Thursday thoughts.
So, after playing pretty badly my last two times in goal, I managed to put together a pretty impressive game last night. Got beat on a couple really nice shots, but also made a few saves that I could actually be proud of. It was nice to get back into a groove after not playing well for a while.
Ok, back to gaming…
1. I sent back a game to Gamefly on Monday, and another on Wednesday and none of the things in my queue have shipped yet. Good to see that Rapid Return is working well. I don’t know why I put up with a company like this. The best case scenario seems to be a minimum of 3 to 4 day turn around for games. Worst case, you can be looking at a week or more.
Compare them to Netflix which has 44 distribution centers, to just 2 for Gamefly. That’s just plain ridiculous. I’m half tempted to just cancel the damn service and go back to renting games from local stores again.
2. We hit 500,000 visitors today. Very cool stuff. Hopefully the new things that we’re working on will be available in the next few weeks. I’ll keep all of you posted.
3. The NB….Yawn…. Sorry about that. The NBA draft is tonight. Can’t think of an event that I care less about at this point. I did get an interesting article from Bill Harris of Dubious Quality talking about Alando Tucker though.
4. The Brewers have a series with the Cubs this weekend. Hopefully they’ll keep playing as well as they have since being no hit (12-2.)
Speaking of no hitters, one of the Brewers bigger prospects threw a perfect game at AAA on Monday night. For a team that had absolutely nothing in their farm system for the most of the last 15 years, it’s so cool to see this much talent moving through the system.
I’d personally like to thank the Texas Rangers for firing Doug Melvin a few years ago, so he could come up here. I met him at an even two years ago and I was amazed at how candid he was about trades and such. He spoke to me about the details of a trade that almost got done and about the players that he was asking for from the other teams. It really made me like the guy a great deal.
5. The Playstation Network gets Super Stardust HD, a Dynasty Warriors: Gundam demo, the new GTA IV trailer, and a few other trailers. Also, the Resistance: Fall of Man map packs will be out tomorrow. Not bad.