New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY
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It would of made more sense for SDS to make a mode similar to RETRO MODE couple years back, call it Girls Softball League, and add it to MLBTS as extra MODE. Or as someone else suggested a Little League World Series Mode . Granted that might be toooo much work for SDS since thats beyond a copy and paste job.
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@Bearsfan217 they are so lazy. they truly dont give af about making the best game possible.
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@BlackjackErnie12 you absolutely have no proof about that and no clue of how to guarantee this (that would require some data to do this, which you do not have). You would like to have it … fair enough.
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@BlackjackErnie12 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
i have no problem with them adding woman to RTTS but you know what would help sales more? online franchise but they dont give af about their player base
Online Franchise has been out of the game for 6 years, going into 7 years now. Even when it was included it was the least played mode among all the main modes. That was back when SDS would actually report that type of info in their live streams. Back then RTTS was actually at the top of the heap.
So, I am not 100% convinced that adding back in Online Franchise would move the needle much more than adding women to the game does.
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@GoozeFn Really? I'm hoping to make a Rosie O'Donnell CAP for the Rockford Peaches on Day 1.
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@SuntLacrimae50 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
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@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
I can’t imagine what it’s like, to consider the inclusion of Women, Women, who make up half of the world’s population, into literally anything as “woke”. That sounds like an awful life.
It very much is if it's a new feature added at the expense of real substantive improvements when women -- WOMEN -- have accounted for literally 0% of MLB gameday rosters, ever.
Here’s some light reading for you, from the MLB HOF
And? You really should take a class in debate or basic argumentation.
Nothing -- literally nothing -- in that timeline refutes what I wrote, that no woman has ever been on an actual MLB roster in any competitively meaningful way.
I don't really care about this that much. But for you to see people who question SDS's motivation for or implementation of this feature as miserable people or as woman-haters (lol, seriously) says way more about you than about me.
The game is called....?
MLB the Show.
NOT -- "Baseball in Society" or "Baseball and Social Change" or "Baseball for Everyone."
And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star.
Make an NCAA softball game! Make a LLWS game! All good, and I'd probably check them out....
I've already spent way more time going back and forth with a person who lacks basic emotional maturity ("yer a woman hater!") and basic reading/reasoning skills.
By the way, tonight I will go home to my wife and probably go to the park to give BP to my 11 yo and 15 yo daughters, who love softball. Woman-hating me...
Goof.
I think it was about a decade ago there was a television show called Pitch. It was a fictional story about the first female in the MLB. Wasn't bad until it became more about her intimate relationships instead of the hardships of breaking a barrier. One of the things I think the show got right is that it will happen. Chances are it will probably be a specialist. Maybe a contact hitting 2B or breaking ball throwing LRP. Most likely the latter. Maybe not for a long time, but, in my opinion, it will happen.
I have a problem of this supposition, "And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star." You state your opinion here as fact and throw away any possibility of equivalence between female and pre-Robinson black players. With the exception of a wartime female league, women were seldom given the opportunity to even play baseball. Softball was sanctioned just for women. Women were taught to play only softball. That would be tantamount to keeping a sect of the population away from baseball by selective inclusion. Even the AAGPBL started as a hybrid of baseball and softball, and slowly went more towards baseball during it's eleven year tenure.
More recently, girls have been allowed to join little league and some high school and college baseball teams. The sheer number difference of women still playing softball instead of baseball is staggering. How many high schools would you have to go to, to find one girl playing baseball instead of softball? At that level, you should find some. However, those "girls are funneled from baseball into softball." (https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/24943645/shutout-women-battle-play-baseball)
Yes, men are typically stronger, faster, and taller. The great thing about baseball is that those things don't always matter. If it did, we might have never heard the names Altuve, Kemp, or Betts. The best should be the ones playing. If that's a woman, I will cheer them on.
In the end, this is a video game. I'm not a ballplayer. Haven't picked up my glove since playing catch with my niece over a decade ago. I do get to play this game with my likeness and last name on an Angel's jersey. Kelsi Whitmore is closer to doing that in real life than I am. If I have the ability to do that, shouldn't she?
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I will 100% be making a women ball player in RTTS, it's a great thing that SDS is doing my making that an option in the game this year
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@BJDUBBYAH How many of them make up Major League Baseball? How about minor league baseball.
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@Jacky-Chan1 A whole other women’s only league. No men. Not the same at all.
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@GoozeFn said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
@BJDUBBYAH How many of them make up Major League Baseball? How about minor league baseball.
By that argument, you shouldn't be allowed to make a CAP. It's a false argument. Since you say women don't play in the MLB/MiLB, women can't be in MLB/MiLB games. I've never played pro ball, does that mean I can't make a CAP that looks like me?
Do all players have to have played in the MLB/MiLB to be in this game? Do all CAPs have to look exactly, and be named after, ballplayers that have played in the MLB/MiLB? That argument is also irrelevant because of the Negro league players. Most of the players from last years program never played in the MLB. Therefore they shouldn't be in the game? Not the same thing? I argue that it is. Women have been told since 1910 that they have to play softball instead of baseball. Look at my post above. Please read the article I posted on there.
If you don't want to use it, then don't. I do.
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@GoozeFn said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
@BJDUBBYAH How many of them make up Major League Baseball? How about minor league baseball.
If you're going to try that argument, then, I don't recall any monsters appearing at any Major or Minor league parks in the history of the game. But the Kaiju had multiple "takeovers" last year, and appeared in ballparks in all kinds of moments.
You see, because it's a video game, it's not real, and the option to create a female ballplayer is just that, an option.
It's not "woke"
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@eatyum said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
Babe Ruth wouldn't be able to hit one pitch off Brady Singer.
I got a kick out of this and I’m sure you’re being sarcastic but it offered me great segue to plug this book I recently read that clearly and irrefutably demonstrated that had Ruth played in our current MLB ballparks (At time of writing the book - 2007) he would’ve hit over 100 home runs in 1921.
This is even more incredible when you consider he was swinging a 40 ounce bat and still managed to pull the majority of his colossal shots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs
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@broken_toy1 That’s a pathetic comparison. Again, not the same thing at all. I’m not against having them btw. I just wish they used their time and resources and more significant improvements.
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But to be fair, it’s understandable that it would be in the Wolk category especially when you look at features that have been basically untouched for years but I digest lol the addition is fine. I don’t mind it it’s just I hope they didn’t leave the real road to the show untouched.
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@GoozeFn said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:
@broken_toy1 That’s a pathetic comparison. Again, not the same thing at all. I’m not against having them btw. I just wish they used their time and resources and more significant improvements.
I agree it's a pathetic comparison. I used your logic in that comparison and backed it up with a valid argument. Be consistent or use a cogent argument.
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Who cares? A lot of people all riled up over a video game.
A woman will play baseball before Babe Ruth gets into the batters box against Spencer Strider and I’ll bet a million bucks on it.
