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

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As you can tell I haven't posted in a while.  No real excuse, just haven't.

Over the weekend the family and I want to see the new X-Men movie.  It's not a must see, but we all like it.  It was fun seeing the development of characters and there are some good action sequences.  I didn't realize going into it that this was considered a reboot of the franchise and as such saw some continuity issues between this film and the last 4.  I just assumed it was a prequel.  Knowing about the reboot going in would have alleviated some questions during the movie.

I've been playing some more MLB2K11 post patch.  I still like the game, but still don't feel drawn to it like I was with 2k10.  I've had twice now where a ball hit to center would be picked up by the outfielder and they would not throw it in.  The runner gets to 2nd base and all of a sudden I have the ball.  You never see the OF throw it, or the ball travel thru the air.  I've also had 1 case where when attempting to steal home the pitcher went thru the motion, the ball moved 2 feet then stopped in mid air.  After I scored the ball continue to the plate and a ball was called.  Speaking of stealing I've noticed that with runners on the corners, if the guy on 1st takes off for 2nd, the catcher usually just holds the ball.  Sometimes if it's me stealing 2nd he will throw to 3rd, but he never throws when I'm the one on 3rd.  I never saw any of those 3 situations pre-patch.

Is tomorrow going to be a big day?  A year ago I would have bet on it, but after seeing IGN give a negative review and the comments I've heard about the demo I'm just not so sure.  I'm sure I'll end up going to the store and picking up Duke, but I'm just not as excited for it as I thought I would be.  I'm not sure about Glen and Dan, but I'll be getting the PC version...assuming I get it at all.

Glad to see Miami get beat.  Once the Celtics were out, I didn't care who won as long as it wasn't Miami.

Speaking of Boston, the B's are trying to force a game 7 tonight.  As many of you know, I'm not a big hockey fan, but I am a Boston sports fan, so I have to pull for the B's.  I've watched more hockey in this years playoffs than in the past 10 years combined.  I have to admit I've enjoyed it too.  I doubt I would enjoy it so much if I didn't have a team I was really pulling for