Comments on: Johan Santana’s Pitching Secret – Sony PSP

By: A smarter generation of sports fans - GameWit - The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa, CA - Archive

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:27:54 +0000

[...] Since that time, playing baseball video games, along with fantasy baseball and the wide availability of stat-heavy articles on the Web, has hugely enhanced my understanding of the game. I remember the epiphany I had the first time I saw a right-handed pitcher strike out the left-handed Jim Thome by throwing him nothing but low breaking balls just off the outside corner of the plate, the same pitch I’d used to get Thome out countless times in “MVP Baseball 2005″ on the Xbox. The New York Mets’ Johan Santana, baseball’s best pitcher over the past five seasons, has said he prepares for his starts by using a video game to scout the opposing team’s hitters. [...]

By: Permanent4

Permanent4 — Sat, 28 May 2005 00:01:03 +0000

And I linked to the blog that Techdirt linked to as well. Isn’t blog geneology fun? ;)

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 24 May 2005 23:28:36 +0000

actually i linked to the mediacenter.blogs.com and then said via dave. though i could have found it via techdirt. oh man i am not going to win this argument … giving up. you are right i am wrong ;-)

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Tue, 24 May 2005 23:17:04 +0000

Heh heh heh. Hey Om, I don’t really much care, but just having a little fun with this one…. Since you seem to get so interested in making sure the right blogs give credit, it’s amusing that you link to Dave’s blog, when he clearly found this via Techdirt (so he says) and we found it on the blog that we linked to…

Sometimes figuring out who to give credit to isn’t so obvious. :)

Honestly, I don’t care who gets credit for the story, but figured this was worth using as an example where the “credit” question isn’t always clear.

Mike