Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
Is The iPod Really A Baseball Revolution?
Until a few weeks ago, Jennings played for the team that pioneered the iPod's invasion of baseball -- the Rockies. He was one of 17 Rockies players who got swept up last season in a trend that began with an event that didn't exactly have the look of a major sporting revolution at the time:What this tells me is that (a) these guys are actually using the devices as hard drives, and (b) the resulting video is being displayed elsewhere, probably on a laptop or a desktop computer monitor. Later, of course, he mentions players actually taking the video versions with them out to eat, or on buses, and the like, and that's cool and all, but for the purposes of figuring out how to read pitchers (or how to eliminate tells from your own pitching), I'd think you'd still want to have a better resolution display than that offered on the tiny iPod screen.Brian Jones, then the Rockies' assistant coordinator of video coaching, got an iPod for Christmas. Pretty earth-shattering, huh?
It wasn't even a video iPod, either. Just your basic Nano. But all it took was some initial fooling around with it to get Jones thinking there might be more to this fascinating gadget than the ability to download the Red Hot Chili Peppers on it.
So Jones and his video cohort, Mike Hamilton, did some iExperimenting to see if it might be possible to load their baseball videos on this cool little contraption. And the next thing they knew...
A future Hot Stove Heater was born.
That was just about one year ago exactly. What has gone on since might not quite rival the last 12 months of YouTube. Nevertheless, Jones says now, "it's been kind of crazy."
: 1/31/2007 09:01:00 AMThis seems like something that's cool, with virtually no practical value whatsoever.
: 1/31/2007 09:12:00 AM
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