With Spring training a little over a month away, it’s time to get back into baseball mode, and changes to improve the game have been made.
One of those, according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, is that the MLB will no longer be using land lines and will instead switch over to T-Mobile devices.
Rovell says that the 4G T-Mobile phones will have their own encrypted network so that fans or other people in the stadium won’t be able to access.
So, the next time you see a manager trying to make a call to his bullpen to get X reliever warming up, he won’t be doing it on a land line telephone, but a cell phone.
Some Twitter responses to the news:
Can't wait til a manager doesnt get service, loses phone, dials wrong #, etc. Good times ahead.
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 9, 2013
Oh yes! RT @eitancramer: @JimmyTraina player sends an inappropriate pic while bored in the bullpen…..
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 9, 2013