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Ever subscribe to an email list at work with some question like “does anyone have a sample personnel manual they could share?” and then that’s followed by 23 people on the list who say “me too”?

Well, this is a Blog “Me Too” post. Basically I want to reiterate what Bill had said a few posts back. The MVP NCAA 06 Baseball reviews were just ripping into a game for what it isn’t (MLB) versus what it is (NCAA).

I can say that this game with certain options on (hello zone hitting) has rekindled my love of baseball games. I’ve only had it for three days, but I’m going to get it out there — this is up there with High Heat. I’m really enjoying this game. Some of the issues I had with last year’s MVP have been corrected and as long as you’re using the behind the batter cam, it looks great.

The ESPN ticker is a very nice touch.

There is one “WTF” caveat with this game, and it’s for those of you that play the game online. Some complete moron at EA decided to put the “mute” command on the left thumbstick button. As you know the left thumbstick can be pushed down as a button. Many games avoid this ‘button’ becuase you inadvertently hit the ‘button’ when you move the thumbstick.

So you’re playing a great game over Xbox live, you say hello to your competitor and throw the first pitch. You are throwing low and outside the strike zone. Then poof, you can’t hear your opponent. Your opponent who swung high on the pitch, also can’t hear you. Your opponent thinks he hit the mute button, so he hits the button to unmute you. The problem is that you are the one that muted yourself. You then hit your button to unmute, but now your opponent has muted himself. You go through this exercise on every play. Sure is fun!

At least with Madden, you had a red or green icon to show if you were muted or not, instead you have the ESPN ticker taking up that part of the screen. I do not have a manual with the game (I gamefly’d it), so if I’m missing something here, can you clue me in?

I’d love to really enjoy this puppy online!

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