The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Last Tuesday post of the day (I promise)

- If you've listened to the podcast, or read my impressions of Madden, you would know that I think the game is a good to very good football game.  I will have to revise that after my game play experience from tonight.

Play with Bill Harris' sliders.  They make the game a great deal better.  There are quite a few settings in the game that needed to be adjusted and once they are right (they're very close with these sliders,) this game will be very good to great in my book.

I just played an incredibly fun game between the Packers and the Rams in my franchise and it was fun to play throughout.  The CPU's passing attack didn't feel completely over powered, my QB threw the ball well and the ball didn't float as much as it has been.  Kick returns actually look like they are possible.  (Punt returns are still not there at all... except for the cpu... but oh, well.)

Really, they are well worth trying out.  It makes the game a good deal better in my estimation.

I did see my first graphical glitch in the game.  I'll try and post the video, but I haven't been able to do that with the previous ones that I've uploaded, but it was a minor one.  In my case it looked like Aaron Rodgers had a hip pad sticking at a 45 degree angle out of his right side.  It was odd and didn't affect anything, but it was noticeable.

- Is there a rule about when you finally stop saying how far back your team is?  On the radio this morning they keep saying, Milwaukee... who is 9 back in the division and 7 back in the wild card...  Seriously, they're out of it.  You can stop giving the numbers until they're within 5.  At this point they're just playing out the string.  It'd be nice to see Fielder take the RBI title, but that's a pretty empty achievement if your team isn't even above .500.

There is a lot of talk about trading Prince now to try and get pitching, and it has to be the best time to do so.  You have Gamel, who is due to be your next power hitter, ready to come up... and could probably take over 1st next season.  You have Escobar who is proving every day that JJ Hardy should be traded.  You just need to get some pitching help.  A starter or two in the off season and this team could make a nice run again.  As it is though, they'll put up some runs... but can't get anyone out.   Ugh.

- I don't think I mentioned it the other day, but how about Y.E. Yang?  The shots he hit on the 14th and 18th were the ones that everyone would expect Tiger to make... not the 110th ranked player in the world.  It was an awesome finish to that tournament.

I love watching Tiger play and just shaking my head as he makes the incredibly difficult shots look easy, but you could almost see a smirk on his face when Yang won... like he was savoring what it felt like to actually lose a tournament... something he doesn't do very often... and honestly, I wouldn't expect him to do much again in the future.