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Some thoughts on baseball videogames

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 28, 2006 at 2:46 pm

Here’s something I submitted several times to 2K Games. They had an “Ask the developer” series where you could submit questions, and the devs would address them. I sent this several times, and never got a reply, so I’m posting it here. It’s about uniform number issues in baseball videgames.
One thing that always bothers me about every baseball game is the callous attention paid to uniform number control. I see two issues here:
1) Retired Numbers
2) Number collision
With the first one, I think it would be cool to have each team have their real numbers as blocked off and then in franchise mode, you could retire other players’ numbers, too.
With the second, there’s nothing to stop me from having an entire team with the same number if I wanted to edit the players. If you play enough franchise mode, players get moved around alot, and you end up with more than one guy on the same team with the same uniform number. I wish it would be possible for the game to recognize that the team alraedy has a #27 (random number picked for this example), and then if you create a new player, sign a FA, or trade for someone who has #27, you get asked what you want to do about it.
Or failing that, at least let us be able to edit uniform numbers. I can understand not wanting to edit players in franchise mode, but for those of us who care about editing our own rosters to be as accurate as possible, the inability to edit uniform numbers is fairly annoying. Course all this could be turned off, or better yet have to be turned on as an option for those who want this kind of micromanaging.

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Mark Teixeira on videogames

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 28, 2006 at 2:35 pm

I found this when it was first posted, but forgot to mention it. IGN had posted an interview with Mark Teixeira back on March 14th where he talks mostly about baseball videogames. It’s a different interview from the usual ones you read about winning, losing, baseball, etc. Here’s a few tidbits from it:

IGN Sports: Who is a better hitter, you or the guy in MLB 2K?
Mark Teixeira: It depends what difficulty I’m playing on. If I’m playing on Easy, then I’m pretty good, but if the pitchers are set to All-Star in the game, I think I do better in real life.
IGN Sports: So I know what kind of hitter you’re going to be in the videogame, but if I’m hitting against you on Xbox Live, what kind of pitcher are you going to be?
Mark Teixeira: I definitely mix it up. I know everyone looks fastball, so I’m going to throw a lot of off-speed pitches, some sliders, and I’m going to get you to swing at some bad pitches.
IGN Sports: Who is a better hitter, you or the guy in MLB 2K?
Mark Teixeira: It depends what difficulty I’m playing on. If I’m playing on Easy, then I’m pretty good, but if the pitchers are set to All-Star in the game, I think I do better in real life.

Go check out the full interview with Mark, it’s a pretty good read.

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Roster Moves Begin

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 27, 2006 at 11:48 pm

The slew of roster moves this week begins. On Monday night, we released Eurbiel Durazo, and placed John Wasdin on waivers.
Durazo isn’t that much of a shock. He’s not 100% healthy (I think), and there didn’t appear to be a spot for him. On the broadcast tonight, Jon Daniels said that they knew he wasn’t going to make the team, and told him now, so he could have a little extra time to hook up with someone else. His contract stated he had to be told by Wed whether or not he was going to make the club.
Wasdin is a little more of a surprise, although he hasn’t pitched terribly well this spring. I thought he was a servicable, if not great pitcher during his time here, and my intial response was “That was a surprise” until I looked at his numbers.
This probably means that Fabio Castro will likely (IMO) be on the roster when the season starts Monday.

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Durazo Released

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 27, 2006 at 11:44 pm

  • IF Eurbiel Durazo Released
  • P John Wasdin placed on irrevocable waivers [ Link ]

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ST24: Rangers lose to Mariners 10-9 on Monday

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 27, 2006 at 11:09 pm

Well, it was a big Rangers TV night. There was a 2006 Season preview show, the regular half hour pregame show, and then the game was on TV. A good night for Rangers on the TV.
However, Edinson Volquez stunk up the joint in the first inning. He gave up a six spot there, and while that’s never good, he wasn’t really hit around hard. A few bloopers, a call on the field that didn’t go our way. I’m not trying to absolve hium, but it’s not like he was murdered either.
However, in the bottom of the first, Gil Meche walked the bases full, and had Laynce Nix down looking silly with some curveballs. He then inexplicably grooved Nix a fastball down the middle, and Nix wailed it for a grand slam, to make it 6-4 in the first inning. The game went on like that for awhile, back and forth (with more home runs by Dellucci, Mench, and another one from Nix) until the 8th when it was tied up 9-9. We then gave up a run in the 9th and couldn’t get a run across in the bottom of the ninth.
Was nice seeing all this offense – the key word being seeing – I liked seeing the Rangers on TV again. This is the last game I’ll see on TV though until Tuesday the 4th of April, as I’ll be at the Sat Apr 1 and Mon Apr 3 (Opening Day) games. :)

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ST23: Rangers beat Brewers 4-3, on TV!

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 26, 2006 at 5:39 pm

No time for game commentary, but it was a great game. Plus it was on TV.
The game was really great, nice close one, however these “corporate guests” during spring training broadcasts have to go. I mean, does anyone care to hear what the rep from Reliant Energy has to say? Who cares, talk baseball, please – and not do an ad piece for your sponsor company. Can’t wait until we get Lexus touting how great it is to be involved with the Rangers. Sigh. Thank God for TiVo, so I can skip over these extended advertisements.
Rangers Captain knawing on Chuck Morgan’s head was funny, though.

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Mahay

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 26, 2006 at 5:16 pm

  • P Ron Mahay reassigned to minor league camp [ Link ]

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Roster Transactions

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 25, 2006 at 10:57 pm

  • P Kevin Walker assigned to minor league camp [ Link ]
  • OF Jason Botts optioned to AAA [ Link ]

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ST22: Rangers lose 3-2 to Rockies on Saturday

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 25, 2006 at 5:21 pm

No time for commentary on this game.

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ST21: Rangers beat Cubs, 5-1

Posted by Joe Siegler on March 24, 2006 at 10:03 pm

I was listening to this game as I was doing a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Draft. I did something I know is against just about every piece of advice. Never draft a player based off of something they’re doing in a game you’re listening to. But it was a Rangers Fan League, so I had to do the homer thing. When Kevin Mench jacked a home run in the game, he was my next pick in the draft. I’m so ashamed. :)
Rod Barajas also added a second home run later in the game to go with Mench’s. That was really all we needed, but we also had an RBI contribution from Laynce Nix to go with the two each from Mench & Barajas. Actually, we didn’t have a lot of offense either. Our total hits were 7. 3 from Mench, 2 from Barajas, and one each from Nix & Teixeira.
The Cubs threw their ace, Carlos Zambrano, who took the loss. He did, however, go 6 innings, giving up 6 hits, and 4ER on one walk, and 5 K’s. He was hurt by the longball – if it wasn’t for the two jacks, he would have an awesome line.
R.A. Dickey had a better night. He went six (being the first Ranger pitcher to go at least 5 innings), and gave up ZERO runs on 3 hits with 1 walk and 3 strikeouts. A very nice line for him. Very nice. Probably helps him in the race for the fifth starter. However, the Rangers site mentions that we have some talks going on with the Braves (who want bullpen help) for former Ranger John Thomson (FA after 06). While I think RA helped himself last night, he needs to do that four or five times in a row – he’s been pretty inconsistant his entire career (to me, anyway).
I also direct you to this article by John Vittas over at MVP Network on last night’s Rangers game, RA Dickey, John Thomson, and a bunch of issues on the health of our players. Was a good read.

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