{"id":835,"date":"2007-03-21T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/21\/baseball-sim-smackdown\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T14:01:03","slug":"baseball-sim-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/21\/baseball-sim-smackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Sim Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I\u2019ve decided to compare and contrast Baseball Mogul 2008 and Out of the Park Baseball 2007. \u00a0One thing that motivates this comparison is that I am tired of all the \u201cBaseball for Dummies\u201d posts that wash through various forums when discussing BM or OOTPB. \u00a0The argument goes something like, how can I enjoy a baseball game that has a 500 page manual? \u00a0So I will tackle this issue head-on.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Plus, BM 2008 has some significant changes that put it back into the \u201cI need to check this out\u201d category.\u00a0 The 1980s interface was changed and some other nice additions were made to beef up the game engine.\u00a0 I\u2019ll purchase it in the coming week or so and start doing a piece by piece comparison between the two products.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I didn\u2019t do this last season because, well, OOTPB 2006 sucked. \u00a0Different year, different story because both products look to be moving forward in the right directions.<\/font><\/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>I\u2019ve decided to compare and contrast Baseball Mogul 2008 and Out of the Park Baseball 2007. \u00a0One thing that motivates this comparison is that I am tired of all the \u201cBaseball for Dummies\u201d posts that wash through various forums when discussing BM or OOTPB. \u00a0The argument goes something like, how can I enjoy a baseball &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/21\/baseball-sim-smackdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baseball Sim Smackdown<\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}