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iPods Becoming Entrenched In Major League Baseball

Posted by samzenpus on from the You-can-observe-a-lot-just-by-watching dept.

DreadfulGrape writes "ESPN.com reports on how video iPods are being used increasingly by baseball players to study opponents' game footage. In fact, Houston Astros' pitcher Jason Jennings credits the device with improving his game last summer." Jennings says, "Eventually, more than two-thirds of the roster had piled on and turned this team into baseball's official iSquad. Every player gets his own custom set of videos loaded onto his personal iPod, sorted by date, hitter, pitcher and opponent — and updated every week or so."

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  1. yeah but by battery111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I smell an opportunity for microsoft to tout their "squirt" feature on the zune to try to penetrate this segment.

    1. Re:yeah but by Bega · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's just great. Squirt and penetrate in the same sentence.

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  2. Yes! by travdaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally a useful application of iPods! What? Baseball? Oh.

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    1. Re:Yes! by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can think of another useful application of my old iPod (with a battery that barely lasts 15 minutes) and a professional baseball pitcher / batter, but i don't think it's aerodynamic enough.

  3. Re:More free Apple marketing... by Joebert · · Score: 3, Funny

    yet all we hear from the media is "iPod iPod iPod iPod".

    By any chance, do you have 2 sisters, 3 brothers & a maid ?
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  4. Re:Queue Apple-bashers in 1...2...3 by fmobus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Queue up a thousand replies saying "Why are they using iPod? The is way better! Get a life, folks. Apple finally has marketshare of something. If the story was about Kleenex, would you complain that Scott Tissue was way better? Jeez. I guess you meant Cue, not queue. Unless you wanted to queue Apple-bashers, but then you would have completely different thing

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  5. They'll have to upgrade to iPhones ASAP by fang2415 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see what good a plain old iPod will do them. They won't even be able to connect to the spy satellites.

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  6. You're out! by Savage650 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I smell an opportunity for microsoft to tout their "squirt" feature on the zune to try to penetrate this segment.

    Says the Umpire: You're out! ... Spitballs have been outlawed since 1921.

  7. Oh yeah. by Pojut · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because when I want to study the nuances of a batters stance or the way a baseman catches a ball and tries to sweep the sliding runner, I want to do it on a screen smaller than an asshole.

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  8. In related news, by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    A joint statement has been released by several hundred MLB players in which they profusely apologize to the public, as they've only just learned how tedious baseball is to watch.

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  9. Re:Generic Connectors??? by kgr003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, because charging an MP3 player over RCA works very well.