Joe Mauer fronts MLB 10: The Show
 

Last month, Take-Two Interactive tapped Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria as the cover athlete for MLB 2K10, citing the young star's bona fides, including a Gold Glove Award and a Silver Slugger Award. Today Sony named the cover athlete for its own upcoming baseball sim, MLB 10: The Show, and did Take-Two's pick one better.

The likeness is uncanny…we assume.

MLB 10: The Show will feature Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, winner of two Gold Gloves and three Silver Slugger Awards. Mauer's resume doesn't end there; he was also named 2009 American League Most Valuable Player and is a three-time AL batting champion. According to Sony, Mauer's development duties will include motion-capture participation, AI consultation, and various marketing and spokesperson tasks.
When it launches next March on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PSP, MLB 10: The Show will include a number of features new to the series. Among the new additions to The Show, Sony is touting the Home Run Derby, the MLB Futures minor league all-star game, and a movie maker used to edit replays.

someone move this for me please...i thought i had it in the right section

Joe Mauer actually is a TMNT fan. I read an SI article about him years ago and they said when he and Morneau were room mates they had some action figures on the living room shelves lol

Much love for Joe Mauer. I remember back when he got drafted by the Twins just out of high school and now he's all growed up. :tthumbsu:

Baseball suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

how does it?

Baseball is a timeless sport, and the athlete's althogh (some drug themselves) aren't a bunch of thugs and criminals as in NBA and NFL

Baseball video games are terrible.

you never answered the question. how is baseball, and their video games for that matter, terrible?

Baseball games are terrible for the lack of participation. So much of the game has to be automated due to the nature of the sport. I enjoyed Baseball Stars 2 (Neo-Geo) and The Bigs (current) because they added some arcady action game elements to make the experience more of a game and less of a viewing party with the occasional button press.

As for the actual sport, I used to be a fan once upon a time (and sputter back in from time to time), but overall I don't really enjoy it anymore. The severe lack of a parity between teams basically means that one can easily guess who is going to win from year to year, and its always from a selected pool of the most wealthy clubs.

Yay football. Boo baseball.

All fake sports suck.

Why baseball has an All-Star game, I'll never know.