If Eddy Cue were a baseball player, he might step up to the plate, grin widely, point his bat at the lights over center field, and say, “This one’s for the fans,” before slugging a homer over the centerfield fence. I mean, I’m guessing here, but if Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services could announce Apple’s new Sports app thematically, that might be the way. Cue’s enthusiasm for the new app, which drops in the App Store in the US, UK, and Canada today (February 21) for iPhones running iOS 17.2 or later (there’s no iPad or Vision Pro support for now) and which delivers real-time stats, plays, and more across a growing array of major league sports, was evident when I spoke to him last week. “If you’re a sports fan, I think you’re going to be very happy with it,” Cue told me after giving me a brief, whirlwind demo of the card-based app. […]