Gonzo on the cover of MLB 2012 The Show

I got 99 problems, but a gaming system that doesn’t have good baseball games is not one

No need to chew the guy out. He’s entitled to his opinions, even if it differs from your’s. I, for one, agree with him. He makes a good point about why the Red Sox are even on it. I’d never by anything with Adrian on it anyways. I’m still pissed he sold out and will probably hate the guy forever. And why should it matter if he’s only posted 3 comments? Maybe he/she’s is busy and actually has a life.

I was just busting your balls but that would probably be better reserved for people I have a preexisting rapport with.

Am I not cool like you are?

I’m not a cool guy anymore. As if I ever was before.

What do you do? Make like 5 games a year and think you’re a fan?

Nope. I only make a couple games a year max when they’re in Pittsburgh and/or Cincinnasty and I KNOW I’m a fan. If I should ever happen to wonder whether I’m a fan or not I’ll just look down at my left hand and that ought to remind me.
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I will enjoy (mlb.)TV and I’m certain you will enjoy your season tickets. Everybody wins (except the Red Sox in September).
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P.S.: Welcome!

t’s not even that it has Gonzo but more or less a team that didn’t go to the series

If they put a current Padres player on there (Hundley?) you wouldn’t like that either since the Padres didn’t make the playoffs last year?

I’m really confused by your rage. I imagine practically nobody buys a sports game just because of who is on the cover. The people who are going to buy this game (self included) are going to buy it for the actual content of the game.

I can think of only time I bought something because a player was featured for it. I bought some Wheaties that had Tony Gwynn on the box. An important fact for this story is that I was going to buy cereal that day anyways.

The trouble with sports games is you only have last season to go by. So you could put Rangers and Cardinals onto the cover of the 2012 game, but you’ve already dated yourself. Couple that with free agency and trading and by the time that you pick a player, there’s the outside chance that he’s already moved on to a different team which makes your cover look even more ridiculous. Besides, the face of the Texas franchise right now would be Yu Darvish, but there’s no way you stick him onto a cover.

And even overlooking all that, I’m still not sure what the anger is for. It’s not like somebody buying the game in June, when the Red Sox could very well be in first place in the EAst, will look at the cover and say, “MLB the Show has Adrian Gonzalez on the cover? But they choked last season!”

no idea if it works with playstion move though.

Not too long ago, I bought a shitload of Gatorades with Eli Manning on them. And I HAAAAAAAATE Eli Manning. I just peeled the labels off. That simple.

I’m not a gamer; in fact, the only games I’ve played since the heyday of original Tetris have been The Show, The Bigs and College Football ‘0-something- and very sparingly at that. But it seems to me that nobody I know- and pretty much every one of my friends is a crackhead for the controllers- gives a good gotdang about the cover. I know if there was a game I wanted to play, it wouldn’t matter to me if the cover featured Matt Cain, Darren McFadden, Andre Ethier, Eric Clapton and a rottweiler running a train on my late grandmother. I own a trash can.