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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. Re:That's great! by LiquidFiend · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page

  2. Re:That's great! by Valdoran · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or Rockbox. I've never used iPod Linux, as I don't have an iPod, so I don't know how good it is, but I love Rockbox on my iriver H10.

    Worth checking out, at least.

  3. Re:That's great! by virtualsobriety · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is not News and the iPods aren't nearly as popular as ESPN makes it seem. I know for a fact that only the small amount of teams who have digital video systems (Red Sox) have the means to convert and load all the Video. These Digital Video systems are not the standard accross the league and most players get video of their at bats/ pitching sequences on DVD for road trips. However, the popularity of iPods as music/video players among MLB teams can not be argued.