{"id":1146,"date":"2008-03-04T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/04\/mlb-08-the-show-playing-the-waiting-game\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T07:07:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T12:07:19","slug":"mlb-08-the-show-playing-the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/04\/mlb-08-the-show-playing-the-waiting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB 08:  The Show.  Playing the waiting game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the price of PS3 games being so darn high, I decided not to preorder MLB 08.\u00a0 In the past I preordered everything I wanted.\u00a0 This saved me the hassle of driving to a store, plus it was convenient having manna from heaven show up at my door.<\/p>\n<p>I think those days are gone.\u00a0 $59.99 + next day shipping + tax means that PS3 games run close to $75, which is just too much for me to stomach.\u00a0 I have not owned very many PS3 games, and have preordered exactly two (last year\u2019s NCAA and Madden).<\/p>\n<p>As much as I want MLB 08, it begs the question if I really need something next day.\u00a0 In another day and time, there was enough time in a day to fully enjoy the fruits of a new game, rush some quick impressions, post in forums, and call it a day.\u00a0 No longer.\u00a0 Well, maybe every once in a while, but not for MLB 08.<\/p>\n<p>I will either pick up MLB 08 later in the week (or this weekend), or use Amazon\u2019s Prime service and save a boatload on shipping.\u00a0 I won\u2019t get the game on release day, but does that really matter?\u00a0 I guess it depends on how much time I have to cruise the forums that are gushing over the game.\u00a0 Then I will have to get me some of that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the price of PS3 games being so darn high, I decided not to preorder MLB 08.\u00a0 In the past I preordered everything I wanted.\u00a0 This saved me the hassle of driving to a store, plus it was convenient having manna from heaven show up at my door. I think those days are gone.\u00a0 $59.99 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/04\/mlb-08-the-show-playing-the-waiting-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB 08:  The Show.  Playing the waiting game.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}