It all started in 2005, I remember it like a bad dream. it was january.I was at work, stocking the shelves (wow... life really sucked back then) when my brother texted me the horrible horrible horrible news- 2K Sports had signed a7 year exclusive rights contract with the MLB. i was floored. no more MVP baseball, THE only reason i had to live back then. there have been very few times in my life where i got light headed from video games. there was the epic 23 straight hours of Ocarina in Time in 1998, the first time i killed a slime in Dragon Warrior, the first time i broke 4000 yards rushing with barry sanders on tecmo super bowl, and now this?I had briefly dabbled in MLB 2k5... just long enough to know that if i had to settle with that game, my controller cord would be used more likely as a noose then to connect to my system. God help us all, i cried...
MLB 2K6 came out and i thought "It cant be that bad right?" Yes... it can. horrible glitches, animation flaws, graphic disasters, horrible controls (seriously, WHY WOULD MY FIELDER ACT TAHT WAY? AND CAN DAVID ORTIZ REALLY GET AN INSIDE THE PARK HOMERUN OFF OF ME?) for the better part of 3 monthes, i played Ken Griffey Jr's baseball for super nintendo... that was my release when it came to baseball games. God help us all... i cried yet again.
Maybe God works in mysterious ways. maybe God likes irony. maybe Gods the type of person that thinks its funny to scare the living crap out of you before giving you what you want... but by a stroke of luck, i ran into quite the patch of luck. I was promoted at work, but in order to get my promotion, i had get on an air plane and go get management training. gravy, i thought, what in the world am i gonna do on a plane for 6 hours, in a hotel for the better part of 4 days, and another 5 hour plane ride back? God help us all... i cried yet again.
Maybe God is a long lost brother of Beetlejuice, cause it was that very same day that i decided to go get myself a PSP...Luckily for me, i went to gamestop and traded in a ton of games... and my gamecube. they were running a weekend promotion- trade in 6 games, get an extra 50% on what you trade in... that left me just 22 dollars short of sealing the deal on a PSP.i decided to go for it....but what games?as a big tetris freak, Lumines was a no brainer... but as ive been known to do, playing lumines for 6 straight hours, and then going to atraining session. doesnt sound good. maybe before bed so i can dream of big blocks and get vertigo then. as i was looking through the games, i stumbled on MLB The Show 06... What is this? No Derek Jeter on the cover? no lame usage ofY2K in the title? i have to try this out this could save me!!!!!!!!!
since that day of enlightenment, i have enjoyed the show... more then anyone will ever know. for 2006 and 2007, i used my PSP after failed attempts at giving 2K and its joke of a game the benefit of the doubt. All i could ever think about was that Uncle Pennybags, laughing his monicle wearing top hat sporting coat tail strutting old bag straight to the bank after getting duped again into buying into the craptastic game series that is MLB 2K.Do not pass go, do not collect 200, and theres derek jeter, yet again, defying all logic and going6-6 with 5 homeruns and with the range of a gazelle at short stop...
Hate is a strong word, but there are several things i hate in a video gaming world. Dr. Wiley, Ganondorf, bowser, kirby (how can a pink fluff give me NIGHTMARES?) and MLB 2K anything. last year, i caved and bought a PS3 after developing some vision problems, probably stemming from my countless hours of staring at a PSP. the reasons? reason-singular-uno-one reason. MLB THE SHOW >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> MLB 2K.
