Podcast Critiques

Fantasy Focus Football

My first podcast subscription was to an ESPN podcast dedicated to fantasy football. I listened to their two latest episodes, airing 9/12 and 9/13.

I chose to listen to this podcast because I had heard about it before, and I'm a huge fantasy football nut. I'm in 9 different leagues right now. So any advice anybody has to give, I'm willing to take. I was interested to see what they had to say about players rostered on my teams.

Pros:
- A topic of high interest to me
- Helpful information on Pickskin Pick'em
- Start/sit advice

Cons:
- Took 5 minutes to get to football talk on the 9/13 episode
- Seemed to have a slight New York-biased commentary
- Long podcast, you'll begin to drift off midway through

I will continue listening to this podcast, and have listened to it before when I was looking for fantasy football advice. I typically don't listen all the way through these podcasts, I just listen until I hear what I needed advice about. I don't put them on my iPhone - I just listen to them on my laptop Sunday mornings.

ESPN: Olbermann

The second podcast I chose was by Keith Olbermann. Keith Olbermann is a former ESPN employee, who left in 1997 to work with MSNBC. Olbermann returned to ESPN in July, and has his own one hour show on ESPN, along with his own podcast.

I chose this podcast because we have discussed Keith Olbermann in another class of mine, and I heard he was very controversial, to the point, and doesn't particularly hold much back.

Pros:
- Happened to be talking about my favorite sports team in the first episode I listened to
- Humorous, in an unintentional way
- Guest speakers
- Integrates his political knowledge into his show

Cons:
- Sometimes gets carried away with his political side
- very set in his ways

I don't listen to podcasts often, so I probably won't stay subscribed to this podcast for long, but it was entertaining enough that I think I will check it out again, and watch his show... if we ever get cable at my house!