The Giants have struck a partnership with Halo Neuroscience, a S.F.-based developer of neuropriming products for both professional and recreational athletes. The company produces the Halo Sport, a headphone-shaped device that provides mild electric pulses to create stronger signals between a user's brain and muscles. The Giants have deployed about 40 total Halo Sport units at AT&T Park, the club's spring training complex in Scottsdale as well as some of its minor league clubs (Eric Fisher, Staff Writer).
WIN-NOW MODE: In Boston, Jason Mastrodonato wrote the Red Sox are "at a crossroads." If they "fall flat in the playoffs again and go without a postseason win for the fourth consecutive season, there are going to be some deservedly disappointed and, perhaps, angry fans in New England." But attendance at Fenway Park the past three years "averaged 2.93 million fans per season, still higher than anything the Red Sox enjoyed before winning their second World Series this century" in '07. Even after a season in which "so many things went right -- like 2016 did for the Red Sox -- predicting how things might turn out in a short playoff series is becoming harder and harder" (BOSTON HERALD, 3/31).
A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME: The Pirates on Wednesday set a new Spring Training single-season record for total attendance during the '17 Grapefruit League season with 106,291 total fans attending games at LECOM Park. This season marks the third consecutive in which the Pirates drew more than 100,000 fans. Ballpark Digest and Spring Training Online earlier this week also named LECOM Park the "Best Ballpark in the Grapefruit League," voted on by readers of each publication. This spring the Pirates averaged 6,252 fans a game (Pirates).
