iPods Becoming Entrenched In Major League Baseball

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."

Comments

Yes!

[travdaddy]

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

Re:Yes!

[Lord_Slepnir]

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.

Re:More free Apple marketing...

[Joebert]

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

By any chance, do you have 2 sisters, 3 brothers & a maid ?

Re:Queue Apple-bashers in 1...2...3

[fmobus]

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

Yours truly,
Grammar-Nazi Association of America

They'll have to upgrade to iPhones ASAP

[fang2415]

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.

In related news,

[Rob T Firefly]

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.