Useful apps or just silly?

April 10, 2014

iPhone Screenshot 2Because you can keep your smart phone on a bookshelf.

For those who absolutely need to be as up-to-date as possible when it comes to the status of possible no-hitters, apparently there’s an app for that.

I’ve got problems right off the bat (as it were) as the developer opens the site with “Never miss perfection. No‑hitter alerts, direct to your iPhone and iPad” because, as we all know, a pitcher doesn’t have to have be “perfect” to throw a no-hitter.

I don’t know how much space this takes up, but for the few times it will actually be useful, I’m going to skip it.

Another time suck but much more interactive is MLB’s PrePlay in which you have to predict various scenarios of games in real time. Kind of fun, but the point is to accumulate points which ostensibly can be used in exchange for merchandise (?). I’ve got that one on my iPhone but you really have to be quick; you only have seconds to offer answers such as will Batter X make a hit or an out, and what kind of hit or out will it be. The more accurate you are, the higher your score. There’s practically no time to look into pitcher-hitter matchups, so it really moves.

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