A few days ago, I found myself at my local Blockbuster when I decided, foolishly, that I wanted to try the new MLB 2K game. 

I say foolishly for two reasons.  First, do you have any idea how much games at Blockbuster cost nowadays?  Maybe I'm just that removed from the video game scene that I'm simply unaware that fair market value is around 8 bucks.  

Second, I own and operate a Play Station 2.  Not a PS3, or X-Box 360 or any of the other new systems. Just a plain old, "games are soon going to stop being offered for this" system.

Anyway, 8 dollars later, I'm home, playing the game.  After I've drafted my team (who in the hell decided Magglio Ordonez was worth a perfect 100 rating?  If he's the gold standard for the Major League ballplayer, we've been rooting for all the wrong guys for quite some time now), I go to play opening day with my new Cincinnati Reds team.

After getting through an inning, it goes to this automated action involving the umpires and coaches (who I hadn't even realized were in the game to begin with).

All I heard next from the announcer was, "Well, it seems as if the umpires aren't going to let this one finish today.  This one's a rainout."  

A quick pan to the dugouts, players reluctantly looking around, then heading back into the tunnel.  And, that was it.  Game over, rained out.

In a f***ing video game!  Rained out?!  

I looked around my empty living room, thinking I was on candid camera.  

Seriously?  A rain delay in a video game.  Who on Earth thinks this is a necessary feature?  You want the weather to play a factor, have it not always be sunny, I can live with that.  Have players get fatigued, umpires have strike zones that don't adhere to the exact specifications of the zone.  Those are all fine.  They make it more realistic, while also keeping it fun.  But, a rain delay?  Exactly who benefits from that?  

Apparently though, people have some serious issues, graphically, with the new game.  One commenter in a forum I read through had a whole list of suggested changes, ranging from pointless (more realistic homer celebrations) to entirely pointless (more realistic sweat detail).

What's more amazing is that I'm only 22, and yet somehow I'm certain of the fact that the world of video games have passed me by.  Odd, considering that only a few short years ago, I was playing full seasons in NBA, MLB, and NFL video games.  Yes, MLB.  All 162 and a World Series run with the Indians.  

And yet, as I write this now, saddened by my impending senility and eventual dislike and confusion at anything young and hip, I can say that video games have now officially become too realistic.