Here comes a curve ball! See if you can spot what's new this week.
We're feeling out how these might go, if at all, during the season as we don't want to leave stuff out of the recaps for the sake of the podcast and we don't want to just repeat ourselves either. This is like starting all over so give us some time to decide what we like and don't like. In this edition we give some initial impressions from the first game, offer several possibilities for what happened yesterday night and generally just futz around.
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The sound in the beginning just cracked me up
Skype much? haha
Ef the yankees - April 7, 2010
Can't get enough of that song
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
Thank you for the comments about not needing to post every single feeling you're having during a game thread.
Teej - April 7, 2010
Now I have nothing to contribute
:(
JBell523 - April 7, 2010
If only people posted every single feeling in these threads!
Live Podcast Threads
JonBBT - April 7, 2010
I thought that was what GTE was all about?
Maybe I’ve completely missed it for years, I’ve always the Game Threads were a place collectively cheer the good and curse the bad. Kind of like a sports bar, but with smarter fans.
InSpokane - April 7, 2010
To a degree, absolutely.
And as the season goes on, it will be far less of an issue. When Ichiro does something awesome, it’s fun to see the thread light up with people going nuts. But I find 45 identical “THAT WAS A STRIKE COCKFACE!!!!!!!” posts every 45 seconds to be a bit much. Just speaking personally, I can’t handle the game threads right now. And I don’t mean that as an indictment of the people posting, but the volume of comments. I can’t keep up, and it keeps me from watching the game.
MLB.tv being shit right now doesn’t help. Running a game thread alongside it makes it chug even more.
Teej - April 7, 2010
Running MLB.tv in Chrome and the game thread in FF helps a little bit
but as for your larger point, yeah, right now it’s impossible to both converse and pay attention to the game at the same time.
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
Got it.
It has been a little out of control. I guess I really don’t even read most people’s comments and I don’t really comment as often as others. I just hope we don’t regulate the excitement out the Game Threads.
I will certainly be mindful of others in the future.
InSpokane - April 7, 2010
I have a feeling it will be sort of self-regulating and find a nice balance on it's own (after a while).
That old Yogi Berra quote comes to mind… “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
Terminator X - April 7, 2010
Yeah, that always happens after the first or second week
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
That's how I've been doing it for a year.
I’m still getting an incredibly choppy picture every few minutes. Like MLB.tv is overclocked* or something and has to catch up.
*This is me using a word I don’t understand.
Teej - April 7, 2010
Another suggestion: wait a little bit to correct new posters.
I know that there was quite a bit of piling on because of the mistakes that new posters were making. I was part of it, so I will take this to heart, but there probably doesn’t need to be 15-20 comments about people capitalizing or following site rules. 1 or 2 comments about it will probably suffice, and people tend to not get as defensive when it is 1 comment to them about it.
seattle_since_81 - April 7, 2010
The problem is that all 15-20 people respond instantly because you never know who's going to take care of it
First-week game threads are just impossible.
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
The responders are obviously power-mad sadists
Kind of a Stanford Prison Experiment with keyboards.
lemonverbena - April 7, 2010
When did Bucky Jacobsen become John Lackey?
JonBBT - April 7, 2010
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Not enough shit talking about bad NL teams though.
lailaihei - April 7, 2010 via mobile
Those are some hapennin' beats
OlSalty - April 7, 2010
I like how I started with a lisp
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
You've had some pretty incredible voice action in the podcasts.
It’s great hearing all the different Jeff voices that come from them.
seattle_since_81 - April 7, 2010
I still struggle
to figure out who’s Jeff and who’s Matthew.
SeaKoala - April 7, 2010
Sounds like you just left the dentist, for a bit there at the opening.
Nice audio quality, big improvement from the first few and very easy on the ears.
Kermit. - April 7, 2010
That's not a lisp it just sounds like you really need to spit
Dewey N - April 7, 2010
Has Bugs been giving you any trouble recently?
Coach Owens - April 7, 2010
The other Pitch f/x site is Texas Leaguers p f/x.
Found here.
abender20 - April 7, 2010
And Jeff mentioned it 5 minutes later. Oops.
abender20 - April 7, 2010
's ok champ, shake it off. Gonna need you in the fourth quarter.
Kermit. - April 7, 2010
If you line the team up in alphabetical order Pujols ends up on the Mariners
Poochie - April 7, 2010
Have I mentioned recently how much I dislike podcasts?
Text > Speech
Llewdor - April 7, 2010
Free.
DrunkAmerican - April 7, 2010
Like, as free as possible.
These podcasts couldn’t be more free.
DrunkAmerican - April 7, 2010
Thank you for your contribution
I will Paypal your refund.
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
I think that after you guys record the podcast you should type up a transcript.
It’s just common courtesy.
JonBBT - April 7, 2010
And for people using iPhones, notes to go along with it (inside the podcast, you know, so you can read along).
lailaihei - April 7, 2010
Bullet point recap!
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
Actually that's not a bad idea.
Would imagine there’s some decent speech-to-text converters available out there for free that would be pretty easy to use. Would be a nice touch, as I’m sure there is a significant population that doesn’t listen to the podcasts for whatever reasons but would read the transcripts if available.
Terminator X - April 7, 2010
Absolutely not
There’s no way either of us is gonna want to edit that.
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
I'll do it!
Dewey N - April 7, 2010
Go to town.
Nothing’s stopping anyone. The mp3 file is freely hosted.
Matthew - April 7, 2010
No I will not
Dewey N - April 8, 2010
Who said it needed to be edited? Let the lazy bums who can't be bothered to listen to the podcast figure it out themselves.
If google has a speech-to-text thingy I’ll bet it rocks and would need little editing anyways (based on the quality of their language converter at least). Just brainstorming, I don’t care strongly either way.
Terminator X - April 7, 2010
Consider this an open invitation for any reader to take our file and try this out
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
All speech-to-text converters I've used are pretty bad.
I mean I bet turning sound into letters is something that would be hard to program, so I don’t hold it against them. But you get words like “biscuit” in the middle of sentences that were were supposed to say “is quick.” Also lots of words spelled phonetically. Without editing you’d get some sections where you wouldn’t know what was going on.
ChristopherA - April 7, 2010
We could make a game of it.
JonBBT - April 7, 2010
Google's translation tool is an excellent resource but you'd be crazy to rely on it for an accurate translation.
Decatur - April 7, 2010
A quick perusal of the tubes
Yielded no free options. I googled “speech to text” and “mp3 to text” and only found software that costs money. Apparently Adobe Audition will do it.
appleshampoo - April 7, 2010
Seriously though, christ, we already had a podcast feedback thread
This is just a dick thing to say.
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
Maybe this bit of truth will cancel it out:
I don’t like podcasts, but I like your podcasts.
RunningFool - April 7, 2010
I don't like podcasts either!
Jeff Sullivan - April 7, 2010
I can't read while driving or walking to class.
I find the podcasts immensely enjoyable and it makes my Wednesday commute the best one of the week.
lailaihei - April 7, 2010
Speaking of sliding into first.
There’s a great one in MyOhMy, where Tino Martinez slides headfirst into first on defense right before the runner slides headfirst into first.
themanleyman - April 11, 2010
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