FanGraphs Audio: Google the Internet w/ Dayn Perry
Episode 189
During Dayn Perry’s most recent appearance on FanGraphs Audio, both host and guest spent a not insignificant portion of the show googling the internet in search of information about professional wrestling. This week, the internet is googled even more vigorously — and with shocking results!
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Carson Cistulli says terrible things at The New Enthusiast.
wow, that just didn’t work.
Now I’m even more excited to listen tomorrow morning.
Probably time to create a separate NotGraphs podcast for these, fellas. Classifying them under FanGraphs Baseball is a bit misleading, especially for any newcomers (which I’m not, just looking out for the population at large!).
Agreed, this has nothing to do with FanGraphs or baseball and shouldn’t be grouped with “FanGraphs” audio. When you want to produce audio content like this, why not just call it “NotGraphs” audio, put it on that page and leave the frontpage for baseball analytics?
I also cry about this so much.
I think it’s funny. Why do you click on the link if you don’t like Cistulli v. Perry? It’s not like it’s knocking posts off of the sixteen most recent (from today anyway).
Dear FanGraphs,
Have you ever considered producing bobbleheads of the NotGraphs authors? I, and others, I suspect, might be willing to pay more than one should for such a thing.
Dayn Perry sounds eerily similar to Jason Sudeikis from Saturday Night Live.
Please never, ever stop making these.
What the hell did i just listen to? I Thought this was a baseball website.
what a waste of time. I kept thinking, they are gonna get to baseball soon, but no, it never happened.
Haha, Gotcha!
This is for fun. Can we have that, baseball grumpies?
I exclusively listen to the podcasts with Dayn Perry. If you stop making these, I will boycott the site.
It baffles me that people complain bitterly about the Perry episodes and the general lack of baseball found within when the descriptions of the episodes themselves tell one exactly what content can be found within. This is not a case of false advertising, or avarice on the part of Cistulli (he is avaricious in other, sadder ways), but merely a failure on the part of these dunderheaded drones who lack the modicum of creativity needed to comprehend that Fangraphs is more than just a fantastic site for baseball stat geeks (I count myself as one of those geeks). If one uses iTunes via iPhone as their primary means of download, then I can perhaps understand the opprobrium, as there is very little to distinguish one episode description from another. As this likely comprises a small minority, however, the rest of you have no excuse whatsoever. Try this: read the description, and don’t listen. Or, if you happen to want to open your heart to patriotic fervor and the spirit of love, try listening. You might even enjoy it.
I think the complaint is less about the content and more about its classification, that along with Cistulli’s Feast Day poetry or literary essays this type of a show belongs on Notgraphs. It’s nothing against the author, people have made similar comments about fantasy content or even pieces by Dave Cameron.
(ie that fantasy content belongs on rotographs), also, I think your point about itunes was a good one.
I think your suggestion is well-meaning and reasonable. That said, all of the content is produced under the aegis of Fangraphs. I think it would be tough on Carson to ask him to create three different podcasts, given a) that we already know what content comes when–Mondays w/ Cameron, Terror Tuesdays w/ Dayn Perry, Fantasy Friday w/ Eno, etc., and b) the descriptions of the content within is always very clear to someone downloading in any other format aside from direct from one’s iPhone. I’d say ‘buyer beware’, but it’s not even that b/c it’s not as if this is a paid service of Fangraphs. ‘Discretion of the listener’ is more like it.
I believe Dayn Perry had a very helpful suggestion for those who find these podcasts lacking in the “white-hot baseball analysis” department a few pods back. Something along the lines of putting something in their noses that nature did not intend to go there.
Yeah, this one was maybe the worst of all FanGraphs Audio podcasts.
To clarify, I enjoyed the wrestling one.