via ESPN

I hate baseball. Ok, not hate – but heavily avoid like it has a Black Plague effect on the people who come into contact with it. I played as kid, I play when we have company parties, I don’t throw like a girl and I was a dammed good catcher, but try watching this crap on TV. Droooool-a-thon! I mean seriously … how many times do you need to check-up the guy on first – HE’S GONNA TRY AND STEAL NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO DUMMY!!!!

Well it turns out Baseball players don’t much like watching themselves on TV either. They do however like watching themselves on iPods – (makes the belly look smaller IMHO) – and my hometeam the Colorado Rockies are leading the way!

From the article:

Jennings actually thinks his iPod turned his whole season around.

He had a 6.60 ERA going into a May 1 start against the Braves when he and catcher Danny Ardoin sat down at his locker to look at his previous starts against the same group of hitters. And something clicked — not just through his earbuds, either.

“We looked at the pitches they were hitting against me before, and that night we sort of went a different way, and it worked,” Jennings said. “We lost the game [2-0], because Tim Hudson threw a one-hitter. But I threw the ball well. And after that start, I really took off from there.”

For the record, Jennings’ ERA from that day on was 3.31. Which, by Rockies standards, is the equivalent of about 1.31. So we’ll just amble out of the way now and watch about 700 pitchers stampede over to Best Buy.

Impressive … a nearly 50% drop in his ERA, all by viewing an iPod. Anyway, head on over to ESPN (use the link above which may or may not work) and check out the MLB article titled: Greatest hits, in the palm of your hand.

Sorry H8TRS … no mention of th Zune.  

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