MLB 08: The Show cover athlete announced

  • Posted January 9th, 2008 at 16:17 EDT by
  • 4,175 views
  • 18 Comments

If you’re like us, you love baseball as much as we do.  Especially when it comes to the #1 franchise available for the PlayStation 2 and 3, and PSP, obviously, we’re talking about MLB 08: The Show. 


Earlier today, SCEA finally announced that Ryan Howard will be gracing the cover of MLB 08: The Show.  Ryan Howard has quickly risen as one of the best young stars in baseball today.  We’re sure that there will be a strong showing of support from fans for the decision that was made.

SCEA had this to say about Ryan, personally, "Ryan Howard's personality and work ethic exemplify what our baseball franchise is all about and we are thrilled he has chosen to represent MLB 08 THE SHOW," said Scott Steinberg, the vice president of product marketing at SCEA. "Howard has worked hard to establish himself as one of the most exciting players in the game and we look forward to him continuing the tradition of MLB THE SHOW athletes having amazing years while being featured on the cover of our game."

With a slew of awards ranging from Rookie of the Years to MVP’s, this is just one more accolade Ryan Howard can add to the list in his very young career.  MLB 08: The Show is scheduled to hit shelves March 4th.

Source

Advertisement

Comments

Comment

What are your thoughts?

  1. FreshBoy

    • 4:26pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    FIRST POST YEAH!!!!! Gingo is de man!!! Ps3 will not win this console war despite having the better console as xbox has too much of a lead and they wil prob hav a new console by the end of 2009.

  2. hawkeye00 | boatwizzle

    • 4:35pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    @freshboy wut r u talking about how is what ur saying relevant to this topic at all its tallking about a baseball game not the console war lol

  3. Lithgow

    • 4:41pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    What the helI, FreshBoy? GTFO. If M$ were to release a new console at the end of 2009, it means utter fail for both 360 AND the new Xbox. So no, saying that Sony won't catch up in time is false.

  4. Ljwinter | Ljwinter

    • 4:48pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    Nice article in the local paper today about it. Nice to see another one of my hometown teams players on the cover of a video game.

  5. Clarky_psu | clarky-132

    • 5:04pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    Baseball suc.ks!

  6. tom ass

    • 5:05pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    @Clarky ....  o_O

     

    They should have put Vlad Guerrero on the cover.  Vlad > Ron Howard

  7. iTHIZZ | gamesNmusic

    • 5:08pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    i strongly agree with tom ass

  8. gingo | gingo

    • 5:13pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    psn id: gingo... @Freshboy.....i see you brought many constructive points into this article, obviously anouncing that you got first post is the main point therefore had to be in capital letters because you get a special reward when you get so many first posts, then obviously saying that about me was total praise and had no mocking tone about it so i am so very grateful and totally changing the subject is what we love to see here on articles talking about a game when really we want fanboys like yourself coming and making stupid points that wouldn't even go down well on an xbox site so we're all so glad you joined and made this website a better place

  9. Michael2k5 | Nemphiz

    • 5:14pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    I'm totally with Tom, Vlad would have been a better pick or maybe Pujols

  10. tom ass

    • 6:00pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    I would like to see them start putting out multiple covers for the sports games. Here they could take 3 of the top players and make a cover for each one. Say Vlad, Pujols, and Ichiro. For NBA 09 they could have Kobe, Nash, Duncan covers. Same with NFL, NHL, FIFA, etc. that would be kool

  11. andy1187 | andy87

    • 6:04pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    it really doesn't matter who is on the cover, still gonna get the game.

  12. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 6:15pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    Seriously FreshBoy, take your fanboy flamer comments somewhere else. We already know there is a new 360 coming out within the next year.  Congrats on being the dumbest troll ever.  I wish we could have a button to report a a troll comment and IP ban them.

    ---

    As for the article, I can't stand baseball in person, let alone a video game.  Just way too boring.

  13. dannyphantom105 | dannyphantom105

    • 6:38pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    YEa RYAN! I'm from philly and the phillies are like my favorite sports team from any sport. winning the mvp in 06 and leading us to the playoffs last year more than earned him a cover spot. I even have his jersey. Pujols and Vlad have been on too many covers, the new kids deserve it.

  14. shaka | Shaka

    • 7:13pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    The best baseball game is back, cant wait.

  15. FreshBoy

    • 8:19pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    Sorry all u fanboy F**KHEADS I did say de ps3 was de better console!!! Gingo rules!! NOW U!!!!! FreshBoy out!!

  16. Damodoomer

    • 8:55pm GMT - January 9th, 2008

    PSN ID: Damodar

    Nobody else found this sentence f**king brilliant? "If you’re like us, you love baseball as much as we do." If that's not a joke, PSU journalism may have reached a new low. Actually, probably not, considering the standard...

  17. D3v1lwqer23

    • 2:00am GMT - January 10th, 2008

    MLB is one of Sony's IP's that should never be let go, for anything, 2K is teh suxxor.

  18. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 5:45am GMT - January 10th, 2008

    Not a fan of BaseBall itself,but i'm thinking of getting this one.

Related information

  • Related game: MLB '08: The Show

    Release date (US):
    March 3rd, 2008
    Developer:
    SCEA Studios San Diego
    Genre:
    Sports - Baseball
    Rank:
    170 of 1,521 Games
    Down 4 places (in last 7 days)

Related images

eXTReMe Tracker