Our third overall podcast and our second attempt all on our own. Over the course of some irritating background noise and some electronic feedback (really sorry), Jeff and I talk about Eric Byrnes, Ryan Garko, the 11 man pitching staff, playing time breakdowns, the catching situation, team projections and dabble on Ian Snell.
This one somehow ran even longer than the previous week's, pushing just under an hour. I also mixed it into stereo for this week so that hopefully, this poll will give y'all an ability to compare stereo vs mono directly by using last week's cast as a contrast.
Lookout Landing Podcast with Jeff and Matthew
Before you state so in the comments, yes, we're getting better microphones. They did not arrive yet, but we hope they do a lot to improve the feed back issues, sorry again. Also, yes, I plan to shorten these up or at least split them into two parts in the future. I've spent too much time today in order to do that for this one but my goal for the future is to keep files around 30 minutes.
For the detailed types, I don't know what's up with the file size. I halved the bit rate and mixed it into mono, it's still large. Any ideas?
1 recs | 110 comments
30 minutes means we each get to answer one question
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
There's a figure skating SBN site?
BrianL - February 3, 2010
Yes
http://www.requiredelements.com/
Matthew - February 3, 2010
I'm a huge fan of that blog title.
Not a huge fan of the blog however.
88fingerslukee - February 3, 2010
The bit rate for this week's episode is 128kbps, the same as last weeks. You halved the sample rate.
Janic - February 3, 2010
I changed what CallBurner and Audacity let me change.
I didn’t find anything else to lower
Matthew - February 3, 2010
On Audacity 1.2.6, Edit, Preferences, File Formats. At the bottom is MP3 export setup where you can change the bit rate.
Janic - February 3, 2010
Perfect, thank you
Matthew - February 3, 2010
I find these podcasts strangely soothing to listen to
Freneau - February 3, 2010
We also offer bedtime story podcasts for $20 a file
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
I'd buy that
perfectstrat - February 3, 2010
Verbal contract, deal
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
Verbal?
Dewey N - February 3, 2010
And when Jeff Sullivan makes a deal he sticks by it.
Robert - February 3, 2010
Witness.
88fingerslukee - February 3, 2010
Graham reads "Goodnight Moon"
BrianL - February 3, 2010
I read the shit out of that book
royalcurve - February 3, 2010
Is that anything like
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7T8y5EPv6Y8&ei=H0BqS_r-GJTf8QafwI2xBw&usg=AFQjCNHK8orGAPTflZN82sCQdffVnf3P0w&sig2=ALXGx8CK4c2mel_TYlTC8g" target="new">Werner Herzog reads Curious George?
cause tha’t fucking great.
“Nossing in ze brooding, primeval jungle could prepare George for ze vast uncaringness ov ze sea”
Bearskin Rugburn - February 3, 2010
Whoa
Griffin Cooper - February 3, 2010
Christ
Werner Herzog reads Curious George
Bearskin Rugburn - February 3, 2010
Holy shit that's so weird
Griffin Cooper - February 3, 2010
"This team is just oodling over with personality!"
I listened to that five times.
RunningFool - February 3, 2010
Wow-at minute 25, Jeff gets instantly clear audio.
wazzu93 - February 3, 2010
Our call was dropped in the middle of a rant!
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
I could beatbox for you guys for some music.
I’m not a bat beatbox, either.
Two Rs and Two Ls - February 3, 2010
"12 dozen more surgeries than Heidi Montage". Fantastic!
wazzu93 - February 3, 2010
Ryan Franklin
Is not Jeffs favorite.
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
I think the Padres fall into this category as well.
wazzu93 - February 3, 2010
I love the Padres
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
Whoopsy.
I misunderstood your rant then-anyhoo, it was still hilarious.
wazzu93 - February 3, 2010
I love the Padres from afar on account of oh my god you guys
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
I want Kyle Blanks to be a Mariner
He just looks like he’d be fun to watch every day.
Edgar for Pres - February 4, 2010
Aw but I like him because he is good at closing out ballgames
Poochie - February 3, 2010
how dare you slag the Jason Kendall signing
how dare you
Freneau - February 3, 2010
Dammit!
