If you had to choose one

[xxpujols4mvpxx]

If you had to choose one what would it be?

1.The regular MLB season on April 3rd.
2.MLB 2k6 for the 360

[beltranfan05]

I don't get it. So, if I choose 1, there will be no 360 version? and if I choose MLB 2k6, theres no MLB season?

I don't really understand the question. But, probably MLB Season

[xxpujols4mvpxx]

yes, thats what i mean.

[DaoudS]

**** the game, i love baseball too much not to watch it.

[xxpujols4mvpxx]

me too. man

[baandje]

**** the game, i love baseball too much not to watch it.
I cancelled my MLB TV subscription. I HATE the fact baseball continues to go without instant replays, and draconian, outdated rules like the home plate ump having the authority to make calls that should have been discussed by all whole crew.

That garbage totally ruined the playoffs for me last year, and from what I'm reading on the internet (don't have TV), d.ickhead cheater ump Bob Davidson sounds like he was single-handedly trying to ensure the U.S. won the WBC. Idiocy like that drives me nuts. Personally, I couldn't care less if they even played baseball again, until MLB gets its act together with regards to all the bush league stuff.

So, I guess my answer would be: I'd prefer 2K6 out on time.

[DaoudS]

Yea, Davidson was a TERRIBLE ump in the WBC. Also, they do need some sort of a new umpiring system.

However, I enjoy the no replays; it would only slow down the game more.

[baandje]

Yea, Davidson was a TERRIBLE ump in the WBC. Also, they do need some sort of a new umpiring system.

However, I enjoy the no replays; it would only slow down the game more.
Davidson should be investigated. Clearly something weird was happening there -- the guy getting paid off or something.

There are usually 1-2 plays a game that need review -- I don't think that would slow things down. I watched probably 200 games last year. By far, the biggest problem umps had, was getting the close play at first correct. I kept a running tally, and at one point over a 4 week period or so, the umps in the different games got the call wrong 10 times in a row. That's ridiculous, given the instant replay in every case clearly showed the runner to be either out or safe, yet the umps got the call wrong every time.

[xxpujols4mvpxx]

people are not perfect. They are 50 year old umpires who can't replay what happened. That brings excitement to the game when umpires kinda screwup. It happens everyonce in a while. I would not worry to much about it. How many times do players get fouled in basketball but the refs never say anything about it. It's all good.

[baandje]

people are not perfect. They are 50 year old umpires who can't replay what happened. That brings excitement to the game
I don't know about "excitement". I know the cat gets so excited it hides when I throw something at the wall after someone makes a bad call... if that's what you're talking about ;)

[baandje]

The other thing is other sports HAVE recognized the need for replay. Too much money involved in sports now to rely on some "old boy's club" mentality: we're the umps; whatever we say goes, even if we get the call wrong. It's just another example of the ineptitude of those who run MLB. That and steroids are examples of baseball people stupidly watching their game self-implode, but doing nothing about it -- "history and tradition" superceding common sense and fair play.

[chrisw]

If you had to choose one what would it be?

1.The regular MLB season on April 3rd.
2.MLB 2k6 for the 360

What an idiot you are

[baandje]

What an idiot you are
26 garbage-spewing posts and counting. What a d.ick you are.

[DaoudS]

26 garbage-spewing posts and counting. What a d.ick you are.

hahah. touche

[YankeeFan123]

I hate the idea of an instant replay. Baseball is a TRADITIONAL sport, and isn't overloading itself with technology like football is. Umps making bad calls is part of the game and baseball has too many plays that would be reviewed. Instant replay (at least to the stupid extent of the NFL) will never be incorporated into baseball, and any baseball ****yst that knows the game past McGwire's 1998 season will tell you that instant replay is bad for baseball.

And of course I'd want the MLB season, it's 10000000000 times more important.

[baandje]

I hate the idea of an instant replay. Baseball is a TRADITIONAL sport, and isn't overloading itself with technology like football is.
And that's what I'm questioning. The days of it being a "traditional sport" are long gone -- just take a look at Barry Bonds' pre and post 1999 photos and tell me baseball is still a "traditional sport". No, it's just like all other sports and all other multi-million/billion dollar corporations. It's full of manipulative, self-serving organizers and workers who will do anything to empower and enrich themselves.

If baseball was about tradition, MLB would have done something about steroids years ago -- when Mark and Sammy were belting all those bombs. They would have confronted the steroid assault on baseball "tradition" and the MLB record book, right then and there. But they didn't, because they were more interested in the media coverage and fan interest, and the riches that go with it. AND they wouldn't have Bonds in this utterly preposterious position: about to break what was one of the most sacred baseball records ever -- Ruth's HR record -- when the entire world knows Bonds is a cheat and did it illegally.

[baandje]

hahah. touche
What is with these EA troll turkeys? It's one thing to come here and talk about MVP; its another to troll with every fricking post. But it's expected I suppose. Go to any EA forum and everybody talks to each other like that all the time. It's like EA games attract the internet's most ignorant and illiterate -- all the kids and children, or gaming scum bums or something.

[chrisw]

26 garbage-spewing posts and counting. What a d.ick you are.

It was a pretty moronic post asking if people would want the 2006 MLB season canceled if a friggin baseball game came out for the XBox360. That is past stupid.

