One more time, same as before. Post your suggestions for topics below.
We're obviously going to talk a little bit about Eric Byrnes and I have some ideas for other stuff as well, but we would like to hear what you, the listeners think. A note; neither Jeff nor I are up to date on the Mariners low minors so run downs on prospects is unlikely to come up when it's just us. When we get a little more comfortable with this, we will start trying to bring in guests and at the top of that list are people more familiar with the farm system.
Also, thank you to everyone who wrote in for the advice on the music legality front.
Also, happy birthday to LL which turns five years old this very day.
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Would like to see you guys discuss how you think Bradley's, Griffey's, and Byrnes' playing time will be divided.
and how signing a RH hitting 1B/DH might affect them further.
IceStormV1 - January 31, 2010
Here you go:
http://ussmariner.com/2010/01/31/updated-ofdh-playing-time-chart/
We’ll be talking about it obviously as it pertains to Byrnes, but read this first.
Matthew - January 31, 2010
Ask a question, someone decides to make a blog post on it an hour later
I love the blogosphere so much sometimes.
IceStormV1 - January 31, 2010
Think it's been mentioned already but it would be nice to hear what you all think about going with 11 pitchers
OlSalty - January 31, 2010
Pitching
Are we going to acquire someone? What will our final rotation look like? What will the Bullpen look like? Who is a lock for the Pen. Plus Address that theme music. And add a guest star each week.
SeaKoala - January 31, 2010
And I'd like to hear about all the pitchers after the first three starters
Who is likely to stick in the rotation, get moved to the bullpen, left in Tacoma, etc.
Maybe it’s too early for that, what with the usual Spring Training surprises and the possibility of another starter getting signed (just this weekend the M’s published an official picture of a possible future starter working out with Rob Johnson) but I don’t think it makes this kind of analysis impossible, since an acquisition just pushes all the righty or lefty dominoes down one slot.
wandergeist - January 31, 2010
We talked about that in the last podcast
Matthew - January 31, 2010
Wow, it's been 5 years?
A very happy bday to LL, keep up the great work!
melenious - January 31, 2010
Here are some questions in case you get bored and can't think of anything to say.
Who is the most likely to have a break out season in 2010 (RSS, Johnson, Moore, Kotchman, League)?
Who is most likely to have a come back season in 2010 (Snell, Bradley, Byrnes)?
If you could have dinner with one Mariner who would it be and what would happen?
Which Mariner do you think would make the best sex tape?
Any prediction on how Saunders will do down in AAA this next year and how many games/PA he will make in the Majors?
What do you wish the Ichiro design T-shirt should have looked like?
Best buddy cop movie pairing?
Also, happy Birthday LL!
mark sobba - January 31, 2010
Better Audio if Possible
Having one person in 1 ear and another in the other made if very difficult to listen. Also not sure which one but one of you guys I couldn’t even understand what was being said I had to turn it off.
Just saying I think you should make it so you can hear in 1 ear and maybe a little clearer audio but I appreciate everything you guys do.
jjenson - January 31, 2010
I need a vote on the stereo v mono thing
since half seemed to like it and half not. It was done in the hope of making it clear who was saying what, but I can understand it making it impossible to listen through just one ear.
Your second point I do not agree with. How far did you listen?
Matthew - January 31, 2010
I really really dug it
I thought it made the conversation easier to follow considering you and Jeff sort of sound alike
Poochie - January 31, 2010
That was my concern.
I could always just apply a filter to make one of us sound different though. Who wants to hear Jeff’s audio with the pitch raised 2 notes?
Matthew - January 31, 2010
You should use auto tune.
Aaron Campeau - January 31, 2010
Buy it for me and I will
Matthew - January 31, 2010
You can borrow my delay pedal and make him sound like he's had a stroke
Aaron Campeau - January 31, 2010
He can borrow my synth pedal and make him sound like a robot.
Kirk - January 31, 2010 via mobile
He can borrow my reverb box and make him sound like a spirit.
qrsouther - January 31, 2010
This would also work
Dewey N - January 31, 2010
I agree.
Eyeball Kid - January 31, 2010
Totally agree.
Jeff’s crappy microphone was more of the issue than anything.
wazzu93 - January 31, 2010
Jeff got much easier to understand about 5 minutes in
But at the start I was having trouble too. And there was some odd electronic noise going on in the background, not bad enough to take away from anything really it was just kinda funny sounding.
OlSalty - January 31, 2010
Do both and then have people vote.
Janic - January 31, 2010
I listened abot 3 minutes into it.
I will say I have a hard time hearing at times people voices. So for me personally and I will admit this could just be a me thing. But it was extremely hard to understand during this first few minutes which is why I stopped so maybe it did get better maybe not I really cannot say.
Anyways this was my take on the first 3 minutes and so I never listened on. Anyways not trying to bash I really like what you guys put out with the reading material and so I really would love to hear the podcast so this was my suggestion.
Thanks again for all the hard work.
jjenson - February 1, 2010
You can skip forward in the track.
Please give it a try, if you are interested, and let me know if the audio is still difficult to hear.
Matthew - February 1, 2010
Why did the stereo make it difficult to listen?
I thought stereo made listening much easier. Is it because people want to listen with one earbud?
Dewey N - January 31, 2010
Not everyone is using headphones.
I would think that a good amount listened using the flash player that was on the site. What’s the point of having audio only come out of one of your desktop speakers at a time? Only one person is speaking at a time for the most part.
Janic - January 31, 2010
Also, you wouldn't split the audio with 1 person or 3+, so don't do it with 2.
