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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Video Game Review: Sleeping Dogs

When not in melee combat, driving, free running and shooting should account for most of your time in Hong Kong. Getting behind the wheel is fairly responsive, albeit exceptionally fast paced, and the biggest problem is the camera’s occasional inability to track quick changes of direction. Gun fights utilize a basic cover system, but they do offer up one exceptionally cool feature: when you vault over cover, time slows down and allows you to drop your enemies. Free running is crisp and makes you feel like a bad ass, even if seemingly half the city’s population can match you stride for stride.

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Podcast: Bartolo Colon’s Comeback Fuel

This week on RotoRob’s Fantasy Baseball Weekly Podcast, heard every Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Blogtalkradio, the panel had some issues with heat, roasted nuts, dropped Skype calls, and cake emergencies. Through it all, we persevered and compiled yet another show for the ages, discussing myriad Fantasy baseball related stories.

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