“It’s hard to say exactly which moment it was that we realized the iPod had taken over our entire civilization. But it might have been this one: The day we first heard, last summer, that baseball players were using their iPods to do their pregame video studies — as opposed to, say, their pregame Shakira video studies,” Jayson Stark reports for ESPN.com. “The iPod as indispensable baseball tool. Who knew?”
“‘I’ll tell you one thing,’ Astros pitcher Jason Jennings told ESPN.com. ‘It sure beats looking at videotape.’ Until a few weeks ago, Jennings played for the team that pioneered the iPod’s invasion of baseball — the Rockies,” Stark reports. “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: Brian Jones, then the Rockies’ assistant coordinator of video coaching, got an iPod for Christmas. Pretty earth-shattering, huh?”
Stark reports, “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.”
Stark reports, “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…”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Col. Angus” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Apple’s iPod with video helps Major League Baseball teams – June 16, 2006
Too bad they didn’t get Zunes, then they could have fun squirting to each other in the locker room.
That’s great. There are probably thousands other uses for iPods that have not been discovered, where quick access to thousands of audio or video clips in the palm of your hand would be useful. And not just in sports. I remember reading about a film director who recorded himself (or someone) saying all the dialog in the movie script, line by line, then put in on his iPod. He then had access to the lines (and probably verbal notes) on the set. I’m not sure how this is better than having it on paper, but it worked for him.
Why the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Are you insinuating that baseball players don’t like Liza Minnelli?
hehehe.
Huh? Nanos? How on earth are they downloading baseball VIDEO to a Nano? My Nano certainly doesn’t play VIDEO, how does theirs?
“Baseball has been very good to me”
-iPod
He didn’t say the Nano played video. He said the Nano spawned an idea.
You’ll never be able to do that (easily) with a Zune, Sony, Creative, etc. b/c their software just plain sucks (thanks to Microsoft).
I like pussy.
– Wade Boggs
Actually, you can play video on your Nano if your install Linux on it. Technologically it has the capability.
“I like pussy.”
I don’t.
– George Takei
“I like pussy.”
I don’t.
— Jerry
from TFA:
“And, given the limitations of the current iPod, you know there will be more advanced versions — and competitors — busting out all over technospace any minute. In fact, Jones says he has spent the winter demo-ing a portable media player by Archos, with a 4½-inch screen and greater file compatibility.”
Maybe Apple should take note of this…
When filming The Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson used iPods to take the dailies to various sites (or have them brought to him for review) to allow him to quickly assess the shot and determine whether to keep it, reshoot, etc. And I think those were pre-video iPods, so they were just being used as firewire drives.
You don’t know pussy, I do.
One of ou local papers took a poll, asking: are you going to purchase Vista? 94% No 6% Yes ROTFALMAO!
Actually the Zune will only play those videos 3 times —
Then, you hafta buy another Zune !
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MS Squirters : — “Buy another Zune ? — BRILLIANT !”
This article supports my conviction that the iPhone and the touch-screen iPod, which, I believe, will be released before the iPhone, are going to become popular tools in all sorts of fields, including research, acedemia, media, as well as sport.
No response from Zune Tang? What time does his shift at Redmond begin? You know, the one at his Zune FUD response group…
iPod is a computing platform. In time, as they get more powerful, they will be mobile computers for us. In the end, the Mac could make some big inroads (as the iPod).
An Mac by any other name would sound as sweet.
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Scotty, I can’t find my communicator. I know the worm hole brought us back to the year 2007 but we must leave this place called Cupertino now that we saved the whales and get back before the hole closes. I will have to leave it behind at the fruit orchard place. Hope no one finds it.
Beam me up before Ballmer finishes having his morning Zune and the hole closes.
Very funny article. “iPod — It’s not just for baseball.”
mw: “boys” of summer