Baseball is America’s past time. We all have teams that we root for and rejoice when they win. It can consume people for a good portion of the year. Attending games at your home field, watching your team on TV while they are away, even creating your own fantasy baseball team. While I don’t know exactly what started the baseball craze in America, I do know that there are several sayings in baseball that have permeated today’s pop culture.
It is nothing unusual for to hear baseball lingo in everyday conversation. How many times have you been talking to someone about something totally unrelated to baseball and hear something like:
- "They really hit it out of the park.”
- “Then my boss threw me a real curveball.”
- ”I gave them several chances to do me right, but 3 strikes and they are out”
- “Well that came out of left field”
So when Electronic Arts announced their new digital download client Origin, I was unsure of how I would like the new direction of the company. But when I found out that certain new EA games would require Origin to play, I decided to give it a chance at bat to see if Origin had the substance to survive. So I threw everything I could at the software and here is how it responded to my pitches.
1st Pitch
First thing I noticed was that the interface was very clean cut. Clicks, movements, and actions were very smooth. It kind of reminded me of the smoothness of Apple software. But it takes more than looks to succeed, so my first pitch was met with a BASE HIT.
