Well, It's been a while.

With a combination of a busy, but awesome, weekend and being sick the last 4 days, twogging has not been on the top of my list of things to do. But fortunately I'm back for the time being.

Im going to touch on sports video games. The post will be short and I'll hopefully be able to go back to my Braves preview before Sunday's season opener.

Okay so all my life I really haven't played all that many video games, mostly cause I just get bored. But one exception has been sports video games. My favorite games are definitely Ken Griffey Junior Baseball from '97, ESPN Football, and NCAA 09. But since Griffey Junior 12 years ago there hasn't been a baseball game that I could play all weekend. But I know there is one out there, unfortunately it's on the PS3. First off I'm going to talk about the poor excuse for a baseball title called MLB 2K8, which is what I'm stuck with on the 360. MLB 2K8 looks okay, but in the end you just find yourself incredibly frustrated by the unbelievably lazy production value. Keep in mind that the 2K8 series is the only baseball title available for the 360, so the most played next-gen system is stuck with this POS.

Things that infuriate me about this game:

1) The incredibly small text on all the menu screens. Think of a windows screen with size 8 font, on every single important screen. It makes playing in bed, which is a mere 4 feet from the screen) absolutely impossible, and I must play video games in comfort.

2) Jon Miller and Joe Morgan: my absolute least favorite announcers on earth. Joe Morgan manages to make me angry even though I know I'm not actually listening to him talk.

3) The opposing pitchers never throw balls. I was facing Johan Santana and I let every pitch through for 5 innings and he through 2 balls. 2!!!!!!

4) Elite players will hit a home run every time you throw the ball in the strike zone. Well, not every time. But when facing Manny Ramirez I threw him 3 unhittable 89mph sliders down and in, and he hit 2 of them for Home Runs and the other to the gap for a double. Same goes for Pujols, Justin Morneau, Alex Rodriguez and so on.

5) They mispronounce at least 30 players names. I mean, come on.

6) The whole pregame thing that they do. THe Screen is unnecessarily busy. There are far too many things to look at and think about. I like simplicity on-screen, and I think everyone else does as well.

There are still a bunch of things that are wrong with the game. But to be honest I'm getting frustrated thinking about them. So I'm going to move on to the game that has been said to be good enough to get inducted into Cooperstown. MLB the Show 09 improves upon the Show 08 and makes me want to buy a PS3 as soon as I have $400. I played it on my brothers system back home and it was incredible. Realistic graphics (unlike the cartoonish 2K8), incredibly fluid gameplay, engaging play calling, and plays like the script of the game wasn't written prior to opening the box.

Either way, I'll have a PS3 soon. My roommates will be happy for Blu-Ray, I'll be happy for the Show.