It's really too bad that the second half of his career was so injury-damaged, he was so, so amazing for a long time that while he was great, he'd have been even greater had he avoided injury. However, even without that, he is #5 in the all-time home runs list, and one of the few superstars from the steroid era who appears to have been really been clean - a worthy achievement to be sure. It is to bad that it had to end early like this though, early in the season and when he is only 40... I know, he wasn't playing much this year or doing well this year yet, but still, it's too bad. Still, his overall career was outstanding, and he certainly was one of the great baseball players of all time.
We all remember the large blue and gold plaque with an R in it, and a lot of us have seen the modern logo which takes away the plaque and is just a large stylized gold R (which, well, doesn't look as good in some of the animations, but still looks nice enough).
...I know I said that "emblems" and such are out and just stating the name in a clean font is "in", but they managed to make a logo that has NO flavor, no character, whatsoever. And it STILL has a big emblem in it so they fail twice.
It looks like a logo for a propane company, like they teamed up with Phillip 66 or something. The R's themselves look like lazy road signs.
I don't mind a remodel, and I do love "neat and clean" as an aesthetic choice, but this just seems like... boredom incarnate.
It's not like it's a big deal, but I get the impression, just looking at it, that some just out of college marketting students "wow'd" Rare executives in some meeting with made-up nonsense about prioritizing opportunities and pointing to graphs without numbers or data-points on them to suggest this is some super science optimized logo that'll grab everyone's attention, and they probably spent a lot of money on it. They should just focus on the games, that's where they are losing people, not the logo. The sales of Perfect Dark Arcade should confirm no one is skipping out just because of that.
The funny thing is, to this day Nintendo has NEVER changed their logo. It's the same thing it's always been, the word Nintendo in a round outline. The most variation it gets is sometimes it's some color other than red.
These guys have done a really good job doing a "Blair Witch done right" documentary style "investigation". They do a good job making it incredibly creepy, and so far there's no stupid fights over lost maps, which is always a plus. It also helps that the way they've set up this series is intentionally "out of order" (though they're put in ordered "sessions" so you know which way you should watch them). It's pretty interesting so far, though I've not watched the whole series.
I sometimes think of these sorts of things, but my goals are mild, TO THE EXTREME! Namely, go back to the 80's, sit next to some kid playing a Gameboy and crack out my PSP, load up Dissidia and/or Lumines (Tetris? More like SUCKTRIS! Eat this awesome!) and BLOW THE KID'S MIND APART. Then I'm OUT.
Ya know leaving that farmer there... he'll be stunned for a while but he'll adapt, he'll adapt, and then he'll know more than those kids, and go back in time to mentally torture them in revenge.