The top image is the game, the bottom one is real. Check out the article too, they have gone as far as to CHANGE the way stadiums look to incorporate the ads… Nationals Stadium now has a 20 foot wall in left field with a State Farm ad… this is why I’ll be buying ONLY the MLB “The Show” games, plus they’re just better.

What IS that, anyway?

This is what happens when fans of the subject matter of a video game aren’t involved in its development. I’m sure the guys who built this game could care less about sports in general… one of the main reasons I buy baseball games is for their realism… the 2K9 games were already consistently worse than the MLB series from Sony, so this is just another reason not to buy them.

So they alter all kinds of stuff but they ommit the Under Armour sign? Bunch of geeks.

…if I actually, like, played video games.

….as long as it doesn’t affect gameplay, and it looks like it doesn’t, is it really a big deal?

I would think the Under Armour and Van Kamden(?) advertisements would be much more of a reason to get pissed at how advertising is affecting stadiums than whether State Farm created an imaginary wall IN A VIDEO GAME.

But I think they did this because Wrigley really is the only outfield wall in the majors that DOESN’T have dedicated adspace due to the ivy. It’s just pathetic they had to do it that way. Plus there isn’t a jumbotron to use (which is what they did in all other parks in this game, including the massive HDTV board in Atlanta, which is now tiny because they used most of it for the ads). So the developers pretty much said “hmm, there’s a bunch of open space… we’ll just put it there, no one will care.” I bet they didn’t TOUCH Yankee Stadium or Fenway… god forbid they upset the “real” baseball fans. Look, I know this is really sort of moot, but it’s just kinda pathetic… what’s next, the scoreboard at Wrigley will play videos? I guess it’s just as bad as the fireworks and sirens that go off in all the other games when you hit a home run at Wrigley… ’cause you know, that happens in real life.

Turns out that advertising at Wrigley goes back pretty far… we all remember the Torco sign… here’s a photo from 1935… man has that place changed!

But here’s some video… and it appears as if that State Farm sign is at least 6 or 7 stories high and BEHIND the stadium… wow.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/majorleaguebaseball2k9/video/6204671/major-league-baseball-2k9-gameplay-movie-3?hd=1&tag=videos;hd;2

the game looks like it’s going to be really fun. or, at least, more fun than ‘08 was. i’m fine with ignoring it.

what does the miller lite ad say right now? those ones usually made me laugh. for the peoria chiefs game it said “no fighting boys” or something to that effect.