Future of Sports Pt. 2
Hoge & Jahns: a show about the Chicago Bears
Hoge & Jahns
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🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our special two-part series here on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:20.4 | I am Mike Smeltz. |
| 0:21.7 | In episode one, we looked at how the fan experience will change in the near future. |
| 0:26.3 | Now going to the games, watching the games and taking a piece of the games home are shifting |
| 0:31.4 | in the digital age, today we're looking at what is evolving from the player team at |
| 0:36.2 | league perspective. |
| 0:37.4 | Now baseball is a sport that straddles both the cutting edge of innovation and a dedication |
| 0:41.7 | to its roots, one element of the game that has spanned the decades is players and teams |
| 0:47.1 | dedication to cheating. |
| 0:49.1 | It's a big salvo in the war over the stealing signs. |
| 0:53.8 | Everyone's always trying to steal each other's signs, they still are. |
| 0:57.8 | That is, you know, Sarah's baseball writer at the Athletic who often writes about the |
| 1:01.8 | confluence of analytics and gameplay in the sport. |
| 1:05.5 | Sarah's is talking about a new piece of equipment in baseball called pitchcom that yes is |
| 1:11.1 | an advancement in the game but looks like something from 30 years ago. |
| 1:15.8 | So this year they've introduced pitchcom device and it just looks like an old school |
| 1:23.2 | I don't know almost like a pager or something with the big fat buttons on it. |
| 1:27.2 | It's got these big fat buttons on it, it's on the it's on the wrist of the catcher and |
| 1:31.4 | they can press a couple buttons and then it just basically I think it's Bluetooth technology |
| 1:36.9 | and it goes to the hat of the pitcher and it'll actually say slider and the funny thing |
| 1:44.9 | about it is you can record whoever whatever voice you want because they wanted to be able |
| 1:49.4 | to make it Spanish, you know, they wanted to be able to make it any language they wanted |
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