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Monday, July 06, 2009 |
Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
What You Throw Up Depends On What You Eat
Keith Olbermann, whom I usually like, is sickened by Manny Ramirez' return to a Dodgers uniform (and I think it's fair to say you could say any major league uniform). Style Points has the obvious prescription, er, diagnosis. Thanks to Marc Normandin for the heads-up (via Facebook).Padres Send Scott Hairston To A's
Ken Rosenthal reports that the Padres have traded OF Scott Hairston to the A's for cash considerations, minor league pitchers Ryan Webb, Craig Italiano, and a player to be named later. Hairston is making $1.5M this year, and is cheap as these things go. Hairston sported a .299/.358/.533 line in 216 plate appearances, which makes me wonder why they decided to unload him just now.Randy Johnson Left Yesterday's Start Early, Likely Injured
He did it after swinging a bat, apparently; he only lasted three and a third innings, giving up four runs, three earned in a contest the Giants ultimately lost 7-1.Tech: Thoughts On The iPhone, Four Days In
- As bitchin' as I thought it would be, mostly. The only real frustrating moment has come from unintentional keypresses on the touchscreen that lead to typos or worse.
- Why didn't Apple make the connector backwards-compatible with iPods so they could share the same chargers?
- Multitasking, rumored to arrive later this year, will prove to be a useful feature. An immediate application for this: I would like to put MLB Gameday Audio on hold while making a call, and then have it automatically resume once I'm done. I was listening to the Yankees/Blue Jays game coming into the office this morning, and wanted to call home; I had to shuffle back to the Gameday Audio app, and from there, go to the game and enable audio from the Blue Jays feed (I hate the Yankees homers, especially Michael Kay).
- Speaking of Gameday Audio, XM reception doesn't seem to suffer from occasional dropouts, as the AT&T network did once I got near LAX. On the other hand, that may have been a problem with the audio jack, which I did find had bounced loose; but on refastening it, I had to restart audio.
- MLB Gameday is excellent, in the main, but it suffers from one stupidity that the current incarnation of its wholly web-based counterpart does: when you click on the name of a pitcher, his player card shows his hitting stats instead of his pitching stats. It's been broken for years...
- Not really Apple's fault (or maybe it is!), but baseball-reference.com searches (I'm thinking of the Play Index results, player searches per se work fine) do not work under the limited version of Safari. Most everything else I've tried on that website, however (e.g. player pages, team pages, etc.), does seem to work.
- I tried iMapMyRun this morning, which is an iPhone-based interface to MapMyRun.com. The upside is that you know exactly how fast you're going at any given time, which is great. The downside is that you know exactly how far you're going, and in my case, because I was running the inner curve of a long street, the daily run that I had previously registered as 5 km was actually about 4.8 km, so my times are somewhat shorter than they really should be. Regardless, it makes logging my runs much easier. It does lack the ability to add any notes I might have (I like to record the weather on each run), but that's a minor quibble.
Labels: athletics, funny, giants, injuries, padres, tech, trades
Comments:
I was waiting for your iPhone update. I'm firstgen, but I've found the ten buck MLB Gameday app miraculous. I'm up in the San Juan Islands at the moment, and was listening to the two Angel comebacks on a little beach off of Guemes Island, skipping stones off the water while following pitch by pitch on Gameday. Even given some of the player stat defaults, I'm surprised they got so much right on first release. Interface design is important to me. I work among Android developers at Google, and could carry the Gphone for free, but stick with my iPhone because the usability, visual design and app support are so top shelf. Still hasn't grown old to me yet.
Yeah, a former coworker of mine here had one of (the only, at the time) Android-based phone, and the Sprint network's data unreliability pushed me away. The user interface is also kinda clunky.
Earlier this year, there were reports that the iPhone would soon be coming to Verizon. While nothing official has yet been announced, I'm willing to wait it out because I simply refuse to switch to AT&T. Incidentally, I just returned from a trip to Europe, where everyone seems to have an iPhone. I have no idea whether they have a similar exclusivity deal with a service provider over there, but the phones work across countless borders.
Yeah, I heard that too, but then Verizon said they favored exclusive phone deals of the sort AT&T has with Apple, leading me to wonder why. Their attitude about their phones (you just lease them from us, they're really OUR phones) is pretty irritating.
One tethering gets going, I'll drop my Verizon data card service.
One tethering gets going, I'll drop my Verizon data card service.
@jjackflash -- Oh, and as to the exclusivity deal -- I believe the answer is no, because the European model is far saner (i.e. you buy the phone separately from choosing a provider).
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