It’s time for Wednesday Morning Quarterback, your weekly sports round-up.

There was a lot of talk about the mistakes Joe Maddon was making in not bringing David Price up at the start of the year. I think last night speaks volumes about why he thought he needed more work.

Price gave up ten runs to spearhead a 10-1 loss to the Phillies last night, meaning that he was embarrassed by a pitcher more or less twice his age (Jamie Moyer, age 46).

It’s days like these that I’m glad I can at least root for the Marlins, who won last night against the Orioles and took two of three from the Yankees this weekend. Not only did Hanley Ramirez snap his homerless streak against the Yankees, he hit himself a grand slam last night to bust open the game. Of course, the Marlins bullpen gave up so many runs that the game went on to the 12th inning, but still, go Hanley.

While I’m up here, I think it’s worth laughing at the Yankees AND the Blue Jays for each dropping two games to the Nationals last week. Way to play to win.

Last week was also notable for being the day I saw, in the flesh, Matt Wieters hit his first big league home run against the Mets. In a strange coincidence, I also heard Wieter’s second home run while listening to the Orioles at Marlins game last night.

Daisuke Matsuzaka landed himself on the DL due to sucking, since Boston can’t send him to the minors. It’s an interesting practice, but basically all a team has to do is get a sanctioned doctor to sign off on some sort of injury and, BAM, instant DL stint. This is how we get loony injuries like an anxiety disorder diagnosed through blood work. Dice-K has been having a tough season, likely from WBC-related exhaustion, so this should hopefully get him all better. Too bad he cost the Red Sox 103M$, because he sure hasn’t seemed all that worth it yet.

And that’s all I’ve got for now. Here’s hoping that the Nats take two of three from the Sox, the Marlins keep moving up the standings, and the Rays start beating the Phillies.

So I transitioned the URL to http://nothingtothetable.com, but it’s had the unintended consequence of making every former link broken. We here at IBNttT are still working on it to try and repair all those old links, so please bear with us.

As someone who believes that the only way to listen to the SFIV opening song is in Japanese or muted, I fully support this video. It’s pretty funny.

Readers,

There’s still a little bit more work to do involving changing around permalinks, but you may notice that you can now reach my blog by directing your browser to http://nothingtothetable.com. Pretty soon the old URL will be phased out, so update your bookmarks! I’ll post on the progress to let you know when certain things no longer work.

-Dan

Yesterday Vinny and Jeff defeated the freakiest boss in the game: the giant baby that creates a giant robot to hide in. High on their victory, the investigation team decides to have a cook-off in Charlie Tunoku’s house. Turns out Charlie’s the only one who can cook.

The gang decides to hit up the festival on 20 August and the killer has been caught. What will happen in P4? Is this truly the end?

Just about every serious adult (and employed) gamer has one thing in common, regardless of his/her tastes: the pile of shame. It sounds a lot worse than it is, because it’s definitely not a stack of Barbie Horse Adventure games or anything, it’s a stack of games that have all received critical acclaim or come highly recommended, but that the gamer has no time to get around to playing, mainly because of other releases or just being too busy.

The perfect time for burning through this back catalog is usually the summer. Releases have slowed down in anticipation for the upcoming holiday season and developers have only just started getting over E3 preparations, limiting their ability to release in the summer anyway. Plenty of other people are taking this time to burn through their backlog, but I find myself unable to focus on the rather considerable stack of games I have in lieu of achievement hunting or just purchasing new games.

It’s a serious problem when I’m in Best Buy seriously considering buying Resident Evil 5, the latest in a series of games that I never play because I hate horror video games, instead of just going home and playing Dragon Quest V or Suikoden Tierkreis, both games I’ve never played and own, or finishing the remakes that I’d started like the DS Chrono Trigger or GBA Final Fantasy VI. I keep having to resist buying Gears of War 2, even though I’ve yet to finish Fallout 3, play the Uncharted 2 Beta at all, or milk the remaining content out of Left 4 Dead or Mass Effect. Then again, should I really be all that surprised? People love the brand new and the allure of buying a new copy of Ghostbusters, despite its middling reviews, is just a part of human nature.

The main problem with my “problem” is that I don’t really have the cash to throw around to just be buying all sorts of new games. You may have applauded my self-control in resisting RE5 and GoW2, but the real deterrent is that I just couldn’t afford to buy them. I’ve flirted with the notion of starting some kind of retro-gaming feature to motivate me to both clear my backlog and give me new, interesting (video game related) writing topics. Honestly, if I could take easy screenshots or capture video more easily, I might be more likely to try and do something like that, but it loses some of its allure to have it be text-only.

This may or may not still happen. I’m going to do some research into cheap video capture mechanics and if I can manage it, then we might see me start to clear through my backlog with accompanying screens or movies. If not, well then this winding, aimless post is just me whining about having games that I don’t want to play because I want shiny new ones.

Bonus Embedded Reporter!

This fan-made music video of “Robocop” by Kanye West evokes some serious 8-bit Mega Man awesomeness. Enjoy!

Yep, way to go guys…they totally made me look like a moron on Friday predicting that they’d fight the boss with their mention of giant robots.

Instead they grinded up a bit. Today they fight the boss of Void Quest. Will they be able to conquer him?

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter.

I’m only posting this today because I’m tired of telling people about it and then being looked at like I was crazy.

That and I find it absolutely hilarious.

23! 2! 3! AUGH!

Vinny and Jeff finally reached the final boss to the Void Quest yesterday, but stopped short of entering to save the grinding and eventual confrontation for today.

As someone who lost to the Void Quest boss a good two or three times, this could be interesting.