In what is yet another baseball game with an I-talian manager's name slapped on it, Tony's effort is far more complex and impressive in presentation than Lasorda's.  It's got stats galore, licensed team names, real player rosters, an abundance of control options for pitching and fielding, and play-by-play commentary.  On the downside, it's also the kind of game that happens to be SO INCREDIBLY OVERLY COMPLEX that you have to either sit down and read the instruction manual or make absolutely sure you've gone through the menu screens and adjust everything just to make sure you're the one playing the computer instead of making it play itself.  It's the kind of game that would have made you beg for tutorials at the time, which we have all been made aware by now as being like making a deal with the devil for a free Chicago Dog.  And to be fair, that Chicago Dog was probably really fucking tasty.

The choppy graphics don't quite offend the eyes as heinously as Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops, but they get annoying very quickly.  And while subpar graphics do not always necessarily equate to subpar gameplay, you'll find this game to get rather easy, and scoring is so effortless that your star players' onscreen batting averages are only eclipsed by LaRussa's blood-alcohol level.  They took every high-tech idea they could find, threw them all on here, and ran with them all in one gameplay experience like fucking an autistic hooker.

All that said, it's still a fun little baseball game.  I could make plenty more clever little metaphors for how this game plays out, but to save the best one for last, I'll use his very own daughter, Bianca, who happens to be a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders.  She's a hot little number right now, with lots of daddy issues you might be able to ignore while she's young and attractive, but give her 18 more years and she'll start to look a little weird and you won't have the patience to jump through her sexual hoops anymore, looking instead to "play ball" with the dominantly athletic black chick.  I give it