ball NW, occasionally popping up throughout the Mariners blogosphere and ESPN.com. If I had to try and characterize my...
Farewell, Lookout Landing
For five years I have been writing here on Lookout Landing. That period of my life ends with this post. There are many people to thank, too many to adequately do justice here and I will forget...
Here Goes Nothing
I have been handed the exciting yet unenviable and impossible task of taking over for Jeff. Like you, I found it sad and unsettling to hear that Jeff would no longer be writing at LL; his posts...
Lookout Landed
Announcing some Lookout Landing site news of significance.
When do you read?
In order to best serve you and us, perhaps you can help us out a bit. I'm curious when/how often y'all check Lookout Landing. Specifically, I'm wondering about what brings you to Lookout Landing...
Site Note
That game recap below is the last thing I'll be writing for a little while, as tomorrow morning we go away for a week. It's not the best time for a trip, but we didn't choose the timing of this...
On Game Threading
Last year there were exactly 3,000 comments in the Opening Day game threads for a game that began at the normal 7pm time. This year's game began at 3am local time and lasted almost until sunrise....
FAQ: Following Mariner Games
FAQ: Following Mariner Games
Series Preview Feedback Take 2012
It's not a tipping point or anything actually substantial or possessing of meaning, but one way that the encroaching Mariners season has made its approach noticeable to me is that I have to start...
Spring Cleaning Lookout Landing's Posting Guidelines
As Lookout Landing has grown, so have our standards and guidelines and they have spawned separate posts as issues have flared up. Those posts get added to our membership agreement and each time it...
Series Preview Feedback Take 2011
Another year of baseball and another year of series previews. It surprises me this will be the fourth season of them. Based on the previous three seasons, the Mariners will finish 85-77 this season...
LL Mod Response to Feedback Thread
This is our response to the feedback thread a week or so back. Though both Jeff and I attempted to address the issues in the thread as they were raised, we wanted to have a separate post detailing...
Community Feedback on Our Rules and Policies
What a slow day. Back from the long weekend, with winterful weather abound and little to no news substance to digest, today is dragging along. So it seems a perfect time to get some community...
Event Feedback Thread
Event Feedback Thread
On the Game Threads
We have a problem in the game threads right now. Comments move too fast and there is too much bickering. When a game thread is going bad, people get cranky and that can cause them to harp on minor...
A Quick Illustration Why We Require Subject Lines
Note: this post is written more for the benefit of visitors and will be used as a reference. Regular LL contributors do a fantastic job complying with the rule. Back on January 1, I wrote a post c...
Helping Us Help You
Welcome to 2010, everyone. Gone to the gym yet? Are you having trouble coming up with some more resolutions to pay attention to for a week and then disregard? If so, boy are you lucky to have...
A Public Service Announcement
Pursuant to our awareness that the membership agreement/community guidelines do not always appear as prominently as we would like when new users from outside SBN join Lookout Landing, I have added...
Cool New Thing
SB Nation and the AP have reached an agreement that lets us utilize their game photos automatically in stories. This will allow us to add a little more visual pizazz to game recaps or basically any...
A Public Service Announcement
No politics. Seriously, none. No getting around the rule by referring to it and covering your ass with [zomg politics!] either. No statements, however balanced and fair you may think they are,...
Apologies For The Inconvenience
Update: the restoration process from the backups is ongoing but unlikely to be completed tonight. My Google account was hacked around 5pm this afternoon, giving someone access to my LL account and...
