![]() And this year, MLB 14 The Show delivers a profound structural improvement that grasps what so many who complain about baseball do not: The National Pastime cannot be sped up, but it can be made to take less time. ![]() Somehow, given this hand, Sony's MLB The Show series is one of the rare sports titles that is capable of selling a console. Well, as a video game, baseball's turn-based combat system is one to which even the most ardent JRPG fan would turn up his nose. Conventional wisdom holds that if baseball had been conceived after television was invented it wouldn't survive because programming executives wouldn't allow something so slow-paced and filled with routine on the air. ![]() The patience baseball demands of participants and spectators is particularly burdensome to any video game tasked with representing the sport. No other sport is as ridiculed, even by its fans, for the time to finish a game. ![]()
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