Professional Baseball Players Form Professional Video Gamers League
from the getting-paid-to-do-what-you-usually-do-anyway dept
As we've mentioned many times before, video games seem to be quite popular with professional sports stars. Today, New York Yankee Johnny Damon and the shrewd folks from Boras Marketing announced the formation of the Professional Baseball Video Game League (PBGL). The new league actually has nothing to do with baseball specifically, but rather, consists of professional baseball players playing video games against each other as well as a few lucky common folk. The first game they'll be playing is Project Gotham Racing for the Xbox 360. Sure, we enjoy watching these guys play baseball, but is it really going to be entertaining to watch these guys play video games? The NFL is doing something similar with Madden Nation, but in that incarnation, NFL Players sponsor individual gamers (who are actually some of the best in the nation) in playing Madden (which is actually a video game about football) and aren't actually playing the games themselves. So, Johnny, go have your fun with this new league, but please stay away from Guitar Hero.
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GH2 FTW
Frankly, if Damon can pull this off and make something entertaining out of Baseball then its only better for the world.
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GH2 FTW
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With the Yanks, A-Rod and Giambi are much more viable targets than Damon, what with the constant underachieving and steroid abuse respectively. Not to mention Randy Johnson being the ugliest man in baseball.
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But if it's a recorded show like Madden Nation---what with the edits and forced storylines and whatnot---then forget it. It's no fun to watch people play games if you can't actually watch them play the whole game, get into the flow, have a chance to root, etc.
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i wouldnt watch
that shit is wack
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Not Funny
reminded me of the "masturbation guy". Also, not funny. Try again somewhere else I'm assuming?
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Not Funny
reminded me of the "masturbation guy". Also, not funny. Try again somewhere else I'm assuming?
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Are those Madden players designing offenses?
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Oh great
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Pro Gaming
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An interesting statistic recently revealed that the average age of the serious simmer was around 45 if not higher. Sim racing is beginning to move into the realm of sanctioned sports from what I have seen with the rFactor guys
And as for youre macho desires with your big guns.... Give us a break, junior, we dont need anymore loudmouth internet heroes
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I beat Johnny Damon at E3 Xbox 360 Contest
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