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Empty Season Enders
Examining baseball attendance problems in places like Tampa Bay, where the first-place Rays are giving away 20,000 tickets to Wednesday night’s game.
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Okay, so how’s about this for something just a tad different? Welcome to the world of PangYa…a strange and mysterious island where a game of golf…erm, I mean a game of PangYa (both the name of the game itself and the island on which it’s played) can settle the fate of the world! …I’m not kidding! …really! To save on the long-winded and complicated…and less than perfect explanations…PangYa is a sort of anime-esque (although it originally hails from Korea instead of Japan) fairytale golf. I’ll be starting our journey to the land of the fantastic realm of…uh…golf…that is actually adapted from a popular (apparently) massively-multiplayer online golf game known commonly as PangYa (noticing any important recurring proper nouns within this game?), I’ll be going through a sampling of the courses and characters this game has to offer. The main factor the game has to offer is swing-driven mechanics tied to the Wii remote, and honestly, having taken some golf lessons and played more than a few holes myself…I would tell you that a golf swing is something too intricate for what you might try to apply to a control gimmick like this, but I’ll tell you right now that I’m a converted believer, because it actually works better than you would think. Oh, and if you play the likes of Mario Golf religiously and can’t be separated from your three-point-swing meter, it can also be played that way. This is just a look at the intro video, a quick look at the menus, and a single …

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