MLB 12 The Show Cover Athlete is Adrian Gonzalez

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott

When was the last time a superstar was on a cover though? Sure Brees was on Madden, but no Brady, Manning, A-Rod, Hamilton, Megatron, AP, LeBron, Durant, Dirk...

well, the hoops games always have a superstar.
shaq, Mj, durant, garnett, kobe, paul, howard and on and on.


and bp4, good point.
i am sure they they started calling people to replace Mauer in May! lol

tho its not required of them to decide the cover guy mid-summer. If thats what they did.


i still dont like the choice at all.

but it is easy to predict the next few years covers tho.

13: Morneau
14: Ellsbury
15: Mauer
16: Darnell McDonald



Also, now i see they might not have went with Pujols because of his Free Agent status.

Still think there are 10 better coverboy choices to be made in the name of smart marketing.
But across the board that hasn't always been Sony's strong point.

I think the team that plays in the world series should have a player on the cover. Unless a non Ws player had a crazy year.
I loved what EA did for Madden 10
Polamalu and Fitz. A player from each of the super bowl teams.

Also, is this the first time a cover athletes team didnt make the playoffs? lol
I aint doing that research, but off the top of my head, i don't think its happened in the baseball games.

[truintellectplaya]

Lies, and skewing of statistics they are not the #1 rated sports game 4 years in a row.

[BSUFAN]

Personally I don't care one way or another who is on the cover. However we could photo shop our own favorite player for the cover and call it good.

[noseeumcreek]

Miguel Cabrera obviously had a better hitting year than Adrian Gonzalez and is likely the standout hitter going in the American League now, but since the Silver Slugger award couldn't understand that this year, I don't think it's important whether a video game looking for marketing potential did either. A few teams have national appeal so when you can't get a name recognizable star, probably go there. Bias to highlight players on certain teams make sense.

[dasfette]

Quote: Originally Posted by BSUFAN

Personally I don't care one way or another who is on the cover. However we could photo shop our own favorite player for the cover and call it good.

That's it! I've had it!

I'm Photoshopping Adam Everett as we speak! ;-)

[RoyalBoyle78]

I mean really, its just a cover and for some guys to say they wont buy it or now just rent because of the cover, get real...


The guy put up *Regular Season .338 27 117*

Whats wrong with that.


Now a screen shot would have been nice.

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by truintellectplaya

Lies, and skewing of statistics they are not the #1 rated sports game 4 years in a row.

#1 in my book

[magoo1967]

Ortiz in '06, Pedroia in '09, Gonzalez in '12, WTF?!? How much are the Red Sox paying SCEA anyway? Whatever, I normally wouldn't care who's on the cover but there's no way that anything with the Red Sox on it will ever be in my home. This cover will go in the garbage on day 1 along with the shrink rap.