Given that much of today will be spent playing 2K8 I wanted to drop off my early impressions of MLB 08: The Show. Having played through a few standard games as well as some Road to the Show mode I've gotten a good feel for things. Overall, as most people have found through the demo, the true baseball experience is delivered. The gameplay is very good, commentary excellent, and graphics significantly upgraded. Granted there have been a handful of bugs pointed out (the walkoff scoring error be...

So to kick off the Road to the Show I'll have a brief recap of the beginnings of Padre's career. The create-a-player is pretty deep but I didn't spend too much time with it as I just wanted to get him looking somewhat like myself. Thanks to the poll yesterday Padre's position will be shortstop with a secondary position of second base. After flipping through the teams and competition at shortstop Padre decided to join the Washington Nationals organization. Spring Training starts up with hi...

Here is the complete list of team ratings in MLB 08: The Show. These rankings are based off the new roster update. Because they use bars instead of numbers I won't be able to go into player ratings. SCEA will be providing weekly roster updates once again this year only they promise to go into even more detail than ever before with ratings adjustments in the updates. NL West Padres: Batting-23rd, Pitching-4th, Defense-23rd, Overall-17th Rockies: Batting-21st, Pitching-17th, Defense-3rd, ...