Who took the screen name Ivan Pecel?
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
Probably Ivan Pecel
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
He is going to fuck your shit up.
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
Opening theme
There’s also creative commons music you could use, like Podsafe Audio.
Janic - February 3, 2010
I think we should have the readers/listeners of the blog/podcast make the intro music. Big contest.
RunningFool - February 3, 2010
Or maybe this?
Live concerts, distributed freely with the artists’ permission.
Lanky - February 3, 2010
Other then Auto tuned Matthew.
I really enjoyed this.
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
Me too.
Still amazing how quickly the time passes and doesn’t feel like an hour. You guys both just seem really comfortable with the format now so it’s really easy to listen to. Thanks.
wazzu93 - February 3, 2010
This was an hour?
Shit.
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
Nice Bocockference!
Dewey N - February 3, 2010
Jose Lopez is the most boring player on our team
Dewey N - February 3, 2010
Not really.
Andrew E - February 3, 2010
No the boy is correct.
Robert - February 3, 2010
He's always swinging, kicking balls and watching him run with his little aligator arms is not boring.
Andrew E - February 3, 2010
You are confusing him with Yuni
Robert - February 3, 2010
RIP lil buddy :(
Dewey N - February 3, 2010
The fact that we never got to team him up with Eric Byrnes is one of my biggest regrets as a Mariner fan.
Robert - February 3, 2010
I hope Bradley would stab him for being so fucking lazy.
Mariner John - February 10, 2010
It's his family that's boring
seattlebruin - February 3, 2010
Dead people are surprisingly uninteresting
seattlebruin - February 3, 2010
But if they keep dying that's pretty interesting
Dewey N - February 3, 2010
Until he runs out anyway.
ToddK - February 3, 2010
Mexicans fuck like bunnies
Aaron Campeau - February 4, 2010
Casey Kotchman isn't exactly a barrel full of excitement.
SethGrandpa - February 3, 2010
Great stuff.
Once you guys get your nice mics and some theme music you’ll be stars.
RunningFool - February 3, 2010
Kind of Sounds like
Matthew starts talking through a didgeridoo around 12 minutes in.
JordanB - February 3, 2010
Or maybe he's using a flange pedal.
JordanB - February 3, 2010
Yeah I'm at that part now and it actually hurts a little bit
Griffin Cooper - February 3, 2010
Fahey!
Scruffy Lefty - February 3, 2010
I haven't yet gotten to listen, but why the attempt to go shorter?
At once a week, I can certainly handle 1 hr. If it’s for the sake of you two (you know, devoting an extra hour plus editing to the site), that’s perfectly sensible. If, on the other hand, it’s because you think we don’t want that much; I would disagree.
This is slowly becoming the baseball highlight of my week.
Robert Lintott - February 3, 2010
mainly for file size purposes.
I don’t mean cutting down on content, just splitting it up more
Matthew - February 3, 2010
Thanks for the clarification.
I love that idea then.
Robert Lintott - February 3, 2010
Half hour podcast every day!
RunningFool - February 3, 2010
Hey now, this isn't the Basketball Jones.
Robert Lintott - February 3, 2010
Digging our conclusion
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
You guys are off to a good start
You will get the hang of the production quickly, you are doing better than i did at first.
bagsflyfree - February 3, 2010
I prefer stereo. Plus, mono is really contagious
JamMasterJesus - February 3, 2010
From some baseball biography site, on Bobby Bonilla
“Instead of picking up his $5.9 million salary for the 2000 season, the team pledged to pay him $1,193,248.20 each July 1st from 2011 to 2035 — nearly $30 million all told”
Griffin Cooper - February 3, 2010
Interestingly, or, not, the present value of these payments (assuming an 8% interest rate and starting in 2000) is almost exactly 5.9 million
I wonder if Bobby Bonilla knew this.
Gihyou - February 4, 2010
Now I know with Figgins it's pronounced "Shawn", but I always just figured with CHONE it was pronounced the way it looks
Griffin Cooper - February 3, 2010
Me too.
I mentally pronounce the projecion system ‘chown’
And the player ‘sean’.
Of course, the system’s name was taken from the player.
