Juuuust a bit outside.

Posted by Bob on February 24, 2006: Okay gang, let's do me a little favor. Tell Steve never to write a character wearing baseball gear again. I can't draw it convincingly, and I just don't care for it. I mean, that is supposed to be a catcher's mitt on Bob's hand. It looks more like a weird potato or something. Other than that, I like how this turned out, considering I got it done in one day. The hardest part was trying to find pictures of the game that all matched up so the teams didn't change panel to panel. That is why in the last panel, the dude is sliding...on a bases loaded walk. It was the best I could do. Just pretend he's running with his arm up and celebrating, or something.

So, I've seen the commercial for MLB '06 a couple times now, and something strikes me as strange about it. The White Sox won the world series last year. In the commercial, they show a White Sox player once, and he's getting tagged out at home. I saw the Yankees a bunch of times and the commercial ends with the Red Sox celebrating. It seems to me that they should show the Sox winning seeing as they are, you know, the champs. But what do I know. I don't follow these fucking sports.

Here's a great look back at the Zelda series courtesy of 1up.com. It's 20 reasons why we love Zelda. Well, why you love Zelda. I only play those games for about ten minutes before moving on to something else. This invariably leads to Steve telling me to play Wind Waker which leads to me telling him to finish Metroid Prime. The circle continues.

Who ever would have thought EA would do something right? If only everyone else would follow their lead. Too bad I'm not interested in the Godfather and I have no idea what Black is. I've actually seen some commercials for Black, but it makes no mention of what the game actually is. Brilliant.

Speaking of game commercials, how about this one that never aired (supposedly) for Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. It's fantastic.

I feel asleep!

Ever want to see a dude bust his wife in the face like she was a pinata? Good thing you came to me. See, you ask, and I provide. Well, for the most part. If I post dirty things Steve deletes them.

This is directed to Scott Granneman: Please update your blog! We all want to know what happened next with HP!

And with that, another newspost draws to a close. See you all in a week,

Posted by Steve on February 24, 2006: A quick note about me. Despite playing a lot of sports as a kid, and being on a lot of teams that frankly weren't very good, I never really learned how to take a loss. Especially with video games, where a loss is basically all my fault. Not only have I broken my fair share of controllers, I own a copy of Super Tecmo Bowl with two pieces of clear tape holding it together from when I launched it against the wall. (You know how every few games the cpu would basically just turn it up to 11? Yeah, that happened.) And the only thing that sucks more than losing, is losing to someone who you know doesn't have a clue what they're doing.

Which brings us to Link. He's not dumb, honestly. I just have fun with the idea of a guy who knows everything there is to know about music, but at the expense of all other forms of entertainment. He might be my favorite character to write, next to Colossus of course.

Man, I feel old. I remember having Zelda when it was brand new. See you next week.