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SMS or iMessage is probably too slow, trainers were probably using physical cues (like if I touch my cap it's a slider) to relay messages.
by 40acres 9y ago
SMS or iMessage is probably too slow, trainers were probably using physical cues (like if I touch my cap it's a slider) to relay messages.
- jdoliner 9y agoMaybe it was: if I touch my Apple watch it's a slider, if I touch my Android watch it's a fast ball. The article seemed fairly confident they were using the Apple watch for something.
- giarc 9y agoNo... from the article "The commissioner’s office then confronted the Red Sox, who admitted that their trainers had received signals from video replay personnel and then relayed that information to some players — an operation that had been in place for at least several weeks." The video replay personnel are sending messages, via Apple watch to the trainers.
- 40acres 9y agoAh I see, I'm referring to the message transaction from trainer to player.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoThe most effective (and hard to spot) way IMO would be some sort of custom app that would do different wrist tap patterns. The players on the field wouldn't need to look at the watch at all.
- sibartlett 9y agoI don’t think the camera room were relaying the signs, but rather what the signs meant. So that when a base runner was at 2nd they’d understand the signs they were seeing.