Fixing Arm Problems

With the start of spring training and my pirates gearing up for another unsuccesful season, i have been following what the new management is doing to protect there young pitchers arms. Any pirate fan knows the problem with pitchers the pirates often have had with three top picks having tommy john surgery. So this year all pirates pro and minor league will eventually go to alabama to a facility where the leading doctor for tommy john has created. All the pirates will throw while attached to electronic devices that will show them on a computer. The facility will be able to pin point any flaws in there mechanics and will look to show where the most stress is on the pitchers arms to hopefully prevent any more arm injuries. I hope it helps because if the pirates ever plan to contend they have to keep there young arms healthy.

Field Expierence

Today for my 274 Assesment Strageties we went to Neshannock Elementary School. It was really cool for the first time to get a small taste of what we are going to be doing someday. Especially since it culminated all that we had learned through out the semester and we got to use what we learned in the real world. We got to break the class into smaller numbers so we each only had 2 students which made it real easy. It was a challenge for me beacause of the two kids who was in the sixth grade could not read well and i had to help him through the self assesment. Overall it was a great expierence and look forward to more.

New Football Mouthpiece

Yesterday on ESPN outside the lines i watched a new piece of technology that may help NFL players. A new mouthpiece has been created by a company that may help reduce concussions. The new mouthpiece is much larger and thicker but it prevents your upper jam from slamming into your head. That is the main cause the company says is your upper jam hitting the bottom of your skull. Hopefully this new mouth piece can be succesfull and pro long the careers of all football players.

Tivo

After expierencing shows Tivoed (taped) it is hard for me to watch regular TV other than sports live. It allows you to skip through all the pointless stuff like commercials and usless time during shows. Shows such as Deal or No Deal it takes an hour for a contestant to open 20 cases, because of commercials and the host Howie Mandel drags out the show to try to create more intense moment. When we Tivo the show we can just fastforward untill they open the case watch it fast forward to the offer and continue the process. It takes about 15 minutes of real time to watch the hour long show, thats 45 minutes of garbage that cable pumps in erased!

HD Super Bowl

This past Sunday i got to watch the Super Bowl for the first time in High Definition. My buddy has a 42 inch Sony Plasma in his apartment. I had watch several Steeler games there so i knew how great high definition was, but something about the super bowl made it even better. It might have been the magnitude of the game or so much color it was enhanced by the HD. I can not wait to get my own high definition TV.