Podcast: Will Utley be Chased off Second?

The boys and I were back for another week of Fantasy baseball chatter in RotoRob’s Fantasy Baseball Weekly Podcast, heard every Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Blogtalkradio. In between Tim’s incessant disappearing act throughout the show, haggis, scrapple, and myriad other… err… culinary delights were on the table of discussion this week. Oh, and we also found time to tackle a crapload of Fantasy baseball related topics.

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Video Game Review: Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Eight updated classic maps make up half the roster, while another eight new ones round out the stable of offerings. You’ll also blast enemies with a collection of returning weapons, as well as a few new offerings to add to the strategy. Things like incendiary grenades and Molotov cocktails allow you to completely shut off rush routes with walls of fire, while decoy grenades offer distractions and impromptu ambush opportunities on a moment’s notice.

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Bullpen Woes Killing Astros

An elbow injury that cost him nearly a month has kept Lopez’s workload below what he usually logs, but what’s really impressed us this year is the massively improved control. Toss in the fact that he’s already matched his career high in wins and is on pace for his third straight season with a better ERA, and perhaps we are finally looking at the emergence of Lopez as a closer – something Fantasy experts have long prognosticated.

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Video Game Review: Madden NFL ’13

Also new on the Xbox 360 is Kinect implementation as pre-snap adjustments can now be made via a series of spoken commands. It’s an interesting gimmick and is worth playing around with if you own the peripheral. That being said, using your voice to make changes is only really viable on offense, where you determine when the ball will be snapped. On defense you generally only have time to make one or two changes — there’s a delay while the Kinect figures out what you said — before the computer hikes the ball. One nice touch is that for online play, the game automatically mutes your microphone so your opponent can’t listen in on your calls.

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