ARock - February 3, 2010
Rob Johnson is more boring than Langerhans.
I bet Jack Wilson doesn’t have much of an interesting life either.
katal - February 3, 2010
Shawn Kelley is a good pitcher, but his interviews have done nothing for me.
katal - February 3, 2010
jack wilson's face is interesting
Matthew - February 3, 2010
In that "Oh god I can't look away as Jose Lopez' sibling nears a train track" sense
SPOILER ALERT
The sibling dies.
Robert Lintott - February 3, 2010
ZUNE!
I’d love to subscribe, any chance of adding a feed on the Zune marketplace? This is Seattle, there must be enough Zune-owning MS employees to make it worth your time.
GM42 - February 3, 2010
if someone figures it out for me, I'll do it
Matthew - February 3, 2010
1. Download the Zune software (http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/software/download/default.htm)
2. Click Marketplace then Podcasts and select “Submit a Podcast” (scroll down a bit, it’s on the right.)
3. Enter your RSS feed and click Submit.
GM42 - February 4, 2010
du-ay
vivaelpujols - February 3, 2010
Actually,
I think there is some tangible benefit to winning a hockey fight.
http://www.puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=222
Not much, but it’s there. I wonder if there is any effect of managers being ejected in baseball.
vivaelpujols - February 3, 2010
I had that exact article in mind when I said that, as a matter of fact
Hockey stats!
Jeff Sullivan - February 3, 2010
That would be funny
WPA given to manager ejections.
Edgar for Pres - February 4, 2010
BIS definitely has some sort of location/velocity data
David Appelman has used it back to like 02.
vivaelpujols - February 3, 2010
4th site to join SB Nation?
Interesting. Does anyone know if there’s somewhere we can see the order in which sites joined SB Nation?
baetown415 - February 3, 2010
It's not pronounced "jif"
Poochie - February 3, 2010
Unless you're talking peanut butter
Bearskin Rugburn - February 3, 2010
I always pronounce CHONE projections "shown"
Poochie - February 3, 2010
You are wrong on both counts
Dewey N - February 4, 2010
I like it as cone, where the H is silent.
Janic - February 4, 2010
Re: People jumping on the M's bandwagon
I read Rob Neyer’s ESPN chat yesterday and in it there were a slew of Mariner questions. It instantly took me back to 2003. It’s been a long long time since the team had this much hype. Crazy.
katal - February 3, 2010
I think Neyer is a closet M's fan after his Royals.
He used to live in Seattle through the nineties and has always focused on them more than the rest of the west coast teams.
hcoguy - February 4, 2010
That was the most entertaining cocaine party I've ever heard!
section331 - February 3, 2010
Love the podcasts,
And I’m going to love them even more once the microphones dont suck!
ARock - February 3, 2010
iTunes classifies these as "Blues"
hcoguy - February 4, 2010
Well, it does feel like you've lost something dear to you after listening to this
like… sanity.
thehemogoblin - February 4, 2010
Two years ago and this would have been perfect.
katal - February 4, 2010
It's not iTunes. "Blues" is the default genre when exporting in Audacity.
Janic - February 4, 2010
I see, that explains it.
hcoguy - February 4, 2010
"Brandon Fahey is a puppy...nevermind. Edit that out. I don't know where I'm going with it."
I expect you to fully explain yourself in the next podcast, Jeff.
Decatur - February 4, 2010
Dammit Matthew
Jeff Sullivan - February 4, 2010
It's true.
There’s that one picture of him that Poochie used to have as an icon where he’s staring at a ball bouncing his way and the expression looks exactly like a dog waiting for a tennis ball.
JY - February 4, 2010
My plan to slowly undermine your credibility is working
Matthew - February 4, 2010
I suddenly doubt all of Jeff's analysis
Dewey N - February 4, 2010
Grape knee-high
That was hilarious.
speedomike - February 4, 2010
The Chris Young description made it worth listening through the tech issues
Yes the Padres suck, but Fan Focus Groups! Camo unis! Cheap(er) beer!
lemonverbena - February 4, 2010
I'm going to make you guys a funny intro song
BRKLN M'S - February 7, 2010
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