[chrisw]

What is with these EA troll turkeys? It's one thing to come here and talk about MVP; its another to troll with every fricking post. But it's expected I suppose. Go to any EA forum and everybody talks to each other like that all the time. It's like EA games attract the internet's most ignorant and illiterate -- all the kids and children, or gaming scum bums or something.

"Troll turkeys"? If only us people that don't like 2K games could use such expansive vocabulary..

[xxpujols4mvpxx]

instant replay should never be use. I knew that the ****s were going to join the forum soon.

[YankeeFan123]

And that's what I'm questioning. The days of it being a "traditional sport" are long gone -- just take a look at Barry Bonds' pre and post 1999 photos and tell me baseball is still a "traditional sport". No, it's just like all other sports and all other multi-million/billion dollar corporations. It's full of manipulative, self-serving organizers and workers who will do anything to empower and enrich themselves.

If baseball was about tradition, MLB would have done something about steroids years ago -- when Mark and Sammy were belting all those bombs. They would have confronted the steroid assault on baseball "tradition" and the MLB record book, right then and there. But they didn't, because they were more interested in the media coverage and fan interest, and the riches that go with it. AND they wouldn't have Bonds in this utterly preposterious position: about to break what was one of the most sacred baseball records ever -- Ruth's HR record -- when the entire world knows Bonds is a cheat and did it illegally.
I meant traditional in terms of keeping up old customs and being true to the game of baseball instead of selling it out with instant-replay **** that's really slowed down NFL games.

[aaronsharrow]

If you had to choose one what would it be?

1.The regular MLB season on April 3rd.
2.MLB 2k6 for the 360

The regular MLB season on April 3rd. I'm a diehard cards fan and couldn't stand not seeing reallife baseball since i play it in real life. There will never be a baseball game better than the real thing.

[slammerxt]

I love playing baseball but I hate watching it, its slower than golf. Its one of the things that kept me away from BBgames for so long, because I just felt like I was watching a game. But now 2k has been making it feel like Im actually in the game, which is why I started buying the baseball games of late.

So my answer is 2k6.

[Trevytrev11]

It's easy to say s-crew instantly replay, but I would bet that the minute your team is on the wrong end of a possible Championship deciding call, that you would change your minds.

I can't imagine what Angles fans were thinking in the questionable "ball in dirt" call in last years ALCS, but I would have been livid.

I think it would be a good idea, but I would like to see it used differently than football, though. I wouldn't want to see it used to over turn an out safe/out call at first or balls and strikes, but I would like to see it used in the following cases:

1) runners tagging on flyballs
2) questionable HR calls (with all of the weird angles in todays stadiums, it seems that many umps don't know exactly what is fair or foul or in play and over the fence)
3) if a runner misses a base

I don't want to see it in other cases because it would mess up a play. Say a hitter hits a ball down the line and the umpire calls it foul. The hitter stops at first and goes back home. The ball boy down the line picks up the ball and tosses it to the crowd. What do you do if the play is overturned-award the guy a double? a triple? What about runners on base.

Or...

Say there is a runner at second with two outs and there is a ground ball up the middle. The runner at second rounds third to score in case the ball ends up in centerfield. The second baseman, makes a great play on the ball and there is a bang bang play at first. The umpire calls the runner out and the inning is over. The firstbaseman tosses the ball into the crowd. Now if that play is overturned-what do you do with the runner who was on second. Chances are he would have been dead-out at the plate.

That is why I think they could only use it in dead-ball situations where a play has finished and a normal appeal would be made. Basically it would assist in the event that an umpire wasn't watching his territory on a play or no umpire had the proper view to make the call. Maybe it would be the umpires call to use it or not if he wasn't 100% sure of what he saw.
I've heard some crazy conversations between umpires in my day and they tend to make things up-they like to be confident in a call whether it is wrong or right. This might change a little if they knew that they will be in the spot light for passing up an opportunity to a correct a call because they are too proud.

These plays are pretty rare and I don't think it would add but 2 minutes or so to a game maybe a few times a week. Baseball is already a pretty long game, so I don't see it making too much of a difference.

I think they would have to be umpire initiated because if they are "challenged" like in the NFL, how do you penalize a team for a wrong challenge? Give the next batter a free base? Take away an out from the team on their next AB? I would hate it if it did anything to jeopardize the actual game.

I just hate to see a game changed because of an umpire who has a chip on his shoulder or just wasn't doing his job and objectively says a runner touched a base because he wasn't looking to see him miss it.

[baandje]

It's easy to say s-crew instantly replay, but I would bet that the minute your team is on the wrong end of a possible Championship deciding call, that you would change your minds.

I can't imagine what Angles fans were thinking in the questionable "ball in dirt" call in last years ALCS, but I would have been livid.
There are a few calls every series like that -- series-changing mistakes by the umps. Those are the calls that need instant replay -- not the mundane stuff, I agree.

Or like last year during a game in Fenway. Someone hit a homerun and it hit the top of Monster. Replays showed it clearly hitting 12-18 inches above the yellow HR line, but it hit the railing above the wall and bounced back, so the umps called it a single. Now that's just crazy. They've got the technology, yet they're content with bush-league calls like that ruining the game for some team and any fan of fair play.