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Quote from: CT III on January 07, 2012, 11:00:45 AM
I don't see how it would benefit Lovie to walk away and take a job in Tampa.

Because the Tampa-2 would fit in PERFECTLY.

TPD.  It just assploded on Twitter.  Cashner and Kyung-Min Na for 1B Anthony Rizzo and P prospect Zach Cates.

Andrew Cashner?  I can't find anything more reliable.

What the hell is Cubs Insider?  Other than Starlin's chick's allegations?

/FORKSHOT

I'm still sad about the Kyle Farnsworth trade.

Quote from: BH on January 03, 2012, 01:12:37 PM
Mike Martz quit citing philosophical differences.

I read this as, "Mike Martz, quit citing philosophical differences!"

And I laughed.

Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on January 03, 2012, 07:55:48 AM

Quote from: Kermit IV on December 31, 2011, 05:31:30 PM
DPD.  So, I switch back to The Show, and during some downtime, the P.A. announcer at Wrigley tells me to be sure to get my subscription to Vineline.  The 2K series has absolutely no chance of ever catching up to this game.

2K's license is up after 2012's game I believe.  I read a while back that both parties are not interested in reupping the deal.  Don't know what this means for MLB on XBOX, but maybe a return of EA to baseball.

Either way, if you have a PS3 there's no reason to ever buy a 2K baseball game.

Hilariously, it's TAKE-TWO rather than the MLB that doesn't want to renew the deal.  Don't want to lose money on a baseball game?  Don't make a shitty baseball game.  Actually, don't make seven years of shitty baseball games in a row.  We'll at least be fooled for the first few.

As for what will happen in the post-2K world, I can't wait to see.  I would suspect MS will find a way to get baseball on the 360 (or whatever the next-gen console is).  BRING BACK HIGH HEAT!

DPD.  So, I switch back to The Show, and during some downtime, the P.A. announcer at Wrigley tells me to be sure to get my subscription to Vineline.  The 2K series has absolutely no chance of ever catching up to this game.

Against my better instincts, I picked up Major League Baseball 2K11 for $10.  Holy fuck, The Show makes that game look even more awful than it actually is.  The only TINY advantage 2K11 has over MLB '11 was that the presentation and commentary is surprisingly good.  But I heard that's the biggest thing they're overhauling for MLB '12.  Meaning even at $10, 2K12 won't be worth it.

Quote from: CT III on December 30, 2011, 05:16:48 PM

Quote from: Kermit IV on November 22, 2011, 12:20:40 PM
No one?

SPOILERS:

It's at least twice as good as The Walking Dead.

The best part about this show is that AMC has insisted on constantly running The Outlaw Josey Wales as a lead in.  I assume they want us to draw parallels between the main characters, but in my case it has only highlighted the fact that watching Josey Wales kill every bastard he runs across from Missouri to Mexico is way better than watching anyone from Hell On Wheels do anything.

Yeah.  It's surprisingly boring.  Like if you sucked all of the character out of Deadwood.

Quote from: Slaky on December 14, 2011, 04:21:52 PM
I hear it's a mess on PS3. I have it on XBox and have had zero issues with anything, really. Just finding that this game is bigger than any game I've ever seen and equally as fun. I think this game destroys New Vegas honestly and I'm the biggest Fallout fanboy around. I truly hope Fallout 4 steals everything from this game.

This is good to know.  I like Fallout 3 and NV, but for whatever reason, I just couldn't get into them as much as everyone else who played them seemed to.  Skyrim seems so universally beloved, I've been tempted by it since it came out.  I was trying to find some comparisons to Fallout, but most comparisons are to Oblivion, so it's good to hear a Fallout fanboy saying it's way better.

It was terrific.  If you don't have kids, go see it anyhow.

I still think DeVito is a terrible fit for this show, but it seemed like he improvised the entire boat tour, and it was the best he's ever been.  It was fun watching him look back fondly on the series.

The anime segment was fantastic.  Also, Donald Glover and Danny Pudi are two of the best things on television right now.  The other two things are Annie's Boobs.  Her Dark Knight voice was outstanding.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on December 01, 2011, 10:24:53 AM

Quote from: Kermit IV on November 30, 2011, 11:20:29 PM

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on November 30, 2011, 08:33:15 PM

Quote from: Kermit IV on November 30, 2011, 08:24:48 PM
When you boil the entire SOPHIA HUNT down to less than two minutes, it's still boring and shitty.

I'm on record as saying that this season has offered a lot of boring TV thanks to some regrettably shitty writing, but that's retarded.

Anything will be boring if you edit together two minutes of its most boring parts.

I don't really understand why they didn't include Rick blowing her unholy head off.  But I honestly think that was a highlight reel of that tedious hunt.

Really?

Missing from it: Carl getting shot by Otis. Daryl wasting a precious arrow on the zombie in the tree. Daryl hallucinating about Merle, shooting a zombie in the head with an arrow he'd just pulled through his own abdomen and making himself an ear necklace. Andrea shooting Daryl in the head. Andrea and Shane opening fire on a pack of suburban zombies and getting so hot they have to bump uglies in the Hyundai afterward. Zombie Sophia emerging from the zombie barn and Rick tapping her in her zombie skull.

Honestly, you could probably edit together 2 full minutes of just Daryl badassery from SOPHIA HUNT and it would probably come off as pretty decent. But it's beside the point.

Sophia was the MacGuffin: the reason for the group to stay around Greene Farm (and the reason for the injuries sustained while looking for her) but otherwise largely irrelevant.

I mean, how many minutes of screen time of this season's 5 hours 15 minutes have actually been devoted to looking for her? Not all that much outside of the first episode and "Chupacabra" (which were, incidentally, this season's best episodes). The search for Sophia is what has set the scene for everything else. And it's the everything else that has mostly sucked.

This season has sucked so far because of Lori's constant dramas.

It's sucked because of various characters' (Lori, Andrea, Dale) constant bitching and moaning.

It's sucked because, as hot as Maggie may be and as glad we all were to see her finally jump Glenn's bones, every single conversation between the two of them makes me want to stab myself in the brain.

It has sucked because the bulk of the many discussions about why anyone should even bother to go on living after the zombie apocalypse (arguably the theme underlying everything in these seven episodes) have been dull and uninspired thanks to a combination of singularly dull and uninspired dialogue and some shitty acting (I'm looking at you, Sarah Wayne Callies).

Please allow me to wallow in my bitterness as well as celebrate the fact that I got this HateWGN rolling.

You are right, of course, about Daryl's involvement in SOPHIA HUNT.  That guy is far and away the most interesting part of this show, meaning they'll probably kill him off in February.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on November 30, 2011, 08:33:15 PM

Quote from: Kermit IV on November 30, 2011, 08:24:48 PM
When you boil the entire SOPHIA HUNT down to less than two minutes, it's still boring and shitty.

I'm on record as saying that this season has offered a lot of boring TV thanks to some regrettably shitty writing, but that's retarded.

Anything will be boring if you edit together two minutes of its most boring parts.

I don't really understand why they didn't include Rick blowing her unholy head off.  But I honestly think that was a highlight reel of that tedious hunt.