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Bonne trouvaille du jour sur digg, une habitude prise par certains joueurs de baseball d’utiliser leur iPod pour regarder des vidéos de match ou de joueurs dans l’optique de s’améliorer. Le iPod comme invité officiel des séances d’entraînement de baseball, qui l’eût cru il y a seulement quelques années…

Jennings is doing some last-minute cramming: The Rockies’ video staff has downloaded every Marlins hitter into his iPod, and Jennings is figuring out how to pitch to them. He watches frames of himself delivering the pitch, followed by the result of the play. Everything else is weeded out.

“It’s a good way to refresh yourself on how you got guys out,” Jennings said. “It’s an amazing concept.”

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L’idée n’est pas nouvelle, puisque cela se faisait déjà en visionnant des DVD ou autres vidéos. L’originalité est que tout cela tient maintenant dans la main et est accessible / visionnable partout. Mobile, donc.

Over the past two decades, video has become common throughout the league, as it is with football. Teams have tons of film to help players study their opponents and their own quirks. In the last few years, players have been able to take home DVDs to watch on their laptops.

Now, all that information is in the palm of their hands.

“They can do it on their time, they don’t have to be here or they don’t have to be behind a desk watching a laptop. They can be at home, on the airplane or even in their locker,” Rockies video coach Mike Hamilton said.

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