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[beerbelly]

DETROIT (AP) - By May 31, Ivan Rodriguez already had won the respect of his new teammates. A month later, he has them wondering if he's too good to be true.

Rodriguez had three hits Wednesday, giving him a .500 average for June, and the Detroit Tigers won their sixth in a row, defeating the Cleveland Indians 12-5. "Those are PlayStation or Xbox numbers," Rondell White said. "I've played with some great players, but I've never seen anything like this."

http://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/shownews.jsp?content=m063077A


No mention of nintendo?

 

[olimario]

There has been no Mario Baseball. The last great baseball title on a Nintendo system was RBI on the NES.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Yeah, I read that and couldnt help but think to myself "WTF?? Who lets this guy play baseball?"

 

[Wario64]

I wonder how much he got paid to say that

 

[Error Macro]

The Game Cube is for hardcore video game players, not some stupid, overpaid athletes.

 

[KingGondo]

There has been no Mario Baseball. The last great baseball title on a Nintendo system was RBI on the NES.

Hahaha!

Ken Griffey Jr. presents MLB on SNES laughs at you!

 

[olimario]

 

[shoplifter]

There has been no Mario Baseball. The last great baseball title on a Nintendo system was Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 on SNES.

Fixed

 

[Deku Tree]

This explains why sports games don't sell on the GC.

 

[MattCoz]

Where the hell is Ichiro Baseball? Yamauchi owns the Mariners and Nintendo doesn't have a Baseball game, wtf is with that?

 

[Subitai]

Where the hell is Ichiro Baseball? Yamauchi owns the Mariners and Nintendo doesn't have a Baseball game, wtf is with that?

I don't know, but there are GCN kiosks at Safeco Field.

 

[Mashing]

Yup, a Ichiro branded game would do well in Japan... it'd probably bomb over here though

 

[TheDiave]

I say fuck the casuals who don't get a GameCube. Those of us who have and love our 'Cubes are the winners in that situation.

 

[bonesquad]

Check this out. Right before a commercial break during tonight's Reno 911, the announcer had this to say about one of their sponcers.

Brought to you by... Driver 3. Now available for all major platforms.

Hmm.. PS2, Xbox, PC, N-Gage... Yeah I guess that is all MAJOR playforms.

HA! Nice! Oh wait... Driv3r isn't on GC!

 

[cvxfreak]

Damn the patriots... I mean the casuals!

 

[LuckyBrand]

I wonder how much he got paid to say that

the Sony/MS secret society paid him millions to say that..

their ultimate goal being the destruction of nintendo, one sports star mentioning their dual systems at a time.

 

[Hellraizah]

The Game Cube is for hardcore video game players, not some stupid, overpaid athletes.

Every hardcore game player I know is currently playing online on Live.

 

[segasonic]

But...but...

 

[sasimirobot]

 

[Deg]

google search will make you all feel better

 

[thorns]

The Game Cube is for hardcore video game players, not some stupid, overpaid athletes.

Top 10 selling games for Gamecube in May

1. GCN POKEMON COLOSSEUM $2,699,522 56,692
2. GCN SHREK 2 $2,691,449 54,099


wow HARDCORE.

 

[bishoptl]

heh

 

[Error Macro]

Top 10 selling games for Gamecube in May

1. GCN POKEMON COLOSSEUM $2,699,522 56,692
2. GCN SHREK 2 $2,691,449 54,099


wow HARDCORE.

Sarcasm. Learn it, know it, love it.

 

[Guileless]

You know, I've noticed this trend recently. In the 80s, when the general public thought of videogames, they though "Nintendo." So, somebody would say "he's playing Nintendo" as a generic catchall term for playing videogames, regardless of whether he was actually playing a Nintendo system or something else. But now it has mostly become "he's playing Playstation" as the generic term.

 

[Deg]

Sarcasm. Learn it, know it, love it.

I cant see hsoes

 

[Alcibiades]

Top 10 selling games for Gamecube in May

1. GCN POKEMON COLOSSEUM $2,699,522 56,692
2. GCN SHREK 2 $2,691,449 54,099


wow HARDCORE.

Viewtiful Joe: 218,850

Soul Calibur (GC): 548,641
Soul Calibur (PS2): 502,736
Soul Calibur (Xbox): 354,391

more than you think...

 

[Redbeard]

Who needs them when you've got:

 

[GaimeGuy]

Screw the sports stars. They know nothing about video games, for the most part. Do what you're good at, and play sports. Please stay out of the console wars. The last thing we need is celebrity influence. -_-

 

[Dave Long]

We need Baseball Stars Revival!

Get the SNK artists that did BS2 on the Geo, throw in real players and teams done as caricatures of the real guys. NO 3D! All the trading and player building of the original NES game. BOOM! Instant Baseball Nirvana! IBN for short!

 

[Kon Tiki]

Wouldn't 'Nintendo numbers' be a bad batting avg?

 

[Alcibiades]

SEGA has 3 baseball games for GCN in Japan and not 1 in NA. :'(

I own that game posted (Home Run Derby), and it's by SEGA...

 

[Kon Tiki]

I own that game posted (Home Run Derby), and it's by SEGA...

Ya, HRD is right up there with ESPN, High Heat and MLB.

 

[Alcibiades]

um, you were talking about Sega GCN baseball games, no?

 

[Jesiatha]

Where the hell is Ichiro Baseball? Yamauchi owns the Mariners and Nintendo doesn't have a Baseball game, wtf is with that?

And more importantly, Dave Niehaus doing the announcing.

 

[Mashing]

I wanted to play that RBI baseball game too

 

[Kon Tiki]

um, you were talking about Sega GCN baseball games, no?

Even tho I did not say it, I meant simulation baseball games. geez.

 

[Alcibiades]

oh ok, I thought they had released 2 simulation and 1 arcadey, but I guess it was USA-only release...

 

[levious]

Even tho I did not say it, I meant simulation baseball games. geez.

I thought the sega baseball games in Japan were arcade style and let's make a pro style?

 

[Kon Tiki]

I thought the sega baseball games in Japan were arcade style and let's make a pro style?

They are. That sells in Japan/

Here let me start over.

Sega has 3 baseball games in Japan, yet they do not even release thier MLB licenced simulation based WSB/ESPN franchise in America, where MLB licenced simulation based video games are more popular than MLB licenced ardcade based video games.