Ken Griffey Jr. is the Cover Athlete For MLB The Show 17, Releases on March 28

[WhiteBunny]

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Nice cover choice.

[SuicideSqueeze]

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Who?












(just kidding)

[Rocket32]

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While this cover is as sweet as any I have seen, part of me was quite convinced the cover was going to feature Jose Fernandez

I really wish that would have happened but I doubted it would all along honestly. Hopefully they have a little something in game like maybe he can be the background of a menu like for example they had Degrom as the background for RTTS last year and maybe they could put a smallish R.I.P in the image. Another thing they could do is put a little something in the loading/trailer video that plays every time you load the game up unless you skip it. Maybe another thing they could do is add a little something into the commentary for Marlins games that you hear once in a blue moon. Just not every game of course.

Just a few ideas on things they could do. Hope they don't just do nothing. Not saying they should do all of them, maybe just one or something like one of them. And yes I know I'm probably getting off topic here.

[mrCPUgeek]

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I really wish that would have happened but I doubted it would all along honestly. Hopefully they have a little something in game like maybe he can be the background of a menu like for example they had Degrom as the background for RTTS last year and maybe they could put a smallish R.I.P in the image. Another thing they could do is put a little something in the loading/trailer video that plays every time you load the game up unless you skip it. Maybe another thing they could do is add a little something into the commentary for Marlins games that you hear once in a blue moon. Just not every game of course.



Just a few ideas on things they could do. Hope they don't just do nothing. Not saying they should do all of them, maybe just one or something like one of them. And yes I know I'm probably getting off topic here.

Getting rights to put him in there may not be so easy. I would imagine he is no longer part of the players association.


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[redsox4evur]

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Getting rights to put him in there may not be so easy. I would imagine he is no longer part of the players association.


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He isn't. He will be treated the same as any legend. So they have to go his widow and get permission and possibly pay her for him to show up in the game in ANY form.


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[inkcil]

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So there is a song Ice Cube did in the 90's dedicated to KGJ called "In the Zone." I have always used the custom soundtrack feature to have this song play in the game menu.

If the SCEA people don't know about the song, I hope the community lets them know becasue it should be the main menu song. Also the song has no cursing.

While I'm at it, another great baseball theme song (that I know would never make the soundtrack) is 'Tie Goes to the Runner" by Public Enemy.

[Smallville102001]

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Just saw one of those replays of seasons they do on the MLB Network, this one for 1995, and it was remarkable to see again just how dominant of a player he was: His skill, power, speed, and quite frankly even just his presence were all dominant. Always one to come up big, he hit 5 HRs in that 5 game series against the Yanks, while also scoring that memorable series winning run from first. Few players like him in any sport.

Guy hit over 600 HR even though he couldn't stay health for like 8 years and had 10 gold gloves to. If he stayed health he may have had 800 HR and like 14 gold gloves lol.

[MythicalGnome]

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So there is a song Ice Cube did in the 90's dedicated to KGJ called "In the Zone." I have always used the custom soundtrack feature to have this song play in the game menu.

If the SCEA people don't know about the song, I hope the community lets them know becasue it should be the main menu song. Also the song has no cursing.

While I'm at it, another great baseball theme song (that I know would never make the soundtrack) is 'Tie Goes to the Runner" by Public Enemy.

Good idea!

[SuicideSqueeze]

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Guy hit over 600 HR even though he couldn't stay health for like 8 years and had 10 gold gloves to. If he stayed health he may have had 800 HR and like 14 gold gloves lol.

If he had jumped on the steroid wagon like so many others of that era he would have stayed "healthier" but that wasn't his style.

[nemesis04]

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Nice refreshing approach. Really like the gold embossing!

[Smallville102001]

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If he had jumped on the steroid wagon like so many others of that era he would have stayed "healthier" but that wasn't his style.

Just bad luck we don't know who all was or where was not using steroids and you don't have to use steroids to stay health. Some guys are just more lucky with not having big injures. Griffey got hurt several times just running bases and pulling and or tearing his hamstring .

[Caulfield]

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If he had jumped on the steroid wagon like so many others of that era he would have stayed "healthier" but that wasn't his style.

Just bad luck we don't know who all was or where was not using steroids and you don't have to use steroids to stay health. Some guys are just more lucky with not having big injures. Griffey got hurt several times just running bases and pulling and or tearing his hamstring .

I think the point is that there are countless verified amounts of players who did in fact use peds to combat injuries and Junior could have done the same and taken the easy way back to playing but that wasnt the person he wanted to be . I dont think anyone is saying all the players who stayed off the dl for extended periods used peds to do so . As an aside , if Griffey had used peds in the six season between 2001-2006 when he was age 31-36 and could have played fuller seasons , instead of hitting the 125 homers he did in those six years , he could have projected out to hitting 212 homers instead . Raising his career total from 630 to 717 . There was also the 1995 season steroids could have benefited his health and played more , when he was 25 and he could have added another 21 homers. In addition to losing part of the 1994 season to the Owner-Player War could have cost him an additional 18 homers which speculating, brings him to an astounding total of 756 homers . Edging out all-time homerun king Hank Aaron by one homerun (Sorry not sorry Barry) . But Griffey doesnt need that false inflation to know that he is a legend in just being the "Natural" that he was , all on his own . He chose the correct path for himself wisely IMO .

[Money99]

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I hope us Canadians get this cover as well.

AMEN.

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[Money99]

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Just bad luck we don't know who all was or where was not using steroids and you don't have to use steroids to stay health. Some guys are just more lucky with not having big injures. Griffey got hurt several times just running bases and pulling and or tearing his hamstring .

My father is friendly with Mark Wooden, a former teammate of Griffey's.
He told my Dad that Griffey was an absolute physical freak who never touched weights or did any off-season training, but could do things 99.9999% of the population couldn't do.

He had some crazy stories about things Griffey would do in practice and Spring Training.
He'd spend an entire offseason basically sitting on his butt and relaxing and then the first cut he'd take in BP would be a 450' bomb over the fence.
Wooden said it was like Griffey was playing a video game where he had all the cheat codes. He was on a different planet as anyone else.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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While this cover is as sweet as any I have seen, part of me was quite convinced the cover was going to feature Jose Fernandez

And that would've been a big mistake, especially now that the toxicology tests have been conducted. Cocaine and 2x the legal alcohol limit. Still a tragic story, but not one worth lionizing. Thankfully, Sony didn't get swept up in the moment.