SB Nation Detroit - MLB 2K12 Cover Art Featuring Justin Verlander Releasedhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48919/detroit-fave.png2011-12-23T13:48:38-05:00http://detroit.sbnation.com/rss/stream/23046862011-12-23T13:48:38-05:002011-12-23T13:48:38-05:00PHOTO: MLB 2K12 Cover With Justin Verlander Released
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<p>Christmas came early for <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/">Detroit Tigers</a> pitcher <span>Justin Verlander</span>, in the form of box art for 2K Sports' MLB 2K12, featuring who else but the AL Cy Young and MVP award winner himself. On Friday, Verlander took to Twitter and posted a picture of the cover art, which has become something of an honor for most athletes these days. Whether it be Madden, the 2K series or any other sporting games, being named a cover athlete has always been one of the biggest honors</p>
<p>Last year's game featured <span>Roy Halladay</span> on the cover, and 2K10 before that featured Evan Longoria. That's some great company for Verlander to be in at this point, and this award of being on the cover can be filed under "icing on the cake", when taking into account the amount of awards he's pulled this year. After the jump, we've got the image of the cover art, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/JustinVerlander/status/150271560194859008/photo/1" target="_blank">as Tweeted here.</a></p>
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<p><span>Justin Verlander</span> and 2KSports announced this past Thursday that <a href="http://detroit.sbnation.com/detroit-tigers/2011/11/3/2536756/mlb-2k12-cover-athlete-justin-verlander-tigers/in/2304686" target="_blank">Verlander will grace the cover for the MLB 2K12</a> video game, which comes out sometime in March 2012.</p>
<p>Verlander marks the first Detroit based athlete to 'model' for the cover of a video game since locked out, recent DUI convicted Piston <a href="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/1/920671_59249_front.jpg" target="_blank">Ben Wallace was on NBA 2K5</a> (before that, I believe it was Steve Yzerman on NHL Rivals 2004). </p>
<p>As one can imagine, for a Detroit sports fan this is pretty exciting to see one of our team's players on the cover of a popular video game (especially one I'm prone to play quite a bit). That's also why I wasn't too fond to see 2KSports play with the idea of Justin Verlander wearing a different team's uniform in their little cover teaser video.</p>
<p>See this ish for yourself: </p>
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<p>No, you can't even wonder! He's ours! </p>
<p>Okay, I'll relax. Yes, this is about Verlander ... and he's super excited about the opportunity: </p>
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<p>"It’s a dream come true to be on the cover of MLB 2K12," Verlander said. "I’ve worked closely with 2K Sports on the MLB 2K series since 2007, and I couldn’t be more excited to continue my relationship with such a great baseball game."</p>
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<p>We're happy for you, JV, but don't ever leave us ... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycuZqJzSocE" target="_blank">because we'll find you</a>.</p>
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<p>Justin Verlander, likely to be the 2011 American League Cy Young Award winner, has been chosen as the cover athlete for MLB 2K12. </p> <p>Around 4 p.m. this afternoon, <a href="http://twitter.com/JustinVerlander/statuses/132190959084650497" target="_blank">Justin Verlander teased on his Twitter account</a> that he was making a big announcement tonight. I was hoping he was going to say that he and <span>Joel Zumaya</span> were going to whip out their Guitar Heros and headline the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day Game, replacing Nickelback.</p>
<p>As it turned out, that wasn't it (unfortunately). <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/2KSports/statuses/132250642835193856" target="_blank">The announcement </a>was still pretty cool, though:</p>
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<p><span class="metadata"><span class="author"><a href="http://twitter.com/JustinVerlander"><img src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1432808096/JV_normal.jpg"></a><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/JustinVerlander">@JustinVerlander</a></strong><br><span>Justin Verlander</span></span></span> Announcement: Excited to be cover athlete for <a href="http://twitter.com/2KSports">@2KSports</a><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23MLB2K12">#MLB2K12</a>. Dream come true and can't wait for the March release<br><span class="embedly_timestamp"><a title="Fri Nov 04 00:13:01 +0000 2011" href="http://twitter.com/JustinVerlander/status/132248950441914368">Nov 04</a> via <a href="http://blackberry.com/twitter" rel="nofollow">Twitter for BlackBerry®</a></span><span class="tweet-actions"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=132248950441914368" class="favorite-action" title="Favorite"><span><i></i><b>Favorite</b></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=132248950441914368" class="retweet-action" title="Retweet"><span><i></i><b>Retweet</b></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=132248950441914368" class="reply-action" title="Reply"><span><i></i><b>Reply</b></span></a></span></p>
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<p><br>Before the MLB 2K10 game was released Verlander -- likely this year's AL Cy Young winner -- was heavily involved in marketing the game by <a target="new" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOUdIiztEI">getting to know Justin Morneau pretty well</a>. <span>Evan Longoria</span> graced the cover of that game. <span>Roy Halladay</span>, the 2010 NL Cy Young winner, was on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/11/mlb2k11-halladay-cover-350h.jpg" style="color: #c8181d !important; text-decoration: none !important; background-color: transparent;">the MLB 2k11 cover.</a></p>
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<p>If I may, I'd like to guess that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/09/JUSTIN-VERLANDER-thumb-590x424-89764.jpg">this picture</a>, which hangs above my desk, as the favorite for the 2K12 cover. We'll have updates on this and other game features as soon as they become available.</p>
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