Janic - January 31, 2010
You'd do it precisely because there is two
Poochie - January 31, 2010
They don't do it on the radio, they don't do it on tv, why do it in a podcast?
Janic - January 31, 2010
Radio and tv are often dumbed down to the LCD, on something a podcast it's worthwhile to take chances to see if it can be done better.
Poochie - January 31, 2010
There's a way to make stereo play in a single headphone too
OlSalty - January 31, 2010
Tell me how and I'll change my vote.
RunningFool - January 31, 2010
I think you just enable headphone virtualization in your audio manager
OlSalty - January 31, 2010
Eh
I’ll be on a better computer in a week, I’ll worry about it then. I hereby change my vote from “Mono” to “Mono this week, then Stereo all subsequent weeks”
RunningFool - January 31, 2010
I would like a 5.1 Dolby surround sound mix mixed down into two channel stereo
Poochie - January 31, 2010
Add a hologram and I guess it would be ok.
abender20 - January 31, 2010
Graham
Poochie - January 31, 2010
What do you think about the "Cooperstown Bound" bobblehead with Ichiro and Griffey?
Janic - January 31, 2010
Which you can see here:
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2010/1/31/1285863/no-edgar-shame#comments
SeaKoala - January 31, 2010
We all know they'll get in, but it seem so tacky to have those bobbleheads while they are still playing.
kentroyals5 - January 31, 2010
How does the Felix resigning effect your feeling for the Mariners.
Robert - January 31, 2010
Pros and cons of seasoning Saunders in the minors one more year.
There’s some angles there, contract, team control, player development, peak of career stuff, and I’m probably not thinking of something. I’ve read a few things in various places about how the Brewers did that with their core of talent, and how great that worked out for them, but is that really true, and are those benefits real?
A somewhat related tangent, the difficulties in bringing up rookies vs. veteran players with a track record of numbers to examine. Especially when a team is looking to compete within their division like the M’s this year. Any relationships between minor league numbers and major league expectations? All over the map and hard to define?
Kermit. - January 31, 2010
mono vs stereo
I voted stereo, but it would be great if it was mixed more in a 75%/25 split rather than Matthew in on ear and Jeff in the other. That way it’ll actually sound like you’re in the room with them, rather than some out of body experience.
doublemazaa - January 31, 2010
I like to think of them as two tiny people standing on my shoulders talking to me about baseball
Dewey N - January 31, 2010
Dude, if you haven't heard Pepper in mono, then...
Ah, wrong discussion board.
But seriously, I voted mono. I’m among those who find the hard-panning disorienting; also, if you mix to mono you can either halve the file size, or rip at a higher bitrate and have a comparably-sized file.
groovewrangler - January 31, 2010
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lemonverbena - January 31, 2010
I want the podcast presented in quadraphonic sound
Poochie - January 31, 2010
I would love to get a virtual haircut every week.
Check it out if you’ve never done so before. (Put on headphones and close your eyes)
Janic - January 31, 2010
Two questions.
Please explain any baseball-based reason for having Griffey on this team (as opposed to various free agents, right-handed minor leaguers, etc.).
Please assess Yusmeiro Petit as a starter in Safeco.
diderot - January 31, 2010
Here.
1. Recently Baseball Daily Digest ran an incredible piece about Ian Snell, and why he has not pitched well. Since then I have had no faith in his ability to be the team’s number four starter. What is your take on it? What is your take on Ian Snell’s future with the Seattle Mariners?
2. What is your outlook for Mr. Vargas? Is he still developing? Does he have any potential to be more than a back-end starter?
3. Possible candidates for the team’s LOOGY position.
4. Thoughts on the 2010 Grammy’s. What did Jeff think about L. Gaga’s dress?
katal - January 31, 2010
Wooo Happy Birthday LL!
Also, I kinda liked the stereo effect. Though I see the vote is still pretty split.
Goose - January 31, 2010
Lookout Landing sure has changed over the last couple of years.
Why, we don’t even call it Ye Olde Lookoute Landing anymore!
Zygomorphic - January 31, 2010
Wow. a 50/50 split right now.
russak - January 31, 2010
They have to do both then.
kentroyals5 - January 31, 2010
I just now voted in order to break the tie.
I don’t want to see LLers tiffing over this!
katal - January 31, 2010
Let's ask Katal what he thinks
kentroyals5 - February 1, 2010
Mono.
katal - February 1, 2010
I saw that it was 136-135
So I voted such that it made it even again.
ARock - January 31, 2010
If they decide to go with stereo, listening in mono is as simple as doing this:
Janic - January 31, 2010
Good call.
Goose - January 31, 2010
I'd like to see you take an in-depth look an Chien-Ming Wang.
On how well he’d fit into the Mariners’ plan this year, of course, but also what the hell happened to him last year, what makes him successful with so few strikeouts and how rare and how sustainable that is historically, and why there’s such a huge discrepency between his Stacorner based tRA and WAR in 2006 and 2007 (2.1 and 3.0 for WAR and 4.73 and 5.24) vs. his Fangraphs based FIP-based WAR and Fangraphs tRA (4.4 and 4.7 and 4.42 and 4.29). I know you use different batted ball data gatherers for Statcorner and Fangraphs, but what’s going on?
Decatur - January 31, 2010
Felix/Lee past seasons workload concerns - what if one of them blows up?
Lee (231 IP in 2009), Felix (238 last year, plus an insane workload for someone his age in 2006 – 2008). Total newbie here, sorry if it’s been discussed before…
shuswapslugger - February 1, 2010
This is a valid question, something that I also would be interested in hearing about.
Welcome to LL!
melenious - February 1, 2010
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