Bronze, at best

I'm not sure that I can put my disappointment with Madden 10 into words – though I'm going to try later today when I review it for the other blog. It's just philosophically flawed (amongst other things). It feels like it suffers from an identity crisis.

I'm going to stop writing about that now, so I can save my harsh words for my review because it's gold, Jerry, gold.

Brett Favre's back. Surprise! He's also soon to be back in Madden 10, along with Michael Vick. And by soon, I mean possibly now or at least now adjacent. Two things about this: (1) I might care more about Favre and especially Vick if I still wanted to play Madden, but I don't. (2) EA moved very seamlessly and clandestinely from last year's NBA Live feature Live 365 to an era where every game has updated rosters, which are semi-mandatory and semi-hard-to-find. After the NBA season started, though, Bryan and I were both pretty adamant that the updated roster feature should be absolutely standard, like breathing or something.

By the way, I'm typing a blog post during a class for the first time in months, and it's not turning out to be very coherent.

John Smoltz is "strongly leaning" towards signing with the Cardinals, and why not? Their offense has been clicking lately, and he'll get to work with one of the best pitching coaches in the league. Plus, the Cards will get some bullpen help, which they seem to need less and less as the team starts to gel, but it can't hurt.

Yeah, not very coherent at all.

Quote of the Week:

"Hanson never saw it coming."

An unnamed source about Raiders head coach Tom Cable punching assistant coach Randy Hanson. According to every official Raiders source since, he never saw it coming because it never actually happened.