officemanagerAre you looking for that special gift for the baseball fan that doesn’t even like to pretend to play baseball on a video game.  The kind of fan that would rather crunch numbers in his basement than play catch in the park?  Are you looking for a gift for that special fan who doesn’t have enough outlets to express his outrage over the Raul Ibanez contract between his blog posts, angry emails, snide comments, and letters to his team’s GM?  Well than have I got a gift for you.  It’s MLB Front Office Manager from the fine people at 2K Sports and it’s not at all stupid.  Or gay.

MLB® Front Office Manager gives baseball fans the chance to experience their dream job. Take the reins of your favorite Major League™ team and build a championship roster.  Make trades, sign free agents, draft prospects and manage games all the way from Spring Training through the Playoffs.  Available this Winter for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows, MLB® Front Office Manager is the only MLB licensed game to give fans total control of an MLB franchise.

First of all, since when is Front Office Manager any baseball fan’s dream job?  Isn’t it usually shortstop?  Or pitcher? Isn’t Front Office Manager a fall back job?  I mean sure there are realistic people among us who love baseball and recognize they’ll never play professional ball (other people; not me, I’ve still got a chance).  But even in their wildest dreams I’d bet they’d prefer to play than manage a bunch of other assholes.

Second of all, can’t you already do all of these things in other games?  Can’t you switch MLB 2K9 over to franchise mode and draft players and sign free agents?  Can’t you make trades and even play the game from the dugout?  Sure you can’t scout Japanese players in Japan but…hold on, isn’t it a benefit that you don’t have to do that?  This game seems to take all the parts of all other baseball games that nobody enjoyed anyway and made them the centerpiece of their game.

The best part of the game is when you can customize what your GM looks like including: nationality, age, size, weight, height, hair style, suit color (and type?).  As if the only people playing this game aren’t white dudes.  Okay that’s a bit of a stretch.  How’s this: 99% of the guys who buy this are white men.  Better?  Good.

MLB Front Office Manager: In stores a few days ago.  Fag.

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